Senior Manager, Public Relations & Communications

neara; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Neara seeks a hands-on US communications lead to turn technology, societal impact, and proprietary perspectives into stories that matter to customers, policymakers, partners, investors, and talent. You will own US communications end-to-end, brainstorm angles, write the story, pitch reporters, prep spokespeople, and land coverage.

This is a highly hands-on, non-agency role where you own ideas, output, and relationships, with selective use of agencies or freelancers to broaden reach.

Qualifications

• Experience in communications, public relations, or journalism with ownership of media strategy for high-growth technology/AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Create a differentiated pipeline of media campaigns leveraging internal data, customer outcomes and industry inflection points.
• Develop and lead a distinctive US communications strategy that positions Neara as a leading voice in relevant debates and shifts.
• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with journalists and industry voices across conversations we care about.
• Cultivate a strong and diverse US spokesperson bench, coaching spokespeople for interviews and opportunities.
• Brainstorm, write, and pitch stories, op-eds, reactive commentary, and other external communications.
• Build a rapid-response newsjacking process for time-sensitive, differentiated commentary.
• Foster cross-functional partnerships to translate observations into timely, externally resonant stories.
• Curate and distribute a news pipeline so organization members stay informed and prepared.
• Apply editorial and reputational judgment, rejecting internal content that lacks substantiation.
• Create clear impact metrics tied to narrative penetration, coverage quality, and strategic influence.

Job description

The Role

This role turns Neara's technology, customer and societal impact, and proprietary perspective into stories that make Neara matter to customers, policymakers, partners, investors, prospective talent, and everyone who depends on critical infrastructure. You will own US communications soup-to-nuts, personally brainstorming and riffing on the angle, writing the story, sharpening the thesis, pitching reporters, prepping the spokesperson, and landing the story.

Please note this is emphatically not an agency management role. We are seeking a formidable, hands-on operator who loves creating storytelling momentum from end to end. There may be select circumstances where you use agencies or freelancers to broaden your reach but you will own the ideas, output, and relationships that drive impact in this role.

About You

You do not wait for cookie-cutter "news" or announcements to fall into your lap. You proactively and creatively build momentum to drive a consistent storytelling drumbeat, seeking and developing stories on your own and via cross-functional partnerships.

You understand the difference between visibility and authority and what it takes to build strong spokesperson profiles vs. generic thought leadership.

You are equally comfortable ripping apart and rewiring a weak argument, personally pitching reporters and advising senior spokespeople.

You're motivated by emerging technology categories and know how to establish relevance.

You wouldn't dream of "spraying and praying" and you have a proven approach for building trusted relationships with journalists and ensuring spokespeople are genuinely helpful resources rather than reciting thinly veiled pitches.

You have a high degree of intellectual curiosity and are energized by building fluency in emerging technology categories and deeply technical and regulated, sensitive topics.

You work with urgency, even amid ambiguity and have a track record of building momentum without perfect conditions.

What You Will Do

Create a differentiated pipeline of media campaigns, drawing on a combination of internal and external data and developments, customer outcomes, and major industry inflection points.

Develop and lead a distinctive US communications strategy that builds Neara's authority across all relevant stakeholders, establishing Neara as a leading voice in the strategic conversations we care about by clearly identifying and executing opportunities to connect our work to relevant industry shifts, news, and debates.

Build and maintain meaningful relationships with journalists and industry voices across the conversations we care about.

Cultivate a strong and diverse US spokesperson bench, positioning and coaching spokespeople as compelling, credible, and genuinely useful sources, helping stress-test their POVs, prepare them for interviews, speaking opportunities, etc.

Personally brainstorm, write, and pitch stories, contributed op-ed, reactive newsjacking commentary, and other external communications.

Build a process to support rapid-response newsjacking that allows time-poor people to contribute useful, differentiated commentary in time-sensitive contexts.

Build strong internal cross-functional partnerships to translate your own observations and proprietary insight into timely, externally resonant stories.

Curate and distribute news pipeline in which people across the organization should be expected to be conversant.

Apply rigorous editorial and reputational judgment, including rejecting content proposed internally that does not qualify as news and claims that require further substantiation.

Create clear impact metrics tied to narrative penetration, quality of coverage and strategic influence and relevance.

Who You Are

Experience in communications, public relations, or journalism with substantive ownership of media strategy and execution for a high-growth technology, AI, infras