Sr. Manager, Corporate Affairs (West)

The Business of HLTH Podcast; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Digital Realty seeks a Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs for its Western U.S. markets, based in San Francisco or Los Angeles. You’ll partner with Government Affairs, business leaders and media to shape our public narrative and protect our reputation.

You’ll lead media relations, develop strategies, craft executive messaging, create content across press, web and social channels, and support events while tracking impact and opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 8–10 years of experience in corporate communications or public relations.
• Experience with media relations and government affairs.
• Strong writing, storytelling, and content creation skills.
• Experience building relationships with media, government affairs teams, and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead corporate affairs and media relations activities across the Western U.S. region.
• Partner with Government Affairs to align communications with policy and regulatory priorities.
• Develop media strategies, pitch stories, and manage press inquiries.
• Create engaging content for press releases, executive messaging, social media, web, and internal communications.
• Support events, community engagement programs, executive visits, and milestone announcements.
• Monitor media coverage and identify emerging reputational risks and opportunities.
• Develop thought leadership opportunities for regional leaders.
• Track and report on media performance and communications impact.

Skills

Media relations

Content creation

Storytelling

Stakeholder engagement

Writing

Public speaking

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Political Science, or a related field

Job description

Job Description

Title: Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs (West Region) Location: San Francisco or Los Angeles, California

Your Role

As the regional Corporate Affairs lead, you’ll serve as the primary communications partner for Digital Realty’s Western U.S. markets. Working closely with Government Affairs, business leaders, media, and community stakeholders, you’ll help shape our public narrative, support strategic initiatives, manage reputational risks, and ensure consistent messaging across the region. This role is ideal for a communications professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys combining media relations, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement to drive business impact.

What You’ll Do

• Lead corporate affairs and media relations activities across the Western U.S. region
• Partner with Government Affairs to align communications with policy and regulatory priorities
• Develop media strategies, pitch stories, and manage press inquiries
• Create engaging content for press releases, executive messaging, social media, web, and internal communications
• Support events, community engagement programs, executive visits, and milestone announcements
• Monitor media coverage and identify emerging reputational risks and opportunities
• Develop thought leadership opportunities for regional leaders
• Track and report on media performance and communications impact

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Political Science, or a related field
• 8-10 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, media relations, or corporate affairs
• Prefer a background in technology, infrastructure, real estate, or data center industries
• Strong writing, storytelling, and content creation skills
• Experience building relationships with media, government affairs teams, and senior stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong judgment, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Occasional travel throughout the Western U.S. region and other company locations as needed
• Prefer experience supporting government affairs, public policy, or regulatory initiatives

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .

A Bit About Our Team

Marketing

Our Marketing team works in one of the world’s fastest-growing and exciting sectors. We collaborate with the Sales team to develop effective strategies that help build our business and also ensure our corporate strategy meets our local market needs. Our team helps the business keep the world connected and continue to grow by translating our unique offerings into bespoke campaigns, content and propositions for different locations and customer segments.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn’t just a priority here at Digital; it’s critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren’t just ideals – they’re essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company’s overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $130,000 to $170,000 per year. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.