Strategic Communications Manager: Brand & Policy Lead

Invariant; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Commissions

Health, dental, vision plans

401(k) with match

Educational assistance

Professional development assistance

Unlimited time off

Job summary

Invariant seeks a Manager to join our Strategic Communications & Public Affairs team in Washington, DC. You’ll manage client projects, develop media strategies, and draft memos and pitches for Fortune 500s and disruptors.

You will lead workstreams, mentor junior staff, and contribute to new business while navigating fast-paced deadlines and complex policy topics in technology and national security.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of strategic communications experience across agencies, in-house, or campaigns.
• Excellent writing, editing, and research skills.
• Strong project management and attention to detail.
• Digital and social media savvy with audience engagement.
• Knowledge of technology and national security policy areas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager for client teams, moving deliverables and tasks forward and communicating effectively with the entire team.
• Develop strategies for engaging media, think tanks, and other stakeholders and lead discrete workstreams.
• Draft and edit communications plans, media strategies, correspondence, client memos and briefing documents, media pitches, social media content, website content, and other collateral.
• Collaborate with colleagues to create pitch decks, presentation materials, briefings, and informative client deliverables.
• Research and synthesize complex business and policy issues, distilling information into memos that support thought leadership, stakeholder mapping, and media engagement.
• Manage multiple workstreams and tasks with competing deadlines and manage junior team members to complete projects and tasks with short turnaround times.
• Drive new business efforts through project management support.

Skills

Project management

Media relations

Writing and editing

Research

Digital and social media

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Tools

Cision

Meltwater

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Invariant seeks a Manager to join our Strategic Communications & Public Affairs team in Washington, DC. You’ll manage client projects, develop media strategies, and draft memos and pitches for Fortune 500s and disruptors.

You will lead workstreams, mentor junior staff, and contribute to new business while navigating fast-paced deadlines and complex policy topics in technology and national security.