Corporate Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and support end-to-end execution of announcements, owning the communications plan, drafting all materials, managing stakeholder review, and driving each moment from brief to publish.
• Support announcement roadmaps and editorial calendars, and proactively flag gaps, conflicts, and opportunities to sequence news for maximum impact.
• Shape and execute earned media strategies across traditional and non-traditional channels. Build relationships with business, technology, and trade reporters alongside Substack writers, creator journalists, podcasters, and the community voices our customer's trust.
• Develop proactive story angles tied to news cycles, data, and trends, and understand how discovery is shifting toward social platforms and AI-generated answers.
• Serve as a core communications team member for Autodesk’s small business program, a company initiative with senior leadership visibility. Support the announcement drumbeat, executive thought leadership, customer storytelling pipeline, and Autodesk News content cadence for this audience; partner with product and business teams to translate developments into narratives that resonate with small business owners; and support internal activation that builds employee understanding of these customers.
• Develop communications strategies that help leaders across Autodesk show up effectively, including messaging frameworks, talking points, briefing materials, presentation narratives, and thought leadership content for media, events, podcasts, videos and social channels.
• Storytelling & content: Write and edit across formats and audiences: press materials, Autodesk News stories, customer spotlights, and internal communications. Translate complex product and business initiatives into clear, human, audience-specific narratives, and develop repeatable formats that compound in value over time.
• Social & cultural fluency: Bring a working understanding of how social platforms, creators, influencers, and online communities shape brand perception. Partner with social, community, and brand teams to extend stories into the channels where audiences live and identify cultural moments where Autodesk has a credible point of view.
• Measurement & operations: Track the impact of communications programs and deliver reporting that synthesizes what is working and what needs to change. Contribute to team operations and manage agency and vendor partners as needed.

Qualifications

• 4-10 years of experience in public relations, corporate communications and/or media relations at a global company, organization, or agency.
• We are looking for the right candidate and are open to candidates who can grow into the role.
• Proficiency with key AI tools for communicators and an AI-native way of working that treats these tools as core to the craft – with the discernment to understand when not to use them.
• Hands-on media relations experience is essential: building press relationships, pitching and landing stories, and managing announcements from planning through coverage.
• Exceptional writing skills across formats, from press materials and long-form stories to executive messaging and internal communications, with the editorial judgment to match voice and tone to audience.
• Demonstrated fluency in new and non-traditional media, including creator journalism, newsletters, podcasts, social platforms, and online communities, and a point of view on how these channels are changing communications.
• Experience developing executive communications, including messaging, talking points, and thought leadership content.
• Track record of leading announcements or communications programs end to end, managing multiple stakeholders and delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• A generalist mindset: comfortable moving between external and internal work, strategy and execution, and shifting priorities with agility, discretion, and speed in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Curiosity about small businesses, entrepreneurs, and the creator economy, and genuine interest in telling their stories.
• Ability to travel ~10% of the time, as needed.

Pay

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $113,000 and $202,070. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Schedule

Not specified