Manager, Communications

Job Description

No matter your background, education, or career path, if you share our vision to create extraordinary experiences, you belong at HITT. This position reports to the Director of Marketing and Communications.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute the company’s public relations, media relations, and content development initiatives to advance the company’s brand and manage its overall messaging to external key stakeholders, including prospective clients, industry press, and top-tier talent.
• Lead PR efforts and manage media relations to generate interviews, speaking engagements, and articles for key company leaders.
• Interview project managers, superintendents, and technical experts to translate complex innovations into compelling, media-ready narratives.
• Develop sharp, high-level story angles that tie project successes and executive insights to broader national economic, technology, and industry trends for national trade publications (e.g., ENR, Construction Dive).
• Proactively network with key industry press and establish company executives as go-to sources for journalists.
• Build, segment, and maintain a proprietary database of local, regional, and national AEC journalists, editors, and podcasts.
• Craft localized story angles for regional business journals, local news outlets, and metro-area press to support regional business development goals.
• Ghostwrite authoritative op-eds for leadership, draft narrative-driven press releases, and craft compelling project case studies.
• Identify and capture project moments, including anecdotes and field photos, to fuel external PR pitches and media placements.
• Measure and monitor the quality, effectiveness, and ROI of public relations and media relations strategies and tactics; provide recommendations for improvement.
• Contribute content and collaborate with our paid, shared and owned channels and support the implementation, including analysis of platforms.
• Aggressively monitor AEC industry trends, regulatory changes, competitor news, and external media to identify real-time commentary opportunities and provide relevant information to company leadership.
• Manage incoming media requests and coordinate with relevant stakeholders, as needed.
• Develop strategic editorial content from technical experts and seek channels to communicate externally through publications, speaking engagements, roundtable discussions, webinars, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, Marketing, Communications, English, or related fields.
• 7-10 years’ experience in a public relations, media relations, or communications role.
• Experience in a fast-paced B2B or professional services national or global corporation; architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) experience preferred but not required.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills required.
• Exceptional oral, editing, and written communication skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and a hunger to learn about the changing media and marketing landscape within the construction industry.
• Proven track record of building media relations programs and press lists from the ground up, with verifiable success in cold-pitching journalists.
• Strongly desire a baseline understanding of commercial construction and the key trends/conversations in the broader AEC and CRE industries.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is required; proficiency in Adobe CC a plus.
• Working knowledge of WordPress, media database and monitoring tools, and presentation development programs.
• Proficiency in managing the creation of PR materials, PR tools, PR measurement.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects with changing priorities.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage complex projects across a variety of functions.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is: $95,000.00 - $140,000.00. Compensation in other cities and states may vary.

Benefits

• Competitive total benefits and compensation package including performance-based bonuses, premium health care coverage including vision and dental, employer-matched 401(k), wellness reimbursement program, paid holidays and time-off, and other voluntary benefits and leave types.

About the Role

HITT Contracting is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring and developing the most qualified individuals based on job-related experience, skills, and merit. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.