Senior Manager, Communications (Remote, US)

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Communications is a high-impact role responsible for building Renew Home's external voice. You'll own every external-facing channel — partner announcements, press releases, media events, podcasts, executive interviews, and social media — and bring media relationships to the table.

The ideal candidate has real working relationships across energy-industry trade press and tier-1 financial/business outlets. And someone who has helped navigate an early-stage or high-growth company through major milestones and knows firsthand how to build the external narrative and land the moment cleanly.

What You Will Do

• Lead media relations
• Bring existing relationships and keep them warm—this is a relationship-first role.
• Lead announcements and executive visibility
• Plan and execute all partner announcements and press releases, from first draft through coverage and corrections.
• Build and run an executive communications program for the CEO and other executive voices—securing interviews, speaking slots, and podcast appearances, and coaching leadership to perform well in them.
• Consolidate key talking points and presentation outlines for all executive external appearances.
• Define lanes for company voices and track and secure opportunities to build company visibility and strategic messaging weighted toward priority messaging.
• Identify and develop additional company spokespeople, shape their narratives, and pursue thought leadership opportunities that build leadership and brand momentum.
• Build thought leadership and brand presence
• Own strategy for the company's external social channels, ensuring consistency with the broader narrative.
• Lead through milestones and moments
• Lead communications strategy for significant company milestones and growth moments working closely with executive leadership for alignment and feedback to build the external narrative ahead of it.
• Closely align with company leadership on upcoming milestones to determine how and when to go big publicly.
• Manage crisis communications
• Develop and execute crisis communications plans and prep company spokespeople.
• Keep the broader communications posture forward-looking and confident rather than defensive.
• Partner cross-functionally
• Align with executive leadership and key senior stakeholders to develop and refine all external communications.
• Work closely with go-to-market, product, policy, legal, and data teams to keep the external narrative aligned with the business objectives.
• Establish and meet measurable KPIs to track the effectiveness of external communications strategy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of communications experience, with meaningful energy-sector experience.
• Strong existing relationships with energy trade press and tier-1 financial/business journalists, ability to speak to specific reporters and outlets, not just categories of coverage.
• A strong B2B editorial mindset.
• Demonstrated experience helping an early-stage or high-growth company navigate major growth milestones and communicate it externally.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, adapts quickly when approvals are delayed or plans change without losing momentum.
• Exceptional writing and spokesperson skills, comfortable being coached, and comfortable coaching others.
• A demonstrated bias toward proactive storytelling with a clear eye for risk management.
• Experience building a communications function and managing agency support.
• Exceptional crisis communication skills: rapid response, message development, stakeholder management and balanced with an instinct for staying on offense.
• Ability to work closely with go-to-market, brand, product, policy, strategy, operations and data analytics to craft a compelling narrative for our company and mission.
• Team-builder with a collaborative, high-energy leadership style; leads by example and creates an inclusive environment.
• Good judgment and attention to detail, particularly in confidential and high-pressure situations.
• Intellectual curiosity, self-motivation, resourcefulness, integrity, and genuine enthusiasm for building something new.
• Low ego, highly collaborative, enjoys jamming with teammates and iterating in the open.
• Experience working with remote, distributed teams across time zones.