Senior Manager, Corporate Communications

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.

Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.

Ready to become a Wriker?

Ready to make some serious waves in a high-growth SaaS category many consider pivotal to the future of work? Love working with the press, reading up on the latest news in tech, and looking for interesting pitch angles? Passionate about storytelling in new, creative ways? This is your chance to help us go toe-to-toe with other leaders in one of the hottest software categories: collaborative work management. We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Corporate Communications with a keen eye for trends, an agile and bold approach to getting things done, and passion in their purpose.

Wrike is the most intelligent CWM platform that’s redefining how teams and companies collaborate and succeed together in a new hybrid world. We have been ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Collaborative Work Management Tools report four consecutive times and have received several AI awards for recent breakthroughs in the latest technology driving productivity.

We’re out here doing the best work of our lives by helping employees everywhere do the best work of theirs. Join us!

More about Your team:

Reporting to the Director of Corporate Marketing, this position will play a crucial role in implementing the strategy for planned and proactive communication initiatives in the Corporate Communications team within Corporate Marketing. You will also work alongside colleagues in customer marketing, content marketing, analyst relations, social media, corporate events, design, and more to uplevel and support ongoing projects. This is an ideal role for someone who has a strong background in media relations and is resourceful, quick on their feet, self-motivated, creative, analytical, and collaborative.

How we work:

• Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace
• Ability to work well with dispersed teams, from San Diego to Dublin to Tokyo and everything in between
  
  
  

How You'll make an impact:

• Work closely with the Director of Corporate Marketing to ensure strategic corporate communications initiatives are successfully executed and results track back to OKRs.
• Coordinate with the Director of Corporate Marketing on the planning and roll-out of major brand awareness campaigns.
• Oversee the press release calendar of upcoming announcements, making recommendations for news that will allow Wrike to stay fiercely competitive and resonate with the media. Craft and distribute on-brand releases.
• Work closely with the Product and Product Marketing teams to ensure we are maintaining a strong cadence of product news that demonstrates innovation and underscores leadership in the space.
• Collaborate with agency partners to build a robust media presence that produces ongoing coverage tied to thought leadership, product innovation, third-party validation, and more.
• Work closely with Wrike’s executive leadership team to build out robust thought leadership campaigns.
• Analyze platform and third-party data to create new and unique storylines for the media.
• Keep up with the latest trends in the CWM space, as well as themes relevant to the brand, such as Future of Work, collaboration, and workflow automation, and - from those - make smart, fast recommendations for trend-jacking or rapid response.
• Work with Customer Marketing to ensure external facing stories hit the mark with what we want to say externally/tell the market.
• Make recommendations for new tactics that will help our brand and influence reach new heights.
• Track and optimize toward objectives and key results.
  
  
  

You'll achieve your best if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, or a related field
• 8 years of experience in communications with at least 5 years of experience in the technology industry and familiarity with the SaaS / Cloud sector
• Intelligent, passionate communicator and storyteller who can take our corporate narrative and apply it to initiatives that drive brand awareness
• Keen eye for spotting trends and making smart, actionable recommendations
• Deep understanding of the media landscape, including approaches and tactics and established relationships with contacts at business and tech outlets
• Strong interest in ensuring product leadership and innovation shine through in the corporate communications program with the ability to navigate product roadmaps and identify top tier product updates
• Experience collaborating with a PR agency partner to execute against media plans
• Ability to manage a press release calendar and develop releases, from media alerts to major press announcements
• Quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills; should feel comfortable with data analysis and be able to use data to make decisions and tell a story
• Basic understanding of how social media programs are run, including strategies, tactics, and success metrics
• Basic understanding of speaking and awards landscape for technology companies/platforms
• Ability to manage large projects or processes, perform against OKRs, and report results up to leadership team
• Results-oriented with a solid understanding of how to prioritize and execute against a strategy
• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills with the ability to understand, embrace, and emulate a brand persona
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with ability to handle various tasks throughout any given week
• Clear, thoughtful communicator across all levels within and outside of an organization, from the leadership team to customers
• Always looking for room to improve and push the boundaries of what can be done
• Inquisitive and collaborative with a positive attitude and go-getter mentality
  
  
  

You'll stand out with:

• Experience at both an agency and in-house
• Knowledge of how to navigate around project management platforms
  
  
  

Perks of working with Wrike

When you join our team, you join over 1,000 Wrikers all on a journey to do the best work of their lives. The 20,000+ businesses worldwide who chose us as their collaborative work management platform know we lead by example.

• Medical, Dental, and Employer-Paid Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance, Employer- Paid ST and LT Disability
• 401K with employer match, FSA/HSA Benefits, and Legal Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11 Paid Holidays, 1 Floating Holiday, 20 Days of PTO
• 16 Hours of Volunteer Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birth mothers, 4 weeks for non-birth parents
  
  
  

Get connected with one of our many WERC groups! (Wrike Employee Resource Community)

Your recruitment buddy will be Lindsey Storey , TA Team Lead.

The range above reflects the pay scale that Wrike reasonably expects to pay for the role. The pay scale will also depend on various factors, such as job duties and requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Pay scales are reviewed each year.

Remote - USA pay range

$134,408 — $146,000 USD

Who Is Wrike and Our Culture

We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.

Hybrid work mode

Wrike promotes a hybrid work mode for those that live near an office hub, we meet in the office 2-3 times a week. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.

Our persona

💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.

💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!

🤗 Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful.

Our culture and Values

🤩 Customer-Focused

We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.

🤝 Collaborative

We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.

🎨 Creative

We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions.

💪 Committed

We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.

Check out our LinkedIn Life Page , Instagram , Wrike Engineering Team , Medium , Meetup.com , Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.