
Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
SailPoint
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Austin • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $128,700 - $239,100 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Shape and evolve SailPoint’s corporate narrative, ensuring clarity, consistency, and differentiation across audiences
- Act as a steward of SailPoint’s long-term corporate narrative, ensuring it evolves alongside our strategy, market position, and growth trajectory
- Partner closely with executive leadership to support high-impact communications, including thought leadership articles and blogs, keynotes, talking points, and podcasts
- Serve as trusted advisor to senior executives on messaging, tone, and timing to influence perception with external audiences
- Develop and execute external communications programs tied to company milestones, product innovation, and market momentum
- Collaborate with our network of global PR agencies to drive proactive media engagement and manage reactive communications as needed
- Own and protect SailPoint’s corporate reputation, including issues management, crisis communications, and sensitive or high-stakes situations in close partnership with legal and executive leadership
- Anticipate reputational risks and develop scenario plans and communication playbooks to ensure organizational readiness
- Provide guidance that shapes our social media strategy across channels, amplifying SailPoint’s voice through owned platforms, including the company’s podcast network
- Embrace AI-powered tools and workflows to increase speed, scale, and effectiveness while preserving quality, credibility, and SailPoint’s unique voice
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of corporate communications and PR professionals, fostering strong execution, collaboration, and professional growth
- Set clear standards, processes, and operating rhythms for the corporate communications function, ensuring consistency, speed, and excellence across public relations, influencer relations, organic social media, and blog
- Create messaging frameworks, FAQs, and communications plans to support cross-functional initiatives
- Work closely with marketing, product marketing, investor relations, legal and internal comms to ensure alignment
- Support major moments such as earnings, company news and launches, and industry events with clear, confident messaging
- Measure, analyze and report on the effectiveness of corporate communications programs, using insights and data to inform strategy and demonstrate business impact, maintaining high standards of quality and execution
- Ensure communications programs are designed to scale globally, with sensitivity to regional audiences, markets and media landscapes
Requirements
- 10-12+ years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, or related roles
- Experience in B2B technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, or enterprise software
- Exceptional writing and editing skills with a strong attention to detail
- Proven experience developing executive-level messaging for complex topics
- Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on in a fast-paced environment
- Experience supporting publicly traded companies and earnings communications (preferred)
- Combination of agency and in-house communications experience (preferred)
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, identity, or enterprise IT audiences (preferred)
- Experience positioning executives as thought leaders with media and industry audiences (preferred)
Benefits
- Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
- Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
- Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
- Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
- Sick leave
- Parental support: Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
- Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
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Hard skills
corporate communicationspublic relationsexecutive-level messagingwritingeditingcrisis communicationsissues managementcommunications planningmedia engagementdata analysis
Soft skills
strategic thinkingattention to detailcollaborationmentoringleadershipcommunicationadaptabilityproblem-solvinginfluencingcreativity