Whatnot

Head of Internal Communications

Whatnot

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $230,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Spring

About the role

  • Own and evolve the global internal communications strategy
  • Design programs for regular updates, team-specific needs, and launches
  • Ensure company values, tone, and way of working are reflected in communications
  • Partner with organizational leaders and cross-functional leads to translate strategy into stories
  • Audit and evolve internal channels (Slack, All-Hands, etc.) to improve timeliness and usefulness
  • Set goals, use feedback and metrics, and measure internal engagement and impact
  • Report to the VP of Communications & Policy and collaborate across departments
  • Build, iterate on, and, when necessary, break internal comms systems to scale

Requirements

  • 8+ years of communications experience
  • Experience in-house at a fast-paced tech company, marketplace, or creator-focused platform
  • Have built (and rebuilt) internal comms programs from scratch, especially in times of growth, change, or scale
  • Ability to distill complex or nuanced information into meaningful, human, and useful communications
  • Comfortable working on broader comms projects and handling urgent issues
  • Experience partnering with executives and influencing without adding noise
  • Comfortable presenting to small and large groups
  • Fluency with tools like Slack and Loom
  • Data-minded with experience setting goals and using feedback and metrics to track engagement
  • Required to be within commuting distance of San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York City hubs