PR & Communications Lead (Head of) (Hybrid)
Homebase
Hi, Future Homie!
As a Homie, you'll be part of an unstoppable team that puts customers first—
Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, HR, and more. More than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and give their teams superpowers. As the leader in small business team management, Homebase tracked 1+ billion hours for 2.5+ million workers last year.
Homebase is based in San Francisco, Houston, Denver, and Toronto. We recently announced our $60M Series D fundraise, and are backed by leading venture investors L Catterton Growth, Emerson Collective, Notable Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Bedrock Capital, and PLUS Capital. Homebase won the 2023 Webby Award for Best HR & Employee Experience App and was awarded Forbes’ America's Best Startup Employer 2024.
We’re just getting started. Join us on our mission to make local business teams unstoppable!
How You’ll Make an Impact
As the Senior Manager, PR & Communications (Head of) reporting to the CMO you will work closely with our CEO/Co-founder to craft a powerful company narrative and drive a breakthrough PR approach, in service of supercharging our brand awareness.
You will do this by leveraging data insights within Homebase’s powerful platform of millions of users and being informed by qualitative customer insight, as you build a clear-eyed conviction on how we can stake our claim as market authority and leading tech startup in our march to become a generational company.
You will partner closely with Product, Brand/Creative, Product Marketing, Analytics, the executive team, and beyond. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant responsibility, operating against a hybrid internal/external model of hands-on pitching as well as some agency support as needed.
You are quick on your feet, blindingly ambitious about taking PR & communications to the next level, a self-starter, and intellectually curious. To succeed in this role, you are willing to try new things and can manage numerous projects with tight deadlines.
PR & communications is a significant strategic company lever, and not seen as simply a marketing distribution channel. It will get the appropriate focus and support from senior executives, to enable truly great work to drive the impact that matches our ambitions.
What You’ll Do
- Build brand awareness by:
- Developing and executing an earned media strategy
- Leverage your existing rolodex of U.S. media contacts in B2B, Business/Tech, and Consumer to build and develop relationships, including hands-on pitching
- Expanding reach with a multi-channel, integrated content approach (ex. Social media, events, thought leadership, keynote addresses, media partnerships, etc.)
- Support the execution of our broader marketing campaigns to extend their reach.
- Tell our story by:
- Building a communications narrative for our company and products that is compelling to media and our end users
- Building the brand and reach of select executives, including co-founders
- Differentiated data stories, powered by qualitative customer insights and the power of our platform analytics
- And other critical communications and PR-related responsibilities, as required.
You are a bar raiser, which means by the end of year 1, you will have:
- Pushed our quality of media coverage through a significant step up to the next level, including multiple broadcast hits
- Developed and raised the executive profile of select senior leaders (ex. Co-founders)
- Inspired our entire organization with the true potential of PR & Communications
- Supercharged our company-integrated campaigns by expanding reach
- Proactively brought in and executed multiple new game-changing ideas
- Pushed us to think differently, bringing a strong POV and steady hand to how we can win
- …have a blast while building!
You’ll be successful here if you bring
- Minimum 8 years experience in startup PR & communications, ideally with in-house exposure to SaaS, consumer, and financial services
- World-class written and verbal communication skills
- Track record of crafting powerful messaging and distilling complex product details into simple and clear insights that are highly pitchable
- A strong point of view, with the ability to drive media strategy (with or without agency support)
- A rolodex of media relationships in Business, Technology, B2B (trades), Consumer
- Deep agency management experience with evidence of unlocking greatness from them
- Willingness to travel to major media markets and Homebase hubs (Toronto, SF, Houston, Denver)
- Deep comfort with providing strategic advice and media coaching to senior executives
- A default to thinking differently and pushing past the traditional – messaging, channels, etc
- A strong bias toward impact – scorecarding results, analytical mindset, and data comfort
- Stock Options - Everyone is an Owner!
- Competitive group health benefits coverage for you and your eligible dependents
- Group Investments, TFSA as well as an RRSP plan which offers a 4% company match
- Employer supplemented Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plans
- Company-paid holidays and 20 days accrued PTO per year
- Continued learning and development stipend
- Paid parental leave after 1-year of service
- Top-of-the-line equipment and stipend for workspace setup
- Work from home days, Monday, Thursday, & Friday
- Meals provided at our vibrant workspaces
- Team offsites and monthly opportunities to engage with fellow Homie
- Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Ivana L.
- Meet with some of our Product Marketing Managers
- Participate in a take-home assignment
- Meet the Hiring Manager, Candy L.
- Participate in a case presentation
- Coffee chat with our PR partner
- Meet our CEO and Co-Founder, John W.
- Professional Reference Checks
- Background Check + Offer Stage
- Welcome to the team, Homie💜🎉
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Homebase
At Homebase, we take pride in fostering a welcoming space where every Homie of every gender, age, orientation, culture and walk of life can be their full selves. Diverse perspectives empower us to build the best-in-class platform for small businesses and hourly shift workers. We recognize that experience comes in many forms, so if you think you’re close to what we’re looking for (even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications), we encourage you to apply!
About UsOur mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.
Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, HR, and more. More than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and give their teams superpowers. As the leader in small business team management, Homebase tracked 1+ billion hours for 2.5+ million workers last year.
Homebase is based in San Francisco, Houston, Denver, and Toronto. We are backed by leading venture investors L Catterton Growth, Emerson Collective, Notable Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Bedrock Capital, and PLUS Capital.
At Homebase, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Homebase is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Accommodations will be provided during the hiring process if needed. Please advise us of any accommodations needed within your application to ensure fair and equitable access throughout the recruitment and selection process.**Interview Recording Notice
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