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Company

Microsoft · 9 hours ago

Director of Communications

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$129K/yr - $249K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Drive a comprehensive plan and roadmap.

Create, articulate, and advise on essential/timely communications for the COO and Chief of Staff.

Help architect and drive a consistent and repeatable approach to internal communications.

Translate the value proposition and organizational purpose into effective communications strategies and storytelling.

Build relationships across teams to seed storytelling opportunities for strategic innovation, mission connection, and cultural belonging.

Embed diversity and inclusion throughout strategy and execution, demonstrating thought leadership and evangelism around the mechanisms to achieve perceptual change and normalization of D&I.

Command communications platforms to inform and facilitate employee communications.

Develop, maintain, and serve as the executive voice.

Coach others and manage the overall strategy for the executive leadership team, aligning all communications to team, business, and organizational objectives.

Advance and protect the corporate image with anticipation, understanding, and leveraging factors that impact reputation.

Oversees the development of all assets contributing to executive narratives, presentations, and production.

Creates ideas for and develops collateral materials for use in a range of communications initiatives and events.

Monitor, track, and analyze the impact of and responses to messaging for a given issue and create responsive materials as needed.

Drive GPSO’s rhythm of the business (ROB) including building and managing agendas, coordinating ROB events with the broader organization, and managing events in real time.

Own all GPSO ROB decks, messaging, talking points, and Teams posts for use in a range of communications.

Monitor, track, and analyze impact and resonance of all communications to develop and shape future ROB strategy.

Manage, advise, and pace GPSO’s culture workstreams to align to strategy and COO’s operating principles.

Help define employee experience at scale for GPSO.

Qualification

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Communications StrategyRhythm of Business (ROB)SharePoint ManagementMulti-media CommunicationProject ManagementAI-powered ToolsDeadline ManagementRelationship Building

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years Communications, Marketing Operations, Field Operations, Program Management, Project Management, or related experience

OR equivalent experience

A portfolio of work, demonstrating effective written communication for internal, executive and external audiences, multi-media communication, customer/partner facing presentations, and/or published online stories/blog posts

Excellent written, verbal professional communication skills and an ability to engage with colleagues ranging from executives to individual contributors

6+ years experience driving Rhythm of Business (ROB) for large organizations at scale organizations and managing SharePoint

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science, Engineering) AND 10+ years’ experience in communications, operations, business management, project management, culture and ROB management

Ability to present concepts and influence across a range of leaders and teams

Strong, detail-oriented analytical thinking skills, an ability to navigate ambiguity, and creatively solve problems at scale

Passion for building relationships and culture across the organization

Ability to deal with ambiguity, significant rolling changes and quick pivots

Experience working with multidisciplinary teams

Outstanding organizational skills and deadline management

Proficiency and a growth mindset in adopting and integrating AI-powered tools

Demonstrated depth and grasp of diversity and inclusion

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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