At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creative to scale the world’s fastest growing digital brands.  Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast paced culture. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward.

2021 was a transformational year for Viral Nation, having grown by 200% and we have even bigger ambitions for 2022 and beyond.  While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people.  Strong performance leads to high expectations and we need to keep raising the bar!

Our Values:

We Constantly Evolve: Embracing change is both an opportunity and a necessity!

Courage: Challenging the norm drives us forward!

Diversity: We strive for excellence and recognize that our differences make us stronger. We respect and seek out the inclusion of differences, realizing we can learn from each other!

Resilience: Adversity is a springboard for growth!

Viral Nation is looking for a SR. Director of Corporate Communications to elevate our corporate communications efforts into storytelling that drives awareness, engagement and revenue. The Sr. Director Corporate Communications role reports into the CMO and has a diverse and distributed team. This individual will use their experience and passion to develop and implement integrated corporate communications programs that focus on thought leadership development, social media, analyst relations, and employee advocacy that position Viral Nation as the leader in creator talent management, marketing & intelligence services and AI powered SaaS solutions. 

We want someone with deep domain experience in leveraging social media, short form content and traditional media relations to partner with our Business Unit leaders in further establishing our leadership position while opening new markets and launching new solutions. This role will lead from start to finish the creation of thought leadership concepts across multiple channels, scale of internal and external marketing assets, and reporting on market impact. This role will also have the opportunity to apply their broad expertise across corporate brand and reputation, positioning, and issues management to raise the level of maturity of Viral Nation's corporate communications programs.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive planning, development, and execution of holistic, integrated communications campaigns, inclusive of thought leadership, media and analyst relations, as well as corporate and solution storytelling.
• Organize the company’s communications calendar, set project deadlines, and establish operational objectives.
• Responsible for evaluating and approving all external communications material.
• Develop high-quality written materials that convey the Viral Nation’s corporate narrative, including messaging platforms, press releases, blogs, Q&As, speeches, editorials, and social posts.
• Partner with Brand, Content, Creative, Product Marketing, and Growth Marketing teams to ensure consistent storytelling and strategic alignment around paid/earned/owned and social content and programs.
• Develop and institute communications protocols, best practices, and processes that will drive greater efficiencies across the global marketing team.
• Serve as communications counselor and strategist to senior management.
• Lead the development of a proactive and reactive crisis and issues communications strategy and cross-functional issues management team on the early detection, identification, and proper handling of opportunities or situations that may have a direct impact on Viral Nation's corporate reputation.
   

• Must Have: Bachelor's degree 
• 10+ years of public relations or communications experience. (Agency experience is a plus)
• Experience working in the technology and industries.
• Strong social media, podcasting and creator commerce experience 
• Start-up and Large corporation experience desired 
• Must have proven experience managing executive visibility programs for C-Suite leadership for global brand(s).
• Comfortable working in fast paced environments and going the extra mile to secure feedback and approval
• An excellent storyteller with stellar writing skills - ability to write strong content with minimal editing. Writing samples available.
• Experience managing business issues, navigating and synthesizing various viewpoints.
• Understanding of how to use data & analytics to measure the success of media programs.
• Conversant in media measurement and analytics.
• Proven track record of managing staff and agency teams to achieve measurable results.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.