Director of Communications & Events

Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses. Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve. Madhive’s platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes. Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media. 

We are looking for an experienced communications and events professional to join our Marketing team to develop and refine our corporate positioning and messaging as we continue to differentiate our brand in the market. The ideal candidate must be a dynamic communicator and natural storyteller, responsible for guiding and implementing executive and internal communications, messaging, and events strategy to enhance and preserve our industry leadership position.

The Director of Communications and Events will work cross-functionally with revenue, client success, product and more. This opportunity requires excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to collaborate cross-functionally, and strong organizational skills.

This is a key leadership role reporting into the VP, Marketing. The role is based in NY.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute PR initiatives that propel and differentiate the MadHive brand in market, including press releases, talking points, events, executive speaking opportunities, awards and more

• Drive increased awareness and improved company positioning across a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Ensure messaging is differentiated, consistent, defensible, clear, and actionable

• Manage media monitoring and competitive intelligence, measuring share of voice, tracking and reporting of PR activities and metrics

• Create thought leadership including the development of executive articles and placements

• Oversee events and speaker strategy for company presence at owned and industry events, including speaker strategy, talking points, prep calls, and more

• Developing and nurturing strategic relationships with key external partners, including agency partners, event organizers, industry organizations, outside agencies, sister company executives, etc.

• Building a plan to prove PR and communication impact, defining, aligning on reporting, supporting platforms, success metrics and communicating impact on a quarterly basis.

• Scale trade advertising initiatives across site advertising, newsletters and more.

Qualifications:

• 10 years Public Relations/Corporate Communications experience, preferably with an ad tech, advertising agency or technology company

• Proven track record of working with members of the media to secure press coverage

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong storyteller with a passion for technology, digital marketing, data, innovation and start-up culture.

• Strong speaking, business writing and editing skills – able to write clearly and concisely to a wide variety of audiences clients, employees, reporters/editors, investors.

• You have a passion for media relations. Experience building and nurturing relationships with press; proactive planning/storytelling/pitch work; proven success in landing stories in key business and trade outlets

• Experience supporting and counseling C-suite level executives.

• Highly organized with ability to drive projects forward proactively

• Ability to distill complex and highly technical messages and ideas into meaningful content

• Ability to work fast-paced environments, flexible and able to adapt to changing scenarios, someone who rolls up their sleeves and gets the job done.

The approximate compensation range for this position is $165,000 – $198,000 per year. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors, including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.

We are Madhive

Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important. Whether it’s taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact. 

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.