Senior Manager, Public Relations & Communications

The role

This person will own US communications from end to end by creating media campaigns and developing a US communications strategy. They will build relationships with journalists and coach spokespeople to establish Neara as a leading voice.

What you will do

• Create a differentiated pipeline of media campaigns.
• Develop and lead a distinctive US communications strategy.
• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with journalists and industry voices.
• Cultivate and coach a strong and diverse US spokesperson bench.
• Personally brainstorm, write, and pitch stories, op-eds, and reactive newsjacking commentary.
• Build a process to support rapid-response newsjacking.
• Build strong internal cross-functional partnerships to translate insights into stories.
• Curate and distribute news pipeline for the organization.
• Apply rigorous editorial and reputational judgment.
• Create clear impact metrics tied to narrative penetration and coverage quality.

Required qualifications

• Experience in communications, public relations, or journalism with substantive ownership of media strategy and execution for a high-growth technology, AI, infrastructure or company with similarly comp
• Experience personally developing stories, pitching reporters and securing high-quality coverage in competitive media environments.
• Exceptional writer and editor.
• Strong news judgment.
• Strong commercial instincts.

Nice to have

• Existing relationships across technology and AI and critical infrastructure media.
• Experience in AI-heavy, critical infrastructure and highly regulated / politically sensitive adjacent subject matter.

About the company

Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents. The team utilizes AI and machine learning to accelerate data classification and complex scenario analysis.