Sr. Director, Communications

Reports to: Chief Marketing Officer

Location: Remote

Compensation Range: $160,000 to $210,000 base, plus bonus, and equity 

What We Do: 

Founded in 2015 as a fully remote company by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress was built on a simple premise: to force hackers to earn every inch of their access. 

Today’s cyber-attacks aren’t limited to large organizations with the security tools that can ward off threats. Hackers don't discriminate and will find a way to penetrate any vulnerability in any size business, which is why Huntress focuses on protecting those small to midsize businesses that make up the backbone of our economy.

Huntress stops hidden threats that sneak past preventive security tools by utilizing our award winning security platform and expert human threat hunters through dynamic products including Managed EDR, MDR for Microsoft 365, and Managed Security Awareness Training.

Join the hunt and help us stop hackers in their tracks!

What You’ll Do: 

The Huntress Mission is to protect Small and Medium sized organizations from cyber attacks that threaten to impact their businesses and their customer data. The Director of Comms will drive awareness and thought leadership of our solutions with key influencers across press, analysts, the institutional investment community, by leveraging our in-house expertise to do this.

This role is responsible for ensuring Huntress experts are positioned as ‘go to’ resources with key press and analysts, and managing press and speaking opportunities for the team.  

Responsibilities:

• Own  the short and long-term communication strategy for Huntress as we scale today and prepare for  IPO
•   Manage our PR agency to ensure Huntress inclusion in key industry stories, and to establish our thought leaders as ‘go to’ resources for quotes and insights on hot topics to champion our POVs
• Develop a speaker bureau to promote our in-house experts in appropriate opportunities
• Own the analyst agenda by developing ‘meet and greet’ opportunities with key influencers, and build relationships with top analysts and our technical SMEs
• Constantly hunt for ‘news’ across the company beyond product launches
• Run point on crisis communications that arise in the industry where our experts have a POV that can help educate and inform those impacted and protect those who may not have experiences and issue. 
• Manage, and partner with public relations and analyst agencies to drive the execution of the key strategies 
• Support internal and external corporate communications, crisis communications and employment brand strategy and execution
• Partner with executive and finance teams to build and manage investor relations strategy as part of IPO readiness market softening roadshows
• Set goals and report on performance against those targets to cross-functional, internal teams, and board as necessary
• Manage an annual SOV and brand awareness benchmark to measure impact

What You Bring To The Team:  

• 10+ years of experience in developing communications, press and analyst relations programs that deliver impact and establish Huntress as a thought leader in our space.
• Demonstrated leadership experience building, executing and measuring proactive and reactive public relations strategies
• Demonstrated experience with day to day management of PR agency
• Experience in high-growth cybersecurity through IPO, is a plus 

Requirements:  To succeed in this job you need:

• Exceptional written communications skills.
• Experience pitching press, developing an inventory of press pitches and demonstrated success with story placement
• Interview prep and coaching including the development of briefing docs to guide conversations our SME’s will have with press, analysts and potential investors
• Established relationships with key cybersecurity industry analysts and press is a big plus.

What We Offer: 

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
• Generous paid time off policy including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans 
• 401(k) with 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees 
• One-time $500 stipend to build/upgrade home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance 
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to both Udemy and BetterUp platforms for coaching, personal, and professional growth

Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status. 

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.

Accommodations:

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