Sr. Public Relations Manager

Lucid Software offers a leading Visual Collaboration Suite that helps teams see and build the future from idea to reality. With its products—Lucidchart, Lucidspark and Lucidscale—teams can align around a shared vision, clarify complexity, and collaborate visually, no matter where they're located. Top businesses use Lucid's products all around the world, including customers such as Google, GE, and NBC Universal. Lucid's partners include industry leaders such as Google, Atlassian, and Microsoft.

With a fast-growing team of more than 1,000 employees, we are committed to maximizing collaboration and innovation in the workplace through our products and with our people. Lucid is a hybrid, remote-friendly workplace, providing employees the flexibility to work where they are most productive, whether that’s at home, in the office, or a combination of the two.
We hold true to our core values: innovation in everything we do, passion & excellence in every area, individual empowerment, initiative and ownership, and teamwork over ego. At Lucid, we welcome diversity and are dedicated to creating an environment and culture that is respectful and inclusive for everyone.

Since the company’s founding, Lucid has received numerous global and regional recognitions for its products, business, and workplace culture. These include being named a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology and a 2022 Glassdoor Best Place to Work, inclusion on the Forbes Cloud 100, and placing #19 on G2’s Best Software Products for 2022 list.

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Lucid is seeking a PR professional to help lead its media relations program. In this role, you will work closely with the senior director of communications to drive a comprehensive public relations program, including media relations and thought leadership. You will also coordinate with the Lucid marketing and executive team, other internal stakeholders, our public relations agencies, reporters, influencers and customers to drive awareness of Lucid and its products within the industry.

Our mission is to help teams see and build the future. And we hold true to our core values of: (1) Innovation in everything we do; (2) Passion & excellence in every area; (3) Providing individual empowerment, initiative and ownership; and (4) Teamwork over ego.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape and execute on all media strategies.
• Manage the company’s thought leadership program.
• Build strong relationships with members of the press, key industry influencers and industry analysts.
• Help manage external agencies.
• Serve as the primary internal contact for inbound media inquiries.
• Ensure tight integration with other marketing activities.
• Help prepare Lucid spokespeople to ensure key messages are consistently conveyed.
• Draft and edit communications content to support PR initiatives.
• Monitor and analyze industry news and trends to support targeted media pitches.
• Maintain corporate newsroom.

Qualifications:

• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• 5+ years of experience in tech PR
• Bachelor's degree
• Exemplifies Lucid core values of Innovation, Passion & Excellence, Empowerment & Initiative, and Teamwork Over Ego
• Experience working with B2B software companies a strong plus
• Agency experience a strong plus
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

Preferred

• 7+ years of overall professional/PR experience

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