Senior Manager, PR & Communications

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November 17

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

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🌵 Arizona – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $116k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎙️ Public Relations (PR)

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Caribou

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Finance • Fintech • B2C

Caribou is a company that specializes in helping customers refinance their car loans to achieve better rates and save money. The company offers a simple, fully online process that allows users to check competitive loan offers with no impact on their credit score. By refinancing, customers save an average of $130 per month on car payments. Caribou emphasizes transparency in its financial transactions and provides dedicated customer support throughout the refinancing process. Additionally, it offers optional products to protect the value of the vehicle, like extended warranties. Caribou aims to simplify the refinancing experience, making it fast and accessible for all users.

201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Own the company's external communications strategy, including press, media relations, strategic announcements, and corporate reputation management. • Develop and execute PR strategies and story angles that promote Caribou’s mission, while proactively identifying opportunities to insert our perspective into relevant news cycles. • Partner with brand, content, product marketing, and exec teams to align messaging and ensure consistency across earned, owned, and paid channels. Translate customer stories and product innovation into newsworthy brand narratives. • Leverage internal and external data to identify newsworthy trends and stories that will generate media coverage and position Caribou as an industry leader. • Pitch media outlets to secure earned placements across print, digital, and broadcast platforms. Respond to media inquiries, manage Caribou’s newsroom, and serve as the point of contact for proactive and reactive media engagement. • Write press releases, news blogs, talking points, backgrounders, articles and press kit materials. • Build and maintain relationships with journalists, producers, editors, and influencers to generate consistent media coverage and drive organic leads. • Support internal communications initiatives and employer brand storytelling to engage and inspire current and potential employees. • Write and manage executive and company content for LinkedIn, speeches, events, and earned placements, ensuring consistency of voice. • Manage Caribou’s corporate and employee reputation across Linkedin, Glassdoor, and similar platforms to reinforce our employer brand and company culture. • Track and analyze PR impact, including media reach, sentiment, and share of voice, and communicate results to leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, journalism, or related field (or equivalent experience). • 8+ years of experience in public relations, communications, and/or media relations, ideally within fintech, financial services, or a high-growth technology environment. • Proven experience delivering impactful media coverage and effective executive communication programs. • Exceptional storytelling skills and ability to craft compelling brand narratives. • Strategic thinker who executes with speed, accuracy, and attention to detail. • Strong executive presence and confidence representing the company externally. • Exceptional writing skills across formats — from press releases and op-eds to executive speeches and social media. • Data-driven mindset with experience analyzing data to identify trends, measuring PR outcomes, and optimizing communications strategies based on performance insights. • Experience serving as a strategic communications advisor to senior leaders and executives. • Experience in issues and crisis management, with the ability to respond quickly and thoughtfully under pressure. • Proficiency with AI tools for writing, editing, and workflow automation (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini). • Excellent relationship builder and cross-functional collaborator. • Demonstrated experience building relationships with journalists, editors, and producers.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation: $116k - $145k • Eligible for annual performance-based incentive • Equity options • 401(k) retirement plan • Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents • Exceptional benefits including highly subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, and fully company-paid mental health, disability, and basic life insurance • Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs (with Caribou HSA contributions), FSAs, supplemental life and health, legal, and pet insurance • Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses • Employee referral program