Senior Manager, Communications (Remote, US)

The role

The Senior Manager, Communications is a high-impact role responsible for building Renew Home's external voice. You'll own every external-facing channel — partner announcements, press releases, media events, podcasts, executive interviews, and social media — and bring media relationships to the table.

The ideal candidate has real working relationships across energy-industry trade press and tier-1 financial/business outlets. And someone who has helped navigate an early-stage or high-growth company through major milestones and knows firsthand how to build the external narrative and land the moment cleanly.

You'll also serve as a strategic communications partner to our executive leadership team: proactively soliciting ELT perspectives, ambitiously seeking feedback, surfacing alignment and tension, and translating leadership input into a clear, cohesive strategy. You'll drive and execute that strategy while keeping stakeholders informed and able to weigh in at important junctures.

What You Will Do

• Lead media relations: Drive press coverage across energy trade media and tier-1 outlets (WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, CNBC). Maintain and grow relationships with journalists

• Lead announcements and executive visibility: Plan and execute partner announcements, press releases, and executive communications programs. Secure interviews, speaking slots, podcasts, and coach leadership

• Build thought leadership and brand presence: Identify platforms (podcasts, events) to build authority in energy/smart home. Own external social channel strategy

• Lead through milestones and moments: Shape communications strategy for major company milestones, aligning closely with leadership

• Manage crisis communications: Develop and execute crisis plans, prep spokespeople, and maintain a confident posture

• Partner cross-functionally: Align with leadership and teams across GTM, product, policy, legal, and data. Establish measurable KPIs for communications effectiveness

Requirements

• 7+ years of communications experience, with meaningful energy-sector experience

• Strong existing relationships with energy trade press and tier-1 business journalists

• Strong B2B editorial mindset

• Experience guiding early-stage/high-growth companies through milestones

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and adapting quickly

• Exceptional writing and spokesperson skills; comfortable coaching and being coached

• Bias toward proactive storytelling with risk management instincts

• Experience building communications functions and managing agency support

• Exceptional crisis communication skills

• Ability to collaborate across GTM, brand, product, policy, strategy, operations, and analytics

• Team-builder with collaborative, high-energy style

• Good judgment and attention to detail in high-pressure situations

• Intellectual curiosity, self-motivation, resourcefulness, integrity, and enthusiasm for building something new

• Low ego, highly collaborative, thrives in remote teams

Benefits

• Full-time position with competitive salary: $155k–$185k base + 20% annual bonus target + long-term incentive programs

• Fully remote work environment with home office allowance

• No pre-set vacation limits, parental leave, and family-first culture

• Competitive health and wellness benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer contributions

• Opportunity to work with passionate teammates in a thriving remote environment

Note: Renew Home cannot sponsor employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Renew Home considers applicants without regard to race, color, creed, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, or any other protected category. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities.