Senior Manager of Communications, Ready
+Equity
Growth platform for internet providers
Job no longer available
Growth platform for internet providers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help broadband professionals monetize, and connect more people to better services.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Senior Manager, Communications to lead our communications strategy and elevate Ready’s voice
- The ideal candidate will be a seasoned communications professional with experience in the SaaS industry, skilled in both external and internal communications, media relations, and content strategy
- Excellent writer; quality > quantity, continues to reiterate mission
- Effective leader who can scope, run, deliver on projects, and manage up to e-team stakeholders
- High attention to detail; reverence for data-informed research
- High IQ and direct communicator, ideally trained in psych, comms, and digital media
- Maintains a dash of humor / irreverence while taking what we build very seriously → life’s too short for boring
- Business-minded, ruthlessly goal-driven, creative-and-outcome-oriented, can turn FUD into fuel, and will stay the course
- Creative problem solvers approaching an antiquated system with a revolutionary viewpoint
- Humble but ambitious, knowledgeable but curious, persistent but not obnoxious
- Concise and effective in written and spoken communication
- Comfortable working remotely
What the job involves
- You will play a pivotal role in shaping our narrative, driving brand awareness, and ensuring clear, consistent messaging across all platforms
- Owns external communications on Ready Branding to current and future customers
- Keeps Ready ultra-crisp across mediums, and ensures every word of every touchpoint sizzles; esp. in killer short form writing, (X, memes, short vids vs. press releases)
- Pick up and carry the ball on our Product Language & Media Production, workshopping with leads on the key points; the ideal person has strong creative synthesis
- Capable manager to train up current team members; influence x-functionally at the executive level
- Takes an obsessive focus on advancing business goals to create relationship-forward strategies & craft narratives to the right audiences
- Executes Ready's founder-led communication strategy, leveraging our founder's voice and vision to authentically convey Ready’s mission, build brand trust, and engage key audiences
- Leads the communications strategy with a data-driven approach, using analytics to optimize messaging, track engagement, and ensure impactful, results-oriented communication initiatives
Our take
As internet providers strive to expand their services to harder-to-reach communities, companies such as Ready are finding new ways to serve their customer base. Founded in 2020, Ready.net helps these companies collect, audit, and share data, connect to more customers and generally scale their projects.
With federal and state governments in the US offering billions to fund internet connectivity expansion, Ready are already winning big contracts. This is because of the necessity for internet providers to give funding programs extensive data on service areas, socio-economic surveys and existing connectivity in the areas they’re planning to expand into - which Ready is able to provide.
Founded at a time when internet connectivity was at its highest demand, and with good early funding, Ready has certainly got off to a promising start. In 2022, it partnered with Nokia to help local broadband providers connect unserved and underserved communities. With the expansion of broadband services still a major goal in the US, the company should have plenty of opportunity for further success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$10.5m
SERIES A
May 2021
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $14.7m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity upside
- Competitive (and ever expanding) benefits for employees and dependents
- Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups
- A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we pursue a bold vision and and a big goal
- Work from anywhere you want, as long as you can get great internet (and your work here at Ready helps make this true in more places)
- To get away - we convene 2-3x / year for [optional, encouraged] retreats
- We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you
- The charter to a build product in a market that is set to receive $65 billion in grant funding across the United States
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jase Wilson
(CEO)Previously Founder and CEO at Neighborly and CEO at Luminopolis.
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