Everlaw’s mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. We believe that justice is served by truth, and our platform helps users discover it. Cloud-native and AI-powered, Everlaw is revolutionizing the way law firms, government agencies, and corporate legal departments handle mountains of digital data for internal investigations, ediscovery, and case preparation. We’re growing rapidly and we’re looking for passionate people to join us on the next phase of this incredible journey!

We’re looking for a Senior Corporate Communications Manager to amplify Everlaw’s story across legal, business, and technology media. In this role, you’ll help bring our message to the market through strategic storytelling that resonates in earned, paid, and social media. In this role, you’ll help shape the communications strategy that will raise Everlaw’s profile and bring our story to the world. You’ll partner with Everlaw’s executives, subject matter experts, and customers to deliver on our communications plans, build relationships with journalists and media partners, and drive executive thought leadership in third-party publications. You are a collaborative leader who will grow our external communications strategy and execution. You’ll use your respect for journalists and customers to craft compelling stories about Everlaw that interest a wide array of publications from legal trade to general business to technology press.

If this sounds like a match, we’d love to hear from you! This is a full-time exempt position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tues/Fr.

Getting started

We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. 

We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll...

• Get to know the team. Spend meaningful time getting to know the marketing and executive team, and understand where they can help contribute to our communications strategy
• Own our media program: Work with our PR agency to pitch, brief, place, and measure coverage across target outlets; maintain and grow reporter relationships.
• Drive announcements and momentum: Coordinate press and communications around key product launches, business momentum, customer narratives, and brand campaigns, ensure on-point messaging and impactful execution.
• Become a market expert. You’ll work hard to become a subject matter expert in the litigation and investigations competitive landscape and market trends, understanding Everlaw’s distinct position and differentiators.
• Bring empathy for our customers. Gain a deeper understanding of Everlaw’s software and customers through training and experience, allowing you to better target our communications strategy to resonate with our different customer segments.
• Develop our communications strategy. You’ll collaborate with leadership and our agency to build and execute our external communications strategy. Developing stories that elevate Everlaw’s brand, increase our share of voice, showcase our momentum and highlight key initiatives.
• Generate strong coverage. You will execute our strategy leveraging your established relationships and forging new ones to help us elevate our brand via top article placement, winning key awards and outstanding thought leadership blogs and by-lines articles.
• Guide our social media. You’ll work with our social media partners to amplify our communications messaging, expand executive recognition, support employer branding and recruitment, and drive broad brand awareness among target audiences.
• Protect our brand. You are out in front with top-tier press, and will effectively counter misinformation in the market, and respond effectively to reputational challenges.

About you

• You have a history of high performance as a communications leader with at least 7 years of PR experience. You have demonstrated capabilities cultivating relationships with journalists and influencers to generate stories at top publications, to effectively handle crisis management, to manage an agency and to deliver outstanding executive speeches.
• Your soft skills strengthen your leadership and provide an excellent model for the organization. You are sensitive to all our cross-functional stakeholders’ needs (including executive management) and can develop strong internal relationships to partner for success. You bring a point of view to the table and know how to effectively share it. Your colleagues can trust your clear communication, deep organizational skills, and flexible time management.
• You are eager and open to experiment. You use your creativity and curiosity to uncover new stories from our internal teams and customers, constantly looking for new ways to tell our story.
• You value learning and are always working to develop your craft. You are reflective about your strengths and growth areas and seek out ways to become a better leader and contributor.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas.

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $148,000 - $187,000 The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
• Substantial equity
• 401k with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus ten bankable federal holidays
• Four “Everlawlidays” that are designated days off for the whole company
• Mental health resources through Modern Health
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Perks

• Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
• You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
• Hybrid work schedule 
• Commuter benefits (for those eligible)
• Internet & cell phone reimbursement (for those eligible)
• Anniversary awards
• Catered lunches and out-of-the-box events 
• Ranked “#1 on G2 for Ediscovery Software and Momentum” and we offer free eDiscovery resources to benefit the greater societal good with Everlaw for Good
• Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
• Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities 
• Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium companies
• One of Wealthfront’s 2021 Career Launching Companies, and ranked #2 on the “2022 Bay Area Best Places to Work” list by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal
• One of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022 and proud contributor of free ediscovery resources to benefit the greater good through “Everlaw for Good”