Senior Comms & PR Manager, North America

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We took an unobvious approach to starting a payments company, building a platform from scratch. Today, we're the payments platform of choice for the world's brightest companies. Speed is the foundation of our company. We think fast. We work fast. We launch fast. We are honest, direct, and try to have some fun too. We’re creating our own path, with a global team driving sustainable growth. To maintain our momentum, we need people to join us in finding new ways of solving our unique challenges - people like you.

Senior Comms & PR Manager, North America

We are looking for a Senior Communication Manager for North America, reporting directly to the VP of Marketing North America. 

As Senior Communication Manager, you will be in charge of developing our thought leadership strategy in North America, and accountable for our public perception. You’ll work closely with our marketing and communication teams to develop communications plans that involve high-level placements in business and trade media.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and execute regional communications strategies and programs to drive media coverage. Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product, commercial leads, and with senior leadership to craft compelling messaging and local storylines. 
• Manage and own relationships with PR agencies in the US and Canada to build excellent relationships with key media and secure media opportunities. Develop contacts with media members, influencers, and community leaders. Report on North American PR results. 
• Build and manage North American executive thought leadership. Assists executive leadership and board of directors in developing bylines, brand voices, presentations, speeches, and other important corporate messages.
• Ensure alignment with the company's strategic direction across all of the region’s external communications channels to ensure consistent messaging and positive brand positioning. 
• Work closely with North America business leads and content teams to build our local storytelling and public profile. Coordinate merchants win and support case studies efforts in the region. 
• Collaborate with headquarter and global communications teams to ensure consistent and effective messages, coordinate on media briefings, product launches, etc.
• Support execution and amplification for paid advertising campaigns, PR initiatives, events, product announcements, and marketing campaigns. 
• Support with corporate internal communications.

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience in the communications field.
• Flexible & tenacious: does what it takes to get things done, and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Have a proven experience of PR and external agency management.
• Have a good understanding of the business and trade media landscape in North America.
• Collaborative nature and team player, and a desire to work in an international environment.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, think ahead, engage proactively and make great things happen. 
• Have a successful track record in high tech branding to business audiences. 
• Strong project management skills. 

Who we are:

Adyen is the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Uber, Spotify, Casper, Bonobos and L'Oreal.

Ready to meet us?

If you are excited about this role, apply by clicking the below link. We can’t wait to meet you!

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records