Director, Corporate & Brand Communications

Snap Inc

Santa Monica, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$276,000–$414,000 Per Year
SKILLS
Brand Strategy, Business Growth, Business Strategy, Coaching, Corporate Communications, Cross-Functional, Diversity, Federal Laws and Regulations, High Tech Industry, Leadership, Legal, Medical Conditions, Medical Genetics, New Media, People Management, Podcasting, Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relations, State Laws and Regulations, Strategic Planning, Talent Management, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Santa Monica, CA
POSTED
2 days ago

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

The Snap Communications team shapes how the world understands Snap. We tell the stories behind our business, products, and technology-building trust with Snapchatters, advertisers, partners, investors, policymakers, the media, and our own team.

We're looking for a Director of Corporate & Brand Communications to be a strategic leader and operator who helps shape Snap's business narrative and reputation. This role will partner closely with leaders across Snap to develop integrated communications strategies that advance Snap's business priorities and strengthen how the company is understood, reporting to the VP of Communications.

This is a senior leadership role based in Los Angeles / Santa Monica for someone with exceptional judgment, outstanding writing skills, strong media instincts, and a modern communications mindset. The right person is equally comfortable developing strategy, leading through ambiguity, managing teams, and rolling up their sleeves to execute. They should bring creativity, operational rigor, and a collaborative leadership style that raises the bar for the entire Communications organization.

What you'll do

  • Help define and execute Snap's corporate and brand communications strategy across key company milestones and moments.

  • Partner closely across Snap cross-functional leadership to tell compelling stories about Snap's business momentum and long-term vision.

  • Develop communications strategies that combine earned and new media, across direct and owned channels, social platforms, and other formats.

  • Lead complex media situations with sound judgment, proactive planning, and rapid execution.

  • Manage, coach, and develop team members while creating clarity, alignment, and a collaborative, high-performing culture.

  • Serve as a trusted counselor to senior executives, helping prepare leaders for high-impact communications moments.

  • Build strong relationships with top-tier media and new media while helping evolve how Snap reaches audiences directly.

  • Improve how the Communications team operates through scalable processes, better cross-functional coordination, and new ways of working that leave room for creativity and experimentation.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Significant experience leading corporate, executive, and brand communications at a public company or high-growth technology business.

  • Strong understanding of business communications, financial communications, executive visibility, reputation management, and more.

  • Collaborative, low-ego leader and people manager who builds trust across organizations, develops talent, and helps teams work effectively together.

  • Experience developing integrated communications strategies across earned and new media, owned channels, executive communications, podcasts, events, video, and social platforms.

  • Strong understanding of how modern communications is evolving beyond traditional media.

  • Exceptional judgment in ambiguous, high-pressure moments and environments.

  • Outstanding writing and editing skills with the ability to simplify complex business issues.

  • Creative, resourceful, and comfortable moving between strategic planning and hands-on execution.

  • Passion for innovation, technology, and helping shape the public understanding of one of the world's most influential consumer technology companies.

Minimum Qualifications

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.

  • 15+ years of communications, public relations, corporate communications, or related experience.

  • 7+ years managing people and leading communications teams.

  • Experience in communications leadership at a public company or similarly complex organization.

  • Experience with financial communications, executive communications, business media, and reputation management.

  • Based in Los Angeles.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don't be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a "default together" approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we've got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

The base salary range for this position is $276,000-$414,000 annually.

Zone B:

The base salary range for this position is $262,000-$393,000 annually.

Zone C:

The base salary range for this position is $235,000-$352,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

About the Company

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Snap Inc

Our Story

The name may have changed over the years, but the commitment made when the forerunner of SNAP (Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners) formed in 1966 remains its guiding purpose today. SNAP’s mission was, and is, to provide people of low income with access to needed resources, and to help them make the kinds of connections that create opportunity. Our goal always has been to help build a vibrant community that treats everyone with dignity and respect by advocating for that which is fair, honorable and equitable.

The foundation for what is now SNAP got its start in the summer of 1966, when Father Frank Bach, then the director of Catholic Charities in Spokane, enlisted the assistance of the St. Vincent DePaul Society to establish three community centers, in Hillyard, East Central and West Central Spokane, each with a goal of helping low-income people meet their emergency needs as well as to provide a multitude of services within those communities.

These centers and the community-based programs they initiated were so successful that the Spokane Community Action Agency took over the administration of the neighborhood centers. Unfortunately, that agency lost its funding in the summer of 1973. The programs would have been lost were it not for the intervention of a number of community leaders. New funding was secured and Catholic Charities again administered the program.

Striving to fill growing needs, the Neighborhood Centers had developed an annual budget in excess of $4 million by 1985 and were growing beyond the scope of Catholic Charities. On September 12, 1985, with Tom Pleas as Director, the centers became Spokane Neighborhood Centers, Inc. The incorporators were: P.J. Grabicki, Thelma Pugh, Robert Huckabay, Sheri Barnard, Clarence (Bud) Barnes, Nora Beggs, Ed Stevens and Bill Fearn. The corporation adopted bylaws on December 10, 1985.

Five years after incorporation, leadership shifted with the announced retirement of Director Pleas. The agency’s associate director, Larry Stuckart, was formally named executive director in July 1992. Julie Honekamp assumed the role of SNAP and SNAP Financial Access CEO in June of 2011.

From 1985 through the present, the agency has expanded services to meet the needs of a growing population, proving itself to be more than just “neighborhood centers.” Through continuing expansion and a variety of programs, the agency strives to facilitate long-term solutions for the people it serves.

The agency officially became Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs in December 1991, a name chosen to reflect the breadth of the agency’s operations. In Sheri S. Barnard’s Mayoral Proclamation, the agency pledged to continue providing quality services and to ensure that Spokane remains a place that cares about its citizens. In 2008, the name was officially shortened to “SNAP” and legally changed to Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners.

With a re-energized mission, vision and values statement, as well as a new visual identity, SNAP continues to respond to individual and community needs by providing a range of opportunities that offer stability to our vulnerable neighbors and encourage economic self-sufficiency for those who are able.

COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Parking, Prescription Drug Coverage, Employee Referral Program, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Life Insurance
FOUNDED
1966
WEBSITE
https://www.snapwa.org/