PR Director, APAC
Leads Cohere’s APAC PR and corporate communications function, shaping regional narratives for enterprise and government audiences while building teams, agency partnerships, executive communications, and crisis-response capabilities. Requires 12–15 years of corporate communications experience and substantial people-management experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build a PR and Communications function from the ground up, including hiring PR managers and agencies in key territories such as Korea, Singapore, Japan, India, and Australia.
- Implement PR and corporate communications strategies aligned with organizational goals, values, and brand positioning across internal and external audiences.
- Partner with PR, marketing, sales, and external stakeholders to craft messaging and materials supporting business priorities, organizational changes, and market positioning.
- Develop rapid-response capabilities in each region.
- Oversee executive speaking engagements, industry conferences, customer events, and internal leadership gatherings.
- Integrate AI into communications workflows to enhance content ideation, creation, and scaling.
- Oversee and optimize the APAC communications channel ecosystem, including earned media, owned channels, executive communications, and employee engagement tools.
- Lead cross-functional APAC storytelling initiatives, customer success stories, and executive thought leadership.
- Use data-driven insights and audience research to inform communications strategies for employees, customers, partners, investors, and industry influencers.
- Partner with Corporate Communications on crisis and issues communications preparedness and response, coordinating with legal, executive leadership, and functional teams.
- Serve as the central communications hub connecting internal communications, external PR, marketing narratives, and executive messaging.
Requirements
- 12–15 years of experience in in-house corporate communications, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth technology or AI environment.
- 5+ years of people management experience.
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and managing PR agencies.
- Experience with pre-IPO communications.
- Experience or strong interest in policy and regulatory communications.
- Exceptional writing skills and the ability to distill complex topics into compelling narratives.
- Experience advising senior leaders, executives, and people or human resources teams.
- Strong organization, process, project management, prioritization, and relationship-building skills.
- Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Creativity across communications formats, channels, and storytelling.
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a mental health budget.
- RRSP matching, 401(k), and pension scheme.
- Up to six months of 100% parental-leave top-up for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness and wellness, quality time, and workspace improvements.
- Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- Six weeks of paid vacation.
- Travel budget for remote employees to visit other offices and an annual company offsite.
- Coworking benefit for employees not near an office.
- $500 home-office stipend.
Skills
Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Crisis Communications, Executive Communication, Policy Communications, Regulatory Communications, Media Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, Content Creation, Audience Research, Project Management, People Management, Agency Management, Artificial Intelligence
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