# Principal Communications Manager

**Company:** [Apollo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/apollo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Communications
**Salary:** $163k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** corporate communications, pr, Thought Leadership, product communications, analyst relations, Media Relations, crisis communications, data storytelling, AI/ML, writing and editing, internal communications
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Lead strategic PR, product communications, analyst relations, and internal comms as second-in-command to the Head of Communications. Requires 10+ years corporate communications experience, exceptional writing, data storytelling, and experience in B2B tech/SaaS/AI.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

### PR Content and Thought Leadership
- Turn Apollo corporate narratives, milestones and data insights into compelling stories that earn attention with media, analysts, and customers.
- Develop high-impact content for external audiences including contributed bylines, data benchmark and survey reports, executive POVs, and other content to build thought leadership and brand awareness.
- Ensure narratives reinforce Apollo’s messaging and support its business strategy.
- Collaborate with Marketing on integrated campaigns, editorial planning and amplification.

### Product and Partnership Communications
- Drive product PR that highlights innovation, customer impact, and category leadership.
- Develop data-informed messaging and materials including press releases, messaging frameworks, briefing documents, FAQs, talking points, and reactive statements.
- Partner closely with Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, Legal to ensure clarity, accuracy, and consistency across all product communications.
- Support for sensitive comms (e.g., data topics, platform policies, incidents, and legal or regulatory matters) with strong judgment and executive-ready recommendations.

### Analyst Relations
- Help enhance and operationalize Apollo’s analyst relations strategy, with a focus on influence, education, and long-term relationship building.
- Manage day-to-day engagement with key analysts including Gartner, Forrester, GZ Consulting, Info-Tech, and others.
- Develop analyst-facing materials such as briefings, decks, messaging frameworks, and market POVs.

### Internal Communications
- Lead planning and execution of all-hands meetings, including agenda development in coordination with executive team leaders, speaker preparation, content production, and run-of-show coordination.
- Develop internal communications content and cross-channel cadence that reinforce Apollo’s narrative and strategy, ensuring employees understand company goals, priorities, momentum and moments of change.
- Draft, edit, and distribute internal announcements for org changes, product updates, milestones, and other company-wide initiatives; ensure internal and external comms are tightly aligned, synchronized, and strategically sequenced.

## What You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in corporate communications (B2B tech, SaaS, AI, or GTM industry experience preferred).
- Strong track record of data storytelling and translating research into earned media and thought leadership.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, from crisp messaging to long-form content.
- Proven experience leading product launches, product PR, and simplifying complex technical narratives.
- Experience with media relations, analyst relations, crisis communications, AI/ML technology, and product communications.
- A builder’s mindset: comfortable in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving priorities.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills across Product, Marketing, Sales, Legal, and Exec teams.

## Who You Are
- A high-judgment communicator who can balance speed with quality and precision.
- A savvy storyteller with a strong instinct for trends and angles that resonate with the media.
- A strategic operator who enjoys a startup-speed environment and developing processes for efficiency.
- A detail-obsessed writer who values clarity, precision, and craft.
- A relationship builder who can partner with executives and cross-functional teams.
- Confident, collaborative, and comfortable owning big, visible workstreams.
- Savvy leveraging AI tools to accelerate PR impact.
- Bring ambition with humility: confident driver, exceptional collaborator.

## Why You’ll Love Working at Apollo
- Build public visibility of a category-defining, hypergrowth AI company.
- Work directly with a seasoned Head of Communications to build a world-class comms function.
- Own flagship thought leadership initiatives with executive visibility.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- A culture that values ownership, clarity, and speed.

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