Red Hat Communication Strategist in Raleigh, North Carolina

Company description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

Support the internal communication needs of many of Red Hat’s functions by creating strategies and plans to guide their initiatives. The Red Hat People (HR) team is looking for a Communication Strategist to join us in Raleigh, NC. In this role, you will work with the Extended Communications team, a network of communicators throughout Red Hat, to promote best practices and adoption of tools. You'll often partner with team members across the HR team and other functions and work on additional communication consulting opportunities, responding to evolving business needs.

Primary job responsibilities

  • Partner with corporate functions and business teams across Red Hat, including Global Workplace Solutions (GWS), Finance, Operations, Marketing and Brand, Sales, and Legal teams, to develop communication strategies and plans to support their business needs

  • Guide corporate strategy communication

  • Support executive communication for senior Red Hat leaders

  • Participate in the Extended Communication team and groups of formal communicators to create a highly connected network of internal communicators to promote best practices, share strategies, and gain a better understanding of communication activities throughout the company

  • Consult on senior leader and manager communication and community

  • Launch and support communication of HR team’s initiatives

  • Provide additional communication consulting on other topics as needed

Required skills

  • 8+ years of experience in communication

  • Bachelor's degree in communication or a related field

  • Consultative skills with a focus on the customers; detail and process-oriented

  • Great organizational skills; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while working with a variety of cross-functional teams

  • Outstanding written and verbal communication and presentation skills

  • Ability to think creatively and explore or implement a modern or unconventional approach to solving problems

  • Ability to guide and make an impact

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Job ID 62667

Category Human Resources