Texas Instruments

Issues Communications Manager (Dallas)

Texas Instruments$90K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in corporate communications; strong issues and crisis communications experience preferred
  • Excellent communication and execution skills
  • High level of professionalism and discretion with confidential information
  • Prior experience managing agency partners or people leadership

Responsibilities

  • Drive TI's issues and crisis communications strategy
  • Lead the issues communications team and manage agency coordination
  • Optimize crisis communications processes and develop training for stakeholders
  • Draft proactive and reactive communications for various audiences
  • Provide counsel to leaders on effective issue response
  • Analyze media trends to inform TI's communications strategy
  • Represent Communications on cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder alignment

Benefits

  • In-depth knowledge of crisis and issues management communications
  • High-visibility relationships with senior leadership
  • People management experience
  • Opportunity to influence TI's corporate communications strategy
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Issues communications managerisresponsible for driving the issues communications strategy and response process at TI while also promoting and protecting the company's reputation as part of the Corporate Communications team. You will ensure TI's corporate story and message is clear and consistent across various audiences and will evolve, grow and maintain TI's crisis communications playbooks and processes. A successful candidate must demonstrate experienced critical thinking and an ability to effectively collaborate across teams and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

What you will gain from this role:
  • Deep knowledge of internal and external crisis and issues management communications, response strategies and TI's business continuity program and processes
  • High-visibility relationships with senior leaders and functional experts across the company to partner on issues management strategies and messaging across a range of topics
  • People management experience
  • Experience understanding and influencing TI's corporate communications strategy

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
  • Issues communications leadership: Drive TI's issues and crisis communications strategy: lead day-to-day management of issues triage and response, including situation assessment, executive updates, messaging development and deployment across channels and audiences.
  • People management: Lead issues communications team and drive external issues agency coordination
  • Issues preparedness: Optimize TI's crisis communications processes and playbooks; train communicators, executives and other stakeholders on their role in the event of an issue or crisis
  • Message and strategy development: Draft proactive and reactive messaging, statements and content for various audiences, both internal and external, on short deadlines
  • Crisis counsel: Counsel leaders and functional experts on recommended approach for responding to issues
  • Benchmarking and optimization: Continually assess the media and policy landscape, analyzing news for trends that would influence TI and proactively provide recommendations
  • Relationship building and stakeholder alignment: Represent Communications on cross-functional teams, including TI's Incident Command Team
  • Sense of urgency: Respond to intermittent or unexpected issues as they occur and develop effective communications response with urgency.


Qualifications

Minimum requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, and/or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in corporate communications; issues and crisis communications experience strongly preferred


Preferred qualifications
  • Self-starter with a high degree of initiative and the ability to manage multiple tasks, work calmly and confidently under pressure and meet dynamic deadlines as required
  • High level of professionalism and discretion in handling confidential information
  • Excellent communication and execution skills, heightened attention to detail and excellent message development skills.
  • Must be flexible in dealing with changing priorities
  • Prior experience managing agency partners or people leadership
  • Prior semiconductor experience or experience in B2B, manufacturing and high tech
  • Solid organizational and leadership skills
  • Experience working globally and with colleagues in multiple locations


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National Semiconductor is a semiconductor manufacturer, specializing in analog devices and subsystems, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The products of National Semiconductor include power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets include wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications.

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