Head of Communications and PR

Guesty is the all-in-one platform for hospitality businesses to automate and optimize every aspect of their operations. With purpose-built technology, industry-wide expertise, and an R&D team of 200+ engineers, Guesty ensures that hospitality businesses can streamline and achieve growth, while delivering the best value to guests. With a complete suite of features and 150+ industry partners, including major booking OTAs like Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Expedia, Hopper, Google Travel, and many more, Guesty is transforming the hospitality industry with innovative solutions.

Today, Guesty has 15 offices and 700+ team members across the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Support our company’s global media relations initiatives in key markets including the US, UK, Europe & Australia by creating and implementing a PR outreach strategy and managing relationships with PR freelancers and/or external agencies in various markets.
• Draft press releases, commentary by leaders, and powerful, eye-catching pitches
• Build relationships with key reporters
• Leverage our treasure trove of data for timely hooks and PR opportunities
• Work with our Business Intelligence team to pull data-driven trends and insights on travel behavior and weave them into all marketing initiatives - from press to speaking presentations to infographics
• Stay on top of the latest trends in our industry and alternative accommodations, flagging relevant news to teams while also practicing “newsjacking”
• Develop thought leadership - from conception to execution - on behalf of C-suite
• Proactively craft thought leadership commentary and bylines for key executives while reacting quickly to incoming inquiries
• Write high-level thought leadership narratives and crisis comms (when needed)
• Be a natural-born leader, working with our executive team, partners and users to suss out smart commentary and storylines that will add to our outreach initiatives
• Own our awards program, submitting entries to key organizations
• Collaborate with teams across the company including Product, Biz Dev, Sales and more

Requirements:

• 5-6 years experience in a PR/communications role ideally in a global SaaS/B2B organization and/or startup
• Experience working and presenting to C-level management
• Experience working with influencers and/or brand ambassadors, and managing these relationships - a plus
• Native English speaker, a must
• Excellent writing and editorial skills
• Incredibly organized with attention to detail, team player, and enthusiastic
• Ability to shift quickly and adapt to changing priorities while meeting deadlines and moving KPIs forward
• Keen attention to detail along with strong organizational and project management skills
• Management experience, is a plus

Guesty is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of any characteristic protected by law.