Ready

Collaborative platform for optimizing regulated utilities such as…

Head of Communications

$150K - $250K
Location
Remote / Remote (US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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About the role

We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Head of Communications to lead our communications strategy and elevate Ready’s voice. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned communications professional with experience in the SaaS industry, skilled in both external and internal communications, media relations, and content strategy. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our narrative, driving brand awareness, and ensuring clear, consistent messaging across all platforms.

About your role at Ready ⚡️

  • Owns external communications on Ready Branding to current and future customers

  • Keeps Ready ultra-crisp across mediums, and ensures every word of every touchpoint sizzles; esp. in killer short form writing, (X, memes, short vids vs. press releases)

  • Pick up and carry the ball on our Product Language & Media Production, workshopping with leads on the key points; the ideal person has strong creative synthesis

  • Capable manager to train up current team members; influence x-functionally at the executive level

  • Takes an obsessive focus on advancing business goals to create relationship-forward strategies & craft narratives to the right audiences 

  • Executes Ready's founder-led communication strategy, leveraging our founder's voice and vision to authentically convey Ready’s mission, build brand trust, and engage key audiences

  • Leads the communications strategy with a data-driven approach, using analytics to optimize messaging, track engagement, and ensure impactful, results-oriented communication initiatives

A bit about you 🥇

  • Excellent writer; quality > quantity, continues to reiterate mission

  • Effective leader who can scope, run, deliver on projects, and manage up to e-team stakeholders

  • High attention to detail; reverence for data-informed research

  • High IQ and direct communicator, ideally trained in psych, comms, and digital media

  • Maintains a dash of humor / irreverence while taking what we build very seriously → life’s too short for boring

  • Business-minded, ruthlessly goal-driven, creative-and-outcome-oriented, can turn FUD into fuel, and will stay the course

About Ready 🚀

  • Creative problem solvers approaching an antiquated system with a revolutionary viewpoint

  • Humble but ambitious, knowledgeable but curious, persistent but not obnoxious

  • Concise and effective in written and spoken communication

  • Comfortable working remotely

About what you get…

  • Competitive salary plus meaningful equity upside

  • Competitive (and ever expanding) benefits for employees and dependents

  • Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups

  • A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we pursue a bold vision and and a big goal

  • To get away - we all convene  2x / year for [optional] retreats

  • We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you

  • The charter to a build product in a market that is set to receive $65 billion in grant funding across the United States

About Ready

Ready builds software tools that help local internet service providers connect more people to better broadband services. Local ISPs connect more than 50 million U.S. homes to the internet today, but their businesses typically run on a mess of legacy systems, and as a result, they struggle to work effectively, and usually fail to deliver great subscriber experience.

With Ready, local ISPs get everything they need to deliver seamless subscriber experience – from finding & signing prospects in their geographic area, to onboarding and billing, to integrations with legacy data systems – all in one place.

If you’re a talented engineer looking for meaningful, rewarding experience, there are many reasons to consider joining Ready for your next chapter, including:

  • Constant engagement: large product surface area means there’s never a shortage of interesting, challenging, meaningful problems to solve.
  • Team motto is “builders building”: We strongly prefer shipping results to customers over heavy processes and lots of meetings.
  • Experienced founders and a culture of sharing mean there are plenty of opportunities to learn all about building startups, not just coding.
  • Aspects of the product are customer-facing enterprise tools, other aspects face the subscriber, a rare combo of B2B and B2B2C.
  • Remote team: work anywhere you want, as long as you get strong internet (and the platform we’re making helps make that true in more places).
  • We’re well funded, and place strong emphasis on revenue from customers – our ambition is to build a large and important company with many options down the road and minimal dilution along the way.
Ready
Founded:2020
Team Size:70
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Mike Faloon
Mike Faloon
Founder
Jase Wilson
Jase Wilson
Founder