Senior Manager, Public Relations – Part-Time Contract

Job Description:• Help manage our agency relationship and oversee day-to-day PR execution — ensuring alignment across corporate, consumer, and executive visibility workstreams. • Proactive storytelling and media outreach around Thumbtack’s company news, product launches, and seasonal data insights. • Support corporate communications initiatives including executive thought leadership, new C-suite hires, and narrative development. • Partner cross-functionally with Brand, Partnerships, and Data teams to shape earned storytelling moments and ensure message consistency across channels.• Contribute to consumer PR programs by supporting data-driven campaigns, partnerships, and expert/pro features that highlight Thumbtack’s trusted pros and homeowner community. • Provide strategic counsel on emerging or sensitive issues and help manage adhoc needs as they arise. Requirements:• 7–10+ years of PR or communications experience, ideally spanning both corporate and consumer programs (Experience in tech, marketplace, or consumer services industries preferred). • Proven ability to manage PR agencies, shape media narratives, and drive results in a fast-paced environment.• Excellent project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities, coordinate across teams, and move projects forward with clarity• Comfortable working closely with executives and able to communicate with clarity, confidence, and discretion at all levels of the organization. • Strong relationships with business, tech, and home/lifestyle media — and the instincts to craft stories that break through (exceptional writing and message development skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling stories).• Comfortable working cross-functionally and independently — you’re equally strategic and execution-minded. • Must be eligible to work as an independent contractor in the U.S. Benefits:• Flexible work arrangements Apply tot his job