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