HALO is seeking a Leader of Communications to build and lead a more intentional, enterprise-wide communications function that strengthens alignment, clarity, and execution across the organization. This role is responsible for shaping how key messages are developed, prioritized, and delivered across leadership communications, internal communications, organizational updates, and strategic initiatives.
This leader will partner closely with Executive Leadership, Marketing, HR / Workforce & Performance, and functional leaders to ensure communication is clear, timely, audience-aware, and aligned to HALO’s business priorities and brand. The role is both strategic and hands-on: setting the communications direction and operating model while also helping drive high-impact messaging for important moments across the company.
The ideal candidate brings strong business judgment, executive presence, excellent writing and storytelling skills, and the ability to translate complex priorities into simple, compelling, and actionable communication. This person should also be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment, influencing across functions, and building repeatable systems that improve communication quality and consistency at scale.
What you will do
Enterprise communications strategy
- Develop and lead HALO’s internal and leadership communications strategy, ensuring communication priorities support business goals, organizational alignment, and change adoption.
- Create communication frameworks, standards, and rhythms that improve consistency, quality, and effectiveness across the enterprise.
- Help define how and when key company messages are delivered across leadership forums, organization updates, transformation efforts, and major business milestones.
- Establish a practical communications operating model that improves planning, decision-making, and execution across stakeholders.
Executive communications and leadership support
- Partner directly with executive leaders to shape and draft high-impact communications, including leadership messages, organization announcements, town halls, presentations, and strategic updates.
- Translate business priorities into clear messaging, narratives, and supporting materials for internal audiences.
- Prepare leaders for key communication moments by organizing messages, sequencing updates, and ensuring consistency across channels and stakeholders.
- Support sensitive and high-visibility communications with strong judgment, discretion, and audience awareness.
Organizational and change communications
- Lead communication planning for organizational changes, leadership transitions, business updates, and transformation initiatives.
- Partner with HR / Workforce & Performance and business leaders to draft and coordinate employee-facing and leader-facing communications that are clear, thoughtful, and well executed.
- Ensure communication plans consider timing, stakeholder alignment, manager readiness, and downstream employee experience.
- Bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous situations, helping leaders communicate change with confidence and consistency.
Content, messaging, and storytelling
- Develop messaging frameworks, talking points, presentation narratives, FAQs, and communication assets that help leaders and teams communicate effectively.
- Ensure messages are aligned to HALO’s brand, voice, and strategic direction.
- Translate complex business topics into concise, compelling, and audience-appropriate content.
- Raise the overall standard of communication quality across the organization through strong editing, coaching, and message discipline.
Cross-functional partnership and communications enablement
- Serve as a central communications partner across Marketing, HR / Workforce & Performance, Executive Leadership, and key business functions.
- Build strong working relationships across teams to gather inputs, align messaging, clarify ownership, and improve communication flow.
- Identify opportunities to reduce noise, simplify communication processes, and create scalable templates, tools, and best practices.
- Use AI-enabled tools and efficient workflows to improve content development, communication planning, and consistency where appropriate.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in communications, executive communications, internal communications, corporate communications, marketing communications, or a related field.
- Proven experience supporting senior executives and drafting polished communications for leadership and broad employee audiences.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with strong editing, storytelling, and message development capabilities.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to handle sensitive or confidential matters with professionalism and discretion.
- Experience working across multiple stakeholders and functions in a matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated ability to bring structure, prioritization, and execution discipline to ambiguous or fast-moving work.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Experience developing communication plans for organizational change, transformation, or other high-visibility initiatives.
- Comfort using Microsoft Office tools and AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency and output quality.
Compensation: The estimated base salary range for this position is between $135,000 - $155,000 annually. Please note that this pay range serves as a general guideline and reflects a broad spectrum of labor markets across the US. While it is uncommon for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the range, compensation decisions are influenced by various factors. At HALO, these include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's work experience, location, education and training, key skills, internal equity, external market data, and broader market and business considerations.
Benefits: At HALO, we offer benefits that support all aspects of your life, helping you find a work-life balance that’s right for you. Our comprehensive benefits include nationwide coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance, along with additional Voluntary Benefits. Prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
Application Information: To apply to this opportunity, click the APPLY button at the top right or very bottom of the screen to complete our online application. A resume is optional, so you may choose to upload and have the application prefill with your information. There are 5 sections to complete in total, including General information, Work History, Education, Compliance, and optional demographic questions. Once you have successfully submitted your application, you will receive a submission confirmation email from our system.
Application Deadline: Applications are reviewed and processed only when there is a specific need or opportunity, rather than on a fixed schedule or at a set deadline. Because they are reviewed on an as-needed basis, a job posting will be removed once the position has been filled or is no longer available.
More About HALO:
At HALO, we energize our clients' brands and amplify their stories to capture the attention of those who matter most. That’s why over 60,000 small- and mid-sized businesses partner with us, making us the global leader in the branded merchandise industry.
- Career Advancement: At HALO, we’re passionate about promoting from within. Internal promotions have been key to our exponential growth over the past few years. With so many industry leaders at HALO, you’ll have the opportunity to accelerate your career by learning from their experience, insights, and skills. Plus, you'll gain access to HALO’s influential global network, leadership opportunities, and diverse perspectives.
- Culture: We love working here, and we’re confident you will too. At HALO, you’ll experience a culture of ingenuity, inclusion, and relentless determination. We push the limits of possibility and imagination by staying curious, humble, and bold breaking through yesterday’s limits. Diversity fuels our creativity, and we thrive when each of us contributes to an inclusive environment based on respect, dignity, and equity. We hold ourselves to a high standard of excellence with a commitment to results and supporting one another with accountability, transparency, and dependability.
- Recognition: At HALO, your success is our success. You can count on us to celebrate your wins. Colleagues across the company will join in recognizing your milestones and nominating you for awards. Over time, you’ll accumulate recognition that can be converted into gift cards, trips, concert tickets, and merchandise from your favorite brands.
- Flexibility: Many of our roles offer hybrid work options, and we pride ourselves on flexible schedules that help you balance professional and personal demands. We believe that supporting our customers is a top priority and trust that you and your manager will collaborate to create a schedule that achieves this goal.
HALO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We insist on an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Inclusion is a core value at HALO and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people.
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HALO is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at hr@halo.com. Please do not use this as an alternative method for general inquiries or status on applications as you will not receive a response. Reasonable requests will be reviewed and responded to on a case-by-case basis.