4805 - Sr. Director of Corporate Communications - San Jose, CA

SunPower’s Senior Director of Corporate Communications will be a leader at the company, working closely with our marketing groups, business units, public policy and investor relations teams, reporting to VP of Public Policy and Corporate Communication.

Responsibilities will include leading the team responsible for strategic and tactical planning, execution and reporting for all corporate communications activities:
- Corporate, product, service and system announcements;
- Events, speaking engagements, including decks;
- Claims management;
- Crisis communications;
- Media relations, spokesperson training and selection;
- Communication services for the business units and product management;
- News dissemination;
- Regular reporting as well as event-specific reporting.
The communications team is modest in scale, but tightly linked internally between functional groups and business units as well as tightly connected to external allies including trade associations, NGOs and government agencies. Our Sr. Director of Corporate Communications must have the ability to identify and integrate key messages used by others, influence message and platform selection of our allies as well as identify events requiring fire drill response times.
This role will require a hands-on manager who is willing to write an occasional release, pitch key reporters as well as manage our global PR firm and the team members who have ably managed many of these tasks for several years. Critical competencies include:
- Exceptional written and verbal communications skills;
- Leadership and organizational capabilities to keep internal strategies on track while addressing daily inbound opportunities and threats;
- Flexibility to learn and growth with a very rapidly growing and evolving company;
- Curiosity and competency to package technical and business information for general audiences;
- Intuition on messaging adjustments, channel selection and resource deployment based on external news/events.
Our ideal candidate would have global experience at a public company with technology and/or energy expertise as well as in a heavily regulated, policy-driven environment.

Please send resume to David.Sneed@sunpowercorp.com.