At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.
Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours!
As the Director of Corporate Communications, you will lead Williams' integrated communications strategy across the enterprise's core functions—including Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, Legal, Finance/Investor Relations, and IT/Business Transformation—ensuring clear, consistent, and credible messaging that aligns with business strategy while protecting and advancing the company's reputation. Reporting to the Vice President of Corporate Affairs, you will serve as a strategic advisor to enterprise leadership and will partner closely with the VP to develop and execute the executive engagement strategy.
Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Develops and drives an integrated, multi-channel communications strategy spanning HR, Corporate Affairs, Legal, Finance/IR, and IT/Business Transformation, ensuring alignment of internal and external messaging with enterprise objectives
- Serves as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership on communication priorities, sensitive and confidential matters, and reputation management
- Partners with the VP of Corporate Affairs to design and execute the executive engagement and visibility strategy for the CEO, including thought leadership, speaking platforms, and internal and external positioning
- Leads, mentors, and develops a team of six communications professionals embedded at the leadership tables of the CFO, General Counsel, CHRO, and CTO, ensuring consistent standards while supporting each function's distinct needs
- Ensures messaging consistency, clarity, and brand integrity across all functions, audiences, and channels
- Provides communications counsel and support for crisis, issues, and rapid-response situations in coordination with Legal and Corporate Affairs
- Partners with Finance/Investor Relations on financial and stakeholder communications, maintaining discretion on confidential and market-sensitive matters
- Establishes measurement frameworks and report on communications effectiveness to inform data-driven decisions
- Collaborates across the Corporate Affairs leadership team to align integrated communications with strategic communications, creative and brand experience, and community impact priorities
- Manages agency, vendor, and partner relationships in support of enterprise communications
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, English, or a related field and minimum 12 years of progressive experience in corporate communications, either in-house or agency, including at least 5 years of people management experience
Other Requirements:
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills
- Demonstrated success as a strategic counselor to senior executives, with the judgment to handle confidential and sensitive matters with discretion
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, including communications professionals embedded within business functions
- Exceptional writing, editing, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, compelling narratives
- A self-starter who is creative, collaborative, and effective in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships enterprise-wide
- Preferred: Familiarity with the energy industry or other highly regulated, capital-intensive sectors (preferred, not required)
- Preferred: Experience supporting investor relations or financial communications at a publicly traded company
- Preferred: Experience leading executive engagement and thought leadership programs
Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.
Tulsa is known as the Mother of "The Mother Road" - Route 66, and boasts impressive art deco architecture, the #1 city park in the U.S. (The Gathering Place) and is a great venue for live music. It's an easy place to get in and out of, with more than 20 non-stop flight destinations offered at Tulsa International Airport. Tulsa is listed on CNN Travel's best destinations to visit in 2022!
Tulsa is not only a great place to live, but it's affordable. According to the 2019 Economic Report from Tulsa's Future, the cost of living is 8 percent below the U.S. average. There is no place like T-Town. Check out visittulsa.com to learn more!
We invest in our people in ways that actually show up in your day-to-day, not just on paper. Our Total Rewards are built to support how you work, live, and plan for what’s next.
Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- Hybrid work for most office roles, plus real flexibility in many field positions
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
- 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
- Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
- Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
- Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
- Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
- Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Domestic partner benefits
- Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.
Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
Education Requirements:Skill Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, English, or related field
- Minimum 12 years progressive experience in corporate communications (in-house or agency)
- At least 5 years of people management experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills
- Demonstrated success as a strategic counselor to senior executives and discretion handling confidential matters
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing communications teams embedded within business functions
- Exceptional writing, editing, and presentation skills; ability to translate complex topics into clear narratives
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, with strong stakeholder management
- Self-starter, creative, collaborative, effective in fast-paced environments
- Familiarity with the energy industry or other highly regulated, capital-intensive sectors
- Experience supporting investor relations or financial communications at a publicly traded company
- Experience leading executive engagement and thought leadership programs
What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel. We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future. Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
