Global Communications Senior Strategist

This role is located on-site at one of our offices

This position is office-based, meaning regular in-person collaboration or use of office equipment is essential to maximize effectiveness for this team and/or position. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of New York and should expect to be in office a minimum of 4 days per week.

Reporting to the Head of Communications, you will serve as the strategic and operational backbone of the Communications team at Sonos, holding a full view across all four practices, driving the planning and execution rhythm of the function, and making sure the team is consistently working on the right things in the right way.

You will be a thought partner to the Head of Communications and a connective force across PR, Influencer and Community, Corporate Communications, and Owned Social, helping translate direction into plans, plans into action, and results back into decisions, as well as between those practices and the regional teams that execute against global strategies. 

This role requires close collaboration across Marketing and beyond. You will build and maintain the working relationships, shared frameworks, and operating rhythms that make cross-functional partnership consistent rather than ad hoc, and you will help shape how the Communications team communicates its work and impact across the organization.

You will have the opportunity to define what strategic operations looks like for a modern communications function, from annual planning architecture to the systems and tools that help the team move with clarity and speed.

Your success will be measured by the degree to which the Communications function operates with coherence and intention, clear on priorities, grounded in the right information, and consistently translating strategy into work that moves the brand forward.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive Planning and Execution Across the Function: Own the planning infrastructure for the Communications team, including the calendars, briefs, frameworks, and operating rhythms that keep all four practices aligned and moving at pace. This function operates at the speed of culture, and you build the systems that make fast, informed decisions possible.

• Serve as a Strategic Partner to the Head of Communications: Act as a thought partner and extension of the Head of Communications' capacity, helping to shape priorities, prepare for leadership conversations, and ensure nothing important falls through the cracks as the function scales.

• Connect the Practices and the Regions: Maintain a full view across all four practices, identifying where they overlap, where there are gaps, and where coordination will make the work better. Facilitate the working relationships between global practices and regional teams so execution is coherent, not just aligned on paper.

• Shape How the Function Works: Define the operating model for how Communications works internally and with its cross-functional partners, including the frameworks, processes, and shared norms that make collaboration consistent, efficient, and clear.

• Build the Communications Intelligence Infrastructure: Define and maintain the data sources, reporting frameworks, and cadences that give the team a shared, accurate picture of how Sonos is showing up across earned, owned, and cultural channels.

• Synthesize Cross-Channel Insights: Pull together signals from earned media coverage, owned social performance, influencer programs, and cultural trends — and translate them into something the team can actually use to make better decisions.

• Drive AI Integration: Identify and embed AI tools and workflows into how the Communications team researches, plans, and reports — building practical advantages into the day-to-day work of the function.

• Competitive and Cultural Intelligence: Monitor the media and cultural landscape — competitor activity, category trends, platform shifts — and surface what’s relevant before it becomes obvious.

• Manage the Tech Stack: Own the Communications tool ecosystem, making decisions about what the team uses, how it’s configured, and when to add or remove tools as the function evolves.

You Are:

• A strategic communicator who understands how comms and editorial work actually gets done, including the decisions, tradeoffs, and dynamics behind every deliverable

• Comfortable with data and measurement. You know how to read performance signals, interpret what they mean for the work, and communicate that clearly without overstating what the data can tell you.

• Genuinely curious about AI and data tools, with a habit of experimenting and finding new applications before you're asked

• A strong writer who can distill a complicated situation into a clear brief, a sharp summary, or a well-framed recommendation

• Comfortable operating without a lot of direction. You figure out what's needed and get ahead of it

• Energized by building something new and disciplined about maintaining it once it's running

• Collaborative by default, with the credibility and judgment to influence how senior peers think about their work

• Genuinely curious about the world. You pay attention to what's happening in culture, media, and the industry and bring that into how you think about the work.

What You’ll Need:

• 8+ years of experience in communications, marketing strategy, editorial, or a related field, with meaningful time spent working across multiple functions or practices

• Demonstrated experience driving planning, coordination, or strategy in a fast-moving environment

• Strong writing and communication skills across formats: strategic briefs, executive summaries, planning frameworks, recommendations

• A solid working understanding of communications channels and how they connect, including earned media, owned social, and influencer, enough to hold a meaningful conversation with each practice and identify where they integrate

• Familiarity with media monitoring, social analytics, and earned media measurement platforms, and the judgment to know which signals matter

• Comfort with AI and productivity tools in a professional context, not as a specialist, but as someone who uses them to work smarter

• Experience building cross-functional working relationships and navigating complex organizations

• Comfortable contributing at all levels on a lean team with high standards

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.

Visa Sponsorship: Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for any US employer, both now and in the future.

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Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.

The base pay range for this role based off geographic location is:

The specific pay offered will depend on the candidate’s geographic location, as well as qualifications and experience. We apply geographic pay differentials based on the cost of labor in the market.  Employees in high-cost locations may be compensated at the upper end of the range, while those in medium or low cost markets may be compensated at the lower end of  the range. Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process. 

Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well-being of our employees. Regular full time employees in the US are eligible for benefits on day one, including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting

• An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure-based vacation accruals required

• 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually

• Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year

• Sonos offers a generous paid leave program for new parents or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, as well as short- and long-term disability for your own medical condition

• Company-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance

• Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance

• Mental health benefits to support your holistic well-being

• A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Notice to U.S. Job Applicants: Sonos is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.