Head of Corporate Affairs & Communications

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Houston, TX, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Logistics • Energy • Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
Leads corporate affairs and communications as an executive advisor to the CEOs. Owns corporate narrative, reputation management, crisis communications, issues management, internal communications, marketing alignment, public policy engagement, investor messaging, and stakeholder relationships. The role coordinates responses to high-stakes events, supports capital markets and customer communications, develops crisis-readiness capabilities, and protects the company’s credibility across regulators, investors, employees, media, customers, and communities.
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Company Description

About Solaris Energy Infrastructure

Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. (NYSE:SEI) delivers comprehensive power infrastructure solutions including generation, distribution, installation and commissioning, aftermarket support, and operations and maintenance. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the Company serves multiple U.S. end markets, including data centers, energy, and other commercial and industrial sectors.

Job Description

About the Opportunity
Solaris is looking for a Corporate Affairs & Communications Officer is a critical member of the executive leadership team, reporting directly to the Co-CEOs.  The role sits at the intersection of business strategy, investor confidence, public policy, reputation management, stakeholder engagement, and crisis leadership.

This position is responsible for protecting and enhancing the Company's story while enabling growth. In a dynamic, highly charged market environment, this individual ensures that regulators, investors, customers, employees, communities, media, and policymakers understand and support the Company's strategy and value proposition.

Essential Functions

Business Strategy

  • Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CEOs and executive leadership team, ensuring communications, policy, and reputational considerations are embedded in major business decisions.
  • Translate corporate strategy into a compelling, consistent narrative that aligns internal and external audiences around the Company's value proposition and growth agenda.

Reputation & Crisis Leadership

  • Own the Company's reputation management strategy, including proactive issue identification and reputational risk mitigation.
  • Lead crisis communications and issues management, serving as the senior executive responsible for coordinating the Company's response to operational incidents, litigation, regulatory actions, or other high-stakes events.
  • Build and maintain a crisis-readiness capability, including response protocols, spokesperson training, and cross-functional response teams.

Marketing

  • Lead the Company’s marketing efforts by partnering closely with Commercial and Investor Relations to ensure the Company's strategy, performance, and growth story are clearly and credibly communicated to the market and investment community.
  • Lead internal communications where messaging is impactful to the Company’s culture.
  • Support earnings communications, capital markets events, and customer events ensuring alignment between the financial narrative and broader corporate messaging.

Experience/Education

  • 15+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, public affairs, investor relations, or a related field, including senior leadership roles reporting to a CEO.
  • Proven track record leading high-stakes crisis communications and issues management.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and executive presence; ability to serve as a credible public and media spokesperson.
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in a related field (communications, public policy, business, or law) preferred.
  • Strategic, business-minded thinker who connects communications and policy to enterprise value.
  • Sound judgment and composure under pressure; a trusted counsel in high-stakes, ambiguous situations.
  • Strong relationship-builder across diverse stakeholder groups, including regulators, investors, media, and community leaders.
  • High integrity and discretion; a steady hand who protects the Company's credibility.
  • Collaborative leader who works effectively across functions and builds trust with peers.

Qualifications

Key Skills and Qualifications

  • Exceptional communicator – direct and transparent, skilled problem-solver with proven success in building coalitions and avoiding conflicts
  • Total ownership mentality – proactively identifies and removes obstacles across numerous ongoing tasks
  • Independent thinker – provides original thoughts and constantly asking "how can we do this better"
  • Innovative thinker – willingness to consider novel solutions and ability to adapt to change
  • Desirable teammate – impeccable character, humility, and collaborative
  • Relentless – aspires to contribute and achieve their full potential

Additional Information

Our CREATORS Culture

At Solaris, we believe that staying true to our core beliefs improves our decision-making, productivity and is key to our individual and collective achievements. Combining your innovative thinking with our core values that encourage Communication, Recognition, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Teamwork & Transparency, Ownership, Results and Safety, we become CREATORS.

We value your hard work, integrity, and commitment to the Solaris “First in Service & Innovation” culture through competitive pay and benefits packages and ongoing career development.
 

  • Competitive compensation packages, including equity
  • Medical, Dental & Vision benefits
  • Disability Insurance
  • Company paid Life and AD&D insurance with supplemental offerings
  • Company matching 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid time off, including 10 paid holidays
  • Career Progression
  • Tuition Reimbursement

This job overview is not all inclusive. In addition, Solaris reserves the right to amend this job overview at any time. Solaris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Why Solaris Join a company at the forefront of the energy infrastructure buildout powering data centers and industrial growth. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities to grow alongside a high-performing team.

Skills Required

  • 15+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, public affairs, investor relations, or a related field
  • Senior leadership experience reporting to a CEO
  • Proven track record leading high-stakes crisis communications and issues management
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and executive communication skills
  • Ability to serve as a credible public and media spokesperson
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Advanced degree in communications, public policy, business, or law
  • Strategic, business-minded approach connecting communications and policy to enterprise value
  • Sound judgment and composure in high-stakes, ambiguous situations
  • Strong relationship-building skills with regulators, investors, media, and community leaders
  • High integrity, discretion, and credibility
  • Collaborative leadership skills across functions
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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
471 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Solaris Energy Infrastructure provides proprietary power generation, control, and distribution solutions along with logistics equipment and services. Founded in 2014, the company serves data center, energy, commercial, and industrial customers. Its offerings include rapidly deployable, integrated power infrastructure and specialized automated systems and field services that support efficient, safe oil-and-gas wellsite operations and other critical power workloads across demanding markets.

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