External Communications Manager - North America

The Role

Join Arrive as a Regional PR/External Communications Manager, you ll be a key architect in elevating Arrive s reputation on a global scale and North American brand, Park Mobile. You ll help strengthen and protect our brand through day-to-day PR activities, including supporting the execution of campaigns, crafting content and managing key deliverables across markets. Your work will support market launches, feature roll-outs, media pitching and crisis communications, ensuring consistency across regional activities.

Reporting to the Head of External Communications for North America, you ll be part of a small yet powerful global team of Communications Managers and a Sustainability Manager, ensuring consistent, efficient and clear communication across the organization. You ll work closely with the Executive Leadership Team, Marketing, Public Affairs team, and leaders across all of Arrive s Business Units - Parking, Transport, B2B, Automotive & Data, and Payments.

You will collaborate with and coordinate our regional PR agency, to deliver impactful campaigns that advance Arrive s and Park Mobile s communications and business priorities in North America.

This is a hybrid role based near our office in Atlanta, GA, with close collaboration with Stockholm HQ in Sweden, and colleagues worldwide.

• Execute external communications and managing press contacts across North American markets.
• Create content for various channels, including press releases, media briefings, pitches, presentations tailored to North American audiences.
• Monitor and analyze North American media coverage, track results.
• Collaborate and work closely with the North American PR agency to keep campaigns on track and manage routine workflow tasks.
• Support spokespersons with external communications such as messaging, Q&A s, presentations etc.
• Build on your current network of traditional and online media contacts to tell the Arrive and Park Mobile story in North America.
• Contribute to administrative tasks that ensure smooth execution of PR campaigns in the region.
• Stay up to date with North American media trends, industry developments, and competitive activity to support proactive PR planning.

You are a passionate and highly engaged person who manages to influence and create strong relationships with your colleagues. You love to be creative and to develop compelling messages and stories, and have an exceptional ability to package and present information. On top of that you are a well-organized doer who is proactive, result oriented and not afraid to test and learn from mistakes.

You take a lot of pride in delivering high qualitative output with strong attention to details and you understand the value of establishing KPIs.

The fact that this is a global role in a growth company intrigues you as you embrace change and excel in fast-paced environments. It suits you to be a part of a smaller team where you will get to be involved in both hands-on work, as well as putting together the long term plan and strategy.

• 5-10 years of professional experience in PR, corporate communications, or related fields
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong content production skills, able to write engagingly for different audiences and channels
• Proven track record in supporting and implementing successful PR initiatives with key stakeholders
• Strong project management skills and ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, digital environment
• Demonstrated ability to develop media contacts and relationships, with a strong understanding of media outreach strategies across traditional and online channels
• Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills, able to identify opportunities and navigate complex situations
• Relevant university degree or equivalent in communications, marketing, or related field

Arrive, including brands like Easy Park, Flowbird, Ring Go, Park Mobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space.

It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.