External Communications Manager - North America

Overview

We’ve signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us! As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities. Our people and our values guide us:
Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Our brand is inspired by the North Star, guiding travelers to their destinations. We are transforming urban mobility as a global team. Let’s grow better, together.

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 for the North American brand, Park Mobile. You’ll strengthen and protect our brand through day‑to‑day PR activities, including supporting campaign execution, crafting content, and managing key deliverables across markets. Your work will support market launches, feature rollouts, 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, and leaders across 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 manage press contacts across North American markets.
• Create content for various channels, including press releases, media briefings, pitches, and presentations tailored to North American audiences.
• Monitor and analyze North American media coverage; track results.
• Collaborate with the North American PR agency to keep campaigns on track and manage routine workflow tasks.
• Support spokespersons with external communications such as messaging and Q&As.
• Build on your 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 can influence and build strong relationships with colleagues. You enjoy being creative and developing compelling messages and stories, and you have the ability to package and present information clearly. You are well organized, proactive, results‑oriented, and not afraid to test and learn from mistakes. You take pride in delivering high quality output with strong attention to detail and you understand the value of establishing KPIs.

You are excited by the global nature of this growth role and thrive in fast‑paced environments. You are comfortable contributing hands-on work as well as helping to shape long‑term plans 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, with the ability 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 an 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
• Experience in managing investor relations and executing strategic outreach to maintain alignment with investors

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 travel experience worldwide. Arrive delivers a combination of core ingredients to make cities more livable: smart payments, optimized car parks, data‑driven traffic reduction, and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space.

Travel is more than a journey; it’s how you Arrive.