Senior Manager, Corp Comms​/Tech

Catamaran is an agile strategic comms agency built to help brands earn attention, trust and brand love in today’s fragmented, always-on media environment. By embedding small teams of versatile, experienced, AI-savvy communicators alongside in-house partners—and collaborating closely with creative partners—Catamaran delivers earned-first programs aligned to culture, business goals, and real-world outcomes. Formerly the PR practice at Confidant, Catamaran launched as a stand-alone agency in January 2026.

Based in NYC, clients include Amazon, Shake Shack, Chobani, La Colombe, Aura, BARK/Bark Box, Patreon, Nature’s Garden, Edible Arrangements, and others.

Catamaran is an independent agency in the Nostos Network, and has been recognized with industry awards, including the 2025 PRNews Platinum Award for Best Medium-Size Agency of the Year; PRovoke Media’s 2025 Best 80 PR Agencies in the US;
Inc. Best Workplaces 2021, 2023 & 2024; PRWeek’s Best Boutique Agency 2021 (Honorable Mention); PRovoke’s Outstanding Boutique Agency 2021 (Finalist); PRovoke’s Top 5 Boutique Agencies to Work For ); PRNews Agency Elite ); PR Net 100 ) and Next Gen (2023) Lists.

Catamaran is an independent agency in the Nostos Network, and has been recognized with industry awards, including the 2025 PRNews Platinum Award for Best Medium-Size Agency of the Year; PRovoke Media’s 2025 Best 80 PR Agencies in the US;
Inc. Best Workplaces 2021, 2023 & 2024; PRWeek’s Boutique Agency 2021 (Honorable Mention); PRovoke’s Outstanding Boutique Agency 2021 (Finalist); PRovoke’s Top 5 Boutique Agencies to Work For ); PRNews Agency Elite ); PR Net 100 ) and Next Gen (2023) Lists.

• Experienced: A hands‑on, seasoned team. No entry‑level employees
• Strategic:
  Insights‑based approach aligned to client business goals
• Impactful:
  Set up to dive deep and focused on results
• Versatile:
  Skilled in consumer and corporate communications
• Transparent:
  Upfront about expectations on all fronts
• Agile:
  Smaller, dedicated teams delivering more, with less overhead

Catamaran is looking for a Senior Manager, Corp Comms & Tech to work on fast‑paced, global e‑commerce and online services tech accounts. This role will assist with news, executive visibility (Linked In and media relations), corporate communications and thought leadership initiatives that leverage news, executives, and trends to promote our clients’ stories across owned, earned and paid channels. The ideal candidate will have 5 years+ of PR agency or in‑house experience supporting work for retail, tech, online services and e‑commerce companies where media relations (strategy AND day‑to‑day execution) is central to their remit.

Prior work with an emerging media platform or creator economy client is a big bonus.

Experience with physical AI, robotics, e‑commerce, and/or an emerging media platform (in the creator economy space) is a big bonus and the strongest candidates will have media contacts across each of these verticals. Experience driving earned media around key industry trends is critical. Candidates must be excellent writers, confident client partners, and relationship‑driven communicators with strong media connections across both traditional and digital consumer and business platforms.

The ideal candidate is also facile with AI‑powered tools and platforms, and comfortable incorporating them into daily workflows to enhance creativity, efficiency, insights, and measurement. Candidates must also be excellent writers, strong earned media strategists and have experience placing coverage with both consumer and business media.

Full‑time

• Assist with implementing comprehensive communications campaigns with a specific focus on thought leadership, media relations, executive visibility and corporate storytelling.
• Help conceptualize, develop and deliver commercially astute, insightful reputation management, communications and digital strategies for clients.generating proactive ideas and value beyond the scoped work when appropriate.
• Assist team leads with developing executive positioning platforms and executive visibility strategies to deploy across paid,…