Global Executive & Internal Communications Lead

Global Executive & Internal Communications Lead

Location: Dallas, TX; Austin, TX

Your Role As Global Executive & Internal Communications Lead, you are responsible for shaping and delivering enterprise-wide employee communications that drive alignment, clarity, and business impact across a global organization. Operating with significant autonomy and influence, you partner directly with the executive leadership team, including the COO, CFO, CTO, and CHRO, to define a unified global communications approach that supports corporate priorities and front-line data center operations. This role sets strategy, owns execution, and continuously evolves global channels, governance, and capabilities to elevate how employees engage with and act on company priorities at scale.

What you'll do

• Lead global employee communications strategy aligned to enterprise priorities (Grow, Simplify, Execute, Collaborate)
• Serve as a senior advisor to executive leadership on messaging, positioning, and delivery
• Own end-to-end communications for high-visibility, enterprise-wide moments, including Global and Business Unit All-Hands, Leadership Forums, and other flagship initiatives
• Partner closely with Operations, Health & Safety, and regional leaders to translate business priorities into clear, actionable communications for front-line data center teams
• Define and drive a unified global communications approach, ensuring consistency of messaging, cadence, and priorities across regions and functions
• Own and continuously evolve the global communications ecosystem including intranet, video, digital signage, and executive channels
• Define editorial strategy and manage a global content calendar, including video-led and digital-first storytelling
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies to enhance the speed, quality, personalization, and scale of global communications
• Set, track, and report on engagement, reach, and business-impact KPIs, including employee listening and feedback loops
• Establish global standards, governance, and best practices, and manage external vendors and partners as the function scales

What you'll need

• 1015 years of experience in internal or corporate communications with significant global scope
• Proven ability to influence and advise C-suite and senior executives
• Experience owning enterprise-wide communications strategies with demonstrated, measurable impact
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align communications to company strategy and performance
• Experience leading large-scale, high-production communications initiatives, including video-led and multimedia experiences
• Demonstrated expertise integrating AI into communications workflows while maintaining high editorial standards
• Experience with modern communications and collaboration tools and platforms, including video and broadcast solutions (e.g., Vimeo, Teams), intranet and digital signage platforms, employee listening tools (e.g., Glint), and emerging AI-enabled communications technologies
• Strong understanding of video and digital production workflows with experience directing external vendors
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-visibility, highly matrixed global environment

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Required Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Business Acumen
• Change Management
• Courageous Conversation
• Digital Trust
• Driving Results (Individual or Team)
• Employee Engagement
• HR Communications
• Handling Conflict
• Influence & Negotiations
• Internal Communications
• Leadership
• Managing Employee Life Cycle Events
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning
• Talent Acquisition
• Understanding & Managing Self