Senior Strategist (Communication Planning)

You write well and you move fast, including with AI tools, without trading accuracy or judgment for speed.

We're a transportation planning and engineering firm with 24 offices and more than 400 staff nationwide. Since 1985, we've partnered with public, private, and institutional clients to design and plan safer, more effective ways for people and goods to move. We bring together data, technology, and the experiences of the communities we serve to help clients make confident, well-informed decisions.

You'll join our seven-person corporate communications team supporting a fast-moving, technically complex organization. Your job is to take those requests, clarify what's needed, recommend a smart communications approach, and deliver strong final work.

You'll focus on firmwide internal communications and external marketing content across channels like our intranet, LinkedIn, email, blog, presentations, templates, and webinars. You will own select channels and high-priority projects from intake through publishing, working in close coordination with our communications manager and designers.

You'll typically come into the office two days per week, with occasional travel to Walnut Creek (usually quarterly).

Draft, revise, coordinate reviews, and publish deliverables with speed, accuracy, and strong judgment.

~ Manage multiple projects with limited direction. Set priorities, make reasonable assumptions, and flag risks, tradeoffs, and decision points early.

Deliver content across internal and external channels

• Create internal communications that support firmwide clarity, knowledge-sharing, and change efforts (announcements, intranet posts, leader-facing messaging support).
• Create external marketing communications that promote our services and expertise (LinkedIn, blog content, campaigns, high-visibility messaging support).
• Translate technical work into clear, useful content while maintaining nuance and applying our brand voice and standards.

~ Use analytics and qualitative feedback to recommend improvements to content, cadence, and channel approach, and implement approved changes.

Support storytelling tools and firmwide communications experiences
~ Develop and update presentations, templates, and other communications resources that help staff share work clearly and consistently.

Spot and surface story leads and communications opportunities across the firm.

~ Connect with the right staff to gather context, then bring forward recommendations and drafts.

Use AI to speed up synthesis, outlining, drafting, editing, and iteration.

• Experience: 5+ years in corporate communications, internal communications, marketing communications, or content strategy with demonstrated ownership in ambiguous environments. We care more about the quality and independence of your experience than the years.
• Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, public relations, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent writing and editing, plus strong verbal communication and presence (comfortable talking through work live with staff and leaders).
• Highly organized and proactive, with reliable workflows that keep projects moving.
• Strong eye for detail and quality, including accuracy, consistency, and polish.
• Experience with intranet and knowledge tools (Teams, SharePoint, Box, WordPress).
• Social media management experience, especially LinkedIn.
• Analytics experience (Google Analytics or platform analytics).

Finalists will complete a short, realistic exercise that reflects the work: framing a messy request, recommending a channel and messaging approach, drafting a deliverable, and revising based on feedback.
$Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance.
Flexible Spending Accounts.
Paid Vacation, holidays and sick leave.
We do not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.