Senior Communications Manager - Brand Experiences

About the Role

Maleda Tech is placing a Senior Communications Manager — Brand Experiences on behalf of a leading consumer tech and lifestyle brand. This is a high-visibility contract role at the center of a fast-moving, highly collaborative team that produces large-scale, culturally resonant brand activations and experiential campaigns.

You'll serve as both the project lead and experiential lead across activations — managing agencies, budgets, cross-functional stakeholders, and celebrity partners to bring ideas from approval to execution. Past activations from this team have included large-scale pop-ups and immersive builds at major cultural events. This team moves fast, but together — hierarchy is minimal and everyone chips in.

This is a 6-month contract with genuine potential for a full-time conversation if you demonstrate value. The team has a strong track record of converting contractor talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management and on-the-ground execution of large-scale brand activations and experiential campaigns
• Manage experiential agency partners to keep milestones, timelines, and deliverables on track
• Oversee activation budgets and proactively communicate any budget-impacting changes to senior leadership
• Participate in weekly cross-functional calls with press, social, celebrity, and influencer teams — distilling inputs and managing expectations across stakeholders
• Build and present creative review decks for talent partners, ensuring alignment on fabrication and production decisions
• Serve as the primary day-to-day liaison for celebrity and talent partners, receiving and executing creative notes in collaboration with the internal celebrity team
• Provide real-time problem solving and negotiation support — including managing last-minute talent requests and escalating as needed
• Maintain a steady, organized presence at the center of fast-moving, multi-workstream campaign work
• Travel domestically approximately every other month for content shoots and live activations

Qualifications

Required

• 8–10 years of experience bringing brand activations or experiential marketing programs to life — production/execution experience is essential, not just concept development
• Demonstrated ability to manage agencies, budgets, and cross-functional stakeholders simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working directly with creative teams or a background in creative development for brand campaigns
• Familiarity with how communications, PR, and social teams function — and experience collaborating closely with those functions (even if your primary background is not in PR/comms)
• Extremely proactive, solution-oriented, and calm under pressure
• Strong interpersonal skills — comfortable managing diverse personalities both internally and with external partners

Preferred

• Background from major lifestyle or consumer brands — music, retail, fashion (e.g., apparel, entertainment, or similar)
• Experience in both agency and in-house environments
• Titles such as Creative Producer, Experiential Marketing Lead, or Brand Experiences Lead are highly relevant
• Experience working with celebrity or high-profile talent partners

Note: We are not targeting candidates from a traditional PR or communications background for this role. Cross-functional experience with those teams is a plus, but the primary expertise should be in experiential production and activation execution.

Key Details

• Role Type: Contract *W2
• Contract Duration: 6 months (FTE potential)
• Location: Fully remote (US only)
• Time Zone: Flexible - no preference
• Pay Rate: $60 - $75/Hr.
• Travel: Domestic ~every other month
• Start Date: ASAP / As available