Director, Marketing Communications

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · New York, NY +2

Director to build and lead a new marketing communications function, working closely with the Marketing department to elevate the GEICO brand through proactive, strategic communications. This role involves developing strategy, team design, agency models, and processes, and exploring AI-enabled tools to enhance marketing communications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and execute a proactive marketing communications strategy that elevates GEICO’s brand in trade, business, and consumer media while also telling the story to our associate population, with a focus on driving outsized share of voice and strengthening GEICO’s marketing reputation.
  2. Leverage existing relationships with key publications to secure meaningful coverage of GEICO’s marketing evolution, campaigns, partnerships, and creative work.
  3. Serve as an embedded communications partner within the Marketing organization, attending leadership meetings, planning sessions, and strategy discussions to identify storytelling opportunities early.
  4. Advise senior marketing leaders on media opportunities, thought leadership, and external visibility.
  5. Explore and integrate AI-enabled tools, platforms, and agents as a core accelerator for marketing communications by scaling media intelligence, outreach, content development, and measurement across the PR ecosystem.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of communications experience with a focus on marketing communications, brand PR, and consumer communications.
  • Experience in both agency and in-house settings.
  • Experience building new capabilities in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
  • Established relationships with reporters and editors at major marketing and advertising trade publications.
  • Proven ability to secure top-tier media placements and build sustained narrative campaigns.
  • Experience supporting senior executives with communications strategy, media preparation, and public visibility.
  • Exceptional writing, strong project management instincts, and a collaborative approach.

Nice to have

  • Retail or consumer brand PR experience strongly preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • build marketing communications as a new capability
  • from strategy and team design to agency model, processes, and ways of working
  • energized by a blank piece of paper and the chance to put their fingerprints on a new function built from the ground up
  • Explore and integrate AI-enabled tools, platforms, and agents