Senior Manager - Internal Communications

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to our Chief Communications Officer, the Senior Manager of Internal Communications will help shape and evolve our internal comms function. This individual will join a global tech company and consistently communicate business priorities, reinforce our company values, and empower and excite employees worldwide.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts (near either our Concord or Cambridge office), 2x/week in the office

In this role, you will:

• Create and drive internal comms programs to motivate, engage, and empower employees

• Work in partnership with our People & Culture team to roll out employee programs globally

• Support leaders to help them communicate priorities 

• Build communication assets; e.g. all-hands decks, announcements, newsletter content, video scripts - ensuring that they reflect our global messaging

• Keep a finger on the pulse of employee sentiment worldwide and offer strategies and ideas to ensure KAYAK & OpenTable maintain its reputation as a great place to work

• Bring outstanding tools and creative ideas to the table to shape our internal narrative

• Be responsible for content on our company intranet

• Take a hands-on approach to IC operations including company-wide meetings, office info screens and IT coordination

Please apply if you have:

• 5+ years of internal comms experience in-house; agency experience is a plus

• Experience coaching leaders on internal comms

• Comfort working in a data-driven environment; strong project management skills

• A self-starter personality who can move quickly and manage competing priorities

• A strong writer with the ability to create high quality engaging and strategic content

• Flexibility. This is a global role so cross-time zone coordination/communication is expected 

• Passion for using AI to improve productivity and effectiveness

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Competitive retirement and health plans
• Free lunch 2 days per week

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At OpenTable/KAYAK, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation(s).