Principal Internal Communications Manager

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Principal Internal Communications Manager, a high-impact, individual contributor leadership role reporting to and working in close partnership with the Internal Communications Lead.

About the job

Twilio’s Internal Communications team is seeking an experienced, strategic, and highly collaborative Principal Internal Communications Manager to serve as a cornerstone of our global IC function. In this role, you will act as a primary thought partner to the team lead on overarching program strategy and execution, while taking direct ownership of our most critical, sensitive, and high-stakes employee communications. Your work will be integral to protecting Twilio's culture, aligning our workforce, and navigating complex corporate moments for our 5,500 Twilions around the world.

This Twilion will have world-class strategic acumen, impeccable discretion, and a calm, steady demeanor under pressure. You are a seasoned expert at navigating complex corporate, legal, and social environments, possessing the rare ability to translate high-stakes business realities into empathetic, clear, and highly effective internal narratives.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Partner on Global IC Strategy: Work in close partnership with the Internal Communications Lead to co-architect the overarching strategic direction and execution of the wider internal communications program.
• Partner closely with PR/External Comms: Serve as point of contact with external comms team during strategic projects and crises, ensuring internal and external narratives stay aligned and sequenced.
• Lead highly sensitive employee communications: Own the end-to-end strategy, narrative creation, and execution for high-stakes, sensitive corporate scenarios, ensuring absolute confidentiality, accuracy, and cultural alignment. Including but not limited to employment legal issues, ethics and misconduct cases, regulatory or legal actions, and safety & security incidents.
• Manage transactional & structural change comms: Drive the internal communication strategy for complex corporate evolutions, including Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), strategic transactions, organizational redesigns, and executive transitions
• Advise on social Issues: Provide strategic counsel and develop thoughtful framework-driven messaging regarding complex external political and social issues, balancing company values with employee sentiment.
• Collaborate cross functionally: Partner deeply with Legal, HR, Employee Relations, Security, and Corporate Affairs to operationalize communications around sensitive matters, ensuring a unified, legally compliant, and compassionate voice.
• Support finance communications: Partner with the Finance org and ghostwrite for the CFO on both companywide financial moments (earnings, financial updates) and the CFO's internal comms to the finance org, including quarterly updates and finance org all hands.
• Flex across the IC portfolio: When there isn’t an active strategic project or crisis, plug into the broader work of the team (Q&A prep, All Hands support, comms campaigns, etc.) and whatever else needs a strong writer and thinker.

Qualifications 

Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

*Required:

• In-Role experience: 10+ years of experience in internal communications, corporate communications, or crisis management, with a proven track record operating at a principal or senior manager level within a global technology company.
• Strategic partnership and execution: Demonstrated experience acting as a trusted right-hand to communications leadership, helping to steer broader program strategy while simultaneously executing on the ground.
• Crisis & sensitive comms expertise: Deep, hands-on experience managing highly confidential and sensitive communications, particularly around M&A, restructuring, legal actions, and complex workplace issues.
• Executive presence and discretion: Exceptional emotional intelligence, commanding poise under pressure, and the ability to interface with and influence C-suite executives and legal counsel on highly sensitive matters.
• Project management: Very comfortable moving between strategic and tactical work, holding multiple projects to deadline, managing stakeholders, keeping partners informed, etc. Strong operational muscle to complement the strategic and creative work.
• Ghostwriting range: Proven ability to write in the voice of a variety of leaders, often for people you don’t work with daily and with limited advance notice. Quick study on tone, cadence, and point of view.
• Strategic excellence: Masterful storytelling and writing capabilities, with the ability to distill complex legal, regulatory, or organizational nuances into transparent, engaging, and culturally resonant employee communications.

Location

This role will be remote, but is not eligible to be hired in San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, San Jose, CA, or the surrounding areas.

Travel 

We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, you may be required to travel occasionally to participate in project or team in-person meetings.

What We Offer

Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.

Compensation

*Please note this role is open to candidates outside of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., and Washington State. The information below is provided for candidates hired in those locations only.

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:

• Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C. : $141,520 - $176,900.
• Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $149,840 - $187,300.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $166,400 - $208,000.
• This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Application deadline information (required for ALL US jobs)

Applications for this role are intended to be accepted until September 30, 2026, but may change based on business needs.