Communications Specialist
- Chicago, United States
- Mid Level
- 3+ years
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
Skills
Required
- juggle multiple tight deadlines
Preferred
- media monitoring
- news features
Join Motorola Solutions, a company dedicated to innovation and safety. As a Communications Specialist, you'll support public relations, brand awareness, and regional communication strategies. You'll create compelling customer stories, write public-facing materials, execute media relations, and support events and trade shows. This role requires strong storytelling skills, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset.
Collaborate with the North America Communications Team to support regional PR campaigns, product launches, and thought leadership.
Digital & AI Tool Proficiency: Working knowledge or eagerness to adopt generative AI tools, media monitoring platforms and content management systems to streamline daily work
About Motorola Solutions
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team
Responsibilities
- Uncover, research, and write compelling customer stories that highlight the impact of Motorola Solutions’ technology.
- Serve as a primary writer for a variety of public-facing materials, including press releases, news features, media pitches, and social media copy.
- Enthusiastic Go-Getter Mindset: High agency, proactive drive and eagerness to take initiative, learn new markets and tackle projects independently in a fast-paced environment
- Media Relations & Pitching Familiarity: Direct hands-on exposure to media relations concepts and pitching journalists
- Exceptional Writing & Editing: Outstanding narrative and drafting skills; able to shift tone easily between technical, corporate and human-centric story styles
- Proven exposure to media relations execution, media monitoring and outreach campaigns
- Demonstrated portfolio of exceptional corporate writing samples (press releases, pitch letters, customer features, articles)
Requirements
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate seamlessly with marketing, sales, product managers and external customer teams
- Agility & Resourcefulness: Able to juggle multiple tight deadlines, adapt quickly as news cycles or business priorities shift and maintain high standards of quality
- 3+ years of professional communications, public relations, or media experience (agency or corporate context preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing or related discipline
Preferred
- Bachelor's Degree AND 3+ years of professional communications, public relations, or media experience (agency or corporate context preferred)
Pay
USD 75,000 - 95,000
