CareerPlan

Digital Rapid Response Director

Washington, DC, USFull-time$99k–$173k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-09
HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Central decision and coordination point for real-time communications in large scale campaigns, identifying emerging threats and opportunities, shaping the response, and ensuring unified messaging across press, creative, and digital teams.

Role type

Senior IC crisis communications director (rapid response)

Builds

Unified real-time communication responses across earned media, creative, and social channels

Domain

Crisis communications / Political communications / Public affairs

Required skills

Rapid response strategy, crisis communications, political communications, public affairs, issue advocacy, real-time content creation, cross-channel narrative management, project management, mentoring junior staff, editorial judgment, social listening

Preferred skills

Political campaign experience, crisis-response experience, knowledge of technology industry, experience with energy and infrastructure industries, experience with Brandwatch, experience with Meltwater, social content creation

Technologies

Brandwatch, Meltwater, AI tools

Responsibilities

Lead rapid response across earned media, creative, and social; monitor news cycles and social environment to identify emerging trends; turn communications priorities into clear creative briefs; draft and edit high-quality content quickly; stay current on emerging content trends and platform best practices

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC