Customer Incident & Communications Manager
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Justworks
Compensation
$109,000 - $119,900/year
Job Description
Who We Are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Who You Are
The Incident Communications & Enablement Manager owns how Justworks communicates with customers during high-impact moments; including incidents, outages, and other sensitive issues.
This role is responsible for building and leading a scalable incident communications strategy that ensures our messaging is clear, timely, empathetic, and consistent. You’ll partner closely with Customer Success, Product,Legal, and other cross-functional teams to align on messaging and enable our customer-facing teams to communicate with confidence.
This is a strategic and hands-on role: you’ll design frameworks and governance models while also drafting and delivering communications during live situations.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
Lead Incident Communication Strategy
- Develop and own the framework for how we communicate during customer-impacting events
- Establish clear standards for messaging, tone, timing, and transparency
- Ensure consistent, trusted communication across channels
Drive Messaging & Execution
- Own end to end execution of customer facing communications during incidents and service disruptions
- Create scalable templates, FAQs, and messaging resources
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure accuracy and alignment
Enable Customer-Facing Teams
- Equip Customer Success and Support teams with the tools and guidance needed to communicate effectively
- Build systems that support both scaled updates and personalized outreach
- Contribute to incident retrospectives to continuously improve communication practices
Serve as a Cross-Functional Partner
- Act as the communications lead within incident response efforts
- Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, Legal, QA, and Data teams
- Advise CSO leadership on customer sentiment and communication strategy during high-impact moments
How You Will Do Your Work
- Consultative - takes an approach that focuses on building relationships with others, understanding their problems, and developing solutions to their challenges through open-ended questions and active listening.
- Taking responsibility - being accountable, being committed, and accepting ownership for one's decisions, actions, and behavior.
- Adaptability - the ability to adjust your approach or actions in response to changes in your external environment.
- Solution-oriented - identifies the source of a question or challenge and provides the right, or a better, way of doing things.
- Curious - the innate desire to learn, grow and understand.
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