At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
Position Overview:
Join Freddie Mac as our next Marketing and Communications Director and lead our Single-Family executive and internal communications team in McLean, VA. This is an outstanding opportunity to craft and complete our marketing strategies, driving our mission to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable. As a key leader, you will determine the direction of strategic marketing efforts and successfully implement initiatives that resonate with distinct audiences. Apply now and learn why there’s #MoreAtFreddieMac!
Our Impact:
At Freddie Mac, we aim to build a positive impact on the housing finance system. Our ambitious goals include making meaningful contributions to the housing market through strong leadership presence and relationships with key partners. Together, we’re dedicated to the combined value of our products and solutions in addressing homeownership challenges. We’re steadfastly committed to operating safely and soundly, ensuring our work benefits communities nationwide for years to come.
Your Impact:
In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives to design and implement communications strategies that align with Single-Family’s priorities and objectives, advancing company goals and resonating with key audiences. Your leadership will combine deep organizational insight with a forward-thinking approach, guiding our audiences through change.
Your expertise will be instrumental in driving these efforts:
- Amplifying Executive Messaging: Offering dedicated communications support for Single-Family Division heads, build thought leadership strategies to elevate our executive presence through insights articles, interviews, speaking engagements, and use strong editing skills to refine leadership communications for clarity and impact, adapting tone and style for audience and channel.
- Unifying Single-Family Strategies: Collaborate with Corporate PR and Creative Services for a unified Single-Family strategy and cohesive identity.
- Elevating Experience: Coordinate leadership presence and employee engagement with business strategies, lead all aspects of high-quality content development (includes emails, articles, presentations, videos, and podcasts), influence consistency of our external presence (through Speakers Bureau coordination, Advisory Board engagement, and social media use), and lead all aspects of internal communications channels (includes newsletters, portals, and events).
- Managing Change: Adapt quickly to changing priorities, maintain value delivery, build flexible processes for communication, support organizational changes, manage reputational risks.
- Fostering Collaboration: Lead team of strategists and communicators, align messaging across HR, PR, marketing, and leadership.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Marketing, or related field.
- 12+ years of relevant executive and communications leadership experience.
- 4+ years of direct people management experience.
- Experience using written, visual, and audio communications across a variety of in-person and digital platforms.
- Strong customer service orientation along with outstanding written and verbal communication, presentation, and editing skills.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with senior executives, internal collaborators, and managing change communications.
- Proven ability to define marketing objectives, developing strategic plans to achieve them, and leading high-quality execution.
- Experience or knowledge of mortgage industry or financial services is a plus.
- Certification or knowledge of change management frameworks is a plus.
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Passion for storytelling.
- Leverage insights to anticipate trends.
- Talent for simplifying complex concepts into clear, compelling plans and content.
- Inspire accountability and attention to detail.
- Navigating change with contagious confidence.
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $183,000 - $275,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.
What We Do
Freddie Mac is serving America’s homebuyers, homeowners and renters by financing the creation and preservation of more affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, providing liquidity, stability and affordability to the housing market. We are Making Home Possible for families across the nation.
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