Communications Manager

What you’ll do

The Community Relations & Public Affairs Manager will own the execution of Giga Energy’s community-entry and license-to-operate program from late-stage site development through construction and operations. You will build trusted relationships with residents, local media, civic organizations, local businesses, and other stakeholders; translate complex project information into clear community-facing communications; manage community investments; and identify and resolve issues before they become reputational or project risks.

This role leads communications and relationship management within individual project communities. Success requires spending substantial time on the ground before and during major development, construction, and operational milestones.

Where you’ll work

We are an in-office culture — velocity matters when you're building physical infrastructure, and the best decisions happen in the room. This role is ideally based in our San Francisco, Long Beach, or Houston offices, with full-time onsite expectations outside of bi-weekly WFH Fridays.

That said, we will make exceptions for truly exceptional talent if you live outside one of our hubs. If you're the right person for this role, we'll have a conversation about what works.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a community-engagement plan for every new Giga data center project.
• Create stakeholder maps, community briefs, risk assessments, project FAQs, presentations, construction updates, and public-information materials.
• Lead direct outreach to nearby residents and maintain a consistent system for recording, responding to, and resolving concerns.
• Coordinate property-specific mitigation and voluntary-acquisition discussions with Projects, Real Estate, and Legal.
• Plan and run listening sessions, town halls, site tours, community meetings, and construction updates.
• Manage local donations, volunteer fire and emergency-service partnerships, workforce initiatives, and local vendor programs.
• Build relationships with city and county officials, civic leaders, chambers, schools, nonprofit organizations, local businesses, and other trusted community stakeholders.
• Maintain working relationships with local media
• Monitor public meetings, local stakeholder conversations, social channels, and community sentiment.
• Escalate emerging reputational issues and coordinate local response activities with the Director of Content & Communications.
• Coordinate on project announcements, reporter inquiries, local media opportunities, and issues that could attract broader public attention.
• Identify credible local voices, organizations, and partners who can provide informed perspectives on Giga’s projects and community contributions.
• Maintain the project commitments tracker, community-investment budget, stakeholder database, and performance dashboard.
• Ensure commitments made to residents, officials, first responders, and community organizations are documented and delivered.
• Provide regular reporting and recommendations to the Director of Content & Communications and project leadership.
• Spend substantial time in project communities before and during major development, construction, and operational milestones.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in community relations, public affairs, local government, economic development, infrastructure communications, utility communications, or a similar field.
• Experience working in communities affected by construction, industrial development, energy, infrastructure, or real-estate projects.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust with residents, elected officials, first responders, civic leaders, and community organizations.
• Strong writing, public-speaking, meeting-facilitation, and issue-management skills.
• Ability to operate calmly and professionally in contentious public meetings and difficult one-on-one resident conversations.
• Strong judgment when handling sensitive community, property, legal, or reputational matters.
• Strong project-management discipline and comfort working with technical, legal, construction, communications, and executive teams.
• Ability to translate technical project information into clear and accessible language.
• Willingness to travel frequently and spend substantial time on the ground in Texas communities.

Bonus points 

• Data center and AI industry experience
• Experience managing community-investment programs, local partnerships, or stakeholder databases.
• Experience supporting local media engagement or maintaining relationships with local reporters.
• Familiarity with data center, energy, infrastructure, utility, or industrial-development projects.