Sr Director, Corporate Communications

Why UKG:

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters - and so do you.

UKG is seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Communications to shape and strengthen the company's enterprise reputation - helping UKG navigate consequential business moments, build stakeholder trust, and raise the standard of communications across the enterprise.

Reporting to the Chief Communications Officer, this leader will oversee Corporate Responsibility Communications, Crisis & Issues Management, M&A communications frameworks, and the Communications Center of Excellence (COE). Together, these capabilities provide the strategy, readiness, governance, and expertise UKG needs to communicate effectively across complex issues and opportunities.

We're looking for a trusted advisor and organization builder with exceptional judgment - someone who can counsel senior leaders, anticipate reputational implications, bring clarity to high-stakes situations, and build a high-performing Corporate Communications organization with impact across UKG.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CCO and senior executives on corporate reputation, sensitive issues, stakeholder implications, and consequential company decisions.
• Anticipate emerging reputation risks and opportunities, bringing an enterprise-wide perspective to how UKG prepares, responds, and communicates.
• Play a central leadership role in UKG’s crisis and issues communications framework, partnering with the External Communications VP and stakeholders across the company on readiness, scenarios, playbooks, escalation, and response.
• Provide communications frameworks and strategic expertise for M&A and other significant corporate events, flexing the operating model based on the needs and stakeholders of each situation.

• Set and lead UKG’s corporate responsibility communications strategy, connecting the company’s commitments and priorities to business strategy, stakeholder expectations, and reputation.
• Partner with leaders across UKG to help shape and prioritize corporate responsibility issues and commitments, bringing a communications and reputation perspective to enterprise decisions.
• Build a clear, credible corporate responsibility narrative that connects UKG’s commitments to meaningful action, measurable impact, and the broader UKG story.
• Ensure UKG communicates progress and impact with transparency and credibility, strengthening trust and long-term stakeholder value.

• Build and lead a Communications COE that raises the standard of communications across UKG through clear frameworks, governance, playbooks, tools, and best practices.
• Establish enterprise standards for narrative and messaging, communications planning, measurement, AI-enabled practices, and other foundational capabilities.
• Develop training, resources, and communities of practice that strengthen communications capabilities and enable teams to operate with greater consistency, judgment, and effectiveness.
• Partner across Communications and the broader business to drive adoption while creating enough flexibility for teams to meet distinct audience and business needs.

• Advance UKG’s approach to corporate reputation intelligence, helping the company understand stakeholder trust, emerging risks, corporate responsibility impact, and communications effectiveness.
• Establish measurement standards and frameworks through the COE that enable more consistent evaluation of communications performance across…