Digital Rapid Response Director

Who We Are

FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. We work with many of the world’s top multinational corporations, law firms, banks and private equity firms on their most important issues to deliver impact that makes a difference. From resolving disputes, navigating crises, managing risk and optimizing performance, our teams respond rapidly to dynamic and complex situations.

Our Corporate Positioning and Insights (CPI&I) practice seeks a Digital Rapid Response Director with 6+ years of experience to join the team in our Washington, D.C., New York, or Chicago office.

This is a multidisciplinary role at the intersection of earned media, digital strategy, and creative production. The strategist will serve as the central decision and coordination point for real-time communications in large scale campaigns - identifying emerging threats and opportunities, shaping the response, and ensuring that press, creative, and digital teams move together with a unified message and purpose. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, understands how narratives travel across channels, and can move quickly from strategy to execution.

• Lead rapid response across earned media, creative, and social - setting strategy, calling the play, and driving execution in real time across all channels
• Monitor news cycles and social environment to identify emerging trends, narrative shifts,
• Turn communications priorities into clear creative briefs, partnering with creative teams to guide the development and coordinated rollout of visual, video, digital, and social content.
• Draft and edit high-quality content quickly and with precision, including press materials, digital copy, paid media scripts, executive messaging, and more
• Bring a journalist's instincts, a strategist's discipline, and strong editorial judgment to everything you write and produce
• Stay current on emerging content trends, AI tools, audience behaviors, and platform best practices.

We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You'll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you through regular coaching sessions and serve as an advocate for your professional growth.

As you progress through your career at FTI Consulting, we offer tailored programs for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.

Basic Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in political communications and/or campaigns, public affairs, or issue advocacy – campaign or issue advocacy experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience leading rapid response in a political, advocacy or crisis communications environment
• Strong writing across formats, including long-form, short-form, organic social, paid media, executive voice
• Experience working in or alongside digital and creative teams on integrated campaigns, with the ability to brief and collaborate with designers and producers under deadline pressure
• A deep understanding of how narratives develop and move across earned, social, and creative channels — and how to coordinate an effective response across all three
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple work streams and integrated multichannel campaigns under tight deadlines
• Ability to work effectively across levels, managing and mentoring…