Communications & Creative Team Lead - Calgary - Hexagon's Autonomy & Positioning division

Description

Overview

Hexagon Autonomous Solutions is looking for a Communications & Creative Team Lead to join our team. Reporting to the Marketing Operations Manager, you will focus on brand management, project management, and PR, while defining the brand story and visual identity across all channels. You will lead a small, high‑performing team that delivers editorial, design, multimedia, and PR outputs. This role centralizes intake and workflows, elevates the quality, creativity, consistency of content creation and design, and amplifies the organization's brand recognition. By driving measurable impact through strategic PR initiatives, compelling storytelling, and effective digital optimization, the position works cross‑functionally with internal teams to ensure a cohesive and influential brand presence.

Hexagon is the global leader in measurement technologies. We provide the confidence that vital industries rely on to build, navigate, and innovate. From microns to Mars, our solutions ensure productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability in everything from manufacturing and construction to mining and autonomous systems. You'll be joining over 24,000 people in 50 countries on the leading edge of your field.

This position is with Hexagon's NovAtel Positioning Division, and your work will contribute to the operation of our brands NovAtel, Veripos, Antcom, and AutonomouStuff.

Location: Calgary, Alberta.

Responsibilities

• Effectively project manage a variety of initiatives, with a primary focus on brand management and external communications. This includes applying exceptional project management skills to ensure strategies are developed, executed, and tracked from inception to completion.
• Mentor and develop team members, providing guidance, feedback, and professional development opportunities.
• Lead development of a content strategy that reinforces our corporate goals and values, informs and engages diverse audiences and helps build our reputation.
• Ensure consistent application of communication and visual guidelines across all communication materials and initiatives.
• Develop and execute comprehensive PR plans to enhance our awareness and thought leadership, including pitches, media engagement, and crisis communication strategies.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Group Marketing, portfolio and campaign management, and diverse stakeholders to ensure messaging alignment and consistency.
• Implement dashboards and quarterly insights reporting to evaluate content performance, channel efficiency, and process improvements; translate analytics into actionable optimizations.
• Lead creative services, including design, graphics, photography, video, multimedia production, and a digital asset management system.
• Manage relationships with creative or PR vendors and agencies, ensuring adherence to standards and cost‑effectiveness and exploring the use of AI to enhance efficiency.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, news, and best practices to continuously innovate and optimize brand and marketing strategies.
• Manage intake and prioritization for both content and design work, working with various teams to identify synergies, balance needs, and manage deadlines.
• Maintain a central marketing content and communications calendar, including all content, design, and PR deliverables.

Qualifications – Must‑have

• Post‑secondary degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, Creative Design, or related field.
• 7–10+ years in public relations, creative operations, or marketing communications, ideally in B2B technology.
• Media and public relations experience.
• Proven leadership of content/creative teams and multi‑stakeholder programs, and experience advising senior leaders and collaborating with technical SMEs.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• The role may involve up to 20% international travel for events.

Key Success Factors

• Experience in maintaining brand standards, ensuring consistent messaging and visual identity across all channels and audiences.
• Demonstrates exceptional project management skills by effectively guiding projects from initial concept through to successful completion, ensuring clear planning, timely execution, and consistent delivery of high‑quality outcomes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and vendor oversight.
• Curious to pilot AI solutions that drive efficiency while maintaining brand integrity.
• Strategic storytelling and editorial judgment with an ability to translate complex technical topics into compelling narratives and multimedia.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, changing business environment and often with competing priorities.
• Demonstrates meticulous attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills by consistently managing complex workflows, ensuring accuracy in content and design deliverables, and maintaining clear systems for asset management and project tracking.

Nice‑to‑have

• Understanding of design or content creation processes.
• Experience with using the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with Meltwater, Cision, or alternative media monitoring software.
• Experience with B2B or high‑tech industries is an asset.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Advertising, Writing/Editing, and Marketing

Industries

Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

Not sure if you meet all the qualifications for this role? Let us decide At Hexagon, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you're excited about the opportunities this role could bring, we encourage you to apply. If you have any questions about the role or our company, please email our team at and we will be pleased to follow up with you. Please do not send cover letters or resumes to this address.