Director, External Communications

Salary range is: $157,417.86 - $190,000.00 This position is equity and bonus and/or commission eligible. CCC Intelligent Solutions Inc. (CCC) is a leading cloud platform for the multi-trillion-dollar insurance economy , creating intelligent experiences for insurers, repairers, automakers, part suppliers, and more. At CCC, we're making life just work by empowering more than 35,000 businesses with industry-leading technology to get drivers back on the road and to health quickly and seamlessly. We're pushing boundaries with innovative AI solutions that simplify and enhance the claims and repair journey. Through purposeful innovation and the strength of its connections, CCC technologies empower the people and industry relied upon to keep lives moving forward when it matters most. Learn more about CCC at www.cccis.com. The Role This is a high-ownership role for a seasoned communications professional who has built earned media programs from the ground up and has stood in the room - or led the room - during a real crisis. You will be responsible for the company's external reputation across press and industry channels, architect and maintain our crisis communications capability, and manage a supporting analyst relations function. This role sits inside a lean, high-functioning corporate communications team that includes internal communications, content and thought leadership, and CSR. Creative, digital, events, and measurement sit in shared services - meaning your job is strategy, relationships, and execution, not production management. You'll work closely with marketing and product marketing through a unified editorial calendar and shared message framework that corporate communications owns. The right person for this role is equally comfortable pitching a trade journalist, drafting a holding statement at 10 pm, and advising a leadership team. You are a practitioner, not just a manager. Key Responsibilities: What You'll Own Public Relations • Lead all earned media strategy across trade, business, and technology press, with fluency in both the insurance carrier and collision repair markets the company serves • Build and own relationships with key journalists, editors, and producers at priority publications and outlets • Drive a proactive thought leadership placement program in close partnership with the content team: bylines, contributed articles, executive interviews, and feature coverage -Own spokesperson readiness through training and maintenance programs - Own a press release and media monitoring process that delivers internal visibility on news going out the door and coverage secured from PR and thought leadership activities • Own the PR agency relationship, including setting the strategy, managing priorities, holding the agency accountable to outcomes, and escalating when performance warrants it • Establish and maintain a PR measurement framework tracking share of voice, narrative alignment, and coverage quality • Serve as a standing contributor to the unified corporate editorial calendar, ensuring PR activity is coordinated with content, internal comms, and marketing Crisis Communications • Architect, maintain, and continuously improve the company's crisis communications playbook, including escalation protocols, spokesperson guidance, holding statement libraries, channel-by-channel response frameworks, and post-incident review processes • Serve as the primary communications lead during active crisis situations, working in direct partnership with legal, HR, and executive leadership • Conduct regular readiness reviews and tabletop exercises to ensure the company can respond quickly and credibly when it matters • Serve as an ongoing advisor on reputational risk and issues management - identifying and flagging emerging concerns before they reach crisis threshold • Ensure customer-facing and employee-facing crisis communications are coordinated and sequenced correctly, in partnership with internal communications Analyst Relations - Su