Full-Time

Senior PR & Communications Manager

Posted on 8/19/2025

Engine

Engine

201-500 employees

Business lodging platform with exclusive rates

Compensation Overview

$150k - $180k/yr

+ Base Pay Range

Remote in USA

Remote

Hybrid-hub model: role can be fully remote or based in a U.S. office.

Category
Content & Writing (2)
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Required Skills
Communications
Journalism
Marketing
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Data Storytelling Expertise: 7+ years in PR, communications, content, or journalism roles with a strong portfolio of data-driven stories, reports, or campaigns that have achieved media traction.
  • Strong Editorial Skills: Proven ability to distill complex datasets into clear, compelling narratives with both strategic and tactical execution.
  • PR Agency Leadership: Experience managing an external PR agency or equivalent, with a track record of delivering measurable results in earned media.
  • Media Savvy: Deep understanding of what makes a story newsworthy, how to package data for journalists, and how to build relationships in the press.
  • Content Development: Proficiency in briefing designers on charts, infographics, and visuals that bring stories to life.
  • Business Acumen: Ability to align storytelling with brand positioning, business priorities, and target audience needs.
  • Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working cross-functionally with marketing, analytics, product, and executive teams to develop and deploy communications initiatives.
Responsibilities
  • Develop Data-Driven PR Campaigns: Partner with Engine’s Data & Analytics team to source and validate compelling data points. Shape these insights into clear, media-ready storylines aligned with Engine’s brand narrative and communications goals. Package findings into press releases, media pitches, and social-ready soundbites.
  • Lead Flagship Industry Reports: Own the strategy and editorial direction for Engine’s “State of Business Travel” report and other high-visibility studies. Define the story arc, outline key insights, draft the narrative, and collaborate on visuals and design.
  • Ensure reports are positioned to generate media interest, partner engagement, and industry recognition.

Hotel Engine serves businesses by managing lodging through a single platform that offers exclusive rates at over 700,000 hotels worldwide. Companies can book and manage all their lodging without contracts, commitments, or minimum spend, making it accessible for businesses of any size. Revenue comes from negotiated exclusive rates tied to booking volume, enabling discounts while sustaining profitability. The product’s strengths are its ease of use and responsive customer service, helping transform complex corporate travel into a simple, manageable process. The company aims to help organizations save money and time on lodging, streamline travel management, and scale their lodging programs across North America.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$221M

Headquarters

Glendale, California

Founded

2013

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Group travel volume doubled yearly, processing thousands of daily modifications.
  • $140M Series C in 2024 hit $2.1B valuation, expanding workforce to 1,000+.
  • WEX partnership accepts fuel cards, capturing trucking travel spend since March 2025.

What critics are saying

  • SAP Concur integration exposes 900,000 hotels to 50M users, eroding loyalty now.
  • Airbnb for Business undercuts no-contract model with lower SME rates in 2025.
  • EU Digital Travel Regulation standardizes APIs by Q3 2026, destroying rate moats.

What makes Engine unique

  • Engine targets unmanaged SME travel with no-contract hotel bookings at 750,000+ properties.
  • Centralized platform combines hotels, flights, and cars with consolidated invoicing.
  • AI agent Eva autonomously resolves 50% of 800,000 annual support cases in 12 days.

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Benefits

401(k) Company Match

Company Equity

Hybrid Work Options

Performance Bonus

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

3%
Yahoo Finance
Mar 18th, 2026
Engine integrates 900,000 hotels into SAP Concur for streamlined business travel expenses

Engine, a business travel platform serving over one million travellers, has integrated with SAP Concur to expand hotel inventory and streamline expense reporting for corporate travel. The integration makes Engine's network of more than 900,000 global hotel properties available to Concur Travel users via Hotel Connector. Business travellers can now access Engine's hotel inventory and rates through the Concur Travel interface, with bookings processed seamlessly whilst maintaining existing workflows. Companies retain full visibility and control over travel spend within policy. For Engine customers using Concur Expense, the integration automatically transfers receipts from Engine's booking platform to SAP Concur, eliminating manual uploads and reconciliation. Both the Hotel Connector and Concur Expense integrations are now live and available to eligible users.

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