Director, Enterprise Communications

Location: Spartanburg, SC (Hybrid)
Company: Denny's, Inc.
 

Build the Voice of America's Diner

Denny's is entering an exciting new chapter of growth, transformation, and opportunity—and we're looking for a strategic communications leader to help shape the story.
 

As Director, Enterprise Communications, you will build and lead a modern communications function that strengthens alignment, trust, reputation, and engagement across one of America's most iconic restaurant brands. Reporting to senior leadership, this role will serve as a key advisor to executives while leading internal communications, public relations, executive messaging, franchisee communications, crisis readiness, and brand storytelling.

This is a unique opportunity for a communications professional who enjoys both strategy and execution—someone who can advise leaders in the boardroom, navigate sensitive issues, support franchise owners, engage employees, and help tell the authentic stories that make Denny's special.
 

What You'll Do

• Lead enterprise communications strategy across employees, franchise owners, executive leadership, media, communities, and external stakeholders.

• Partner directly with the CEO and senior leadership team on executive communications, speeches, presentations, talking points, leadership messaging, and thought leadership content.

• Drive public relations initiatives, media messaging, proactive storytelling, and reputation management efforts.

• Develop communication strategies that strengthen franchisee confidence, trust, and system alignment.

• Lead crisis communications planning, issue management, and stakeholder response strategies.

• Create compelling stories that highlight our franchise owners, restaurant teams, guests, communities, and brand transformation journey.

• Build communication processes, tools, and rhythms that improve clarity, consistency, and organizational alignment.

• Partner closely with Legal, Operations, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Technology, and external agency partners.
   

What We're Looking For

• 15+ years of progressive experience in communications, public relations, executive communications, corporate communications, internal communications, or related disciplines.

• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling capabilities.

• Experience supporting C-suite leaders and developing executive-level communications.

• Strong background in public relations, reputation management, crisis communications, and stakeholder engagement.

• Ability to influence and advise senior leaders while managing sensitive and confidential matters.

• Experience within restaurant, hospitality, retail, franchise, consumer brand, private equity, or multi-unit environments is strongly preferred.

• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and sound judgment.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and high visibility.
   

Why Denny's?

For more than 70 years, Denny's has been bringing people together around the table. Today, we're focused on strengthening our brand, supporting our franchise community, and building the next chapter of America's Diner.
 

This role offers the opportunity to work directly with executive leadership, influence company-wide strategy, shape organizational communications, and help tell the stories that matter most to our employees, franchisees, guests, and communities.
 

If you're a communications leader who thrives on building, influencing, and making an impact, we'd love to connect.

The typical pay range for this role is:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which the position falls. This job posting is not a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee as the actual pay will take into account a range of factors, including location and experience.

Denny's, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information, military or veteran's status, criminal background, or any other characteristic protected by Federal, State, or local law. 

Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process should contact 864-597-8000. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THIS NUMBER TO CHECK THE STATUS OF YOUR APPLICATION.

Denny’s, Inc. participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. For more information on E-Verify, please contact the DHS at 888-897-7781 or dhs.gov/e-verify.  Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.