Communications Leadership — CCO, VP Comms, IR, Public Affairs
More than 237 executive roles classified in Communications, with 11 new this week. Chief Communications Officers, VPs of Comms, and Heads of Investor Relations — the executives who own external narrative and stakeholder voice.
Tier breakdown
1
Founder16
C-Suite103
VP20
Sr Director97
DirectorWhat this category covers
Communications covers Chief Communications Officers, VPs of Communications, Public Affairs leads, and Heads of Investor Relations. The role centers on external narrative, regulatory voice, and stakeholder communications.
Includes Investor Relations executives where the seat reports to the CFO or CEO and owns the public market story, plus Public Affairs leaders for regulated industries.
Across the 237 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
What falls outside: product marketing or content marketing roles (those go under CMO & Marketing Leadership) and support/CX comms roles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 237)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, External Innovation Communications and Public Affairs Johnson & Johnson The role involves developing and executing communications strategies for Johnson & Johnson's business development and external innovation priorities. It includes translating complex science and M&A strategy into narratives for media and stakeholders. Director | New Brunswick, NJ; Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ Hybrid |
| Account Director, Healthcare Public Affairs ... Hanson Search The role involves leading client accounts on EU health policy files, advising on political and regulatory issues, and engaging with stakeholders. It requires experience in healthcare public affairs and knowledge of EU institutions. Director | Brussels Onsite |
| Senior Director, Communications Strategy & Operations Salesforce The role involves strategic operations within the communications team, connecting strategy to execution, and working closely with senior leaders. It requires over 10 years of experience in strategy, business operations, or similar roles. Sr Director | California - San Francisco, Washington - Seattle, New York - New York Hybrid |
| Vice President, Policy & Strategic Communications Retail Council of Canada Lead RCC's government relations function and shape a compelling, multi-year narrative and advocacy campaign. VP | Toronto, ON, CA Hybrid |
| Head of Social Substack The Head of Social will own how Substack shows up on external social channels, turning social into a driver of consumer discovery, creator growth, and cultural credibility. This leadership role involves setting the vision, hiring and developing a team, and partnering with various teams to promote creator stories and position Substack as a cultural hub. VP | New York Hybrid |
| Senior Communications Director ... leading international environmental NGO Lead integrated communications strategy for an international environmental NGO in Europe, focusing on policy change and public support. C-Suite | Madrid or Brussels Hybrid |
| Head of GCC Corporate Affairs ... international investment firm The role involves leading corporate affairs in the GCC region for an international investment firm, focusing on stakeholder engagement, corporate reputation, and strategic advisory. VP | UAE Unknown |
| Director Employee Communications UKG Lead strategic employee communications across international markets, ensuring alignment with UKG's global communications strategy and business priorities. Director | Pune City, India Hybrid |
| Director of PR & Communications Norm Ai The role involves building and leading an external communications program to strengthen the reputations of Norm Ai and Norm Law. Responsibilities include media relations, executive communications, and reputation management. Director | New York City, NY Hybrid |
| Director, PR & Influencer Clinique The Director of PR & Influencer is responsible for driving Clinique’s influence ecosystem, including creators, VIPs, dermatologists, press, media, and cultural voices to enhance brand equity and consumer trust. Director | New York, NY Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Communications classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for executive-stakeholder scope: board-level reporting, regulatory engagement, IR responsibility. A "Communications Director" running internal comms only ranks differently from a CCO owning the full external footprint. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Communications as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Communications is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Communications + Healthcare Payers & Providers and you see CCOs and VPs of Comms at hospital networks navigating regulatory and patient-trust narratives — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
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