Communications Leadership — CCO, VP Comms, IR, Public Affairs

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 156 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.

Communications classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:

1. Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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.