Communications Leadership — CCO, VP Comms, IR, Public Affairs
More than 187 executive roles classified in Communications, with 20 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
3
Founder20
C-Suite86
VP14
Sr Director64
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 187 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 187)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Executive Director, Government Relations Queen's University The Executive Director, Government Relations at Queen's University will provide strategic leadership for government relations, advising on public policy, and developing advocacy strategies. C-Suite | Toronto or Ottawa, ON, CA Onsite |
| Global Medical Communications Director ... BioTalent Seeking a senior-level medical communications leader to manage a large pharmaceutical client account, focusing on strategic partnership and delivery excellence. Director | United States of America Remote |
| Director of Communications and Membership Waterways Council, Inc. Lead communications and membership efforts, manage media relationships, and drive membership growth for Waterways Council, Inc. C-Suite | Washington, D.C. Onsite |
| Sr. Director/ED, Medical Affairs Medical Communications Publications Artiva The Sr. Director/Executive Director, Medical Communications Publications will drive strategic planning and execution of scientific publications across the AlloNK platform and lead congress activities. The role involves translating clinical data into scientific communications and leading a team. Sr Director | San Diego, California Remote |
| Visual Storytelling & AI Innovation Lead, Office of the CFO OpenAI The role involves creating executive presentations and materials, working closely with various departments, and leveraging AI in finance workflows. VP | San Francisco Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Communication & Public Affairs Johnson & Johnson Lead communication and public affairs strategies for Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Japan, reporting to the VP, Communication & Public Affairs for Asia Pacific. Sr Director | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Onsite |
| Head of Content Thrive Global Lead the content team at Thrive Global, develop health and wellbeing content, and manage a team of writers and editors. VP | Remote (United States) Remote |
| Partner 34, Communications Partner, Bio Andreessen Horowitz The role involves leading communications strategies for Andreessen Horowitz's bio investments, working with general partners and investment teams, and managing media relations. C-Suite | San Francisco, California, United States Onsite |
| Director, Press & Communications Bulgari Lead and advance the North American communications strategy to grow brand desirability, awareness, and cultural relevance through media relations, storytelling, executive communications, and integrated programs. Director | New York, NY Onsite |
| Communications and Marketing Director ... leading UK manufacturing business Lead external communications, corporate communications, public and regulatory affairs, marketing communications, and sustainability for a UK manufacturing business. VP | London or Bridgend, Wales Unknown |
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.
Remote mix