Communications Leadership — CCO, VP Comms, IR, Public Affairs
More than 189 executive roles classified in Communications, with 16 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
2
Founder23
C-Suite88
VP11
Sr Director65
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 189 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 189)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Interim Director, Public Affairs & Policy ... Hanson Search Senior public affairs leadership in logistics, reporting to the VP Corporate Affairs. Requires strong political judgment, stakeholder network, and experience in logistics or supply chain policy areas. Director | London Unknown |
| Director, Brand & GTM, AI Research Salesforce The role involves driving the narrative and brand strategy for Salesforce AI Research, working closely with research leadership, product teams, and cross-functional partners. Director | California - Palo Alto, New York - New York Unknown |
| Director of Social and Influencer Function Health The role involves owning social channels, creator and talent relationships, and influencer programs across both organic and paid. It requires a strategic approach to social media, cultural intelligence, and team leadership. Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director of Advancement Finger Lakes Land Trust The role involves strategic leadership in fundraising and communications for the Finger Lakes Land Trust, focusing on land conservation. Sr Director | Ithaca, NY Unknown |
| Head of Marketing & Communications, UAE ICEYE Lead ICEYE's marketing and communications function across the UAE, building the sovereign ISR brand and go-to-market presence with defense, government, and strategic partners. VP | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Hybrid |
| Director, Global Medical Oncology, Medical Communications, EDAPS and GU Lead Bristol Myers Squibb Lead medical scientific disclosure strategy for the EDAPS and GU portfolio, manage global teams, ensure compliance with scientific communications. Director | Princeton, NJ, US Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Investor Relations Bristol Myers Squibb The Senior Director, Investor Relations role involves strategic leadership, developing corporate messages, and serving as a spokesperson for investor inquiries. It requires collaboration across multiple functional areas and involves travel. Sr Director | Princeton, NJ, US Hybrid |
| Vice President for Marketing and Communications Montclair State University WittKieffer is supporting Montclair State University in its search for a Vice President for Marketing and Communications. Additional information and a comprehensive leadership profile are forthcoming. VP | Montclair, New Jersey Unknown |
| Deputy Regional Head, Government Relations, Latin America Lime Lead efforts to expand and strengthen Lime’s presence across Latin America, focusing on government relations and public affairs strategy. Director | Mexico City, Mexico Remote |
| Federal Government Relations - Executive Director JPMorgan Chase The role involves overseeing legislative activities, scrutinizing policy and political trends, and liaising with public officials. It requires 12+ years of experience in policy or legislative development. C-Suite | Washington, DC, United States 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.
Remote mix