Communications Leadership — CCO, VP Comms, IR, Public Affairs
More than 240 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
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Founder36
C-Suite110
VP23
Sr Director70
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 240 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 240)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, Editorial Booking Axios Lead editorial booking for Axios Live’s high-profile events, manage booking strategy, and collaborate with editorial teams. Director | Arlington, VA Remote |
| Senior Director, External Relations Halter The role involves setting and driving Halter's strategy across regulatory access, reputation & narrative, and policy & advocacy. The candidate should have deep regulatory and policy literacy, strong communication skills, and experience in managing high-stakes issues. Sr Director | Auckland Onsite |
| Director, Press & Communications Bulgari Lead North American communications strategy, media relations, storytelling, and executive communications for Bulgari. Oversee press strategy, product and corporate messaging, and event communications. Director | New York, NY Onsite |
| Director of Executive Communications Cyera The role involves shaping and scaling communications, partnering with executives, and developing messaging and programs for Cyera. Director | NY Metro (US) Remote |
| Head of Economic Research & Data Insights NerdWallet Lead economic research and data insights, partner with Communications, and serve as NerdWallet's primary economic voice. VP | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director, Medical Communications Bristol Myers Squibb Serves as the senior communications leader and strategic partner to the SVP of Global Medical Affairs, designing and delivering integrated communications strategies. Sr Director | Princeton, NJ, US Hybrid |
| Executive Director, Oncology DD & Commercialization Communications Bristol Myers Squibb Responsible for strategy, execution, and measurement of communications across BMS's oncology portfolio, including product, pipeline, and therapeutic area communications. C-Suite | Princeton, NJ, US Unknown |
| Head of Communications, UK Superstruct Entertainment The Head of Communications will report to the Director of Communications and work closely with the UK Managing Director. The role involves building infrastructure, relationships, and narratives for Superstruct Entertainment's UK operations. VP | London, UK Hybrid |
| Head of Communications DPM Metals Inc. The Head of Communications is responsible for developing and executing DPM Metals' global communications strategy to enhance the company's reputation and support business objectives. The role involves media relations, stakeholder engagement, and internal communications. VP | Toronto, Ontario Onsite |
| Chief Communications Officer Strada Education Foundation Strada Education Foundation seeks a strategic, service-oriented, highly collaborative, and intellectually curious Chief Communications Officer (CCO) to lead enterprise communications strategy and help advance Strada's mission of strengthening connections between education and opportunity. C-Suite | Indianapolis, IN or Washington, DC 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