Vice President of PR & Communications

About the Role

We’re hiring a VP of PR & Communications in our Dallas office to lead earned media and communications programs for clients across private equity, private credit, real estate, and asset management. This is a senior seat for someone who still likes doing the work. You’ll be the lead PR counsel on your accounts, handling media strategy, reporter outreach, story placement, and interview preparation for principals.

Responsibilities

• Media strategy and earned media programs for each client - story development, pitching, and landing coverage, built on reporter relationships you maintain yourself
• Media readiness for principals - interview prep, media training, and rapid response when a market moment opens up
• Positioning, messaging, and corporate narrative for each client
• Executive visibility - thought leadership, contributed commentary, speaking, and owned channels
• Communications around consequential moments: capital raises, fund launches, M&A, leadership transitions, and crises
• Direction of specialist teams on design, video, investor materials, and transaction work

Requirements

• 6+ years in PR, financial communications, or corporate communications, with significant experience in media relations for financial services clients
• Live press relationships with reporters covering private markets
• A track record of coverage secured personally, not just by your team
• Finance fluency - ability to read fund presentations or investment memos, identify stories, proof points, and weaknesses
• Experience advising and media-training senior principals directly
• Senior writing standard for pitches, bylines, statements, and briefing documents
• Discretion, as work involves active capital raises, M&A processes, and confidential firm strategy

Qualifications

• Nice to have: crisis and reputation defense experience, conference and panel placement, a public voice, and a network in the Texas investment community

Why This Role

You'll advise principals and produce the work directly, without layers of account service between you and the client. We invest heavily in tooling and specialist support, but this role does not include managing a bench of juniors. This suits some senior communicators very well and others not at all—it's worth knowing which you are before applying.

Competitive base salary plus performance bonus. Based in our Dallas office.