Director, Brand & Communications

Partnering with Aquent, we represent a globally recognized digital platform that stands at the forefront of cultural innovation, dedicated to empowering creators and bringing ambitious ideas to life. This organization fosters a vibrant ecosystem where creativity thrives and impactful projects come to fruition, shaping cultural narratives worldwide.

Are you a visionary leader passionate about shaping brand perception and driving cultural impact? We are seeking an exceptional individual to step into a pivotal role, defining the cultural footprint of a globally recognized brand. You will transform insights into compelling stories and impactful experiences, influencing how millions perceive a mission that champions creativity. This is an extraordinary opportunity to connect a dynamic organization with creators, consumers, media, and industry leaders, driving brand strategy, communications, and cultural marketing to unprecedented heights. Your work will directly empower diverse creative communities and amplify groundbreaking ideas on a global stage.

What You'll Deliver

As a key leader, you will be instrumental in identifying and leveraging emerging cultural conversations and creative movements. You will develop and execute bold, relevant campaigns and partnerships that generate meaningful attention, shaping the organization's narrative across various audiences. Your strategic vision will not only enhance brand visibility but also foster deeper engagement with creators and cultural leaders, directly contributing to the platform's growth and influence.

• Identify emerging cultural conversations, creative movements, trends, and timely opportunities where the brand can play a credible and distinctive role.
• Develop bold, relevant ideas and quickly mobilize internal teams and external partners to turn them into campaigns, partnerships, experiences, and stories.
• Shape and articulate compelling narratives around the organization's brand, business, offerings, creator community, and broader cultural impact.
• Lead proactive media relations and build meaningful relationships with influential journalists, editors, creators, cultural leaders, tastemakers, and industry voices.
• Develop a consistent pipeline of stories and cultural moments that strengthen visibility across major business, technology, culture, entertainment, and creative-industry media.
• Serve as the senior day-to-day leader for the organization's external PR agency, providing strategic direction, challenging and improving ideas, establishing priorities, and ensuring measurable accountability.
• Advise senior executives on corporate positioning, executive communications, reputation management, and emerging communications issues.
• Partner closely with Growth, Product, Content & Editorial, Social, Partnerships, Community/Outreach, and other cross-functional teams to ensure the brand tells a consistent and compelling story across audiences and channels.
• Lead integrated brand and cultural programs from initial insight and strategy through execution, amplification, and measurement.
• Develop goals, KPIs, and measurement frameworks that connect communications and brand-building efforts to awareness, reputation, audience engagement, and business growth.
• Help establish how brand equity, share of voice, earned media, cultural relevance, and full-funnel campaign performance are measured.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team while fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, urgency, strong judgment, and excellent execution.

What You'll Bring

We are seeking a strategic communicator with a deep understanding of cultural dynamics and a proven track record of elevating brands. Your expertise will drive impactful narratives and cultivate strong relationships with key influencers, ensuring the organization's voice resonates powerfully across diverse channels.

• Significant senior-level experience across brand communications, public relations, cultural marketing, earned media, or integrated brand strategy.
• Demonstrated experience leading communications or brand strategy for a recognizable consumer, technology, entertainment, media, creator-focused, cultural, or digital platform brand.
• Exceptional cultural fluency and a strong understanding of the ideas, people, communities, platforms, and movements shaping contemporary creative culture.
• A track record of identifying opportunities and turning original ideas into campaigns, earned-media stories, cultural moments, partnerships, activations, or experiences that generate meaningful attention.
• Deep relationships with major media outlets, influential journalists, editors, creators, cultural connectors, and industry leaders.
• Strong storytelling ability with the judgment to make complex business, product, cultural, and corporate topics understandable and compelling.
• Experience developing both brand-level and corporate communications narratives.
• Extensive experience managing PR agencies and outside partners, including setting strategy, providing creative direction, establishing expectations, and holding partners accountable for results.
• Experience working directly with senior executives and advising leadership on positioning, communications strategy, reputation, and sensitive or emerging issues.
• Ability to move comfortably between long-term brand building and fast-moving cultural opportunities.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to influence and create momentum across teams without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.
• Experience developing measurement frameworks around brand equity, share of voice, earned media, awareness, engagement, and full-funnel marketing performance.
• Genuine respect for creators, creative communities, independent ideas, and the audiences that support them.

Highly Valued Experience

Candidates who will thrive in this role often have backgrounds in industries that are deeply embedded in contemporary culture and innovation.

• Experience from consumer technology, digital platforms, media, entertainment, music, gaming, publishing, creator economy, arts and culture, design, or other brands with a meaningful presence in contemporary culture.

What You'll Enjoy

This role offers more than just exciting work; it provides a supportive environment focused on your well-being and professional growth.

• Opportunities to build relationships with colleagues across locations.
• Comprehensive employer-supported health benefits.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and an annual winter company break.
• Paid volunteer time to support causes and communities that matter to employees.
• Generous parental leave and family-planning resources.
• Employer contributions to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Annual stipends supporting remote work, wellness, professional development, and role-related growth.
• A company culture that strongly values work-life balance and currently operates on a four-day workweek.
• The opportunity to work alongside talented people who bring their own creative interests and perspectives into their work.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is committed to building an inclusive workplace and maintaining a fair and consistent hiring process. Qualified candidates are considered without regard to protected characteristics or backgrounds. The company values diverse experiences, perspectives, and communities and is committed to creating an environment where employees can contribute meaningfully and do their best work.

About Skill

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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