Director of Communications & Content

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential client in the media intelligence and PR technology space. They are seeking a Director of Communications & Content to lead editorial operations, content strategy, and the company's own earned media program. This is a remote position based in Canada.

This role combines editorial leadership with content marketing execution. You will serve as editor-in-chief of an industry publication with aggressive growth targets, own flagship research initiatives from instrument design through publication, and run all earned media activities for a company whose credibility depends on excellence in its own PR.

Responsibilities

Editorial Leadership

• Drive audience growth from approximately 5,000 to 20,000 active subscribers within 12 months through six established editorial formats
• Set and enforce editorial standards across all publication content
• Manage the production queue, balancing editorial integrity with campaign content needs
• Oversee an industry awards program, maintaining the credibility that makes recognition meaningful
• Direct a contributor network through your content marketing manager

Research & Thought Leadership

• Design and execute primary research studies: survey construction, sampling methodology, analysis, and report authoring
• Build defensible research that earns citations and media coverage
• Defend methodology publicly to press, analysts, and practitioners
• Partner with marketing on research launch events and activation

Earned Media Program

• Run press outreach, analyst relations, and media relations
• Build executive visibility through speaking opportunities, bylines, and interviews
• Direct thought-leader programs and industry awards strategy
• Manage agency or freelance support as needed

Team & Collaboration

• Hire, manage, and develop a Content Marketing Manager
• Work closely with demand generation to align content output with campaign needs
• Review content performance data weekly and translate insights into action
• Report to the VP of Marketing

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• Genuine PR or editorial background—newsroom experience or communications leadership—combined with hands-on content marketing experience (both are essential)
• Proven experience building research reports: instrument design, survey execution, analysis, and methodology defense
• People leadership experience managing and developing team members
• Fluency in the PR and communications industry and its practitioners

Strongly Preferred

• Demonstrated audience or newsletter growth with measurable results
• Track record of scaling subscriber bases at disciplined acquisition economics

Skills & Attributes

• Highly analytical and outcome-driven; comfortable with content performance data
• Business savvy with the ability to connect editorial decisions to commercial outcomes without compromising journalistic integrity
• Collaborative instincts for daily partnership with demand generation counterparts
• Sense of urgency and test-and-learn mindset
• Strategic judgment to arbitrate competing priorities

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your background and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication flows through our team to ensure a smooth, confidential process.

We're looking for candidates who are excited about this combination of editorial leadership, research ownership, and earned media execution, even if you don't check every single box listed above.

Benefits & Work Environment

Our client offers a fully remote work environment with a collaborative culture. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plan matching, life insurance, employee assistance program, career development opportunities, paid vacation and personal days, flex Fridays in summer, and a week off between Christmas and New Year's. Fridays are meeting-free.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is C$120,000–C$165,000 annually, plus a 15% target bonus. Final compensation reflects experience, skills, and internal equity.

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status, or sexual orientation. If you require accommodation at any stage of the application process, please let our team know.