Director, Communications

Boulder, CO (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

Job Summary

You will own the organization’s communications strategy, executive messaging, and reputation management, leading crisis response, media relations, and cross-functional collaboration across senior leadership and stakeholders.

  • Lead communications strategy and executive advisory
  • Oversee crisis and issues communications and media relations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Communications Strategy & Reputation
  • Executive, Crisis & Issues Communications
  • Functional Leadership & Stewardship
  • Media Relations, Messaging & Visibility
  • Cross-Functional Leadership

Requirements

  • 10 years of progressively responsible experience in communications, public relations, publicity, media relations, or a related field, including leadership of complex organizational or live-event communications.
  • Demonstrated experience setting communications strategy, advising executives, managing reputation, and leading crisis or issues communications.
  • Demonstrated people leadership experience, including managing leaders, setting priorities, delegating authority, providing feedback, and supporting professional development.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, messaging, presentation, and consultation skills across executive, media, and public-facing communications.
  • Strong judgment and discretion when navigating confidential, sensitive, legally complex, or reputational matters.
  • Established relationships with relevant national, international, trade, arts, culture, entertainment, or nonprofit media.
  • Experience managing budgets, agencies, consultants, and competing resources against strategic priorities and measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to build trust and collaborate across functions, roles, identities, perspectives, and levels of an organization.
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States.
  • Experience with independent film, festivals, nonprofit arts or cultural institutions, and the film distribution ecosystem preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience with independent film, festivals, nonprofit arts or cultural institutions, and the film distribution ecosystem preferred.

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • 25 paid Institute holidays plus accrued vacation time
  • Paid sick, family, and medical leave
  • Employee Wellness initiatives
  • 401(k) with automatic 3% employer contribution after one year of employment
  • Sundance Film Festival passes and benefits (varies each year)
Sundance Institute logo

Sundance Institute

Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.All official communications from Sundance Institute, including those related to employment and professional opportunities, will only come from an email address ending in @sundance.org or from our official recruitment platform, ClearCompany Talent Management. Sundance Institute will never request credit card details, ask you to make a purchase with the promise of reimbursement, solicit funds in any form relating to job opportunities, or ask for resumes or other personally identifiable information outside of established and valid communication methods.

Founded in 1981
Park City, Utah, USA
594 employees (154 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$120K/yr – $150K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Communications median pay in the United States

$93K/yr

Most pay falls between $71K and $138K. Based on 6,373 salaries.

See all Sundance Institute salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
97 (16% of company)
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
481.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$21.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.6%
Direct
46.8%
Referral
6.1%
Social
3.8%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~595
Sundance Institute logo

Director, Communications

Sundance Institute · Boulder, CO · Hybrid