Director, Corporate Communications

Waltham, MA (Hybrid)

$192K/yr – $235K/yrDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Shape Viridian’s narrative by owning integrated corporate and executive communications, coordinating external visibility and internal culture to accelerate trust, growth, and strategic milestones.

  • External Communications: craft corporate messages, manage media relations, and drive thought leadership to advance business objectives.
  • Executive & Internal Communications: deliver timely, milestone-driven messaging for leadership and employees across events, crises, and milestones.
  • Content Governance & Cross-Functional Alignment: oversee website/social content and ensure consistent, brand-aligned messaging across stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development and execution of a strategic communications plan that supports Viridian’s business objectives and strengthens corporate reputation
  • Drive external communications strategy and execution, including corporate message development, media relations, thought leadership, and digital content development
  • Lead media engagements and manage media agency partners, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment with strategic priorities
  • Provide strategic communications support to the executive team, including consistent and timely communications during key business milestones, internal and external events, and issues or crises
  • Oversee content development for corporate website and social media channels, ensuring alignment with brand standards, strategic priorities, and audience needs
  • Lead internal communications initiatives that ensure employees are informed, inspired, while reinforcing Viridian’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities
  • Partner cross-functionally to ensure clear, consistent, and aligned messaging across all stakeholders
  • Partner with Legal and Compliance teams to ensure all internal and external communications align with corporate policies and/or regulatory requirements, enabling the delivery of effective and compliant messages to all audiences
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Viridian Therapeutics, Inc.

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Viridian is a biopharmaceutical company focused on engineering and developing potential best-in-class medicines for patients with serious and rare diseases. Viridian’s expertise in antibody discovery and protein engineering enables the development of differentiated therapeutic candidates for previously validated drug targets in commercially established disease areas.Viridian is advancing multiple candidates in the clinic for the treatment of patients with thyroid eye disease (TED). The company is conducting two global Phase 3 clinical trials (THRIVE and THRIVE-2) to evaluate the safety and efficacy of VRDN-001 in patients with active and chronic TED. Viridian’s goal is to advance VRDN-001 as a potential best-in-class intravenous therapy followed by VRDN-003 as a potential first- and best-in-class subcutaneous therapy for the treatment of TED.In addition to its TED portfolio, Viridian is advancing a novel portfolio of neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) inhibitors, including VRDN-006 and VRDN-008, which has the potential to be developed in multiple autoimmune diseases.

Founded in 2007
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
275 employees (13 in marketing)
34% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.2%
Direct
35.6%
Referral
7.1%
Social
6.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~275

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (5% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$906.7M
Last Raise
Post IPO Equity, 2 years ago

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