Senior Vice President / Managing Director, Legal Communications

Fairfield, CT (Hybrid)

$175K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead integrated strategic communications programs for law firms and professional services clients, advise senior executives, and drive growth through media relations, thought leadership, and new business development.

  • Own client strategy across practices and industries
  • Lead executive positioning and media relations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead integrated strategic communications programs for law firms, legal-sector organizations, and other professional or financial services clients
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to managing partners, firm leadership, practice leaders, general counsel, and other senior executives
  • Develop and execute integrated communications strategies that support firm reputation, practice growth, executive visibility, talent priorities, and broader business objectives
  • Lead thought leadership and executive positioning programs for attorneys and senior leaders across priority practices and industries
  • Oversee proactive media relations strategies, leveraging strong relationships with legal, business, financial, and trade media
  • Identify timely opportunities to connect client expertise to breaking news, industry trends, regulatory developments, and market activity
  • Manage and grow executive-level client relationships, ensuring consistently strong counsel, service, and account performance
  • Drive organic account growth and lead new business development efforts, including prospecting, proposal development, and pitch leadership
  • Partner across Prosek’s integrated capabilities to bring clients a coordinated approach spanning media relations, crisis and issues management, digital, content, creative, and executive communications
  • Mentor and develop team members, creating a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and high-performance environment

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in strategic communications, public relations, corporate communications, or a related field
  • Significant experience advising law firms, legal organizations, or legal-sector clients
  • Strong understanding of the business of law, including the priorities and communications needs of managing partners, practice leaders, and senior attorneys
  • Expertise spanning professional services, financial services, private markets, corporate communications, or another relevant sector
  • Demonstrated ability to provide senior-level counsel on reputation management, executive positioning, thought leadership, media relations, and complex issues
  • Established relationships with legal, business, financial, and trade media
  • Proven success managing and expanding client relationships and contributing to new business growth
  • Strong leadership skills and experience developing senior and junior talent
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the executive presence to counsel senior stakeholders
  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, business, or a related field

Benefits

  • 401(k) employer match: There is no time like the present to prepare for your future!
  • Premium healthcare plans, including medical, dental and vision coverage: Your health comes first.
  • Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office, 2 days from home - Pick your own schedule.
  • 2 weeks of remote work per year: You do you!
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) package, including birthday PTO : Take time to celebrate, recharge, and reset!
  • Custom career opportunities: Choose your own adventure!

Prosek Partners

Prosek Partners builds – and protects – the top brands in business. We are a certified Woman-Owned Business and among the largest independent, integrated communications and marketing firms globally. Specializing in providing a full range of communications solutions to financial and professional services companies, Prosek delivers business impact through an unexpected level of passion, creativity and marketing savvy.Services include media relations, thought leadership, social and digital media, public affairs, investor relations, financial communications, transaction services, crisis communications and issues management, content creation, conference support, publishing, media training and more. Prosek's strategic branding and integrated marketing arm – Prophecy by Prosek – offers brand strategy, award-winning design, digital and advertising capabilities.Prosek has been named PRovoke’s “Global and North American Corporate/Financial Agency of the Year” and a top-five global M&A and shareholder activism agency.

Founded in 1990
New York, New York, USA
511 employees (81 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.8%
Direct
51.7%
Referral
7.1%
Social
7%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~511

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
66 (13% of company)
Median Career Experience
12.5 years
Median Tenure
4.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3