Vice President, Communications

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$250K/yr – $290K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive North America communications through a cohesive strategy that unites media, public relations, celebrity/talent engagement, and cultural moments, while leading paid/owned/emerging media, DTC messaging, and full-funnel storytelling to advance brand KPIs.

  • Define and lead annual short- and long-term strategy aligned with global and local priorities
  • Oversee media, PR, talent, and cultural moment activations across channels
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to support the full brand and client journey

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the annual short- and long-term communications strategy for North America, ensuring alignment with global and local brand positioning, business priorities, and client strategy.
  • Integrate media, direct-to-consumer communications, public relations, celebrity and talent engagement, and cultural moments into one cohesive strategic roadmap.
  • Identify key brand-building opportunities across consumer touchpoints, ensuring consistency and elevated storytelling.
  • Foster relationships across pillars & create a hub of communications excellence to translate business objectives into actionable strategies
  • Demonstrate inspirational leadership to produce an influential Maison vision to external stakeholders & audiences
  • Demonstrate expertise to be recognized as an influential leader at all levels to orchestrate and advance initiatives to support Business KPIs
  • Leverages various data ecosystems to create and guide business decisions
  • Lead the media strategy across paid, owned, and emerging channels to drive brand awareness, desirability, and client engagement.
  • Oversee the direct-to-consumer communications strategy, ensuring messaging is compelling, and aligned to broader Maison and Marketing priorities.
  • Drive full-funnel storytelling strategies that connect product, brand campaigns, cultural moments, retail priorities, and client experiences.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of progressive experience in communications strategy, media, public relations, integrated marketing, celebrity/talent relations, or related fields, with significant senior leadership experience.
  • Deep understanding of the luxury environment, the client journey and historic brand management.
  • Proven ability to set strategy at enterprise, regional, or market level and translate global brand priorities into locally relevant execution.
  • Executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Strong people leadership skills with experience building, developing, and evolving high-performing teams.
  • Highly strategic, culturally fluent, commercially aware, and comfortable navigating ambiguity while driving clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to effectively manage Communications budgets with focus on ROI.
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At Richemont, we craft the future. Our unique portfolio includes prestigious Maisons distinguished by their craftsmanship and creativity. Richemont’s ambition is to nurture its Maisons and businesses and enable them to grow and prosper in a responsible, sustainable manner over the long term. Richemont operates in three business areas: Jewellery Maisons with Buccellati, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Vhernier; Specialist Watchmakers with A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Roger Dubuis and Vacheron Constantin; and Other, primarily Fashion & Accessories Maisons with Alaïa, Chloé, Delvaux, dunhill, G/FORE, Gianvito Rossi, Montblanc, Peter Millar, Purdey, Serapian as well as Watchfinder & Co. People are at the heart of Richemont’s success. Nurturing distinctive luxury craftsmanship, enabling a creative and innovative spirit and empowering people to grow is key to our purpose of crafting the future. As a global organisation, we employ people from 130 nationalities in 40 countries throughout our Maisons, regions and central functions offering the opportunity to build unique and diverse career journeys.

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Salaries

Posted range

$250K/yr – $290K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$15.3M
Last Raise
$15.3M
Undisclosed, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2024
    Undisclosed • $15.3M
  • Nov 2021
    Undisclosed

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Vice President, Communications

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