Vice President, Public Relations

Responsibilities

• Own overall strategy across a portfolio of client accounts, serving as the senior strategic lead and trusted advisor while providing high-level counsel across communications, messaging, media, amplification, and go-to-market strategy.
• Develop and oversee high-level media and amplification strategies, ensuring teams are identifying the strongest opportunities to build visibility, influence, and meaningful business outcomes for clients.
• Serve as a senior client contact on strategy, building trusted relationships with executive-level stakeholders and providing counsel across a range of communications challenges, opportunities, and business priorities.
• Maintain a clear view of both strategic priorities and day-to-day account activity, ensuring teams remain focused on client objectives, advancing work consistently, and addressing issues proactively.
• Lead and contribute to new business efforts, including developing presentations and independently pitching prospective clients without SVP oversight, as well as screening and vetting prospects in partnership with senior leadership.
• Understand and apply integrated communications capabilities, developing cross-program campaign strategies for clients with large or complex budgets and identifying opportunities to bring together capabilities across channels.
• Lead and develop high-performing teams by modeling Inkhouse values, promoting a culture where team success is shared across levels, and helping employees at all levels achieve team and client objectives.
• Champion employee growth and development through regular check-ins, performance conversations, coaching, feedback, and development planning, helping team members build their skills, achieve their goals, and advance their careers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in public relations, communications, or a related field, with a track record of increasing responsibility, strategic leadership, and senior-level client ownership.
• Demonstrated expertise and enthusiasm for working with healthcare and technology clients, with a strong understanding of the media landscape and the ability to translate industry and market trends into compelling communications strategies.
• Proven ability to serve as a strategic advisor to senior executives, including VPs of Marketing, CMOs, and other executive stakeholders, with the judgment and confidence to provide clear counsel across complex business and communications challenges.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop compelling narratives, strategic recommendations, client communications, presentations, and other high-impact materials.
• Strong media relations expertise and a strategic approach to developing high-level media, thought leadership, speaking, award, social, amplification, and integrated communications strategies.
• Proven ability to identify compelling stories, creative angles, business opportunities, and new ways to create value for clients and grow existing relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple client accounts and teams, maintain a strategic perspective while ensuring strong execution, exercise sound judgment, and uphold a high standard of quality.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop teams, delegate effectively, provide thoughtful feedback, and foster a collaborative, high-performing environment grounded in shared accountability.
• Demonstrated business development experience, including developing new business presentations, pitching prospective clients, evaluating competitive opportunities, and identifying opportunities to expand existing client relationships.