Director of Marketing and Communications

Required

• You might be a great fit for this role if you:
• Bring deep expertise and a strong track record in at least one of marketing, communications, media, or brand, together with enough breadth to guide strategy and recruit and lead complementary experts.
• Have substantial experience leading teams through managers or other senior leaders, coaching their development, building buy-in, empowering specialists with complementary expertise, and delivering results through others.
• Have experience building and scaling teams or functions in startups or similarly fast-growing environments, including attracting and hiring exceptional talent, setting clear expectations, and managing performance effectively.
• Have experience operating in publicly visible or reputationally sensitive environments and can provide steady leadership under scrutiny.
• Bring an entrepreneurial, ambitious approach: you can challenge assumptions, create new initiatives, operate without a fixed playbook, and turn ideas into execution.
• Collaborate across functions and keep senior stakeholders informed of risks, trade-offs, and progress.
• Are strongly aligned with CEA’s mission and core principles, and can engage substantively with effective altruism’s ideas, arguments, and debates; prior employment in, or long-standing membership of, the EA community is not required.
• Can independently assess the accuracy and appropriateness of communications about EA and exercise sound judgment in shaping narratives for different audiences.
• Direct experience handling crisis communications, public controversy, or a significant reputational challenge.
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• This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET.