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Who we are
Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.
What we are looking for
We are searching for a Head of Marketing and Communications to lead our overarching brand and messaging strategy. In this critical leadership role, you will report to our President and oversee marketing, external communications, internal communications, and creative teams. Because the autonomous vehicle space requires thoughtful and precise messaging in moments of celebration and in moments of intense scrutiny, across multiple stakeholder groups. You will actively team with our Government Relations, Investor Relations, Business Development, and People teams to ensure our narrative remains coordinated, cohesive, and impactful - with policymakers, investors, partners, and the public, and just as importantly with our employees and the talent we seek to attract.
In this role, you will
Lead & Scale: Direct and mentor a multidisciplinary team covering marketing, external communications/PR, internal communications, and creative design, uniting them under one brand vision and one team - leading at every altitude, from executive strategy to hands-on execution
Drive Strategy: Develop and execute comprehensive marketing and communications strategies that align with Aurora’s mission to deploy the Aurora Driver safely and broadly.
Measure What Matters: Define and report the metrics that demonstrate marketing and communications' impact to the business, including establishing what excellent looks like for communications, where impact is hardest to quantify.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Government Relations (GR), Investor Relations (IR), Business Development (BD), and the People organization in a highly coordinated fashion to craft unified messaging for policymakers, investors, partners, employees, and the public.
Protect & Grow the Brand: Drive brand equity across all key audiences - including commercial partners, policymakers, investors, the public, and prospective talent. Own brand reputation in a safety-critical industry, preparing Aurora for its highest-stakes moments and serving as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership team.
Engage Internally: Guide our internal communications strategy to foster a transparent, aligned, and highly engaged company culture during a period of rapid commercialization.
Elevate Creative Impact: Ensure cohesive storytelling across all marketing and communication pillars, partnering with creative leadership so campaigns and assets consistently reflect our unified brand.
Required Qualifications:
15+ years of progression in leadership scope and experience in marketing, communications, or public relations, ideally within the technology, transportation, logistics, or autonomous systems sectors.
Proven organization builder and people leader with experience designing, scaling, and evolving marketing and communications teams through rapid commercial scaling and organizational change, while developing and retaining senior functional leaders as an engaged thought partner.
Demonstrated success marketing in enterprise B2B environments, including account-based strategies that build demand and pipeline with a defined set of high-value customers.
Experience in executive communications and crisis management - including personally leading an organization's communications through a real crisis in a safety-critical or highly scrutinized industry.
Analytical fluency, with a track record of measuring marketing and communications programs and articulating their ROI to executive and board-level stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience collaborating closely with Government Relations, and Investor Relations to build cohesive corporate narratives in a highly regulated industry.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of distilling complex, highly technical concepts into accessible, impactful messaging for broad audiences.
Deep experience managing executive communications, crisis management, and large-scale media campaigns.
Desirable Qualifications
Previous experience navigating public markets, including supporting earnings calls, investor days, and financial communications.
Familiarity with the autonomous vehicle landscape, the commercial trucking/logistics industry, or the broader automotive ecosystem.
Existing, strong relationships with top-tier business, technology, and automotive media.
Working at Aurora
At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.
We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, we operate in a hybrid work environment where Aurorans are in office at least 3 days per week.
Our Careers page provides insight into what it is like to work at Aurora, and you can find all the latest updates in our Newsroom.
Our commitment to safety
At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.
Our commitment to inclusion
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.
Who we are
Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.
What we are looking for
We are searching for a Head of Marketing and Communications to lead our overarching brand and messaging strategy. In this critical leadership role, you will report to our President and oversee marketing, external communications, internal communications, and creative teams. Because the autonomous vehicle space requires thoughtful and precise messaging in moments of celebration and in moments of intense scrutiny, across multiple stakeholder groups. You will actively team with our Government Relations, Investor Relations, Business Development, and People teams to ensure our narrative remains coordinated, cohesive, and impactful - with policymakers, investors, partners, and the public, and just as importantly with our employees and the talent we seek to attract.
In this role, you will
Lead & Scale: Direct and mentor a multidisciplinary team covering marketing, external communications/PR, internal communications, and creative design, uniting them under one brand vision and one team - leading at every altitude, from executive strategy to hands-on execution
Drive Strategy: Develop and execute comprehensive marketing and communications strategies that align with Aurora’s mission to deploy the Aurora Driver safely and broadly.
Measure What Matters: Define and report the metrics that demonstrate marketing and communications' impact to the business, including establishing what excellent looks like for communications, where impact is hardest to quantify.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Government Relations (GR), Investor Relations (IR), Business Development (BD), and the People organization in a highly coordinated fashion to craft unified messaging for policymakers, investors, partners, employees, and the public.
Protect & Grow the Brand: Drive brand equity across all key audiences - including commercial partners, policymakers, investors, the public, and prospective talent. Own brand reputation in a safety-critical industry, preparing Aurora for its highest-stakes moments and serving as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership team.
Engage Internally: Guide our internal communications strategy to foster a transparent, aligned, and highly engaged company culture during a period of rapid commercialization.
Elevate Creative Impact: Ensure cohesive storytelling across all marketing and communication pillars, partnering with creative leadership so campaigns and assets consistently reflect our unified brand.
Required Qualifications:
15+ years of progression in leadership scope and experience in marketing, communications, or public relations, ideally within the technology, transportation, logistics, or autonomous systems sectors.
Proven organization builder and people leader with experience designing, scaling, and evolving marketing and communications teams through rapid commercial scaling and organizational change, while developing and retaining senior functional leaders as an engaged thought partner.
Demonstrated success marketing in enterprise B2B environments, including account-based strategies that build demand and pipeline with a defined set of high-value customers.
Experience in executive communications and crisis management - including personally leading an organization's communications through a real crisis in a safety-critical or highly scrutinized industry.
Analytical fluency, with a track record of measuring marketing and communications programs and articulating their ROI to executive and board-level stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience collaborating closely with Government Relations, and Investor Relations to build cohesive corporate narratives in a highly regulated industry.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of distilling complex, highly technical concepts into accessible, impactful messaging for broad audiences.
Deep experience managing executive communications, crisis management, and large-scale media campaigns.
Desirable Qualifications
Previous experience navigating public markets, including supporting earnings calls, investor days, and financial communications.
Familiarity with the autonomous vehicle landscape, the commercial trucking/logistics industry, or the broader automotive ecosystem.
Existing, strong relationships with top-tier business, technology, and automotive media.
Working at Aurora
At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.
We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, we operate in a hybrid work environment where Aurorans are in office at least 3 days per week.
Our Careers page provides insight into what it is like to work at Aurora, and you can find all the latest updates in our Newsroom.
Our commitment to safety
At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.
Our commitment to inclusion
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of marketing and communications jobs.
- 7 or more years of progressive marketing and communications experience
- Proven ability to develop and execute integrated brand and communications strategies
- Experience managing cross-functional teams and external agency relationships
- Proficiency with CRM platforms, marketing automation tools, and analytics dashboards
- Strong media relations skills and crisis communications experience
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, or a related field
Tips for Your Director Of Marketing And Communications Job Search
Quantify your integrated campaign results
Directors at this level are expected to show cross-channel impact, not just activity. Pull metrics that tie your communications work to business outcomes: media impressions converted to pipeline, campaign ROI, or earned media value alongside paid spend.
Separate your marketing and PR portfolios
Many hiring panels include both a CMO and a communications lead. Bring two distinct portfolios, one showing brand or demand work and one showing media relations or crisis communications, so each evaluator sees work relevant to their domain.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of marketing and communications openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by reporting structure
Whether you report to a CEO, CMO, or board committee changes the scope and autonomy of the role dramatically. Read job descriptions for the reporting line before applying so you're not surprised in the first interview round.
Prepare a 90-day communications audit example
Senior interviewers often ask how you'd assess an organization's current voice and messaging gaps. Walk in with a structured framework you've used before: stakeholder interviews, channel audit, message map review, and a prioritization matrix.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate pay
At director level, the budget you control, the team size you inherit, and whether you own external agency relationships determine your real leverage. Get clarity on those before the offer stage so you're negotiating the full package, not just base.
Director Of Marketing And Communications Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of marketing and communicationss?
The companies hiring the most director of marketing and communicationss right now include University of Illinois, Loyola Marymount University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the largest share of openings in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is consistently strongest in healthcare systems, universities, and mid-market technology companies that are building or rebuilding their brand function.
How many director of marketing and communications jobs are remote?
About 65% of director of marketing and communications openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with fully on-site roles more common in higher education and nonprofit sectors where stakeholder visibility matters. Content strategy, digital marketing, and external communications sub-functions within the role tend to carry the highest share of remote or hybrid flexibility.
How do you become a director of marketing and communications?
Most directors reach the role by building deep expertise in either marketing or communications first, then expanding into the other discipline across two or three progressively senior roles. A background in brand management, PR, or content strategy is common. Demonstrating cross-functional leadership, owning an agency or vendor relationship, and showing measurable business impact from campaigns are the steps that typically close the gap from manager to director.
Can you get a director of marketing and communications job without direct director-level experience?
Yes, candidates who have held senior manager or head-of titles with director-level scope, meaning budget ownership, team leadership, and executive stakeholder exposure, regularly make the transition. The strongest applications show a portfolio of strategic work rather than tactical execution, a clear narrative about why the step up is natural, and references from leaders who can speak to your readiness for the accountability that comes with the title.
What does the director of marketing and communications interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to four rounds. An initial screen with HR or a talent partner is followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on strategy and leadership style. A panel interview with cross-functional stakeholders, often including finance, sales, or program leadership, comes next. Many organizations finish with a presentation round where you're asked to respond to a real or hypothetical communications challenge, then present your thinking to senior leaders.
Where can I find and apply to director of marketing and communications jobs?
You can find and apply to director of marketing and communications jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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