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Head Of Communications jobs are open across healthcare, technology, nonprofit, finance, and government sectors, at every level from director to chief communications officer, with specializations in media relations, executive communications, and crisis communications. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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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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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Investment & Asset Management
- Construction & Real Estate
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in head of communications jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive communications leadership experience in a relevant industry
- Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise-wide communications strategies
- Experience leading media relations, including executive spokesperson and crisis communications
- Proficiency with communications and PR tools such as Cision, Meltwater, or Sprinklr
- Strong executive presence with experience advising C-suite and board-level stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field
Tips for Your Head Of Communications Job Search
Quantify your earned media results
Head of communications roles expect proof of impact, not just activity. Replace vague claims with concrete outcomes: coverage placements at named outlets, audience reach, or message adoption rates from executive communications campaigns you led.
Tailor your portfolio to the sector
A nonprofit communications portfolio lands differently at a publicly traded company. Pull the two or three samples that match the hiring organization's context, whether that's crisis response, legislative communications, or brand narrative, and lead with those.
Search by function, not just title
Head of communications jobs are also posted as VP of communications, director of corporate communications, or chief communications officer. Search all relevant variants so you don't miss openings that match your experience level and responsibilities.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists head of communications openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a board-level communications sample
Many hiring teams for this role ask candidates to present a past communications strategy or a brief for a hypothetical scenario. Have a clean, presenter-ready case study ready that shows how you aligned messaging to organizational goals under real constraints.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Get clarity on team size, budget authority, and whether the role owns executive communications before you accept an offer. These structural details determine your actual leverage and visibility inside the organization far more than title alone.
Head Of Communications Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most head of communicationss?
The companies hiring the most head of communicationss right now include SeatGeek, TD, and Citi, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand tends to be strongest at large enterprises, healthcare systems, and mission-driven nonprofits with active public affairs needs.
How many head of communications jobs are remote?
About 67% of head of communications openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the role's dependence on executive relationship-building and real-time media response. Sub-functions like internal communications strategy and content development tend to have the highest remote availability, while crisis communications and executive advisory roles more often require in-person presence.
How do you become a head of communications?
Most people reach this role by building deep expertise in one communications discipline, such as media relations, corporate affairs, or internal communications, then taking on broader team leadership. You progress by owning increasingly high-stakes initiatives, developing executive relationships, and demonstrating that your communications strategy moves measurable organizational outcomes. A background in journalism, public relations, or public affairs is a common starting point.
Can you get hired as a head of communications without senior leadership experience?
It's difficult at large organizations, but smaller companies, startups, and nonprofits regularly hire communications leaders who have managed a small team or run an entire function solo at an earlier-stage organization. Demonstrating that you've owned strategy end-to-end, managed external agency relationships, and advised senior leaders carries more weight than a specific title or org chart position.
What does the head of communications interview process look like?
The process typically moves through an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on communications philosophy and past strategy, and then a panel stage with cross-functional leaders such as the CEO, CMO, or general counsel. Many organizations add a presentation round where you develop and pitch a communications strategy or respond to a simulated crisis scenario, followed by reference checks before an offer.
Where can I find and apply to head of communications jobs?
You can find and apply to head of 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 without going through a third-party recruiter or waiting for outreach.
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