VP, Communications

🕒 June 24

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XPRIZE

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1995

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 $1.8M Grant on 2018-10

Healthcare • Logistics • Food & Beverage

XPRIZE is a non-profit organization committed to inspiring and empowering humanity to achieve breakthroughs that accelerate an abundant and equitable future for all. Founded to address major global challenges, XPRIZE organizes competitions across focus areas such as biodiversity, climate, energy, deep tech, food, water, waste, health, learning, society, space, and exploration. These competitions set clear and measurable goals to stimulate innovation worldwide, leveraging a network of experts and a rigorous prize model to validate and celebrate the resulting solutions. XPRIZE competitions have engaged thousands of global teams, encouraging creativity from a diverse range of participants, including scientists and innovators from various fields.

📋 Description

• Own global media strategy and cultivate relationships with journalists, editors, and producers across science, technology, business, and philanthropy • Position XPRIZE executives and domain leads as credible, authoritative voices through media, speaking, and editorial opportunities • Build and maintain an always-on communications presence that keeps XPRIZE visible between prize milestones • Manage the existing PR agency and establish the long-term agency partnership model • Lead communications strategy across the full prize lifecycle — from pre-launch positioning through winner announcement and impact storytelling • Ensure every major prize milestone has a coordinated earned media plan that integrates with owned content strategy • Translate complex scientific and technical subject matter for two distinct audiences simultaneously: domain experts who already understand the science, and philanthropic donors and sponsors who need to feel the urgency and stakes • Partner closely with Advancement leadership to align communications strategy with fundraising priorities and donor engagement goals • Shape the narrative strategy that connects XPRIZE's scientific breakthroughs to philanthropic investment decisions • Develop high-impact communications assets — impact reports, donor materials, executive messaging, and campaign narratives — that serve Advancement's outreach and deepen donor relationships • Serve as communications advisor to the CMO on messaging strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reputation • Oversee executive communications, including speeches, keynote content, op-eds, and thought leadership • Lead crisis communications and reputation management, establishing protocols and leading response in coordination with executive and legal leadership • Work in close partnership with the VP, Content, to ensure owned content strategy and earned media strategy are integrated rather than siloed • Provide the narrative foundation — messaging frameworks, story angles, briefing materials — that enables the owned content function to produce work that earns media attention • Ensure major prize milestones are supported by a unified content and communications approach • Build the communications function from the ground up — establishing systems, standards, and agency relationships that scale with the organization • Manage external agency partnerships with clear accountability for performance and outcomes • Oversee the communications budget with discipline and transparency

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of communications leadership experience, including senior ownership of earned media strategy and executive communications • Demonstrated success translating complex scientific, technical, or policy subject matter into compelling narratives for multiple distinct audiences simultaneously • Established relationships with top-tier media across science, technology, business, and philanthropy • Proven ability to build communications infrastructure from scratch — systems, processes, and partnerships — not just maintain inherited ones • Experience developing donor-facing or philanthropic communications for sophisticated investor audiences • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive messaging and spokesperson experience • Comfort operating in a lean, fast-moving environment where strategic and executional demands coexist.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first environment (must live and work in the United States) • Quarterly company-paid All-Hands meetings in Los Angeles for frequent in-person collaboration • Employee and dependent medical, dental, and vision options • A 401(K) program with employer match • Ample paid time off, including vacation, floating holidays, sick days, and company-paid holidays • An Employee Assistance Program for confidential, professional support with personal, family, or other challenges • Employee stipends/reimbursements for cell phone, internet, health & wellbeing, and learning & development • Generous Paid Parental Leave for all employees welcoming a new child to their family • One meeting-free block per week and four focus weeks per year to ensure uninterrupted time for strategic projects