Global Head of Communications (AI)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; four days per week in the office with one preferred remote workday

Total annual cash compensation: $222,300.00–$340,866.66, inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive.

Company

hirify.global provides research, insights, expertise, and independent analysis for clients, shareholders, media, prospective talent, and other external audiences.

What you will do

• Build an enterprise narrative and messaging architecture connecting corporate strategy, business priorities, and internal and external communications.
• Advise the CEO, senior leaders, and Board on executive narratives, positioning, visibility, speeches, shareholder meetings, crises, and transformation milestones.
• Lead global media strategy, proactive storytelling, thought leadership, issues response, investor-relations communications support, and relationships with journalists and other external voices.
• Set enterprise social media, digital content, video, employee advocacy, and emerging-format strategies, including reputation and research visibility across AI-generated answers and AI search.
• Build communications analytics and insights capabilities, modernize workflows through responsible AI and automation, and improve measurement, speed, scale, and efficiency.
• Lead reputation, issues, crisis communications, internal communications, employer brand communications, the global communications budget, agency ecosystem, and a global center-of-excellence operating model.

Requirements

• 15+ years of communications experience, including 10+ years in senior communications leadership roles within large, global, complex organizations.
• Integrated experience across external, internal, executive, social, employer brand, and reputation communications.
• Credibility advising CEOs, executive teams, and Boards on enterprise narrative, positioning, visibility, and high-stakes communications.
• Experience developing enterprise media strategy, proactive storytelling, thought leadership, and trusted relationships with influential journalists and external stakeholders.
• Experience leading enterprise social media and corporate channel strategy, with hands-on understanding of video production, digital storytelling, and emerging content formats.
• Experience modernizing communications operating models, measurement systems, channels, and tools; strong data and analytics fluency; and practical experience applying AI and automation responsibly.
• Enterprise-scale reputation, issues, and crisis communications experience, including work in regulated or market-sensitive environments.
• Proven leadership of large, multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teams and the ability to align senior stakeholders across functions without relying on direct authority.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice to have

• Financial services industry experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with four days in the office each week and a preferred remote workday.
• 401(k) match, stock ownership potential, health benefits, HSA contributions, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Trust-based time off, a six-week paid sabbatical, paid family caregiving leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
• Leadership coaching, formal mentorship, tuition reimbursement, and an annual $1,000 flex stipend for education and well-being expenses.
• Employee resource groups, charitable matching, volunteer programs, and paid volunteering days.