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Vice President, Crisis Communications Jobs in New York, United States at Capstone Hill Search
Title: Vice President, Crisis Communications
Company: Capstone Hill Search
Location: New York, United States
Vice President, Crisis Communications
- Manhattan, New York City
- Hybrid 4 days per week in office, 1 day WFH
- Compensation: $110-130,000 base + bonus
A leading strategic advisory firm is seeking a Vice President to join its growing crisis and issues management practice.
This opportunity is ideal for someone with approximately 4–7 years of experience in strategic communications, crisis advisory, corporate affairs, litigation communications, special situations or related fields who wants to deepen their expertise in high-stakes reputation management and corporate issues.
The team advises senior executives, boards and global organizations through some of their most complex communications challenges, including reputational threats, cyber incidents, regulatory scrutiny, stakeholder issues, executive transitions and other business-critical events.
What you'll be doing:
- Advising clients through sensitive and fast-moving situations
- Developing messaging and communications strategies for senior stakeholders
- Supporting media engagement and reputation management initiatives
- Working alongside legal, financial and other advisory partners on complex matters
- Managing multiple workstreams and helping drive client outcomes
- Mentoring junior team members and contributing to business development efforts
What we're looking for:
- Approximately 4–7 years of experience within a strategic communications advisory firm, crisis consultancy, litigation communications, special situations, corporate affairs or related advisory environment.
- Demonstrable experience advising clients through high-stakes situations including crisis events, reputational issues, regulatory scrutiny, litigation, cyber incidents, activist campaigns, executive transitions or other business-critical matters.
- Strong writing capabilities, including drafting executive messaging, holding statements, Q&A documents, stakeholder communications and strategic advisory materials.
- Experience working directly with senior client stakeholders and managing multiple fast-moving workstreams simultaneously.
- Proven ability to exercise sound judgement under pressure and contribute to communications strategy during complex, time-sensitive situations.
- Intellectual curiosity regarding the evolving risk landscape, including cybersecurity, misinformation, AI-driven reputational threats and stakeholder intelligence.
** Candidates must have meaningful experience supporting crisis, issues management, litigation, cyber, regulatory or other high-stakes corporate situations.
A particular point of differentiation for this team is its investment in the future of crisis advisory, including the application of AI, stakeholder intelligence and emerging technologies to better understand risk, reputation and decision-making environments.
This is an opportunity to join a highly respected advisory platform, work directly with experienced senior practitioners and accelerate your development within a specialist crisis practice.
If this sounds like you — click apply!
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Please note that due to the high value of applicants, if you have not heard from Capstone Hill Search then you, unfortunately, have not been selected for this role.
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