Role summary
Ren is seeking a VP of Marketing & Communications to shape its brand presence for advisors and donors. This remote role reports to the Chief Growth Officer and will lead a multi-disciplinary team across content, PR, paid media, and events. The VP will define brand vision, drive demand generation, build pipeline, and establish Ren as a trusted leader in philanthropy. Key responsibilities include developing strategy, overseeing paid media, managing agencies, fostering experimentation, and building a performance-driven culture. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of marketing experience, including 5+ years in leadership, with a track record of building data-driven cultures and leading teams to achieve business outcomes.
Location: Fully remote, with occasional travel
Reports to: Chief Growth Officer
Ren is on a mission to make sure every dollar meant to do good finds its way there. As Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Communications, you will shape how Ren shows up for the advisors and donors who make that happen, across content, PR, internal communications, paid media, and events for Ren, and Ren-managed brands, including Renaissance Charitable Foundation (RCF), American Endowment Foundation (AEF), and more. We're looking for a dynamic, entrepreneurial, performance-driven leader who thinks big, moves fast, and can lead a high-performing team to build the brand and carry our story to the market.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead the Team
Lead a talented, multi-disciplinary team spanning content, PR, internal communications, paid media, and events
Set the vision and tone for how the team operates, and the day-to-day rhythm for how CMC partners with Growth leadership and other stakeholders across the business
Set clear KPIs for the team, driving a performance-driven culture grounded in shared goals, clear accountability, and operational excellence
Coach and develop the team, growing their skills and building the next generation of marketing leaders
Direct agency partners at the strategic level, holding them accountable to outcomes
Champion testing and experimentation, and lead innovation in how the team works, from AI-enabled content and workflows to emerging channels, keeping CMC ahead of the category Build the Brand
Define the brand vision and own company-wide understanding and adoption, ensuring a cohesive narrative, voice, look, and feel across Ren, RCF, and AEF, both internally and by our customers
Own our external audience segmentation framework, recognizing the unique needs and interests of our various independent yet connected audiences, leading the team to weave a throughline between all
Integrate content, PR, internal communications, paid media, and events into one coherent brand experience across every advisor, partner, and donor touchpoint
Translate that strategy into a roadmap tied to Ren's growth objectives: brand awareness, advisor and donor preference, and independent advisor acquisition
Lead the strategy for the industry-wide DAF Giving Summit and oversee the planning and content teams and vendors that bring it to life
Establish our brand as the category's most trusted and forward-thinking player in philanthropy Generate demand
Convert brand trust to a growing pipeline of potential stakeholders and partners who want to talk with us
Design nurture and lifecycle programs that move advisors and donors from first touch to first gift, and from first gift to deeper engagement
Determine the right channel mix and cadence to reach advisors and donors
Oversee paid media investment and amplification, ensuring every channel reinforces the brand vision and narrative, and drive cost efficiencies against CPM/CPA benchmarks
Lead the team to develop the optimal distribution structure across organic, paid, and earned, that gets the right message in front of the right audience at the right time
Build attribution and reporting that show which programs drive pipeline and revenue, and shift investment toward what works Drive the Communications Engine
Own website content and performance, ensuring Ren shows up wherever advisors and donors search, from traditional SEO to AEO and AI-driven discovery
Develop our PR strategy, building executive awareness, understanding, and alignment, and oversee the management of our PR agency
Oversee internal communications Ideal Profile & Attributes:
15+ years in marketing and/or brand, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing people
A track record building a metrics-driven culture, with an appetite for testing and experimentation
Experience developing benchmarks and KPI frameworks that connect marketing activity to business outcomes
Track record leading multi-disciplinary teams, experience influencing complex, multi-stakeholder sales is a strong plus
Elite writer and communicator. Your content, decks, and narratives are exceptional, and you're just as sharp presenting them live
An empath grounded in curiosity, ensuring that we listen deeply to the market, converting what you hear and learn into our brand meeting them exactly where they are
Entrepreneurial, with a passion for building and scaling brand functions and innovation, whether it's finding new tools, channels, sharper processes, or stronger creative output
Bachelor's degree required
Ren is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
