Director of PR & Communications at Venture Guides – Boston, Massachusetts

Venture Guides is hiring a hands-on Director of PR & Communications who deeply enjoys content creation and producing stories, podcasts and webinars. Through this work you will help us shape our brand narrative and amplify our voice across social and media platforms.
This role blends creative storytelling with strategic communications. You’ll find and shape compelling narratives, build trusted media relationships, and create high-impact content programs that resonate with early-stage founders, GTM professionals, and future investors.
What You’ll Do:
Public Relations & Media

• Develop, own and execute our press and public relations strategy, working closely with relevant reporters and media outlets; help support our portfolio companies’ PR efforts and visibility
• Develop storylines, pitch angles, and news moments that elevate Venture Guides’ presence in trade, tech, and business press
• Cultivate strong relationships with journalists, editors, and influencers in business, enterprise tech, security, and infrastructure software markets
• Manage executive visibility, speaker opportunities, and award submissions

Content Strategy & Creation

• Lead content strategy across channels—including blogs, podcasts, case studies, social posts, website, and more
• Partner with VG team members, investors and portfolio leaders to develop new content ideas and compelling narratives
• Manage editorial calendar aligned to firm priorities and campaigns

Podcasts & Webinars

• Own the Venture Guide's podcast and webinar programs: concept, coordination, guest management, and promotion
• Bring creative ideas to life that showcase our brand, customers, and industry POV
• Support executive communication as needed, ghostwriting or assisting efforts to amplify our approach across owned and earned channels (LinkedIn, media, bylines, etc.)

What You Bring:

• Excellent research, writing, editing, and storytelling skills—you can ghostwrite like a pro and simplify complex topics without watering them down
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects at once
• Enjoy the challenge in securing meaningful press coverage and leading content/editorial programs
• Creativity and ability to match interests with audiences
• Curiosity to learn about new technologies and businesses
• Comfortable working with and mobilizing executives, founders, and cross-functional stakeholders to participate in content programming
• Creative, scrappy, and resourceful—with a bias for action

Nice to Have:

• Relationships with top-tier press, analysts, and podcasts in the B2B/tech space
• Experience launching or scaling a branded podcast or content series
• Background in startup environments or early-stage marketing teams
• experience in B2B marketing, with emphasis on PR, media relations, and content marketing
• Prior experience in infrastructure software, cybersecurity, networking, developer tools, or adjacent technical spaces

About Venture Guides: Venture Guides is a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm managing $477M across two funds. We focus exclusively on early stage cloud infrastructure, security, AI and data companies. We operate on a few core beliefs:

• Great Companies Are Built, Not Born
• Team-Based Investing: We make decisions collaboratively and support founders as a team
• High Conviction, High Commitment: Our GP commit is 10x the industry norm—we go deep with our founders
• Guiding, Not Just Funding: From go-to-market to hiring, we help our companies grow deliberately and decisively

Venture Guides knows that diverse teams perform better than non-diverse teams and is committed to promoting diversity across all our portfolio companies, which means our team must maintain diversity. As an equal opportunity employer, Venture Guides ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at vgrecruiting@ventureguides.com.