What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of PR & Communications position at Collateral Partners?
VP, PR & Communications
Collateral Partners is a strategic communications platform built by finance professionals, investors, and operators. We work with investment firms, asset managers, and financial platforms on the moments that matter most - raising capital, executing transactions, scaling platforms, and building market confidence.
We’re hiring a VP of PR & Communications in our Dallas office to lead earned media and communications programs for clients across private equity, private credit, real estate, and asset management.
The role
This is a senior seat for someone who still likes doing the work. You’ll be the lead PR counsel on your accounts: building the media strategy, making the call to the reporter, landing the story, and preparing the principal for the interview. You’ll also advise on positioning and reputation, write the piece, and hold the deadline.
You’ll own:
- Media strategy and earned media programs for each client - story development, pitching, and landing coverage, built on reporter relationships you maintain yourself
- Media readiness for principals - interview prep, media training, and rapid response when a market moment opens up
- Positioning, messaging, and corporate narrative for each client
- Executive visibility - thought leadership, contributed commentary, speaking, and owned channels
- Communications around consequential moments: capital raises, fund launches, M&A, leadership transitions, and crises
- Direction of specialist teams on design, video, investor materials, and transaction work
What we’re looking for
- 6 years in PR, financial communications or corporate communications, with a meaningful share of it in media relations for financial services clients
- Live press relationships with reporters covering private markets
- A track record of coverage you secured yourself, not just coverage your team secured
- Genuine finance fluency. You can read a fund presentation or investment memo and find the story, the proof points, and the weak spots.
- Experience advising and media-training senior principals directly
- A senior writing standard - pitches, bylines, statements, briefing docs. This is a hands-on role and you’ll be producing the work
- Discretion. This work touches active capital raises, M&A processes, and confidential firm strategy
Nice to have: crisis and reputation defense experience, conference and panel placement, a public voice of your own, and a network in the Texas investment community.
Why this seat
You'll advise principals and produce the work, without layers of account service between you and the client. We invest heavily in tooling and specialist support - what you won't have is a bench of juniors to hand drafts down to. That suits some senior communicators very well and others not at all, and it's worth knowing which you are before you apply.
Competitive Base plus performance bonus. Based in our Dallas office.