Vice President, Public Relations & Communications

Denver, CO - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 250000 - 275000

Posted on: 19 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Vice President Public Relations & Communications

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the worlds most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building owning and operating highly efficient cost-effective wholesale colocation and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability security connectivity and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:

STACK is looking for a Vice President of Public Relations & Communications to elevate STACKs reputation and lead external communications across North America (with selective global coordination). Reporting to the Vice President of Marketing and partnering closely with the CEO President CCO CDO and SVP of Public Affairs the VP will set strategy and run daytoday press operations issues/crisis response and executive communications balancing measured visibility with strict client and NDA constraints. The ideal candidate blends strategic judgment handson media craft and proven experience guiding communications for complex highly regulated or contractbound businesses.

STACKs Vice President of Public Relations & Communications will architect a selective processdriven media posture (no blanket defaults) drive message discipline on responsible growth and supervise a highperforming agency bench to deliver measurable results (SOV sentiment message pullthrough inbound SLAs) while safeguarding confidentiality and trust.

Essential Functions:

Communications Strategy & Narrative

Own the enterprise PR/comms strategy aligned to corporate objectives and market realities.
Codify and maintain the companys message house across power/grid flexibility resources and community benefits.

Executive & Issues Communications

Prepare brief and coach the CEO President CCO CDO SVP Public Affairs VP Marketing and other senior leadership for background and onrecord moments; deliver talk tracks Q&A and bridging language that respect NDA and client limits.
Lead issues and crisis communications: playbooks holding statements rapid-response simulation and afteraction reviews.

Media Operations (Selective CasebyCase)

Build and enforce a media decision framework using a riskvsopportunity rubric explicit approvals and written ground rules for background and attribution.
Set up a basic system to manage media requests with clear response time goals and a database to track reporter interactions.

Relationship Management

Cultivate relationships with tierone regional and trade reporters; maintain a precleared messaging library and redline lists.

Measurement & Reporting

Define and track Share of Voice tierone/trade coverage message pullthrough sentiment and inbound conversion; report quarterly to executive leadership.
Manage thirdparty research (local sentiment pulses) and analytics using insights to refine strategy.

Team & Agency Leadership

Lead a small internal team and manage agencies; establish operating rhythms performance goals and budget discipline.
Uphold legal/compliance standards (NDA adherence; disclosure rules) and document governance (approvals spokesperson policy).

Thought Leadership & Owned Channels

Place selective bylines/opeds and insights that advance STACKs leadership.

Competencies:

Strategic Communications Leadership: Sets clear strategy and sequencing; calibrates visibility vs. risk in contractbound contexts.
Issues/Crisis Management: Experienced in highscrutiny narratives; crafts tight factual responses and runs crossfunctional drills.
Media Relations Mastery: Builds trust with reporters/editors; fluency in onbackground vs. onrecord conventions and precise quotable language.
Regulatory & Technical Fluency: Comfortable translating technical and sensitive topics for public audiences.
Analytical & ResultsDriven: Uses SOV pullthrough and sentiment to guide strategy; turns data into action.
Executive Coaching & Writing: Exceptional briefing speechwriting and Q&A development for senior leaders.
Public Company Communications Familiarity: Familiarity with publicly traded company communications practices including disclosure awareness investor-relations alignment and sensitivity to partner reporting timelines.
Program & Stakeholder Management: Orchestrates internal/external partners; anticipates crossfunctional impacts.
Judgment & Discretion: Operates with impeccable confidentiality; enforces redlines and guardrails.

THE DETAILS:

Location: Denver preferred or proximate to major United States airport
Travel: 30%
Target Compensation: $250000 - $275000 with 25% annual bonus potential
Benefits: Healthcare Dental Care Vision Insurance Life Insurance Paid Time Off Paid Leave Programs
Must be eligible to work in the United States
Must pass comprehensive background screening

MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelors degree in Communications Journalism Public Relations or a related field (Masters preferred)
15 years of experience
12 years of progressively responsible communications experience
5 years in a leadership role managing teams and agencies
Highly proficient in MS Excel MS Word and MS PowerPoint

WHY STACK

We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits including medical dental and vision insurance a 401K program flexible spending accounts even a cell phone subsidy.
We foster a culture of appreciation including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
Fun is part of our DNA with events game nights happy hours and barbecues.
Were growing this is a great time to join and make an impact!

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression age national origin mental or physical disability genetic information veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law.

Note to external agencies: we are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to stack infrastructure will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.

Please submit your application no later than December 12 2025.

Job ID: 10229

Required Experience:

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Vice President Public Relations & CommunicationsTHE COMPANY:STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the worlds most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building owning and operating highly efficient cost-effective wholesale colocation and cl...