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About the Role

Our Associate Directors are experienced communications leaders who combine advisory authority with a desire for continuous development. You will work alongside senior leaders to deliver exceptional client work and grow your leadership capabilities. Your work will involve advising category-defining clients on complex challenges with uncompromising standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead client work, taking strategic responsibility for clients’ most important communications challenges.
• Build trust to deliver impactful advice, drawing on firm resources to help clients build and defend reputations.
• Drive teams and develop colleagues by structuring work clearly, delegating effectively, and holding yourself and others to high standards.
• Coach colleagues, sharing experience to help them develop advisory instincts.
• Work alongside peers to lead and inspire colleagues across the US team, fostering a culture of exceptional advice, continuous learning, and collaboration.
• Contribute to AI-enhanced advisory by guiding colleagues in developing AI capabilities and documenting best practices.
• Push the boundaries of advisory work through technology.
• Support business development by identifying and contributing to new opportunities and extending client relationships.
• Cultivate an external network useful to clients and the firm.
• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset to growth, identifying new ways to help clients or contributing to pitches.
• Shape culture by giving and receiving feedback, demonstrating allyship, seeking input, and supporting team wellbeing.
• Contribute to a culture where brilliance, restlessness, comradeship, inclusivity, and integrity are daily operating principles.

Requirements

• Around 8 years+ of corporate communications experience in consultancy or in-house roles.
• Experience working with technology companies and/or investors.
• Demonstrable ability to take a strategic approach to reputation challenges, rooted in research, data, and insight.
• Experience building advisory relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Experience delivering strategic counsel in high-pressure situations.
• Experience taking an integrated approach to communications campaigns, engaging with a range of audiences and channels.
• Track record of developing media strategies.
• Track record of maintaining an active network of media contacts.
• Existing network within technology, policy, media or investor communities.
• Experience managing and developing others through coaching and feedback.
• Strong grasp of AI tools and their application in advisory work.
• Ability to drive AI adoption across teams.
• Intellectual curiosity to develop expertise in new areas.
• Entrepreneurial approach to building networks.
• Commitment to seeking feedback and contributing to an inclusive culture.
• Excellent command of written and verbal English.
• Experience advising on technology regulation or emerging technology challenges (desirable).
• Experience working within scaling teams (desirable).

Skills

• Corporate communications
• Strategic approach to reputation challenges
• Research, data, and insight utilization
• Advisory relationship building
• Strategic counsel delivery
• Integrated communications campaigns
• Media strategy development
• Media contact networking
• Network cultivation (technology, policy, media, investor)
• Management and development of others
• Coaching and feedback
• AI tools application in advisory work
• AI adoption driving
• Intellectual curiosity
• Entrepreneurial approach
• Feedback seeking
• Inclusive culture contribution
• Written and verbal English proficiency
• Technology regulation advisory (desirable)
• Emerging technology challenges advisory (desirable)
• Working within scaling teams (desirable)

Location

• London
• Brussels
• San Francisco
• New York
• Washington D.C.

Work Type

• Hybrid working model (three days in office: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)

Experience Level

• Around 8 years+ of corporate communications experience

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000 - $174,000 a year

Benefits

• Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands
• Twice-yearly bonuses
• 401(k) with company match, eligible from day one
• Robust healthcare options (medical, dental, vision)
• Dedicated mental health support
• 26 days PTO
• 10 sick days
• 10 public holidays
• Two-week company-wide winter break
• Paid parental leave
• Sabbatical leave
• $100/month commuter benefit
• Structured career development with clear progression pathways
• Defined career framework

About the Company

• Milltown Partners is an independent, employee-owned firm.
• We advise technology companies driving change, global investors funding the future, the giants of sport and entertainment, and influential individuals on communications and policy challenges.
• Our work spans corporate and financial communications, policy and public affairs, and leadership communications.
• We underpin our capabilities with research-driven insights and campaigns.
• We are pioneering AI-enhanced advisory work, using technology to unlock insights from data at scale and speed.
• Our culture is built on five values: brilliance, restlessness, comradeship, inclusivity and integrity.
• We invest in each other through honest feedback, shared learning, and genuine care.
• We are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace with measurable commitments around representation, inclusion, and supporting underrepresented communities through pro bono work.

Equal Opportunity

• Creating an environment where everyone can thrive is central to how we operate.