VP of Communications – Health Tech Behavioral Intelligence Company

Three Pillars; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Three Pillars is seeking a Vice President of Communications to own the company narrative, shape the CEO's thought leadership platform, and establish Behavioral Intelligence as a defining category. You will work with leadership and product marketing, write pitches and op-eds, prepare executives for interviews, and build the communications function from the ground up in a fast-moving startup.

This hands-on role requires exceptional writing, data translation, and the ability to secure widespread

Qualifications

• 10 years in communications with senior leadership experience.
• Experience building or repositioning a company narrative.
• Proven track record securing high-quality coverage across health, policy and tech outlets.
• Experience developing a CEO's thought leadership platform and preparing executives for high-stakes media moments.
• Ability translate data into headlines and stories that are compelling and accurate.
• Comfortable about AI, data privacy topics and related issues.
• Excellent writer and editor with a consistent, mission-driven voice.
• Able to work iteratively with subject-matter experts in research, product, and behavioral science.

Responsibilities

• Own company-level messaging, including the core narrative and boilerplate.
• Lead efforts to establish a new category (Behavioral Intelligence) and position the company as the reference point.
• Maintain a consistent company voice across teams and channels.
• Partner with product marketing to ensure alignment with the company narrative.
• Build and run a thought leadership program for the CEO and senior leaders (bylines, op-eds, keynotes, podcasts).
• Prepare spokespeople with key messages and media training.

Skills

Earned media leadership

Executive thought leadership

Corporate narrative

Health tech experience

AI communications

Crisis communications

Storytelling and writing

Job description

VP of Communications

Seeking a VP of Communications who will own the company narrative, build the CEO’s thought leadership platform, and make “Behavioral Intelligence” a term that journalists, buyers, funders, and policymakers recognize and associate with the company.

You will work closely with the leadership team and partner with our Senior Product Marketing Manager, who leads product positioning and marketing. You own the company story, product marketing owns the product stories, and together you keep them aligned.

This is a hands-on role. You will set the strategy, and you will also write the pitch, draft the op-ed, and prep executives before interviews. You will build the communications function from the ground up and do much of the work yourself, with room to expand the team as they scale.

What you will own:

Company narrative

• Own company-level messaging, including the category claim, core narrative, boilerplate, and messaging pillars, and evolve it as the company grows.
• Lead the effort to establish Behavioral Intelligence as a category: define the story, bring it to market, and make the company the reference point for it.
• Champion a consistent company voice across every team, channel, and spokesperson, and keep teams equipped with the latest messaging and materials.
• Partner with product marketing so product positioning ladders up to the company narrative.

CEO and executive thought leadership

• Build and run a thought leadership program for the CEO and senior leaders, including bylines, op-eds, keynotes, podcasts, panels, and executive social presence.
• Develop the CEO’s point of view on the big questions in health, AI, and behavior, and find the right moments and outlets for it.
• Prepare spokespeople with key messages, talking points, briefing documents, and media training.

Responsible AI and reputation

• Lead how our client communicates its commitment to responsible AI, research ethics, participant safeguarding, and data privacy, and maintain issues-response readiness.

Earned media and stakeholder communications

• Build and lead a proactive press strategy across three groups of outlets: healthcare trade and business press (life sciences, health systems, digital health), AI and technology reporters, and health policy and mainstream health reporters, including maternal and mental health.
• Develop story angles, pitch journalists, draft press releases, and manage reporter relationships.
• Watch the news cycle for opportunities to bring their data, findings, and point of view into ongoing public conversations.
• Support leadership with communications for partners and other key stakeholders.

Turning research and data into communications

• Partner with program, research, and behavioral science leads to find the most newsworthy findings in our studies and reports. Package them for press, social, conferences, and executive audiences, including summaries for the CEO and board.
• Uphold the evidence standard behind every external claim, ensuring statistics are accurately sourced, described, and used in context.
• Translate dense, technical, and data-heavy material into clear, compelling stories without losing accuracy.

Social media and digital presence

• Set the strategy for corporate and CEO social channels, and create or oversee content that builds engagement and drives traffic to our work.
• Advise on company-level content across our website and other owned channels, in partnership with marketing.
• Identify high-value conferences and speaking opportunities, and develop the content for them.

About You

• 10 years in communications, including senior leadership of earned media, executive thought leadership, and corporate narrative. Health tech, digital health, health data, or AI experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience building or repositioning a company’s narrative, ideally including defining a new category.
• A track record of securing high-quality coverage across healthcare trade and business press as well as health, policy, and technology outlets. Existing reporter relationships are a strong plus.
• Experience developing a CEO’s thought leadership platform and preparing executives for high-stakes media and speaking moments.
• An exceptional translator of data. You can take a regression table, a research report, or a behavioral finding and turn it into a headline, a pitch, or a post that is compelling and accurate.
• Rigorous about evidence. You instinctively check a statistic against its source, notice when a claim has drifted, and push back on anything that can’t be supported.
• Experience with issues or crisis communications, ideally involving AI, data privacy, or sensitive health topics.
• Excellent writer and editor who can write in a consistent, mission-driven voice across press, executive, funder, and public-facing work.
• Comfortable working iteratively with subject-matter experts in research, product, and behavioral science.
• A genuine interest in improving health outcomes. Interest in maternal health, women’s health, or youth mental health is a plus.
• Thrives in a fast-moving, mission-driven startup and is happy to be both strategist and hands-on writer.

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