Vice President, Marketing Communications

Description The Company

Kantata gives professional services organizations the clarity, control, and confidence they need to optimize resource planning, project management, and financial management - all to improve business outcomes for both the professional services firms we serve and their clients. Our purpose-built professional services automation software empowers over 2,500 professional services organizations in more than 100 countries to deliver radically better business outcomes.

Kantata provides AI-powered insights and next best action recommendations our clients need to win more business and optimize project delivery to exceed their clients’ expectations.

Kantata is well-capitalized, hiring, and growing our loyal and diversified customer base faster than we ever have. Most importantly, we have a clear vision of where we’re going and how to get there. (Hint: It involves you.) Did we mention that Kantata is also an awesome place to work? You’ll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with a team that loves what they do.

A talented team, great perks, and an amazing culture = an employee-rated Best Place to Work!

The Vice President of Marketing & Communications is the architect of Kantata’s global brand narrative and the executive owner of how the company shows up across markets, audiences, and channels. This leader shapes corporate storytelling, strengthens market positioning, drives thought leadership, and oversees product marketing, communications, content, creative, digital channels, and media strategy. Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, this leader ensures an aligned, data-driven strategy that supports revenue growth, elevates category leadership, and maintains consistent messaging across Sales, Product, Customer Success, People, and the Executive Leadership Team.

• Define and execute Kantata’s global brand, communications, and market-positioning strategy.
• Ensure brand identity, messaging, and visual expression reinforce competitive differentiation and category leadership.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO, CHRO, and CMO on brand, messaging, and corporate narrative.
• Build and govern a global brand and communications framework that standardizes quality, voice, and visual identity across all regions, channels, and teams.
• Establish the cross-functional operating model for how Marketing, Sales, Product, Customer Success, and People teams adopt and use messaging frameworks.
• Create a company-wide single source of truth for messaging and positioning to drive efficiency, alignment, and execution across GTM motions.
• Ensure alignment of messaging, positioning, and content strategy with Business Development, Customer Marketing, and Partner teams to support enablement, advocacy, and expansion.

• Own all corporate communications, including PR, AR, media relations, crisis communications, change management, and corporate reputation.
• Serve as the executive owner for leadership communications for internal announcements, organizational changes, and major strategic updates.
• Partner with the CHRO to lead employee communications and support culture alignment.
• Support the CEO with high-impact communications for employees, customers, analysts, investors, and the board.
• Shape Kantata’s external narrative in partnership with the CEO, CMO, and CPSO, ensuring alignment across investor communications, board materials, analyst engagements, and major announcements.
• Oversee ESG, DEI, and corporate responsibility messaging to ensure clarity, transparency, and consistency.
• Personally craft or refine executive-level content, including speeches, bylines, internal memos, and strategic narratives.

• Lead Kantata’s global content engine—web, social, digital, editorial, campaigns, and creative.
• Ensure all content aligns with message architecture and global brand standards.
• Drive SEO, organic traffic, digital engagement, and paid media performance.
• Establish global standards for content quality, brand expression, and governance across internal…