Director of Communications

Overview

Qstar Capital () is an innovative investment firm founded as a family office focused on maximizing risk-adjusted returns across a diversified set of asset classes. Few ideas are off limits and opportunities are bounded only by the creativity and discipline of our team. We maintain a flat, entrepreneurial culture anchored in intellectual rigor, high adaptivity, and continuous learning.

Qstar Capital is seeking a Director of Communications to work directly with Founder and Managing Partner Alec Litowitz (also Founder & former CEO of Magnetar Capital; former Global Head of Equities at Citadel) to execute the full lifecycle of his upcoming book, associated thought-leadership assets, and public-facing communications. This role requires exceptional organizational ability, editorial sensitivity, and the intelligence to manage complex, evolving workflows across multiple stakeholders inside and outside the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end communications strategy and narrative architecture for the book, newsletter and all other public-facing outputs for Qstar.
• Determine the most effective formats, channels and cadence for communication core ideas: (e.g. Newsletter, Linked In, TED-style talks, podcasts, keynotes and other media related appearances).
• Help make strategic decisions about where ideas should live, how they should be adapted by channel, and which opportunities to pursue or decline.
• Serve as the primary steward of voice, positioning and conceptual clarity across all written and spoke materials.
• Translate core ideas into coherent, durable editorial framework that scales across formats and platforms.
• Act as a senior editorial partner to CEO, exercising judgement on messaging, emphasis, sequencing, and simplification.

• Design, oversee, and continuously refine the master project timeline across editing, tightening, glossary alignment, diagrams, quotes, metadata, manuscript delivery, and production milestones.
• Ensure deadlines are met while adapting to ongoing author-generated revisions.
• Manage coordination with the publisher, literary agent, PR teams, designers, developmental editors, and Qstar staff.

• Lead the “tightening” process: ensuring conceptual consistency (e.g., terminology applied uniformly across chapters).
• Track and evaluate changes across major edits coming from Alec, diagram placement decisions, glossary cross-referencing, and content coherence.
• Maintain a centralized, organized system for quotes, references, diagrams, title concepts, and conceptual notes.

• Own relationships with external PR firms, publishers and communications partners, setting strategy expectations, success metrics and timelines.
• Liaise with publishers and production teams regarding manuscript submissions, diagrams, cover concepts, permissions, copyedits, and proofs.
• Prepare and organize material for writers and other collaborators, ensuring nothing is lost in the process, providing clear strategic context, editorial direction, and quality standards.

• Define and execute the launch and ongoing communications strategy across all channels, in partnership with PR firms and internal teams on: TED-style talk framing, Elevator pitch and messaging, and Podcast appearances.
• Keynotes and public-facing simplification of core concepts.
• Determine timing and sequencing of announcements and ideas across platforms ensuring coherence, efficiency and maximum reach.
• Ensure alignment with external opportunities including launches, media moments and owned channels (e.g., integration with Alec’s existing letter distribution).

• Maintain clear trackers for edits, diagrams, quotes, and outstanding decisions.
• Produce concise summaries, editorial judgements, decision memos, and prioritized action lists.
• Uphold exceptional discretion and professionalism.

The ideal candidate is hyper-organized and strategically minded, intellectually curious, calm under pressure, and able to partner with and advise a high-output founder with precision and discretion.…