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# Director of PR & Communications at Venture Guides

- **Company:** Venture Guides
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-05-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/venture-guides/am9icG9zdDqOahPKQT5rwfO7aO1mtKot

## Job description

Venture Guides is hiring a hands-on Director of PR & Communications who deeply enjoys content creation and producing stories, podcasts and webinars.  Through this work you will help us shape our brand narrative and amplify our voice across social and media platforms.

This role blends creative storytelling with strategic communications. You’ll find and shape compelling narratives, build trusted media relationships, and create high-impact content programs that resonate with early-stage founders, GTM professionals, and future investors.

What You’ll Do:

Public Relations & Media

- Develop, own and execute our press and public relations strategy, working closely with relevant reporters and media outlets; help support our portfolio companies’ PR efforts and visibility
- Develop storylines, pitch angles, and news moments that elevate Venture Guides’ presence in trade, tech, and business press
- Cultivate strong relationships with journalists, editors, and influencers in business, enterprise tech, security, and infrastructure software markets
- Manage executive visibility, speaker opportunities, and award submissions

Content Strategy & Creation

- Lead content strategy across channels—including blogs, podcasts, case studies, social posts, website, and more
- Partner with VG team members, investors and portfolio leaders to develop new content ideas and compelling narratives
- Manage editorial calendar aligned to firm priorities and campaigns

Podcasts & Webinars

- Own the Venture Guide's podcast and webinar programs: concept, coordination, guest management, and promotion
- Bring creative ideas to life that showcase our brand, customers, and industry POV
- Support executive communication as needed, ghostwriting or assisting efforts to amplify our approach across owned and earned channels (LinkedIn, media, bylines, etc.)

What You Bring:

- Excellent research, writing, editing, and storytelling skills—you can ghostwrite like a pro and simplify complex topics without watering them down
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Enjoy the challenge in securing meaningful press coverage and leading content/editorial programs
- Creativity and ability to match interests with audiences
- Curiosity to learn about new technologies and businesses
- Comfortable working with and mobilizing executives, founders, and cross-functional stakeholders to participate in content programming
- Creative, scrappy, and resourceful—with a bias for action

Nice to Have:

- Relationships with top-tier press, analysts, and podcasts in the B2B/tech space
- Experience launching or scaling a branded podcast or content series
- Background in startup environments or early-stage marketing teams
- experience in B2B marketing, with emphasis on PR, media relations, and content marketing
- Prior experience in infrastructure software, cybersecurity, networking, developer tools, or adjacent technical spaces

About Venture Guides: Venture Guides is a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm managing $477M across two funds. We focus exclusively on early stage cloud infrastructure, security, AI and data companies.

We operate on a few core beliefs:

- Great Companies Are Built, Not Born
- Team-Based Investing: We make decisions collaboratively and support founders as a team
- High Conviction, High Commitment: Our GP commit is 10x the industry norm—we go deep with our founders
- Guiding, Not Just Funding: From go-to-market to hiring, we help our companies grow deliberately and decisively

Venture Guides knows that diverse teams perform better than non-diverse teams and is committed to promoting diversity across all our portfolio companies, which means our team must maintain diversity. As an equal opportunity employer, Venture Guides ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at vgrecruiting@ventureguides.com.

## About Venture Guides

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Venture Guides is an early-stage infrastructure software investment firm that combines capital with hands-on operational guidance to help portfolio companies achieve positive returns and unicorn status.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture capital firm, limited partnership)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Ben Holzman, Ben Nye, Mo Garad [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Investment management / venture capital
- **Target customers**: B2B – founders and management teams of early-stage infrastructure software startups
- **Mission or purpose**: To provide concentrated, team-based guidance and capital that creates durable, high-growth software companies. The firm’s unique approach has resulted in over 80% of portfolio companies generating positive returns and 45% achieving unicorn status. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)

## Products & Services
- **Venture Capital Investment**: Equity funding across early-stage rounds (Seed, Series A) for infrastructure software companies.
- **Strategic Guidance (“Guiding”)**: Hands-on support from former CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CHROs, and GCs covering marketing, sales, hiring, talent retention, and AI strategy. [ventureguides.com/our-team](https://www.ventureguides.com/our-team)
- **Shared Office Space**: Co-location at the firm’s Boston headquarters (next to TD Garden), where portfolio companies work alongside Venture Guides partners and each other, fostering collaboration and resource sharing. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)
- **AI Expertise**: Dedicated AI resident (Nico Herden) who advises portfolio companies on generative AI strategy and applications. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (private investment firm). Latest fund size: **$262.5 million** (Fund II, closed April 2025). [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - Total assets under management: Not publicly disclosed.
  - Portfolio performance: 80% of companies generate positive returns; 45% achieve unicorn status. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)
  - Headcount: 35 employees (+7.5% YoY). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Venture Guides is the investment entity; limited partners not disclosed. Strategic advisors include Corey Thomas (Chairman & CEO of Rapid7) and others. [ventureguides.com/our-team](https://www.ventureguides.com/our-team)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Fund II is 21% larger than Fund I, bucking industry fundraising trends. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)
  - Rapid LinkedIn follower growth (+46.5% yearly). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)
  - Active deal flow (e.g., Compyl $12M Series A, Precog investment in early 2025). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team-Based Approach**: Unlike typical VC firms, Venture Guides assigns a multi-disciplinary team of former operators to each portfolio company, providing hands-on guidance in sales, marketing, finance, HR, and legal.
- **Proven Track Record**: 80% positive returns and 45% unicorn rate among portfolio companies.
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: The team has built and invested in companies like dynaTrace, Docusign, LinkedIn, Rapid7, Solarwinds, Sysdig, Turbonomic, and Archer Technologies. [ventureguides.com/guided-companies](https://www.ventureguides.com/guided-companies)
- **Office Co-Location Model**: Sharing space with 11 startups creates a collaborative ecosystem, resource sharing, and informal competition that accelerates growth. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)
- **Recognized Talent**: Team members have been listed on the Forbes Midas List of World’s Top Investors. [ventureguides.com/our-team](https://www.ventureguides.com/our-team)

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expand Fund II investments in early-stage infrastructure software, deepen AI advisory capabilities, and grow the co-location office model in Boston. The firm is also hiring across multiple functions to support its growing portfolio. [ventureguides.com/careers](https://www.ventureguides.com/careers)
- **Direction for growth**: Increasing fund size (Fund II at $262.5M) signals capacity for larger and more numerous investments, with a focus on companies building original, contrarian ideas outside of Silicon Valley groupthink. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlight**: Small, collaborative team that actively mentors portfolio companies. Employees work alongside startup founders and experienced VC professionals in an open, engaging environment.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – employees are based in Boston (HQ), with an additional office in Cambridge, and remote team members in Poland and the UK. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)
- **Notable perks**: Treadmill desks, prime office location next to TD Garden with panoramic city views, exposure to multiple high-growth startups, and continuous learning from operational and investment experts. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)
- **Engineering/product culture**: As an infrastructure-focused investor, the firm values deep technical knowledge, contrarian thinking, and a builder mindset.

## Sources
1. [ventureguides.com/careers](https://www.ventureguides.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com/company/venture-guides](https://linkedin.com/company/venture-guides)
3. [ventureguides.com/our-team](https://www.ventureguides.com/our-team)
4. [bostonglobe.com](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/business/venture-guides-office-space-startups-causeway-software/)
5. [ventureguides.com/guided-companies](https://www.ventureguides.com/guided-companies)
6. [theorg.com/org/venture-guides](https://theorg.com/org/venture-guides)

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