Partner / Senior Partner - Corporate Comms

About this role

Penta is a leading corporate affairs advisory firm that helps organizations predict what matters and shape outcomes. By combining proprietary intelligence, stakeholder insights, and strategic counsel, we help CEOs and leadership teams navigate the increasingly complex intersection of business, policy, culture, and reputation. Our clients turn to us when the stakes are high, the signals are difficult to interpret, and the consequences of getting it wrong are significant. We are building a new model for corporate affairs advisory and are seeking leaders who want to help define the future of the industry.
Penta’s global team brings decades of experience in business, government, communications, research, data science, and media. Our clients include many of the world's most influential organizations across technology, financial services, energy, healthcare, and other sectors, including over 25% of the Fortune 100. Penta has offices in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, London, Brussels, Dublin, and Singapore.

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior advisor with deep corporate/business-to-business communications and reputation management expertise, to help clients navigate the increasingly complex intersection of business strategy, stakeholder expectations, and global corporate reputation — particularly clients whose most important stakeholders are senior business decision-makers: customers, partners, investors, and policymakers whose judgments determine commercial outcomes. Working with CEOs, boards, Chief Communications Officers, and leadership teams, this individual will counsel organizations on corporate positioning, executive communications, reputation strategy, thought leadership, employee and stakeholder engagement, and other high-impact situations where communications can influence business outcomes — and on converting reputation into strategic business advantage: commercial demand, partnerships, valuation, and policy standing.

The ideal candidate brings strong US market credibility and experience of enterprise level client stewardship across Europe and Asia, sound judgment, and a sophisticated understanding of how organizations build trust and influence among the customers, partners, investors, policymakers, employees, media, and other stakeholders critical to their success. This leader will help shape integrated client solutions — combining Penta’s data, intelligence, and advisory capabilities into offerings clients can buy — deepen senior-level relationships, originate new opportunities, and contribute to the continued evolution of our Corporate Communications offering.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise clients on corporate reputation, positioning, stakeholder engagement, and communications strategies that strengthen trust, advance business priorities, and influence the audiences most important to organizational success.

• Serve as a trusted counselor to CEOs, boards, Chief Communications Officers, and other senior executives, providing anticipatory, actionable counsel on business-critical communications and reputation challenges.

• Drive business development efforts by cultivating senior executive relationships, originating new client opportunities, expanding existing mandates, contributing to proposals and thought leadership, and helping grow the firm's presence in the market.

• Develop integrated corporate communications strategies that align corporate positioning, executive communications, thought leadership, employee engagement, and earned/ owned/paid/social/digital channels with clients' broader business and stakeholder objectives, including B2B and thought leadership marketing programs built to engage niche, high-value business audiences.

• Lead complex client engagements, setting strategic direction, overseeing multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring high-quality execution that translates communications counsel into measurable reputation and business outcomes.

• Partner closely with colleagues across practices and geographies, bringing together Penta's intelligence, public affairs, crisis, reputation, stakeholder engagement, and communications expertise into coherent client offerings — and building the go-to-market alignment required to cross-sell them consistently across the firm.

• Develop proprietary IP — methodologies, products, and AI-enabled tools — that differentiates Penta’s offering, partnering with client leads to build customized solutions rather than handing capability down from a central function.

• Contribute to the continued evolution of the firm's Corporate Communications offering by identifying emerging client needs, developing new approaches and capabilities, mentoring colleagues, and helping ensure Penta remains at the forefront of modern corporate affairs advisory.

Candidate Attributes

• Deep expertise in Corporate Communications, reputation strategy, corporate positioning, executive communications, stakeholder engagement, and related disciplines, ideally gained over 15-20 years advising complex, global organizations across multiple industries.

• Strong executive presence and the ability to serve as a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards, Chief Communications Officers, and other senior leaders on consequential business, communications, and reputation matters.

• Sophisticated understanding of how corporate strategy, reputation, stakeholder expectations, and communications interact to influence trust, market position, and business outcomes, particularly in B2B environments.

• Demonstrated ability to develop senior executive relationships, generate new business opportunities, expand strategic client partnerships, and contribute meaningfully to the commercial growth of an advisory business.

• Experience developing integrated communications strategies across executive positioning, thought leadership, earned and owned media, digital and social channels, employee engagement, and other stakeholder touchpoints.

• Experience building offerings that…