Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Clay Cove Capital • Philadelphia, PA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Clay Cove Capital is seeking a Vice President, Marketing & Communications to join its Philadelphia office to scale its marketing and communications function. The firm has a well-defined brand and narrative, a strong content program, an active newsletter, and uses HubSpot as its core CRM. This role is a scaling mandate, not a build-from-scratch one. The VP will extend the reach, sophistication, and output of existing strong foundations. The role owns the marketing engine that drives Clay Cove’s growth, focusing on top-to-mid-funnel awareness and engagement to build the firm’s reputation and audience. It also encompasses network development, research, and events to convert that audience into qualified Limited Partner (LP) and operating-partner relationships. The mandate includes leadership positioning, content and newsletter programs, earned media, investor research and prospecting, and events and communications that anchor the firm’s calendar, all managed within a shared brand and the HubSpot CRM. Reporting to the Head of Strategy and partnering closely with the firm’s founders, the VP is the senior owner of Clay Cove’s market presence, coordinating the existing content production team and upholding brand standards to elevate the firm’s profile within the institutional real estate and allocator communities.

Requirements

• 8+ years in marketing, communications, brand, or content roles, with meaningful exposure to private equity, real estate, financial services, or another institutional B2B context.
• Demonstrated track record of scaling an established marketing function — growing audience, engagement, and output on top of existing foundations.
• Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in marketing, communications, design, business, or a related field.
• Senior marketing and communications background with experience producing investor- and partner-facing materials (newsletters, thought leadership, event communications) and supporting capital formation through marketing.
• Agency-to-in-house or growth-stage builders who have scaled a function are strongly preferred.
• Strong command of HubSpot and marketing-automation platforms — able to own CRM as a source of truth, including segmentation, sequencing, and reporting.
• Editorial range to set content strategy across multiple executive voices, ghostwrite and edit to an institutional standard, and translate complex investment theses into clear narrative.
• Comfort with AI- and agent-enabled marketing tooling and the appetite to extend it.
• Hands-on with enrichment and outreach tooling (Clay.com and similar enrichment, LinkedIn automation tools) and third-party data sources (Preqin and peers) to tailor communications to specific audiences.
• Command of the tools that maintain a creative standard (Canva/brand kits, CMS/web, presentation craft); clear-eyed view of where modern tooling genuinely strengthens output and where it does not.
• Exceptional writing and editing ability.
• Fluent in the language of institutional investors and operating partners.
• Analytically minded — instruments and reads engagement data and uses it to sharpen targeting and messaging.
• Builder-operator who can scale systems and direct a small team while holding the standard for the firm’s external voice.
• Thrives in a lean, high-ownership environment and protects the focus of the function.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree a plus but not required.
• Direct reports: None initially; coordinates the existing content production team.

Responsibilities

• Own the LinkedIn program across the firm’s three established voices (Amachie, Brian, and Clay Cove), setting content strategy, post-type mix, and a calendar locked weeks ahead. Extend the program by building out a structured team-member brand initiative, and report on reach, engagement, and follower growth across all voices.
• Own the firm’s multi-tier content program end to end: the quarterly investor update to the LP and consultant list, the broader ecosystem newsletter, and long-form thought leadership in outlets such as IREI and PREA. Drive top-to-mid-funnel awareness and engagement through a consistent, high-quality publishing cadence.
• Own the firm’s earned-media strategy: maintain a tiered journalist and podcast map, develop pitches to target outlets (PERE, IREI, Capital Allocators, and peers), prepare the founders for interviews and appearances, and amplify every placement across LinkedIn, the newsletter, and direct LP sends.
• Drive net-new relationship development by identifying the decision-makers and allocators Clay Cove should know but does not yet, gap-checked against HubSpot. Build and qualify tiered LP prospect lists across family offices, funds-of-funds, endowments, pensions, and RIAs; enrich, segment, and structure the founders’ networks into actionable outreach lists.
• Own conference and partner-travel outreach as a primary lead-generation channel: decide which conferences and markets to target, then plan and run the outreach sequences that turn them into meetings. This will build on the firm’s current conference playbook, and how we measure and report results.
• Own the marketing and communications dimension of the firm’s flagship internal events — the Annual Investor Meeting and Advisory Board convenings — from HubSpot campaign copy and branded build through audience segmentation and send cadence. Facilitate cross-team presentation development and deliver conference-grade event collateral.
• Own HubSpot as the firm’s CRM, source of truth, and marketing-automation platform — including administration: custom property and object creation, platform automation beyond standard sequences and marketing email, user provisioning and permissioning, integrations, and reporting and dashboard creation. Maintain the LP cohort map and segmentation, keeping the system clean, current, and instrumented.
• Own and extend the firm’s AI- and agent-enabled marketing stack — content, research, enrichment, media, and the market-intelligence dashboard — keeping the systems current and training the broader team to use them. Bring a systems mindset to scaling output without scaling headcount one-for-one.
• Steward the brand and creative kit, ensuring every external asset — LinkedIn visuals, newsletter headers, one-pagers, and event collateral — reflects a consistent, polished, on-brand standard.
• Coordinate the existing content production team — interviews, editing, and drafting — to deliver the content line on time.
• Steward the firm’s multi-year conference roadmap in partnership with the founders.
• Partner on messaging and positioning decisions and develop the cross-vertical thesis-connectivity narrative.
• Manage scope boundaries to protect the function’s focus and output.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Participation in the firm's carried interest and long-term incentive programs
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Professional Development: Up to $2,500 annually for approved development expenses
• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage, including STD/LTD, in accordance with plan terms
• 401(k): Company-sponsored retirement plan
• Flexible Time Off, as governed by the Employee Handbook

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior