Content & Communications Lead

Content & Communications Lead

You’ll work closely with founders, distinguished speakers, and internal leadership to ensure every interaction — digital or face-to-face — carries Griffin’s hallmark of clarity, intelligence, and craftsmanship.

You’re not just a writer. You’re a curator of conversations, a strategist of tone and message, and a custodian of Griffin’s voice and identity.

Key Impact Areas

1. Define the Agenda

• Develop discussion topics, debate points, and themes for salons, retreats, and roundtables.
• Make conversations timely, relevant, and thought-provoking for India’s top founders.

2. Curate Content

• Shape sessions, speaker briefs, backgrounders, and guest decks.
• Ensure materials are informed, sharp, and tuned to elite audiences.

3. Lead Communications

• Own member- and speaker-facing communications: invites, speaker guidance, newsletters, follow-ups.
• Maintain coherence, warmth, and precision across every touchpoint.

4. Elevate Griffin’s Voice

• Oversee copy across websites, decks, printed collateral, event programmes, signage, and social snippets.
• Build and enforce Griffin’s style manual; ensure every word reflects the brand’s values.

5. Quality & Tone Custodian

• Be the final check: is the tone right, consistent, and worthy of Griffin?

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with BD, Events, Design, Digital, and Research teams to ensure unified strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve a content roadmap for Griffin’s events.
• Conduct ecosystem scans and research to generate compelling agendas.
• Draft and finalise all communication materials for members, speakers, and partners.
• Write thought leadership pieces, founder stories, event recaps, and high-impact promotional copy.
• Lead post-event content: summaries, takeaways, and speaker highlights.
• Track engagement and feedback to refine future strategies.
• Manage stakeholders, collect inputs, and ensure deadlines are met.
• Flag risks of brand misalignment or tone slippage proactively.

What Sets You Apart

• Exceptional writing and editing skills: command over nuance, tone, and precision.
• Strategic thinker: You see content as an experience, not just copy.
• Experience with premium, high-prestige, or luxury brands/communities.
• High emotional intelligence: manage sensibilities, confidentiality, and dignity with ease.
• Detail-obsessed: from punctuation to design alignment.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast turnarounds.
• Collaborative, feedback-friendly, but with strong ownership.

Preferred Background

• Curiosity about startups, technology, markets, and policy.
• Ability to connect macro trends with founder-level challenges.
• 4-5+ years in content strategy and communications, ideally in events or high-prestige communities.
• Proven track record of curating content for senior audiences (founders, VCs, leaders).
• Experience leading communications across digital and offline mediums.
• Strong organisational skills; ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
• High proficiency with tools like Google Workspace, Notion, Slack; ability to work with design teams.

Persona Fit

• Policy comms/think-tank track

  (Invest India, NITI, CMO/PMO comms, MEA/embassy) — fluent in hierarchy, protocol and stakeholder management; comfortable writing to principals.

• Editorial lead/brand copy director

  — C-suite ghostwriting, tone systems, high-stakes events; writes short, edits faster, and can turn research into action.

• Education Background:

  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, English, Journalism, Public Policy, International Relations, or Business/Management.

Why Griffin

• Be at the centre of India’s elite founder ecosystem.
• Shape conversations that influence the country’s most powerful tech leaders.
• Work in a high-visibility, high-impact role with immediate influence.
• Collaborate with senior leadership, founders, and global speakers.
• Grow with a team building something rare, meaningful, and long-term.

Logistics

• Location:

  Delhi NCR preferred

• Travel:

  15–25% for salons and chapter circuits

• Schedule:

  Event weeks may include evenings and weekends