Director of Corporate Communications, Virta Health
$165-195k
+ Offers Equity
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Diabetes reversal treatment
Be an early applicant
Diabetes reversal treatment
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-195k
+ Offers Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reverse diabetes and obesity in one billion people.
Role
Who you are
- A self-starter and builder. You don’t wait for permission. You jump in, get dirty, and make things happen
- Obsessed with storytelling and media influence. You know how to shape perception and can turn complex data into compelling stories
- Relentlessly curious. You’re hungry to understand how everything works: the new media environment, our product, payer economics
- Comfortable with chaos. Virta is growing fast, and so are you. You see ambiguity as a canvas, and are genuinely excited about diving in
- Confident and collaborative. You speak up, push ideas forward, and collaborate with humility and urgency
- You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
- You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
- You prioritize positive impact over busy work
- You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
- You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
- You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
- You take risks and rapidly iterate
What the job involves
- Build and own Virta’s business communications function, from strategy to execution
- Define the voice of a pre-IPO, mission-driven company at the forefront of one of the fastest-growing sectors in healthcare
- Shape perception across a full spectrum of media: traditional, digital, social, and everything in between
- Collaborate with a world-class executive team, including our co-founder and CEO Sami Inkinen, who is both a seasoned entrepreneur building his second billion dollar company and an elite athlete who rowed a boat from California to Hawaii and set a new record in the process
- If you’ve wanted to work with an executive who moves fast and thinks big, this is your opportunity
- Build and lead Virta’s external media engine. Proactively pitch and secure top-tier coverage across business, consumer, tech, and health outlets, traditional and digital alike
- Own the business narrative. Showcase Virta’s growth, momentum, and unique position in a red-hot market shaped by GLP-1s, rising costs, and bipartisan agreement to tackle chronic disease by fixing the food system
- Design and drive an always-on comms strategy. Tell stories aligned to Virta’s growth, IPO readiness, and long term market opportunity. Use milestones, trends, and executive visibility to keep Virta front and center
- Blend earned, owned, and paid media to amplify stories, including sponsored content, influencer partnerships, and digital ads
- Launch and scale a data storytelling engine. Partner across teams to turn outcomes, trends, and clinical results into media gold
- Build executive platforms. Secure speaking engagements, media profiles, op-eds, podcasts, and more. Position Virta’s leaders (especially Sami), as bold voices in business, metabolic health and nutrition, and mission-driven entrepreneurship
- Create best-in-class content. From press releases and white papers to op-eds and animated videos, clearly communicate Virta’s impact and point of view
- Jump in, head first. Start pitching. Test ideas. Collaborate with our external partners. Make noise in the market early and often while laying the groundwork for bigger, repeatable wins
- Identify the levers. Get under the hood of our business performance and strategic priorities. Translate product launches, cost-savings data, and market traction into smart, channel-specific story angles
- Create and own PR OKRs. Track, measure, and analyze impact of media coverage, reach, engagement, and impact, continually refining strategy
- Audit and sharpen our media landscape. Dive into our current business media playbook. Form a strong POV on the most strategic voices to engage, from influential reporters and editors to podcasters, newsletter authors, and digital-first commentators, and start building those relationships
- Plug in fast. Build strong, high-trust relationships across Virta, from growth and enterprise marketing to clinical ops, design, and the executive team. You’ll get your arms around who we are, how we work, and where our best stories live
- Surface internal gold. Map key internal teams and uncover our best emerging spokespeople, case studies, data sets, and visuals; assets you’ll start using right away to tell a richer, bolder story
- Get steeped in the science and outcomes. Become fluent in Virta’s clinical model, patient success stories, and the data that proves our model works. This will be your fuel for story mining and narrative development
Our take
Much of the care for type 2 diabetes has been based on control and prevention, rather than a direct reversal of the issue. Virta Health is changing that, providing patients with personalized treatment plans, virtual monitoring and patient care.
Instead of depending upon medication, which often needs to be increased over time, the company is tackling the problem at its root and taking a fundamentally different approach that is better for the patient, and more economical for insurers. Among enrolled patients in its clinical trial at one year, 60% achieved diabetes reversal.
While platforms like Vida Health also serve similar markets, the large number of prediabetic (88M) and diabetic (30M) Americans presents a significant opportunity for growth. Along with its significant funding round in 2021 fueling its efforts to expand the reach of its telehealth-powered diabetes reversal treatment. Positioning the company for widespread adoption and continued success in addressing this critical healthcare challenge.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$133m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $373m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment with ability to work from home
- Flexible work hours & time off policy
- Virta pays 99% of all employee health insurance premiums, and 75% for all dependents
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Enroll in the Virta treatment for free and give a discount to friends and family
- Internet, home office, learning & development stipends
- Employee Resource Groups like Parents of Virta, Ladies of Virta, and Virtans for DEI
- 401K and ROTH contribution opportunities
Company HQ
Civic Center, Denver, CO
Leadership
Sami Inkinen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. Co-founder of online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group.
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