Bottega Veneta Global PR & Talent Director

About Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta is an Italian luxury house renowned for artisanal leathercraft and a discreet, refined aesthetic. Operating with a global footprint and a strong creative identity, the maison is part of the Kering group, which provides multinational scale and resources while preserving each brand's creative autonomy. As an employer, Bottega Veneta emphasizes craftsmanship, creativity, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration within a luxury, culturally engaged context.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and lead a unified global corporate communications and PR strategy aligned with the brand’s mission, values, and business objectives.
• Create strategic messaging frameworks and ensure consistent, high‑impact storytelling across markets and channels.
• Oversee executive visibility and corporate thought‑leadership programmes for C‑level spokespeople.
• Manage all external communications, including media relations, public affairs, executive communications and selective strategic announcements.
• Advise senior leadership on messaging, narrative, reputational risk and act as a senior counsel in partnership with Legal & Compliance.
• Lead crisis and issues management in coordination with internal stakeholders.
• Develop and implement a global VIP and talent strategy, overseeing talent dressing, red‑carpet placements and long‑term ambassador programmes.
• Manage global product placement for VIPs and coordinate relationships with talent agencies, stylists and costume designers.
• Define and execute a global influence strategy, build creator and KOL ecosystems, and design community‑driven activations to amplify brand narratives.
• Coordinate and steer global PR, VIP and influence agencies to ensure coherence between global strategy and local market activation.
• Drive alignment between global and regional communications teams and partner cross‑functionally with Marketing, Merchandising and Executive Leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in global PR, corporate communications or brand reputation roles within luxury, fashion, lifestyle or culturally driven brands.
• Demonstrated track record advising C‑level executives on positioning, sensitive topics and crisis management.
• Proven ability to design global communications frameworks and translate them into impactful local execution.
• Established international network across top‑tier media, talents, creators, stylists and cultural opinion leaders.
• Exceptional leadership capability, stakeholder management and agency coordination experience in complex, multicultural organisations.

Skills

Experience

Ten or more years of senior experience in global public relations, corporate communications or brand reputation management within luxury, fashion, lifestyle or culturally focused organisations, including advising C‑suite on high‑stakes communications and leading international teams/agencies.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing or a related discipline; advanced degree or equivalent senior experience preferred.

Workplace

Benefits

Internal mobility and structured talent development and leadership programmes.

Culture

Bottega Veneta fosters a culture that prizes craftsmanship, creative autonomy and refined discretion, balanced with international ambition. As part of the Kering group, the house emphasises talent development, internal mobility and a commitment to diversity and inclusive collaboration across markets.

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