Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive investor relations and corporate communications strategy aligned with Janux’s mission, pipeline priorities, business objectives, and long-term value creation.
• Shape Janux’s corporate narrative, brand identity, positioning, and messaging frameworks to strengthen the company’s visibility, credibility, and reputation across key stakeholders.
• Build and cultivate strong relationships with institutional investors, analysts, and banking partners, serving as the primary point of contact for the investment community.
• Lead investor engagement and targeting activities, including conferences, non-deal roadshows, R&D/Analyst Days, KOL webinars, analyst meetings, and other investor events.
• Develop and execute shareholder targeting and ownership strategies designed to attract and retain long-term institutional investors aligned with Janux's investment thesis.
• Prepare senior leadership for investor conferences, non-deal roadshows, and other high-profile investor interactions, including leadership of key message development, FAQs, Q&A documents, briefing materials, and response frameworks to ensure consistency across investor-facing engagements.
• Oversee investor-facing and public communications, including earnings materials, investor presentations, scripts, press releases, website content, talking points, and executive briefing materials.
• Lead communications planning and support execution around key clinical and regulatory milestones, corporate transactions, partnerships, and financing activities.
• Manage an integrated communications calendar and agenda that coordinates investor, media, corporate, and internal communications and enables proactive planning.
• Serve as one of the company's designated external representatives to the investment community and media, representing Janux with clarity and credibility and consistent with the company’s disclosure policies and communication protocols.
• Monitor investor sentiment, stock performance, analyst commentary and coverage, peer performance, and capital markets trends; synthesize insights to inform company strategy and messaging.
• Track sell-side models and compare them with internal forecasts to anticipate market expectations and strengthen external communications.
• Partner with Legal and Finance to support consistency, accuracy, and compliance across external communications and public disclosures, including earnings communications, investor materials, SEC disclosures, Reg FD requirements, disclosure policies and material event communications.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to executive leadership and the Board regarding market positioning, investor perceptions, shareholder communications, and reputational risk.
• Partner closely with Finance and Legal to support earnings preparation, disclosure governance, financing activities, and public-company communication best practices.
• Partner cross-functionally with Clinical, Project Management, Regulatory, HR, Finance, and Legal to ensure communications are accurate, coordinated, and appropriate for each audience.
• Lead external IR and communications agencies and consultants, including scope, budgets, performance oversight, and program measurement.
• Other duties as deemed necessary.

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