Description
This role will play a critical role in shaping Chime's corporate narrative and reputation as a public company.
You will shape the company's major moments and how we show up with reporters, investors, policymakers, and corporate stakeholders across quarterly earnings, corporate announcements, executive engagements, and high-stakes issues.
You will report to the Director of Corporate Communications and work closely with the rest of the Corporate Affairs team, along with Investor Relations, Legal, Finance, and Chime's leadership.
Responsibilities
- Support corporate announcements and financial communications: Drive communications for quarterly earnings and major company announcements, working with Corporate Affairs, Investor Relations, Legal, and Finance.
- Own the corporate narrative: Own our messaging source of truth and help drive how Chime's corporate story evolves.
- Grow our media and influencer program: Expand Chime's relationships with business, financial, and fintech reporters, as well as the creators, Substack writers, podcasters, and emerging voices shaping the conversation.
- Raise our executives' profile: Manage Chime's executive visibility program.
- Lead issues management: Own sensitive media inquiries from first triage to resolution.
- Be our AI champion: Bring innovative, AI-first thinking to the whole communications team.
- Keep the team running at a high level: Directly manage our agency partners, measure and report on the impact of our work, and keep leadership informed.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in corporate, financial, or executive communications, in-house and/or at an agency.
- Hands-on experience with public company communications, including quarterly earnings, and working alongside Investor Relations and Legal.
- Established relationships with business, financial, and technology reporters, with a track record of landing coverage and managing reporter requests.
- Experience preparing and staffing executives for interviews, panels, and speaking engagements.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills across press releases, Q&A documents, briefing books, talking points, and scripts.
- Strong organizational skills and sound judgment under pressure.
- AI-first thinking and hands-on experience building AI tools and workflows that improve how a communications team operates.
Benefits
- Base salary: $133,000-$185,000 USD
- Bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits
- In-office work policy: four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices
- Backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Access to family planning reimbursement