Corporate Communications
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The Communications team builds our brand and influence across the world. Were looking for someone to join our smallbut high-leverageCorporate Communications team which shapes and protects our reputation across the financial policy and global business communities.
What youll do
Were looking for an experienced communicator to build and lead a proactive corporate storytelling program. Youll be the connective tissue across the business and policy audiencesbuilding the campaigns relationships and moments that shape how the companies that rely on our products the most and those who write the rules of the economy Stripe is helping to build understand Stripe.
Youll lead our most influential reputational programs globallyhigh-profile events executive media and speaking opportunities and proactive campaigns that demonstrate our economic impact. At the same time youll work closely with our policy teamadvocating for improvements in financial policy and regulation while also shaping our response to complex policy issues.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate our economic impact. Build proactive corporate campaigns around our role creating economic opportunity. Lead communications for high-profile events executive interviews and public appearances
- Own our reputational storytelling globally. Design and execute programs that build our profileand trustamong the core business audience as well as policymakers and the Washington press corps
- Build the next chapter of our policy communications function. Partner closely with our policy team to develop a clear point of view on industry regulatory and policy-related topics and amplify it through the right channels. Establish relationships with the right journalists and influencers in policy and tech thought leaders in AI crypto and tech policy rapid response capabilities and a well-tuned approach for navigating the full range of political and regulatory moments that arise in D.C.
- Provide executive counsel. Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives on communications strategy. Bring clear judgment to ambiguous situations help Stripe navigate the moments it didnt anticipate and help it seize the ones it did
Who you are
Were looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 10 years of professional experience in strategic communications tech PR policy communications or an equivalent high-growth operator role (e.g. as a former founder)
- A superlative writer with a proven ability to create clear compelling narratives around complex high-stakes topics
- Excellent judgment in ambiguous high-pressure situations with the ability to operate with significant autonomy and make consequential decisions quickly
- Fluency in the tech media landscapeincluding an existing network of relationships with reporters editors and influencers in tech policy and business press
- Experience collaborating closely with policy legal and senior executive stakeholders
- Creative flair and an aversion to the hackneyed and obvious and a high bar for what a communications program achieves
- An entrepreneurial streaksomeone who is energized by the opportunity to build not just manage
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to design and execute proactive communications campaignsnot just respond to incoming
- A track record of building something from scratchwhether a comms function a narrative program or a public-facing campaignand iterating on it over time
- A feel for independent mediaSubstack podcasts YouTube influencers on Xand how to use these channels to reach and shape conversations among policymakers and thought leaders
About Company
Stripe is a suite of APIs powering online payment processing and commerce solutions for internet businesses of all sizes. Accept payments and scale faster with AI.
