Corporate and Financial Communications Director

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

What you’ll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence and High Integrity. Circlers are consistently evolving in a remote world where strength in numbers fuels team success. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for: 

Circle is seeking an accomplished, curious and highly collaborative candidate for a newly created position: Director, Corporate and Financial Communications. This role focuses on communicating Circle’s overall business strategy and connecting business and financial media to our story – this includes business development, public company communications and critical issues management. The leader will work alongside Investor Relations, Legal, Internal Communications and other executives to devise communication strategies, framing and positioning Circle for internal and external audiences. 

In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and nurturing business and financial media relationships with Tier 1 outlets (e.g. Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, New York Times). We expect you will bring a deep bench of contacts along with you. These will represent net new media relationships for Circle, and you will architect those engagements from the ground up. 

Circle’s global corporate communication team is part of the Strategy and Policy organization and collaborates closely with marketing, talent, finance, product, legal and regulatory teams. This position will report to the VP, Global Corporate Communications. 

What you'll work on: 

• Designing and executing Circle’s media strategy and PR programming for high-profile business milestones to enhance the company’s reputation with key finance and business media and other key external stakeholders. 
• Partnering with cross-functional teams on investor-facing communications, including an annual report.
• Architecting Circle’s media engagement strategy and ongoing relationship development with global Tier 1 business and financial media. 
• Reconciling internal perspectives, direction and feedback to best define critical key messages, how to land them and the right moments to shout them from the rooftops.
• Leading external communications for public company and other strategic engagements.
• Partnering with internal stakeholders to develop off-cycle news opportunities including long form features as well as managing regular proactive and reactive media needs, with a special focus on advising the Finance organization as the team’s dedicated communications partner.
• Developing executive summaries for senior leadership and the Board of Directors on peer company news, and performance based on regular monitoring and research.
• Managing industry analyst relationships to support development of company strategy. 

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle: 

• Apart from being a good human, the ideal candidate will have extensive experience (typically 12+ years) in corporate communications or public relations, with experience supporting financial communications at a public compa