Director - Corporate and Product Communications
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
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About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
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About the Role
You will lead the external narrative across several of Ripple's business lines, operating at the strategic level to sharpen Ripple's voice with institutional audiences such as corporates, asset managers, and capital markets participants. You'll shape how the market understands Ripple's prime brokerage, treasury management, and liquidity platforms, driving product announcements and building strategic narratives hand in hand with senior company leaders. You'll own the thought leadership program, manage high-profile speaking opportunities, place executive bylines, and maintain strong relationships with top-tier financial and crypto media. You'll also lead rapid-response and issues communications and partner closely with legal, compliance, product, and marketing teams to integrate communications into the broader go-to-market strategy.
Requirements
- 8+ years in communications or PR, with substantial experience in financial services, capital markets, institutional fintech, and/or a major digital asset firm
- Consistent track record placing stories at top-tier financial media and managing sophisticated, multi-product communications programs
- Experience preparing and managing C-suite spokespeople across media and speaking engagements
- Deep understanding of capital markets including prime brokerage, fixed income, FX, derivatives, and/or treasury
- Strong existing relationships with financial and crypto press
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Own the communications strategy across prime brokerage, treasury management and capital markets related products and partners
- Set the narrative, manage the calendar, and drive consistent positioning across product lines
- Lead announcements end-to-end including partnerships, product launches, market infrastructure integrations, and capital markets milestones
- Build and own Ripple's thought leadership program in corporate treasury and capital markets
- Place executive bylines and manage high profile speaking opportunities for senior spokespeople
- Develop core messaging architecture that cuts across product lines
- Build and maintain strong relationships with financial and institutional media
- Lead rapid-response and issues communications on market events and regulatory developments
- Partner with legal, compliance, product, and marketing to integrate communications into the go-to-market strategy
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- Team offsites and bonding activities
- Comprehensive physical and mental healthcare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Family forming and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens