Executive Editorial Lead
Plaid offers a platform that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts, facilitating a wide range of financial services. They provide tools for payments, personal finance management, credit, and more, serving clients like Moneybox, Western Union, and Affirm. Their core product is an API that provides access to a vast network of financial institutions, allowing developers to build financial products and services.
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About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. It allows consumers and businesses to interact with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through other financial technology applications. Plaid's network connects to over 12,000 financial institutions across 20 markets, serving a global user base of over 100 million. The company provides APIs for developers to build solutions for personal financial management, credit, payments, business finances, iGaming, and property management. Key products include Auth for account verification, Link for connecting accounts, Transactions for accessing financial data, Balance for real-time checks, Assets for verifying assets, and Identity for user verification. Plaid focuses on increasing conversion, fighting fraud, and providing clean, organized financial data for smarter underwriting and other financial services.
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About the Role
You will own the executive editorial function for Plaid's highest-impact voices, including the CEO, CTO, and Product Area Leads. You'll translate strategy and technical concepts into clear, compelling content across formats that lands with customers, partners, and the broader industry. You'll source real-world inputs like data, customer realities, and trends, pressure-test claims, and publish points of view that are specific enough to build trust. You'll create and lead flagship editorial moments that define Plaid's perspective on AI, risk, credit underwriting, payments, and financial innovation across long-form, short-form, and audio/video content. You'll also stand up the exec editorial system by establishing and driving the content calendar, intake process from subject matter experts and execs, drafting/editing workflow, reviews, publishing cadence, and measurement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a journalist, executive speechwriter, or senior communications/content lead
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills with a portfolio of executive and thought leadership work
- Experience writing for C-level executives and translating complex financial/technical topics into accessible narratives
- Strong understanding of financial technology, payments, risk, and digital transformation
- Exec partnership and stakeholder management under time pressure
- Ability to balance journalistic rigor with brand strategy
Responsibilities
- Own the executive editorial function for Plaid's highest-impact voices (CEO, CTO, and Product Area Leads)
- Translate strategy and technical concepts into clear, compelling content across formats
- Source real-world inputs, pressure-test claims, and publish credible points of view
- Create and lead flagship editorial moments across long-form, short-form, and audio/video content
- Establish and drive content calendar, intake process, drafting/editing workflow, reviews, publishing cadence, and measurement
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)