Director - Corporate and Product Communications

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · New York, NY +1 · Communications

Director of Communications role at Ripple, focusing on shaping the external narrative for institutional audiences in TradFi and digital assets. Responsibilities include owning communication strategy for specific product lines, leading announcements, developing thought leadership, building messaging architecture, managing media relationships, and leading rapid-response communications. Requires 8+ years in communications/PR with financial services/fintech experience, strong media relationships, and deep understanding of capital markets.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the communications strategy across prime brokerage, treasury management and capital markets related products and partners – setting the narrative, managing the calendar, and driving consistent positioning across these product lines
  2. Lead announcements end-to-end: partnerships, product launches, market infrastructure integrations, and capital markets milestones, with a keen eye for what moves media
  3. Build and own Ripple's thought leadership program in corporate treasury and capital markets – placing executive bylines, managing high profile speaking opportunities for senior spokespeople, and establishing Ripple as the authoritative voice on the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets
  4. Develop core messaging architecture that cuts across these product lines in service of the broader company mission and vision, clearly articulating Ripple's differentiation to corporates, asset managers, prime brokerage clients, and financial press
  5. Build and maintain strong relationships with financial and institutional media across Bloomberg, Reuters, FT, WSJ, and other key capital markets and crypto trade press

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years in communications or PR
  • 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 – prime brokerage, fixed income, FX, derivatives, and/or treasury – and how to communicate them to sophisticated audiences
  • Strong existing relationships with financial and crypto press; credibility in both TradFi and digital asset circles
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • sharp judgment
  • ability to adapt quickly without losing precision

Nice to have

  • A self-starter AND great teammate
  • someone who wants to push boundaries, try new ideas, shake up the classic comms playbook, and have fun doing it

What the JD emphasized

  • 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
  • Deep understanding of capital markets – prime brokerage, fixed income, FX, derivatives, and/or treasury
  • Strong existing relationships with financial and crypto press; credibility in both TradFi and digital asset circles