About the company
Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle is also the principal operator of USD Coin (USDC), which has become the fastest growing, regulated and fully reserved dollar digital currency. USDC now stands at more than 45 billion and has supported about $1.4 trillion in transactions over the past year.
Job Summary
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 📍Managing industry analyst relationships to support development of company strategy.
You will aspire to our four core values:
đź“ŤMultistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities. đź“ŤMindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail. đź“ŤDriven 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. đź“ŤHigh 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:
đź“ŤApart 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 company. A deep financial and business acumen and a technical understanding of communications and media relations. đź“ŤExperience working for a publicly traded company that must operate in compliance with SEC regulations will be critical, as will proven experience deploying digital/social media. communications in support of financial/business narratives.
