Director - Corporate and Product Communications

The Work

Ripple is seeking a Director of Communications to lead the external narrative across its prime brokerage, treasury management, and capital markets-related products and partners. This role requires shaping the market's understanding of Ripple's infrastructure for institutional finance, through strategic narratives aligned with senior company leaders.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Lead announcements end-to-end: partnerships, product launches, market infrastructure integrations, and capital markets milestones, with a keen eye for what moves media
• 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
• 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
• Build and maintain strong relationships with financial and institutional media across Bloomberg, Reuters, FT, WSJ, and other key capital markets and crypto trade press
• Lead rapid-response and issues communications, ensuring Ripple's position on market events and regulatory developments is fast, accurate, and consistent
• Partner closely with legal, compliance, product, marketing, and others to integrate communications into the broader go-to-market strategy for Ripple's institutional platform

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 – 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 and the ability to adapt quickly without losing precision
• 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. We don’t take ourselves too seriously – you shouldn’t either!

Qualifications

Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
Employee giving match
Mobile phone stipend

Skills

• Strategic communications
• Media relations
• Thought leadership development
• Financial services expertise
• Leadership and team management

Benefits

• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Pay

Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity

Schedule

Flexible schedule