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ImprintImprintNew York, NY

Founding Communications Hire

Founding communications lead to own narrative, media relations, executive visibility, and content for a fintech startup building co-branded credit cards and payments infrastructure.

200k – 250k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOECommunications

About the role

What you'll do

  • Own the narrative engine. Turn our positioning into bylines, posts, decks, talking points, and the occasional category-defining manifesto under the CEO's name. You draft fast and in our voice, not in boilerplate.
  • Build founder and executive profiles. Get our CEO and a few leaders in front of the right audiences: podcasts, stages, the lists worth being on, and a steady drumbeat on social that sounds like a person.
  • Manufacture moments. An investor day. A product reveal. A launch with a partner everyone recognizes. You'll help conceive these and run them end to end so they land.
  • Start a media franchise. Recurring, reportable output, original data and charts journalists pull from on a schedule.
  • Run press yourself. Build real relationships with reporters covering fintech, payments, retail, and AI, and pitch them stories worth their time. No agency middle layer.
  • Measure what works. Share of voice, inbound from partners and recruits, the quality of who's now paying attention. Track honestly, double down on what moves.

What we look for

  • 8+ years of real experience across PR, comms, content, and/or brand, ideally in-house at a startup or an account lead at an agency where you ran point on everything.
  • A great writer who can switch registers fast, from a punchy founder tweet to a tight pitch email to a 1,500-word point of view that reads like a person wrote it.
  • Real relationships with reporters, or a demonstrated ability to build them cold. You can name the people who cover our space and have opinions about how they work.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a bias to ship.
  • Taste. You know the difference between hype that builds credibility and hype that burns it, and you lean toward proof over puffery every time.
  • Fluency with modern tools. You use AI to move faster on drafting, research, and production, and you're curious about where this is all going, since it's central to what we build and what we'll be talking about.
  • A founder's instinct for leverage. You see where one well-placed story or relationship opens ten doors, and you go after it without being told to.

Perks & Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Leading configured work computers of your choice
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
  • Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
  • 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
  • Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units

Skills

PrCommunicationsContent StrategyBrandMedia RelationsSocial MediaWritingStorytellingAI ToolsFintech

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