5 months ago
Senior Account Supervisor, Financial Services Communications (Crypto)
Edelman Smithfield
District of Columbia, USA (On-site)Full time$108K/yr – $135K/yr
Marketing jobs
984 marketing jobs
Find marketing roles you could actually win
984 open roles0
Find marketing roles you could actually win
984 open roles0
Senior Account Supervisor, Financial Services Communications (Crypto)
District of Columbia, USA (On-site)
$108K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time
Posted 5 months ago
Top 1% of applicants do these two things.
The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.
Job Summary
Drive strategic financial communications for a global client portfolio with senior-level media and policy engagement responsibilities.
- Must-have: 6+ years in corporate communications, financial services, PR, or public affairs
- Standout: Experience leading integrated campaigns and mentoring junior staff
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead communications strategies for financial services clients, ensuring tailored messaging and engagement.
- Serve as a client contact, ensuring consistent and high-quality communication.
- Manage the creation and execution of communications plans and strategies, aligning with client objectives.
- Develop a deep understanding of clients’ businesses, key stakeholders, and industry landscapes, and apply this knowledge to provide strategic recommendations.
- Partner with senior leadership in identifying and mitigating challenges, ensuring client satisfaction.
- Work with leadership to develop media engagement strategies, maintaining and leveraging relationships with key financial journalists, producers, and influencers.
- Craft compelling thought leadership content, including op-eds, speeches, corporate messaging, and media materials.
- Provide proactive and reactive media counsel to clients, ensuring message alignment and positioning.
- Translate complex financial and regulatory topics into clear, compelling narratives for media, investors, and other key stakeholders.
- Contribute to multiple projects from inception to completion, ensuring timeliness, quality, and budget adherence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in political science, business, journalism, public policy, communications, or a related field
- At least 6+ years of experience in corporate communications, financial services, public relations, or public affairs, preferably in an agency or political/government setting
Preferred
- Experience in financial communications, with a strong understanding of financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and alternative assets.
- Experience supporting communications for crypto, digital asset, stablecoin, or blockchain-related companies, including an understanding of regulatory, policy, and market considerations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the crypto and stablecoin ecosystem, including key use cases and how digital assets intersect with payments, fintech platforms, and traditional financial services.
- Strong media relations expertise, with established journalist relationships and a demonstrated ability to secure high-impact media coverage.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to develop strategic messaging and thought leadership content.
- Strong project management skills, with a proactive, detail-oriented, and results-driven mindset.
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure environments, managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
Benefits
- DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.
Edelman Smithfield
Edelman Smithfield is a financial communications boutique that specializes in the financial markets and special situations, serving clients in the United States, Canada, EMEA, APAC and beyond. We advise companies on M&A, IPOs, investor relations, restructuring, and activism defense, and help financial services firms protect, promote, and evolve their reputations. As part of Edelman, we combine specialized expertise in financial communications and financial services with the global reach and resources of the world’s leading communications firm.
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
7.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.5%
Direct
40.4%
Referral
6.5%
Social
13.1%
Paid
1.3%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~249
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
23 (9% of company)