Director, External Communications

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $215K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate proactive media campaigns and media relations across financial press while managing agencies, analysts, and internal partners to support market commentary, data attribution, and thought leadership.

  • Lead media campaigns and respond to journalist inquiries
  • Develop markets content and executive briefs
  • Coordinate agency contracts and analyst relations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage proactive media campaigns targeted at key financial and business press, working independently or in conjunction with colleagues and PR agencies (news releases, secured interviews, articles, blogs, social media content, etc).
  • Handle inbound journalist inquiries in an accurate and highly responsive manner to support our market commentary and data attribution programs.
  • Help manage our day-to-day agency relationships and contracts with key providers.
  • Serve as a primary contact for industry research analysts, e.g., Crisil, Bloomberg Intelligence/TABB.
  • Write, commission, and edit a range of markets and products content.
  • Contribute to competitive media analysis, monitoring, and reporting as needed, ensuring our press coverage reflects industry trends.
  • Create compelling, interactive briefs for internal and external senior executive presentations and industry panel participation.

Requirements

  • 8-12+ years of experience in corporate communications, financial journalism, or at a PR agency.
  • Knowledge of or experience in financial markets (ideally in fixed income or electronic markets).
  • Excellent contacts and rapport with top-tier financial media, and solid news judgment.
  • Strong writing and content development skills.
  • Excellent, incisive communication skills.
  • The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong knowledge of generative AI and other emerging technologies reshaping communications.
  • Digital and social media experience in an enterprise corporate setting.
  • A desire to learn — Tradeweb spans many global markets, and curiosity is key.
  • Positive attitude — we are a lean, experienced, and hard-working team, and everybody pitches in to do whatever needs to be done.
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Tradeweb

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Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 50 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale, retail and corporates markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $2.4 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four fiscal quarters.

Founded in 1997
New York, New York, USA
1.8K employees (53 in marketing)
69% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
94.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$49
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
58.2%
Referral
5.8%
Social
1.3%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
44 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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