Senior Director/VP, Fintech

Mission North•New York City, NY

About The Position

Mission North is a strategic communications agency for influential companies to build, protect, and renew their impact. Market-shaping brands like Instacart, Google, Betterment, Toast, Canva, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Snowflake, and Zoom have turned to us to navigate change and accelerate impact at every stage. Our award-winning culture of curiosity allows us to attract the best communicators and mobilize them around tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. Our stories about breakthrough innovations and movements—and the iconic teams behind them—have influenced hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. Join our vibrant communications agency dedicated to nurturing dynamic professionals seeking a career embedded in purpose and impact. We're looking for a strategic, curious, and impact-driven Senior Director/VP to play a hands-on role leading and growing our portfolio of segments of our Fintech Practice, including investment, payments, real estate, and more as they navigate a fast-moving communications and technology landscape.

Requirements

10-12 years of PR agency or in-house experience working with banking, payments, investment, or real estate tech brands
Adept at managing relationships with C-level executives at tech companies.
Ability to tap into a strong network of potential talent, partners and customers in order to support practice and business growth.
Experience helping clients navigate sensitive reputation issues and crisis communications
Compelling communication and presentation skills.
Exceptional creative and content development skills on technical topics.
Strong new business development skills with a proven track record of closing and retaining new clients.
Experience leading strategic workshops and initiatives including messaging, storyline development, thought leadership platform development and media training.
Proven track record of simultaneously directing multiple teams at PR/comms agencies and/or within in-house comms functions.
Strong management skills and a genuine interest in managing and mentoring teams.
Thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple competing priorities.
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Experience in public affairs and advocacy, financial communications and/or investor relations

Responsibilities

Client retention, product/service evolution, staff development and portfolio growth.
Collaborate with peers who oversee other Financial Services accounts, working together to set and reach goals for the broader group.
Be a trusted strategic partner to comms, marketing and content client contacts and their executive teams, and promote communications strategies that will help them reach their full potential.
Set and plan against revenue goals, talent development, agency marketing, lead generation and new business development for the Financial Services practice group, with a focus on growing our portfolio of growth-stage/established fintech and traditional financial services brands.
Proactively drive new business efforts with minimal oversight. This includes overseeing pitch teams from start to finish during the pitch process.
Generate new revenue with existing clients. You have a keen eye for timing strategic recommendations that align the scope of work to meet the needs of our clients.
Work with our specialists to provide clients with programs that integrate traditional PR, digital, and social media platforms.
Serve as a steward of Mission North’s values and operating principles.
Mentor and coach staff across all levels of skills development.
Work closely with fellow account leads to direct account staffing and forecasting.
Represent Mission North and our clients at industry events for new business networking and personal professional development.