Comms, Public Goods

Stripe; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Communications lead for Public Goods to drive full-stack messaging for Frontier and Intercept, shaping narratives and coordinating across researchers, technologists, funders, and policy audiences. You will craft compelling announcements and editorials, working with experts to prepare spokespeople for media appearances.

The role emphasizes autonomy, exceptional writing, and the ability to translate complex science into accessible communications, with in-office collaboration at

Qualifications

• Excellent writing ability translating complex technical topics into clear communications.
• High degree of initiative, ownership, and ability to work independently.
• Experience in or around online movements prioritizing rapid, principled action.
• Strong intuition for how ideas spread on the internet and across media.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack communications for Intercept and Frontier programs from strategy to external storytelling.
• Develop and evolve narratives for Frontier and Intercept to engage researchers, technologists, funders, and policy makers.
• Design innovative communications strategies to mobilize journalists, influencers, and online communities.
• Write announcements, social content, and opinion pieces with exceptionally high writing quality.
• Collaborate with Frontier and Intercept experts to inform strategy and prepare them for media appearances and public exposure.
• Build relationships with partners and portfolios to coordinate communications across stakeholders.

Skills

Strong writing

Autonomy

First-principles thinking

Understanding of online movements

Strategic communications

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Public Goods at Stripe is focused on catalyzing products or services that would improve the world but don’t exist because the commercial motivations aren’t yet sufficient. By characterizing these goods, and altering the incentives, we hope to bring them to market faster. Our two main initiatives—Frontier, a $1.8B advanced market commitment to accelerate carbon removal, and Intercept, an effort to accelerate the elimination of respiratory infections—are partnerships between Stripe and some of the world’s most ambitious organisations, including Google, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, and J.P. Morgan.

What you’ll do

Stripe is looking for an entrepreneurial netizen to lead communications for our Public Goods programs. The success of Frontier and Intercept will be contingent on building strong networks of support and cooperation in the communities where they operate (researchers, scientists, technologists, healthcare). We’ll need to persuade people and organisations to change course: labs changing their research paths; entrepreneurs quitting their jobs to start something new; funders reprioritising their grant programs. You’ll laser in on the influential voices, and build targeted strategies to shift opinions and behaviours using traditional media, podcasts, video, substackers, influencers, events, and Twitter. You’ll craft compelling messaging on world-altering technologies; announce billions of dollars worth of grants and investments; publish opinionated editorial designed to inflect research fields; build communities of superfans; and manage coalitions of the world’s biggest companies and philanthropic organizations. If we’re successful, you’ll be instrumental in reducing CO2 in the atmosphere, ending respiratory infections, and whatever else comes next.

Responsibilities

• ‘Full stack’ comms leadership for Intercept and Frontier, from strategy and narrative development right through to having great stories and content out in the world.
• Crafting the Intercept narrative (largely from scratch, it’s very early!), and evolving the Frontier story for the next phase.
• Designing novel communications strategies from first principles to get journalists, influencers, policymakers, and substackers excited about these programs.
• Writing excellent communications (i.e. announcements, social media posts, or opinion pieces). Note: we are unusually obsessive about the quality of our writing!
• Partner with experts and leaders in the Frontier and Intercept teams: soliciting their ideas and expertise to inform the strategy, preparing them for media or podcast appearances, and building their profiles among important audiences.
• Build excellent relationships with our partners (both funders and portfolio companies and projects) in pursuit of carefully orchestrated communications across many stakeholders

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Comfort with highly complex and technical subject matter; you don’t need to be a scientist yourself, but you will need to keep up with some very fast-moving ones on the team.
• A superlative writer with a proven ability to translate complex, dense, technical information into compelling communications but which maximise fidelity.
• High agency and autonomy: identifying gaps or risks, seeking out the context, and bringing fully formed ideas for leadership approval.
• Experience in or around online movements which prize first-principles thinking, entrepreneurialism, and speed, like Silicon Valley, Progress, or Effective Altruism.
• A strong intuition for how and why ideas spread, particularly on the internet.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with traditional media outlets is good, but not required.

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $183,200 - $274,800. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

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• Company: Stripe
• Team: Communications
• Office location: South San Francisco HQ
• Employment type: Full time