Investor Relations Specialist - Public

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is building a public-company investor relations practice. You will draft earnings releases, prepared remarks, and Q&A briefings for quarterly results, and own the earnings cycle from script to analyst engagement.

You will build investor materials, assess activist vulnerability, analyze ownership, and advise on dividend and capital return strategies within a high-impact in-house IR function.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in an in-house investor relations role at a public company.
• Direct ownership of an earnings cycle: release, script, Q&A, analyst engagement.

Responsibilities

• Draft earnings releases, prepared remarks and Q&A briefings.
• Produce guidance-setting and revision recommendations with scenario support.
• Build investor day and IR materials, equity story and positioning decks, AGM materials, and deal announcements.
• Analyze the shareholder register and ownership base, assess activist vulnerability, and draft dividend and capital return recommendations.

Skills

Investor relations

Earnings cycle ownership

Job description

About the work

We're building a high-quality library of public-company investor relations work products. You'll complete self-contained IR exercises from mock files (results packs, shareholder registers, analyst models) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you'll do

• Draft earnings releases, prepared remarks and Q&A briefings for a quarterly results call.
• Produce guidance-setting and revision recommendations with scenario support.
• Build investor day and IR presentation materials, equity story and positioning decks, AGM materials, and deal announcement packages.
• Analyze the shareholder register and ownership base, assess activist vulnerability, and draft dividend and capital return recommendations.

You're a fit if you have

• 4+ years in an in-house investor relations role at a public company.
• Direct ownership of an earnings cycle: release, script, Q&A, analyst engagement.

Nice to have

• IRC charter (NIRI); sell-side equity research before moving in-house; investor relations agency experience.

Assessment

An earnings release and prepared remarks from a mock results pack; a guidance revision recommendation; an activist vulnerability assessment.

Note

this is public-company investor relations. Investor relations at a private equity or venture fund is LP fundraising and is a different role.