Strategic Public Affairs Lead

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an experienced Insights Center Communications Lead, Public Affairs Manager to lead multi-channel public affairs campaigns and strategic communications for f ederal, state, and local policy priorities. The role emphasizes advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven storytelling to support enterprise objectives.

The position requires strong relationships with policymakers, think tanks, and media, with a focus on capitalizing on research insights to influence public

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or military experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in public affairs, issue advocacy campaign, earned media, political campaigns, or any combination of the four.
• At least 2 years of experience in a consulting or corporate setting, such as a PR agency or trade association.

Responsibilities

• Advocacy and Campaign Execution: Lead the end-to-end strategy and execution of integrated public affairs and data-driven campaigns (earned, paid, owned and digital) to advance policy, legislative and corporate reputation priorities at the federal, state and local levels.
• Stakeholder and Third Party Management: Build and leverage trusted relationships with external stakeholders, including policy influencers, trade associations, think tanks, and non-profits to drive joint initiatives.
• Media Relations: Cultivate deep relationships with beltway, national, regional and trade media outlets; pitch and secure targeted earned media moments to advance core enterprise narratives.
• Executive and Strategic Counsel: Provide real-time, actionable strategic advice to senior business leaders and internal partners, ensuring communications seamlessly line up with enterprise objectives.
• Messaging and Content Creation: Draft high-impact strategic materials, executive talking points, communications briefs, and positioning papers on complex issues.
• Convenings and Events: Design, manage and execute high-impact thought leadership events, policymaker education programs and strategic convenings both inside and outside the beltway.
• Data-Driven Narrative Development: Capitalize on proprietary research and data-driven insights to inform policymaker education, elevate executive profiles and shape public opinion.

Skills

Public affairs

Earned media

Campaigns

Policy advocacy

Stakeholder relations

Strategic communications

Media relations

Executive counsel

Messaging & content

Education

Bachelor's degree or military experience

Job description

Capital One is seeking an experienced Insights Center Communications Lead, Public Affairs Manager to lead multi-channel public affairs campaigns and strategic communications for f ederal, state, and local policy priorities. The role emphasizes advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven storytelling to support enterprise objectives.

The position requires strong relationships with policymakers, think tanks, and media, with a focus on capitalizing on research insights to influence public