Zeno Group

Vice President, Corporate Affairs

Zeno Group

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • New York

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $156,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Serve as a senior leader within the Corporate Affairs East practice, with responsibility for business growth, team leadership, and client strategy.
  • Provide C-Suite-level counsel on corporate positioning, transformation narratives, market shifts, regulatory issues, financial disclosures, ESG, and crisis management.
  • Lead integrated corporate affairs programs across technology and financial services clients, ensuring the highest level of strategy, execution, and measurable outcomes.
  • Drive national business and financial media relations, building and leveraging relationships that advance clients’ corporate and financial narratives.
  • Partner with clients on reputation management, investor and stakeholder communications, and thought leadership strategies.
  • Identify and pursue new growth opportunities, drawing on deep insights into clients, industries, competitors, regulation, and the economy.
  • Oversee financial management of accounts, including forecasting, profitability, and multi-million-dollar budgets.
  • Shape the strategic direction of the practice, collaborating with senior leaders across geographies to strengthen positioning and expand offerings.
  • Champion talent development, including mentoring and advancing future leaders in the Corporate Affairs team.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Corporate Communications / Corporate Affairs, with strong exposure to financial services and technology sectors.
  • Proven success leading complex, multi-stakeholder programs for Fortune 1000 companies.
  • Significant agency leadership experience, with a record of driving growth, building client portfolios, and managing large teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted advisor to the C-Suite and senior executives.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • Expertise in financial services communications, including knowledge of banking, insurance, fintech, asset/wealth management, regulatory environments, and financial media.
  • Strong background in corporate reputation, financial disclosure positioning, ESG communications, and crisis management.
  • Exceptional writing, presentation, and communication skills; proven success in winning new business.
  • Deep relationships with national business and financial press and a track record of shaping corporate narratives that influence markets and stakeholders.
  • History of mentoring and developing senior and junior talent, with a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and building collaborative teams.