Senior Communications Lead, Media Relations

Senior Communications Lead, Media Relations LocationNew York - NY; United StatesEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentMarketingCompensationRemote - U.S. locationsAnnual cash range: $101K – $238KThe estimated cash compensation for this role is based on job-related factors including relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Chainlink Labs follows a zone-based compensation model. In addition to competitive cash compensation, Chainlink Labs provides long-term incentives and comprehensive benefits. Actual compensation packages are discussed and finalized during the offer process.Note: For select sales roles, the cash compensation range represents a combination of base salary and sales commission.About ChainlinkChainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.Chainlink Labs is seeking a Senior Communications Lead, Media Relations to own the strategy and execution of our most important external announcements across DeFi, banking, capital markets, and institutional adoption.This is a hands-on, execution-focused role for someone who has repeatedly secured meaningful coverage around major company, product, partnership, and market-moving news. The ideal candidate has deep relationships across top-tier business, financial, broadcast, crypto, and trade media, and knows how to turn complex infrastructure stories into clear narratives that break through beyond the crypto industry.You'll work closely with communications, product marketing, business development, legal, ecosystem, and executive stakeholders to plan, package, pitch, and execute announcements end to end. The role suits a proactive, journalist-connected, fast-moving operator who is comfortable in a remote-first, globally distributed environment where major news moments demand urgency, judgment, and ownership.Your ImpactLead media strategy and execution for Chainlink's major announcements across DeFi, banking, capital markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins, interoperability, data, and complianceTranslate complex technical, institutional, and market-infrastructure developments into clear narratives for mainstream business, financial, crypto, and trade audiencesSecure high-quality earned coverage across top-tier business, financial, broadcast, crypto, fintech, and institutional trade publicationsBuild and maintain strong personal relationships with journalists, editors, producers, and bookers across financial services, technology, crypto, and capital marketsIdentify the right targets for each announcement; mainstream business outlets, financial television, crypto-native publications, trade media, podcasts, newsletters, and industry analystsOwn the full announcement process: strategy, press materials, targeted pitching, embargo management, spokesperson prep, interview coordination, coverage tracking, and post-launch reportingPrepare executives and spokespeople for interviews, briefings, broadcast appearances, podcasts, conference media, and sensitive conversationsWrite and refine press...