Sr. Manager, External Communications
Your Opportunity
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thinking meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together.
As Senior Manager, External Communications, you’ll play a key role in shaping how senior leaders across Schwab Advisor Services and Workplace Services communicate with clients, industry audiences, and other key stakeholders. Working within Corporate Affairs, you’ll translate complex business priorities into clear, compelling speeches, presentations, talking points, thought leadership, and client-facing communications that capture each leader’s authentic voice and strengthen Schwab’s story.
You’ll serve as a trusted communications advisor to senior leaders while owning high-profile initiatives from strategy through execution. This includes preparing leaders for key client and industry engagements, coordinating communications across teams and channels, and maintaining an integrated view of announcements, events, and leadership commitments. You’ll anticipate needs, navigate changing priorities, and identify opportunities to strengthen messaging, address potential risks, and ensure communications are timely, consistent, and impactful.
Success in this role requires exceptional writing and storytelling skills, strong business judgment, discretion, and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, chiefs of staff, and Corporate Affairs partners. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy turning complex ideas into compelling narratives, advising senior leaders, and helping shape communications that make an impact.
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 7+ years of experience in executive communications, corporate communications, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience supporting executive communications, including speeches, talking points, presentations, and external remarks for senior leaders.
- Experience developing client or stakeholder communications on behalf of senior executives, with careful attention to audience, tone, and relationship dynamics.
- Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling content and adapt to different leadership voices.
- Strong business acumen and decision-making skills, with the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
- Strong project management, organization, and priority management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple communications and deadlines accurately.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships, solve problems, and adapt quickly within a complex, fast-moving environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with or interest in financial services, the Registered Investment Advisor industry, or workplace benefits.
- Experience preparing senior leaders for client, industry, conference, or other high-profile speaking engagements.
- Experience collaborating across Corporate Affairs, media relations, thought leadership, and business teams to deliver integrated external communications.
In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
What you are good at
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 7+ years of experience in executive communications, corporate communications, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience supporting executive communications, including speeches, talking points, presentations, and external remarks for senior leaders.
- Experience developing client or stakeholder communications on behalf of senior executives, with careful attention to audience, tone, and relationship dynamics.
- Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling content and adapt to different leadership voices.
- Strong business acumen and decision-making skills, with the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
- Strong project management, organization, and priority management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple communications and deadlines accurately.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships, solve problems, and adapt quickly within a complex, fast-moving environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with or interest in financial services, the Registered Investment Advisor industry, or workplace benefits.
- Experience preparing senior leaders for client, industry, conference, or other high-profile speaking engagements.
- Experience collaborating across Corporate Affairs, media relations, thought leadership, and business teams to deliver integrated external communications.
In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Why Schwab?
At Schwab, “Own Your Tomorrow” embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees unleash their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. We’re a modern financial services firm that stands apart from the industry, where you can go as far as your ambition takes you.
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