Sr. Director, Executive Communications & Speechwriter

OSTTRA•New York, NY

About The Position

As an experienced Sr Director, Executive Communications & Speechwriter, this role will play an important part in S&P Global’s CEO strategic communications strategy, positioning, executive visibility, and voice. Working closely across the Office of the CEO and Communications Centers of Excellence, this highly strategic role serves as a trusted thought partner with responsibility for shaping, aligning, and advancing executive narrative across internal and external audiences. This role may also at times create communications for other senior executives. This individual contributor role is responsible for developing high-impact speeches, remarks, talking points, briefing materials, and related executive content while ensuring consistency with public relations and internal communications strategies, corporate strategy, regulatory considerations, and brand standards. This individual will report directly to the Chief Communications Officer. This role is critical in shaping public perception of S&P Global’s senior most leaders and advancing the Company’s strategic objectives by influencing key stakeholders through executive communications. It serves as a strategic advisor to the CEO and Chief Communications Officer, proactively identifying opportunities for executive visibility and thought leadership, and leveraging them to amplify core messaging. This individual will have direct accountabilities for the development and stewardship of the CEO’s narrative, ensuring alignment and consistency across internal and external platforms. This role will also track and report on the effectiveness of executive communications, leveraging analytics and stakeholder feedback to continuously improve impact. The Sr Director, Executive Communications & Speechwriter directly shapes how C-suite leaders communicate vision, priorities, and corporate strategy by translating complex business and regulatory topics into clear, persuasive speeches, talking points, and briefing materials that fit the executive’s unique voice and consistently reflect the company’s brand and governance standards. They act as a senior counselor to the Chief Communications Officer and communications leadership, proactively identifying narrative risks, opportunities and moments for executive engagement. This role partners across communications, legal, compliance, investor relations, various divisions and government affairs to ensure leadership messaging is accurate, compliant, and credible—strengthening influence with investors, customers, regulators, industry bodies, and internal stakeholders. This individual will also leverage the leading-edge tools that advance our communications impact, incorporating AI assistants and advanced workflow technologies to improve ideation, drafting speed, voice capture, consistency checks, version control, and overall messaging efficiency, without sacrificing authenticity.

Requirements

Minimum 15+ years of experience in executive speechwriting, executive communications, or strategic messaging in large, complex organizations.
Proven experience writing for C-level executives (CEO, board members or equivalent) and/or prominent political figures and tailoring messaging to diverse global audiences.
Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted writing tools or comparable advanced editorial technologies used in professional communications workflows.
Ability to research, synthesize and accurately represent complex topics — especially within a regulated industry setting.
Excellent judgment and ability to advance multiple deliverables under tight deadlines with evolving priorities.
Prior experience in a regulated industry (e.g., financial services, healthcare, energy) where speech content must align closely with legal and compliance standards.
Familiarity with enterprise content management systems, executive briefing tools, and digital collaboration platforms.
Proven track record in crafting keynote speeches, executive interviews, or major public address content.
Experience leading communication projects, preferably in a fast-moving, matrixed organization.
Proven track record of global, cross-functional partnership and relationship management.
Demonstrated experience developing executive-level communications in a variety of formats (e.g., on-camera and written interviews, podcasts, speeches, etc.).

Nice To Haves

Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills with a strong ability to convey complex concepts clearly and persuasively.
Skilled in capturing executive voice and adapting tone across different formats and audiences.
Demonstrated strategic judgment and ability to operate as a senior advisor to C-suite leaders in complex, highly visible environments.
Proven ability to lead through influence and collaboration; leads through authentic influence and can galvanize teams by bringing forward passion, enthusiasm, and energy.
Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills to work with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Excellent judgment, confidentiality, and ability to operate in a regulated, high-stakes environment.
Strategic thinker, with ability to see own work within overall department/business goals and identify opportunities for evolution.
Experience with narrative strategy for external stakeholder engagement in regulated or highly visible environments.
Comfort operating with sensitivity to legal and compliance considerations.
Acute awareness of complex problems; can tailor communication strategies to meet the needs of the business.
Experience working on sensitive business issues and crisis communications preferred.
Experience partnering/providing counsel to senior executives, with courage to champion new ideas and approaches, challenge positions, and influence outcomes.

Responsibilities

Executive Speechwriting & Messaging Under the direction of the Chief Communications Officer, work collaboratively with the Communications Centers of Excellence and across the Office of the CEO to build comprehensive executive visibility plans, and research, draft, edit, refine and finalize speeches, keynote remarks, talking points, op-eds, presentations, social media posts and other executive-level communication deliverables for S&P Global CEO and, on fewer occasions, other global senior leadership.
Capture and emulate the authentic voice of the CEO and other C-level leaders, as needed, in written communications, tailoring tone and style for different audiences and engagement formats.
Stay on the cutting edge of business-relevant trends, research, and competitive analysis to inform content and approach.
Translate complex strategic topics — including business strategy, regulatory requirements, and industry developments — into clear, compelling, unique narratives.
AI & Advanced Technology Integration Use AI assistants and technology platforms to support drafting, ideation, version comparisons, consistency checks, messaging optimization, and content refinement while preserving executive voice and intent.
This role will be expected to build, create and advance development of the voice of C-level leader within our intra-company AI tools.
Implement workflow tools for document versioning, executive feedback capture, and collaboration across stakeholders to ensure accuracy and message alignment.
Stay current with emerging AI-enabled communications technologies to recommend improvements in processes and tools for executive content production.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely across communications, legal, compliance, investor relations, government affairs, policy, and business units to ensure speech content is accurate, compelling, compliant, and aligned with corporate priorities and regulatory requirements.
Work with event teams and executive support staff to prepare briefing materials, audience insights, delivery strategy, and Q&A guidance when needed.
Content Library & Thought Leadership Maintain an organized library of reusable narrative frameworks, anecdotes, data points and key themes that reinforce executive priorities.
Support thought leadership efforts by advising on trends, topics, language and strategic framing.
Monitor and report on competitive analysis.
Quality Assurance & Governance Ensure deliverables meet the highest editorial and professional standards, including voice consistency, clarity, grammar, and corporate style guides.
Manage multiple drafts and stakeholder feedback under tight deadlines with strong version control and quality assurance processes.
Ensure accuracy, consistency of voice, brand alignment and editorial quality across all executive communications.
Provide editorial reviews and counsel on external drafts from internal stakeholders.

Benefits

Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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