Director, Finance Communications

About the Role

The ideal candidate brings strong financial acumen, deep experience supporting publicly traded companies, and a solid understanding of the retail and apparel industry. This person understands the rhythms and sensitivities of public company communications-earnings cycles, disclosure expectations, and high stakes messaging-and can translate complex financial and industry insights into accessible, human centered communications for internal and external audiences.

What You'll Do

• Evolve Gap Inc.’s financial narrative, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment across internal and external communications.
• Support strategic storytelling for quarterly financial cycles, including contributing to the development of earnings scripts, press releases, and Q&A documents.
• Translate financial results, performance drivers, and strategy into meaningful, engaging narratives that help employees understand business performance and their role in driving it.
• Develop and manage internal communications programs, including content for enterprise wide town halls, leadership forums, financial updates, and other internal moments.
• Support the CFO with speeches, presentations, talking points, and thought leadership content.
• Partner closely with Finance, Investor Relations and Media Relations to ensure financial messaging is accurate, compliant, and strategically positioned.
• Engage with business and financial media in partnership with Media Relations to reinforce credibility and market confidence.
• Provide communications counsel to ensure alignment with legal considerations and public company requirements.
• Build strong cross functional relationships to ensure financial communications are timely, consistent, and integrated across teams and audiences.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in corporate communications, preferably with an emphasis on financial, corporate, or executive communications.
• Experience working within or supporting a publicly traded company, including familiarity with earnings cycles, disclosure requirements, and market-sensitive communications.
• Strong financial acumen, with the ability to interpret financial statements and distill complex data into clear and compelling narratives.
• Knowledge of the retail and apparel industry a plus including market trends, competitive dynamics, and business drivers.
• Experience partnering with or managing business and financial media.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills-able to convey complexity with clarity, precision, and human relevance.
• Proven success advising senior executives and navigating fast-paced, high-visibility communications moments.
• Confident, calm, and collaborative in a highly matrixed, fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence (EQ) and diplomacy skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Business, or related field; advanced degree (MBA, CPA) a plus.

Preferred Attributes:

• Strong financial fluency and command of financial statements and drivers with ability to translate operating results into clear narratives
• Familiarity with investor communications and engagement
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic communications initiatives.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed organization.