Executive Director, Security & Resiliency Initiative; SRI) Communications

The Security & Resiliency Initiative (SRI) is a firmwide priority and a $1.5 trillion, 10-year effort to facilitate, finance, and invest in industries critical to national economic security and resiliency, including advanced manufacturing and supply chains, defense and aerospace, energy independence and resilience, frontier and strategic technologies (such as AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing), and pharma and healthtech. SRI sits at the heart of a firmwide strategy that advances security, resiliency, energy, and sustainability together work advanced in partnership with the firmwide Center for Energy and the Environment (CE&E).

As an Executive Director leading external communications for the Security and Resiliency Initiative (SRI), you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing a strategic communications approach that elevates JPMorgan

Chase’s leadership in strengthening industries critical to national economic security and resiliency. You will serve as a senior communications advisor to initiative leadership and partner seamlessly with policy-focused colleagues in Corporate Responsibility Communications, Government Relations, and line-of-business communicators to ensure coordinated, credible storytelling across proactive and reactive moments. Through disciplined media engagement, executive positioning, and high-impact content, you will help translate complex capital, investment, and policy work into clear narratives that build the firm’s profile and protect and enhance its reputation.

• Lead development and execution of the external communications strategy for SRI, grounded in SRI’s focus areas (supply chain and advanced manufacturing; defense and aerospace; energy independence and resilience; frontier and strategic technologies; pharma and healthtech) and aligned to firmwide priorities.

• Serve as a trusted communications advisor to senior leaders, providing counsel on messaging, positioning, reputation management, and high-value engagement opportunities.

• Manage media relations, including proactive outreach and reactive issues management, and cultivate relationships with top-tier national, financial, trade, and defense/national-security media to strengthen the firm’s external profile.

• Develop and execute proactive communications campaigns around key milestones (investments, transactions, expansions, research, and thought leadership), ensuring credibility, precision, and message pull-through.

• Draft, edit, and oversee high-quality content across formats—press materials, thought leadership, executive remarks/speeches, briefings, op-eds, fact sheets, and talking points—translating complex capital-, investment-, and policy-related work into clear external narratives.

• Partner seamlessly with policy-focused colleagues in Corporate Responsibility Communications who lead SRI’s policy advocacy work, ensuring coordinated external communications across SRI’s core policy priorities and public-private partnership engagement.

• Collaborate with internal partners across lines of business, Government Relations, Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure accurate, timely, and disciplined communications.

• Monitor geopolitical, industry, and regulatory developments to inform messaging, anticipate issues, and identify strategic opportunities.

• Track and measure communications outcomes and the effectiveness of tactics; provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.

• Support spokesperson preparation for media interviews, conferences, and speaking engagements; elevate executives and subject matter experts through an intentional visibility strategy.

• Build strong relationships with communicators across the firm to enable seamless coordination and consistent…