# Director, Communications at Cardless

- Company: Cardless
- What the company does: Build credit into your product experience. Run it end to end with modular APIs, pre-built components, analytics, and full-service infrastructure. Backed by Pear VC.
- Company website: https://www.cardless.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cardless/fb4b0064-f450-43f2-9a9f-e292f3c6c58f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cardless-director-communications/

## About the role

Cardless doesn't just need people who believe in the story — it needs people outside the company writing about it, sharing it, and validating it before a prospect ever gets on a call with us. Every piece of earned coverage, every executive interview, every well-timed partner announcement does something paid marketing can't: it tells the market that people other than Cardless think this is worth paying attention to. This role is the person who builds that credibility deliberately, rather than hoping it happens.

## What they're looking for

- Media Relationships: You already have real relationships with reporters and editors who cover fintech, payments, or the consumer brand space — not a list of names, but people who take your calls
- News Judgment: You know what's actually a story and what isn't, and you can shape a company update into something a reporter wants to write
- Executive Prep: You can sit with an executive before a big interview and make them sound sharper and more confident than they would on their own
- Writing: You write clean, fast, accurate press materials — releases, statements, talking points — without needing multiple rounds of rewrites
- Cross-Functional Coordination: You can run a joint announcement with a partner's comms team, and with Cardless's own product and partnerships teams, without dropping a detail or missing a deadline
- Composure Under Pressure: You stay level-headed and clear-eyed when a story isn't going the way anyone wanted, and you respond rather than react

Tags: Marketing