Director Investor Relations
- Location
- Columbus, OH
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About the role
Job Posting End Date
11-30-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
The Director of Investor Relations serves as a key liaison between the company and the investment community, helping to shape and communicate the company's financial, operational, and strategic narrative to investors, sell-side analysts, and other stakeholders. This role partners closely with executive leadership, finance, treasury, regulatory, and communications teams to ensure consistent, transparent, and credible engagement with the financial community.
The Director plays a critical role in leading and supporting earnings communications, investor messaging, investor targeting, and market intelligence, while helping management understand investor perspectives, market expectations, and industry developments.
What You'll Do
- Serve as a primary point of contact for institutional investors, research analysts, and other members of the investment community.
- Support the development of clear and compelling messaging around financial results, strategic initiatives, regulatory developments, and capital allocation priorities.
- Prepare executive leadership for investor interactions through briefing materials, talking points, and Q&A preparation.
- Lead, develop, and mentor Investor Relations professionals, fostering a high-performance, collaborative, and results-oriented team culture.
- Coordinate and participate in investor meetings, conferences, non-deal roadshows, and analyst events.
- Monitor analyst models, investor feedback, consensus estimates, valuation metrics, and shareholder activity.
- Analyze market trends, peer performance, investor sentiment, and industry developments.
- Provide management with actionable insights regarding investor perceptions, valuation drivers, and emerging opportunities or risks.
- Maintain and communicate investor ownership, targeting, and engagement analytics
- Build strong partnerships across finance, treasury, accounting, regulatory affairs, communications, legal, and business unit leadership.
- Support financing activities, rating agency engagements, and strategic transactions as needed.
- Direct the preparation of news releases, financial fact sheets, newsletters, intranet/internet sites and other appropriate means of communicating with the financial community at large.
What We're Looking For
Education
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business.
Work Experience
- 10 years' experience in Finance or Accounting, with Investor Relations experience preferred.
Other Must Haves
- MBA or CPA preferred.
- Must have excellent communication skills.
- Mastery of the business and competition.
- Strong client focus and initiative.
Where You'll Work
- On-Site in the AEP Headquarters in Columbus, OH
What You'll Get
- Base salary
- Annual bonus
- Long-term incentive
- 401K match
- AEP Pension
- Comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.
Where Putting the Customer First Powers Everything We Do!
- At AEP, we're more than just an energy company - we're a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions.
- Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities.
- If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
- #LI-ONSITE
- #AEPCareers
- Compensation Data
Compensation Grade
SP20-011
Compensation Range
$160,434.00 - $208,565.50
The Physical Demand Level for this job is
S - Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
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Equal opportunity and legal notices
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
From AEP's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 15, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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