Hybrid Communications Lead

Posted 9 hours ago

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About the role

  • Communications Lead developing and executing communications strategy for fintech lender Abound. Building brand presence and internal culture for attracting talent and investors.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute Abound's end-to-end communications strategy, covering both internal and external audiences
  • Build and own our media and PR presence - identify the right press, agency partners and spokespeople; secure meaningful coverage in the publications our target audiences actually read
  • Source, onboard and manage external agencies or freelancers needed to scale the function effectively
  • Be a skilled writer and editor across all formats: blog posts, press releases, exec communications, investor updates and more
  • Act as a spokesperson where appropriate and coach internal leaders to communicate with clarity and confidence
  • Develop our employer brand narrative to help us attract exceptional people
  • Build our investor comms playbook - ensuring our story lands clearly and compellingly with current and prospective investors
  • Create the internal communications infrastructure we currently lack: all-hands, newsletters, leadership updates

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a communications role, ideally at a fintech, financial services company, or a comms/PR agency with relevant clients
  • A track record of building or meaningfully elevating a brand's communications function - not just maintaining someone else's
  • An exceptional writer: clear, compelling and able to adapt your voice to different audiences and channels
  • Strategic and executional: you can develop a plan and see it through - not just respond to what lands in your inbox
  • A strong network in UK fintech or financial media is a bonus, but not a prerequisite
  • Comfortable operating as a one-person function initially, with the commercial sense to know when to bring in external support
  • Ambitious: you want to build something that makes people take notice

Benefits

  • Everyone owns a piece of the company - equity
  • Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office
  • 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays
  • 2 paid volunteering days per year
  • One month paid sabbatical after 4 years
  • Employee loan
  • Free gym membership
  • Team wellness budget to be active together - set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering

Job title

Communications Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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