Communications Lead
Abound
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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