Director, PR & Communication

Wagestream is on a mission to bring better financial wellbeing to frontline workers.

We partner with some of the world’s most famous employers, like Bupa, Burger King, Green King and the mighty NHS to give their teams access to fairer financial services - all built around flexible pay. Over three million people can now choose how often they’re paid, track their shifts and earnings, start saving, use budgeting tools, get free financial coaching, and access fairer financial products. All in one financial wellbeing super-app.

Wagestream is unique: VC-backed and growing at scale-up pace, but with a social conscience. Some of the world's leading financial charities and impact funds were our founding investors, and we operate on a social charter - which means every product we build has to improve financial health and reduce the $5.6bn ‘premium’ lower-income earners pay for financial services each year.

You’d be joining a team of over 200 passionate, ambitious people, across Europe and the USA, building a category-leading fintech product and all united by that same mission.

The Opportunity

This leader will be responsible for developing and implementing PR strategies, managing media relations, and elevating the company's market presence. This includes leading PR campaigns, overseeing communications, and handling crisis situations. They are responsible for shaping public perception and maintaining positive relationships with the media and public.

What will you be doing?

• Strategy and Planning: Developing and implementing comprehensive PR strategies to achieve business goals and enhance the company's public image
• Media Relations: Building and maintaining relationships with media, pitching stories, managing press inquiries, and handling media coverage. This includes crafting and distributing news releases to target media, tracking coverage, and analysing its impact on the company
• Campaign Management: Overseeing and executing PR campaigns, including working with social media and other communication channels
• Team Leadership: Managing and mentoring a small team, setting objectives, and monitoring team performance
• Budget Management: Overseeing the PR budget and ensuring resources are allocated effectively

What experience might you have?

• Strategic thinking: Ability to develop and implement short to medium term public relations strategies, and adjusting as business scales
• Communication and collaboration: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills to effectively work with the leadership and cross-functional teams
• Project management: Strong project management skills to oversee press campaign execution and media events
• Data analysis and interpretation: Strong data driven leader that analyses, tracks and reports back on performance
• A hands on leader that can both set the strategy and undertake the execution
• Minimum 12+ years experience, with 4+ years in a people management role
• Knowledge of PR both in the US and UK would be advantageous
• Fintech or software experience is important

Working Policy: Hybrid, with three office days per week

Location: Central London

Benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave in addition to public holidays (up to 5 day rollover), as well as flexible time off allowances for any ad-hoc childcare/family/caring needs
• 10 days Annual Leave Buy-Back scheme
• 24 weeks' paid Maternity Leave and 4 weeks paid Paternity Leave for employees with over 12 months service
• Special Leave for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and other fertility treatments
• Sabbatical scheme
• Paid leave to volunteer
• Private Healthcare via AXA including comprehensive mental and physical coverage
• Salary sacrifice to pension, as well as bonus exchange to Pension: reap even more rewards of any bonus by paying into your pension & save on Tax and NI + added compound growth
• Season Ticket Loan
• Access to Salary Sacrifice Schemes via ThanksBen: THE Benefits marketplace. Choose the benefits you want, when you want. Pay less tax, receive more value, including: Workplace nurseries, Cycle to Work, Home and Tech Scheme and more.
• The best benefit of all, access to Wagestream!

Additional:

• Workplace nurseries
• Cycle to Work
• Home and Tech Scheme

At Wagestream we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Wagestream is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, or veteran status.