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About the Role
This role is an opportunity to define communications in the creator age, building and leading a modern comms function from the ground up. The function will grow FlightStory's reputation, power its shows, creators and commercial partnerships, sharpen executive positioning, and protect the business. It encompasses corporate narrative, media strategy, executive profiling, launches, commercial moments, risk management, and AI-enabled systems.
Responsibilities
- Grow FlightStory's reputation.
- Power shows, creators, and commercial partnerships.
- Sharpen executive positioning.
- Protect the business when the spotlight turns hot.
- Own the corporate narrative.
- Develop media strategy across the UK, US, and priority international markets.
- Manage executive profiling.
- Oversee launches and commercial moments.
- Handle risk and issues.
- Implement AI-enabled systems to accelerate communications workflow.
- Ensure the narrative is clear, differentiated, and understood by key audiences.
- Ensure the category is understood by editorial and industry audiences.
- Grow shows, creators, and brand worlds through audience channels.
- Position commercial moments for maximum impact.
- Ensure executive positioning is category-defining.
- Build and maintain active, current, and trusted press, creator, and cultural relationships.
- Manage reputation risk on the front foot with clear thinking and calm execution.
- Utilize AI to monitor, draft, brief, synthesize, measure, and accelerate communications.
Requirements
- Exceptional comms judgement.
- Editorial taste and real writing ability.
- Creator-economy fluent.
- Fluent across the full media spectrum.
- Audience-builder, not just press-getter.
- Commercially literate.
- Calm and credible under pressure.
- Highly organised and operationally strong.
- Low ego and collaborative.
- Ambitious, curious, and plugged into culture.
- Comfortable with pace, ambiguity, international work, and shifting priorities.
- A trusted operator.
- Significant experience (10+ years) in communications, media relations, reputation, publicity, corporate affairs or founder/executive communications.
- Track record in media, creator, entertainment, technology, consumer brand or other high-performance environments.
- Evidence of launching, building, and delivering high-profile work to an exceptional standard.
- Strong, current network across journalists, creators, commentators, and industry voices in the UK and/or US.
- Experience working with senior leaders, founders, creators, talent, or culturally visible businesses.
- Experience managing reputation risk and sensitive issues with maturity and judgement.
- Strong AI fluency with evidence of using new tools to sharpen quality, speed, and intelligence.
Skills
- Communications
- Media Relations
- Reputation Management
- Publicity
- Corporate Affairs
- Founder/Executive Communications
- Media Strategy
- Executive Profiling
- Risk Management
- AI Implementation
- Editorial Judgement
- Writing
- Creator Economy Fluency
- Cross-Spectrum Media
- Audience Building
- Commercial Acumen
- Pressure Handling
- Organization
- Collaboration
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Cultural Awareness
- Adaptability
- AI Fluency
Location
- London
- International travel as required
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years experience
About the Company
- FlightStory is a media and investment company.
- Their mission is to elevate the stories, build the communities, and support the founders that inspire a happier, healthier humanity.
- They scale creator-led media, ventures, and communities.