Communications Lead-Online Jobs From Home UK

Job Type: Comunications Lead
Location: United Kingdom
Company: WalletConnect

WalletConnect is more than just a protocol; it’s the foundation of the New Internet, which redefines the digital landscape by bringing ownership, utility, and usability together. We think that composability, ownership, control, and choice will define the next stage of the internet. We facilitate communication between more than 500 wallets and 6,000 apps with our suite of builder products, AppKit and WalletKit, supporting over 10 million connections monthly.

Our goal is very clear: enable developers to create captivating web3 experiences and lead the sector in reaching the next 100 million cryptocurrency users.

With $25 million in funding from some of the top infrastructure and cryptocurrency investors in the world, including Union Square Ventures, 1kx, Shopify, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and Uniswap Labs, WalletConnect is a multinational team that prioritizes transparency, ease of use, creativity, and ownership.

Responsabilities:

• Target audiences for media coverage include web3 trade press, business, tech, and mainstream journalists (digital publications, podcasts, newsletters, video, etc.). Make the most of your current connections and build new ones.
• Opinion and Influencer Leaders: Make sure that our main points and narratives are memorable and comprehended by opinion, influence, and community leaders. utilizing these influential voices to spread the word about and amplify our message.
• Content creation: create press releases, pitches, thought leadership commentary, briefing materials, and positioning/messaging for clients.
• Channel expertise is the ability to tell stories and magnify messages across a range of media channels, from X to TikTok to Discord to Farcaster, with a thorough understanding of both established and emerging channels.
• Reach out proactively to secure thought leadership positions in podcasts, media, and events.
• Industry events: assist in assembling a strategic event presence and collaborate one-on-one with client representatives to locate, plan, and maximize speaking engagements at important industry gatherings.
• Stakeholder management: Organize all pertinent internal and external stakeholders, foreseeing requirements and deadlines to ensure successful implementation.
• Communications infrastructure: assistance with all PR endeavors, handling media relations questions and requests from the executive team
• Reporting: track, evaluate, and convey PR outcomes while developing post-report campaigns that offer practical takeaways.
• Market analysis: keep up of market developments and offer suitable suggestions on how to involve customers in hot topics.
• Crisis communications: give clients strategic communication advice to help them handle delicate situations

Requeriments:

• 4-6 years of experience working in comms/ PR roles at an agency or in-house, with a strong background in crypto, web3, or open-source systems.

• Deep understanding and involvement in web3 and the prominent ecosystems, technical primitives, culture of open source/ decentralized systems, and the use cases that define the industry landscape
• Knowledge of and familiarity with web3 norms and culture
• Successful track record of leading initiatives across brand comms, news campaigns, and thought leadership — ie. crafting brand assets, executing all media outreach and coordination, stakeholder management, and securing earned speaking engagements
• Strong media and influencer, community & thought leader relationships in web3, tech, and adjacent media verticals
• Excellent writing and editing abilities
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage several projects at once
• A track record of working together and communicating with teammates and clients
• Events experience highly preferred