Head of Communications

Skyral

Head of External Affairs Location: London / Hybrid Reports to: CEO (Growth area) Function: Marketing & External Affairs About Skyral Skyral is building defence-grade modelling, simulation and digital twin technology for complex, high-stakes environments. Our software helps organisations understand complexity, test decisions before they are made, and prepare for futures that are increasingly uncertain, contested and fast-moving. We work with defence, government and commercial partners to deliver technology that supports better planning, training, decision-making and operational readiness. As we scale, we are looking for a Head of External Affairs to lead the strategy, narrative and delivery of Skyral’s external presence across media, public affairs, digital channels, events, sales enablement and executive communications. The role The Head of External Affairs will be responsible for shaping how Skyral shows up externally: what we say, where we say it, who hears it, and why it matters. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can move confidently between strategy and execution. You will set the communications agenda, manage agency partners, support the executive team, and ensure Skyral’s narrative is consistently sharp, credible and commercially useful. You will oversee external communications across press, public affairs, web, social, events, conferences, sales collateral and investor-facing materials. You will also work closely with business development, product, solutions architects and the executive team to ensure Skyral is positioned effectively with customers, partners, investors, government and the wider market. Key responsibilities Communications, PR and media You will lead Skyral’s communications strategy and external narrative, ensuring the business has a clear, differentiated and compelling position in the market. Responsibilities include: Developing, agreeing and delivering Skyral’s annual communications strategy and business narrative. Managing the PR agency, including pitch strategy, media engagement and delivery. Drafting, reviewing and approving press releases, editorials, blogs, commentary and thought leadership. Preparing and briefing executives for media interviews, external engagements and speaking opportunities. Building and managing relationships with journalists, including off-the-record and background briefings. Ensuring Skyral’s media presence supports business priorities, commercial growth and strategic positioning. Public affairs and stakeholder engagement You will lead Skyral’s public affairs activity, ensuring the business is well-positioned with government, defence and policy audiences. Responsibilities include: Briefing MPs, civil servants and senior government officials on Skyral’s technology, priorities and relevance. Managing the public affairs agency and ensuring activity is aligned with business priorities. Developing and delivering public affairs strategy in support of commercial, policy and reputational goals. Preparing executives for government, parliamentary and senior stakeholder engagements. Events and conferences You will steer Skyral’s events and conference strategy, ensuring the business shows up with impact at the moments that matter. Responsibilities include: Developing and delivering Skyral’s major conference and events strategy. Managing company attendance at key industry events, including planning, logistics, messaging and follow-up. Owning VIP events and senior stakeholder engagements. What we are looking for We are looking for someone who combines strategic judgement with strong execution. You should be comfortable advising senior leaders, managing agencies, writing sharp copy, building external narratives, and getting the details right. The ideal candidate will have: Significant experience in external affairs, strategic communications, public affairs, corporate communications, defence, technology or government-facing sectors. Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce high-quality press releases, speeches, articles, social posts, web copy and sales materials. Strong media judgement and experience managing journalists, PR agencies and media opportunities. Experience briefing senior executives for external engagements, interviews, speeches or stakeholder meetings. A strong understanding of public affairs, government engagement and policy audiences. Experience managing events, conferences or senior stakeholder engagements. The ability to translate complex technology into clear, commercially relevant messaging. Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities at pace. Confidence working with senior internal stakeholders, including executives, business development teams, product teams and technical experts. A high bar for quality, detail and consistency. Experience in defence, national security, government, emerging technology, AI, simulation, digital twins or enterprise software would be highly advantageous.

Behavox

ABOUT BEHAVOX Behavox is a cloud-native AI company providing an integrated controls platform for global banks, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance businesses, and commodity firms. The platform unifies communications and trade surveillance, compliant archiving, policy management as well as front-office analytics on a single, AI-native technology stack, delivered as a globally scalable SaaS-based cloud service. At Behavox, our engineering culture is built around speed, experimentation, and technical excellence, following agile principles and rapid iteration. We constantly test and adopt the latest cloud technologies and AI tooling, optimising for fast feedback loops and execution. We look for people who can move fast, challenge conventional wisdom, and who want to work at the frontier of modern AI, SaaS platforms, and distributed systems. Behavox is a high-performance organisation with a strong bias toward delivery, ownership, and responsibility. We commit, and we execute. We are building systems that are complex, mission-critical, and global in scale; systems that many consider too large or too difficult. To do that, we seek the smartest, most technically capable engineers and technologists who take end-to-end responsibility and want to win by building what others cannot. Founded in 2014 and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Behavox is headquartered in London, with offices worldwide, including New York City, Montreal, Seattle, Singapore, and Tokyo. About the Role As a Marketing Events Manager 3, you will lead the strategy, planning, execution and optimisation of global third-party and company-owned events that drive pipeline growth, accelerate revenue and strengthen brand authority. Reporting to the Head of Marketing Programmes (Events), this role operates with significant autonomy and contributes directly to regional and global marketing strategy. This is not a purely executional position; it requires strong commercial judgement, cross-functional leadership and a clear focus on measurable business impact. You will own the strategic development of Behavox’s event portfolio by researching, evaluating and prioritising industry conferences and sponsorship opportunities aligned to our ideal customer profile and revenue objectives. You will build and manage annual and quarterly event roadmaps tied to pipeline targets, while forecasting and controlling budgets to ensure maximum return on investment. In addition to third-party events, you will design and scale company owned experiences, including executive roundtables, client forums and flagship gatherings. These initiatives will strengthen customer engagement, elevate brand perception and create differentiated market positioning. You will be responsible for building scalable playbooks that ensure repeatable success across regions. This role also serves as a central connector across Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Legal and Leadership. You will align messaging, coordinate activation strategies, manage vendor relationships and ensure seamless execution from pre-event planning through to post-event follow-up. Establishing clear success metrics - including meetings secured, MQLs, SQLs, pipeline influence and revenue attribution - will be critical, as will continuously analysing performance data to refine and optimise strategy. Global travel will be required as necessary to support high-impact initiatives. What You'll Bring * Global B2B event planning and execution within enterprise SaaS, fintech, or high-growth technology environments. * Revenue marketing strategy, including pipeline generation, acceleration, and attribution modelling. * Event operations management, including logistics planning, vendor oversight, and risk mitigation. * Commercial contract negotiation, budget forecasting, and financial management for multi-region initiatives. * Cross-functional stakeholder management within complex, matrixed organisations. What You'll Do * Independently plans and delivers complex global events end-to-end within a team structure, managing timelines, logistics, vendors, and stakeholders. * Develops and executes event strategies aligned to pipeline and revenue targets, ensuring measurable ROI. * Negotiates and manages event and vendor contracts while maintaining budget control and cost efficiency. * Designs and implements structured activation plans (pre-event, on-site, post-event) to maximise pipeline creation and acceleration. * Produces detailed performance reporting and post-event analysis to continuously optimise strategy and execution. What We Offer * The opportunity to work on a global, mission-critical AI platform alongside the best engineers and technologists across multiple geographies. * A role with real ownership and impact, building complex systems at scale in an environment that values speed, experimentation, and technical excellence. * A highly attractive benefits package, including competitive cash compensation, an equity award aligned with long-term value creation, and comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families. * Modern, comfortable offices, with an expectation of working from the office 2 days per week, reflecting our belief in strong in-person collaboration. * A generous time-off policy of 30 days annually, plus public holidays and sick leave, recognising the importance of sustained high performance. About Our Process We take Talent very seriously and we are building a community of extraordinary individuals working together in very high performing teams. We also know that the best Talent always has options so we believe that the process has to be a two way assessment - the company AND the candidate assessing the business needs alignment, the career next step alignment, and the cultural alignment.  During the process we will begin by exploring the core factors regarding salary and location along with core experience and skills and values alignment. We will then deep dive explore the critical technical competencies we have identified for the role, and then we will deep dive in behavioral competencies. The most aligned candidate will then be asked to do a practical work task simulation activity so we can make sure that you will enjoy the kind of work the role requires, and this task will typically be presented and discussed with a group of colleagues and managers. Finally we will ask you to meet with a number of our senior leaders to make sure that you are making the most informed call possible. Please note that: * We want to get to know you and have a genuine conversation, so the use of AI tools or assistance during live interviews is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate disqualification from the process  * Interviews may be recorded for internal review purposes to ensure fairness and enable collaborative hiring discussions within the team.

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. "The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 500 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. Come for the cats, stay for the empathy. Reddit is looking for an Ads Measurement Lead in London to help our advertising partners succeed on our platform. This role will be an integral part of the Marketing Sciences team, and overall Marketing organization – driving our value proposition to agencies and brands by demonstrating the power and performance of Reddit as a media platform. In short, we’re looking for a measurement lead with a marketers mindset.  This Lead will be a key partner to our sales team, fusing best practices, industry knowledge, and critical thinking in order to help clients achieve their brand and  performance goals on Reddit.  This role will be focused on supporting the Sales team to help grow full funnel revenue through measurement, partnerships and signals excellence.  As Reddit is a rapidly growing company, your primary responsibilities will evolve over time and there is a significant opportunity to drive impact within Reddit and support your own career growth. This role reports directly to the Head of Measurement, EMEA. Responsibilities: * Daily responsibilities will span across advertising measurement, performance optimizations, vendor development, advertising strategy, teaching and supporting our sales team, and research.  * Measurement knowledge including attitudinal survey research, offline and online sales/ROI measurement, impression/attribution/conversion and mobile tracking, 1st and 3rd party insights storytelling, and custom research. * Collaborate closely with Client Account Managers to gain a deep understanding of clients’ campaign setups, measurement stack and performance goals, as well as collaborate closely with Product & PMM. * Translate global best practices into EMEA context, creating playbooks and best practices for EMEA specific campaigns.  * Translate data insights into actionable recommendations with clear justifications and expected outcomes, maintaining regular communication of vertical updates and optimization suggestions to our team. * Leverage measurement results to drive sales impact - developing benchmarks, case studies, media & creative best practices, and refinement/optimization to our audience and targeting strategy to improve efficiency and effectiveness. * Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Brand Strategy to develop compelling storylines that highlight opportunities for Reddit advertisers and our competitive advantage.  Join key client meetings as a subject matter expert to provide technical guidance and objection handling.  * Develop and support our go-to-market teams in EMEA  with your measurement expertise, industry knowledge, and insights specific to market nuances. * Support the execution of innovative primary research that amplifies our narrative and value proposition to advertisers, and the development of insights products that position Reddit as a curator of business-critical learnings to advertisers.  * The ideal candidate is someone who possesses the ability to collaborate effectively, identify & understand issues, and work effectively to create long-term solutions. Required Qualifications: * A data-driven storyteller that’s passionate about measurement to inspire and drive action.  * 5+ years in ad research or ad tech – at a research vendor, media owner, client or agency partner. * You are familiar with the ad measurement landscape and the primary vendors, products, and services that advertisers use to measure performance  & brand - and how it all works from a technical perspective.   * A knowledge of experimentation and familiarity with the underlying statistical methods  * Expertise in these three areas of measurement across verticals: * Reach: impressions, viewability, on-target percentage, brand safety, etc. * Resonance: brand awareness, consideration, intent, etc. * Reaction: attribution, conversion, sales lift, tune-in, foot traffic, etc. * Experience optimizing toward DR focused KPIs, as well as knowledge of holistic media planning to support brand awareness and performance campaigns in tandem  * Experienced in executing incrementality testing, developing test+learn agendas and working with engineering + product teams on advanced measurement cases.  * You have a strong background in the execution, analysis, and presentation of quantitative advertising research.  * Proven ability to weave primary research, 1st party platform data, and 3rd party/syndicated research together into a cohesive and compelling story of strategic importance. * Experience working with measurement vendors to bring new services and capabilities to life at a technology company. * Exceptional written and oral communication skills – you’re articulate and engaging * Motivated self-starter who thrives in unstructured environments on an evolving team * BA/BS degree Benefits: * Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match * Private Medical and Dental Scheme * Income Replacement Programs * Bike to Work scheme * Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off * Generous Paid Parental Leave     In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.