Strategic Communications Lead, tem

• Experience in strategic communications, corporate affairs, or related roles in a fast-growing or regulated environment
• Strong judgement and comfort operating close to senior leadership
• Experience navigating complex issues management scenarios
• Experience developing multi-market communications plans
• Ability to simplify complexity and make trade-offs under ambiguity
• Excellent stakeholder management across functions and external partners
• High writing bar across senior narrative, statements, and long-form materials
• Calm, structured approach to issues and moments of scrutiny
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other trust- and regulation-heavy categories
• If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for

Desirable

• We’re hiring a Strategic Communications Lead. Your job is to shape how tem is understood, trusted, and positioned as we build a new category in energy
• You will be the Chief Growth Officer’s strategic partner for company narrative, positioning, issues management, and major corporate communications
• This is not a marketing role. It sits across the organisation, close to leadership, and focuses on judgement, clarity, and leverage
• You will act as the connective layer between leadership intent, external perception, and regulatory context
• This includes working closely with our PR and government partners to set direction and make trade-offs
• You will work hand in hand with our future Chief of Staff to keep leadership narrative, external relations, and internal reality aligned as tem scales
• Crisis and issues management are part of the role, but the goal is to anticipate and shape, not just react
• Deliver tem’s company-level narrative: clarify what we stand for, how we explain it, and how it shows up consistently across leadership, media, policy, and commercial moments
• Act as the strategic communications partner to the Chief Growth Officer: turn complex, cross-functional input into clear recommendations and decisions
• Lead major corporate communications moments such as annual reporting, category narratives, regulatory developments, and high-impact stakeholder announcements
• Triage and steer public affairs topics with PR and government partners, ensuring the right posture, priorities, and follow-through
• Build comms readiness across the organisation: message frameworks, spokesperson alignment, and light-touch issue preparedness so tem is confident and coherent under scrutiny
• Design simple operating systems for strategic comms: clear ownership, review loops, and escalation paths so quality is repeatable and fast
• Success measures:
• A clear, consistent narrative that compounds across leadership, PR, policy, and commercial communications
• Leadership trust in comms judgement, decision support, and prioritisation
• External perception that matches internal reality, with fewer reactive corrections
• High-quality corporate outputs such as annual reports and major statements that strengthen trust

• We move fast. Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer. If you need us to adapt anything, let us know
• Intro call with Talent, 30 minutes
• Hiring Manager interview, 60 minutes
• Skills interview with cross-functional leaders, 60 to 90 minutes, including a practical exercise
• Culture Add interview with leadership stakeholders, 45 minutes