Hyperlayer
Senior Communications Manager
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Team: Sales & Marketing
Location: Paddington, London
Employment status: Full-time, Permanent
Reporting to: Head of Brand and Communications
Working week: Monday-Friday
About the role
This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who thrives at the intersection of media relations, executive profiling, and thought leadership in the technical B2B category. You'll be an important part of a small, senior team with daily access to our business leaders and decision-makers, translating a complex proposition into narratives that land with decision-makers: C-suite, CTOs, and Heads of Retail, Business, and Wealth banking at Tier 1–2 banks.
You'll own delivery across earned media, executive platforms, and content, coordinate a retained PR agency, and help drive profile ‘moments’ in the calendar, around events, reports, and client announcements. You'll work directly with our executive spokespeople and be trusted to exercise senior editorial judgment.
What you'll do
- Media relations. Build and own relationships with fintech, banking, and business press, podcasts, analysts, and opinion leaders. Manage reactive and proactive press, act as a credible day-to-day contact for journalists, and develop Hyperlayer into the media’s go-to industry voice on modern banking technology.
- Executive profiling and thought leadership. Develop and ghost-write op-eds, bylines, and LinkedIn content for our executive voices. Run the executive profiling programme – strategy, cadence of thought leadership/op-eds.
- Content and narrative. Maintain message discipline and attribution rigour across everything we publish, and keep proof points, data, and third-party claims accurate and signed off.
- Campaign and report launches. Plan and execute integrated launches including flagship research reports sequenced around anchor events and client news.
- Agency and partner management. Own the day-to-day relationship with our retained PR agency: brief, prioritise, quality-control, and hold delivery to standard.
- Multi-market coordination. Adapt the core narrative into market cuts (US, UK, EMEA, Hong Kong), managing cross-market timing and the regulatory framing each market requires.
- Measurement. Track engagement and coverage, report clearly on what's working, and use the data to decide where to invest.
- Internal comms. Work closely with the Chief of Staff on our internal comms programme, helping keep the team informed, aligned, and engaged.
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Qualifications
- Substantial comms experience (typically 6+ years) in B2B with a depth of knowledge in banking, fintech, payments, or enterprise/regulated technology. You understand how banks buy, decide, and speak.
- A strong writer who can make a technical, infrastructure-led story compelling without over-simplifying it. You can ghost-write convincingly in someone else's voice.
- A confident, well-networked media operator with existing relationships across fintech and financial trade press.
- Comfortable working with senior execs – you bring judgment, not just execution.
- Experience managing external agencies and holding delivery to a high bar.
- Attention to detail: attribution discipline, data sign-off – getting the detail right in a regulated context.
- Self-directed and decisive. You prefer making clear go/no-go calls and prioritise consolidated, high-quality outputs over volume.
- UK English fluency and a sharp eye for line-level editorial detail.
- Confident working with AI tools to improve efficiency, planning, and outputs.
Nice to have
- Experience with executive social (LinkedIn) programmes and ABM-adjacent amplification.
- Exposure to US and EMEA markets.
- Familiarity with AI/agentic-commerce themes; event-led PR (Finovate, Money20/20, and similar).
- Internal comms experience (ideally partnering with leadership on employee-facing programmes).
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How to apply
Please click on the ‘Apply’ button. You will be asked to provide an updated CV and answer some questions. For further information about this vacancy, you can contact us at: recruitment@hyperlayer.com.
We will not be offering UK work visa sponsorship for these roles. Candidates will need an existing non-sponsored right to work in the UK.
Working at Hyperlayer
At Hyperlayer, we are proud of our in-office culture. It makes a real difference to the working atmosphere and maximises collaboration in and across teams. This is critical to how we work and learn. Also, we think it makes for a great workplace!
We value our team and are proud to offer some great benefits:
- A performance-based employee bonus scheme.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a day off on your birthday, and an additional day per year of tenure to a maximum of 30.
- Critical illness and life insurance cover.
- AXA PPP Health Insurance, including gym offers.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Referral bonus scheme.
- Workplace nursery scheme.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion
Hyperlayer’s mission is to make a positive impact on people’s lives, making it easier for everyone to manage their money.
Hyperlayer’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion is a key part of this; it helps us better serve our customers, employees, and business partners from every background.
We are constantly learning and striving to do better, and we expect all staff to actively take part in this process.
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