Communications Manager

The impact you will have: Elliptic has just closed its largest funding round, operates in a market that is moving into mainstream, and has executives with genuine vision and contributions to make to the on‑chain finance agenda. The person in this role will help define how the world sees Elliptic, building the right earned media program, the right analyst relationships, and the right executive voices, and will have a direct bearing on how we are perceived by the customers, regulators, and partners that matter most.

PR program

• Day‑to‑day management of the PR agency: briefing, prioritization, performance, and keeping delivery on strategy.
• Working with the agency, build and maintain relationships with tier‑one journalists across business, crypto, fintech, and payments beats globally.
• Lead earned media activity for major announcements including funding rounds, product launches, research reports, and regulatory developments.
• Monitor competitive PR activity across TRM Labs and Chainalysis and flag implications to the Director of Communications.
• Own PR reporting: coverage quality, share of voice, and digital PR metrics including backlink quality and LLM visibility.

Digital PR and AI/LLM visibility

• Incorporate a digital PR strategy designed to improve Elliptic’s visibility in AI‑generated answers, LLM‑cited sources, and AI Overviews, not just traditional search.
• Partner with content and SEO to produce stat‑rich, citable assets (research, data studies, reports) that earn organic links and AI citations from authoritative publications.
• Partner with content and growth teams who track Elliptic’s presence across LLM platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and feed insights back into the PR program where relevant.

Executive visibility and thought leadership

• Working with the Director of Communications and PR Agency, create and manage LinkedIn content programs for key executives (CEO, CSO), including editorial strategy, ghostwriting, cadence management, and engagement monitoring, producing content that sounds authentically like each individual, not like a corporate feed.
• Working with the agency, write and place executive bylines, op‑eds, and long‑form thought leadership articles in target publications.
• Maintain the executive message house for each priority spokesperson, ensuring consistent narrative across LinkedIn, speaking slots, media interviews, and analyst briefings.
• Identify and manage a pipeline of speaking, podcast, and roundtable opportunities.
• Track and report on executive share of voice, LinkedIn audience growth, engagement quality, and speaking performance; use data to continuously improve the program.
• Identify opportunities for executives to participate in awards programs, advisory boards, and external recognition schemes that build individual and brand credibility.

Analyst and industry relations

• Manage ongoing relationships with priority analysts and industry influencers: briefings, inquiry responses, and regular contact.
• Coordinate analyst briefing schedules and ensure the right people from product, commercial, and communications are prepared and aligned.
• Track coverage and citations across analyst outputs; report on how Elliptic is described relative to competitors and feed intelligence back to the business.

Government affairs and lobbying support

• Day‑to‑day coordination with external lobbying and government affairs agency: briefings, scheduling, and keeping workstreams on track.
• Support the drafting of materials in support of government affairs activity including submissions, briefing notes, position papers, and correspondence.
• Monitor relevant regulatory and policy developments (MiCA, FIT21, FATF guidance, and others) with the Government, Policy and Regulations team (GPRG).
• Support preparation for regulatory consultations, parliamentary or congressional engagements, and policy events as required.

Communications support

• Support the Director of Communications on ad hoc projects including crisis communications, executive media preparation, and major announcements.

What you will achieve in the first 6 months

• Have the PR agency working to strategy, with a proactive media calendar in place and measurable improvement in tier‑one coverage quality.
• Established baseline metrics across PR, executive visibility, and AR, so there's a clear picture of where the program started and where it's heading.
• Land Elliptic's first structured analyst briefings with the highest‑priority contacts identified in the mapping exercise.
• Each priority executive has a clear, distinct point of view on LinkedIn that is recognisably theirs, and that is visibly influencing how Elliptic is talked about in the market.
• Working confidently to execute the 6‑12 month lobbying plan with the GPRG team.

You will be a great fit here if you

You’ll be a great fit here if the idea of building market leading programs from a solid foundation in a market that is changing in real time energises rather than unnerves you. Elliptic is AI‑native, scale‑up paced, and operating at a genuinely interesting moment, a $120M Series D, institutions moving on‑chain, and a media and regulatory landscape that is evolving as fast as the industry itself. If you want a role where you'll learn more in six months than most people do in two years, this is it.

Our ideal candidate has

• Operated in hands‑on media relations roles across global markets.
• Demonstrable track record of securing tier‑one coverage in financial, technology, and/or regulatory press.
• PR agency background, you understand how agencies work and how to get the most from them.

Analyst relations

• Hands‑on experience engaging with analysts in a structured way, briefing, inquiry responses, relationship management.
• Experience building or significantly contributing to an AR programme.

Executive visibility

• Proven experience developing and managing LinkedIn content programmes for senior executives, ghostwriting, voice capture, and editorial cadence.
• Strong byline writing capability; comfortable working at pace with senior stakeholders.
• Experience building or maintaining executive message houses.

Digital PR & AI fluency

• Understanding of how digital PR influences SEO and LLM visibility, proven in practice, not just theory.
• Familiarity with GEO/LLM concepts and their application to B2B PR.
• Comfortable using AI tools daily to improve speed and quality of output, this could be in your content production, or for research and automation of workflows, but we expect our candidates to demonstrate how AI is part of your daily life.
• Appetite to stay ahead of how AI changes the communications landscape.

Sector & global experience

• Background in fintech, regtech, compliance, financial services, cybersecurity, or enterprise SaaS.
• Proven ability to work across US, EMEA, and APAC media markets.
• Comfort in a complex regulatory environment where accuracy and nuance matter.

Writing & communication

• Exceptional written English, able to distil complex technical or regulatory content into clear, compelling narratives.
• Strong editorial judgement: you know a good story, and you know when something is not ready.

Skills and attributes

• Confident stakeholder management, you can brief and advise C‑suite executives, align with product marketing and content, manage agencies simultaneously without losing momentum.
• Data‑driven, you use coverage metrics, SOV, LLM visibility, backlink quality, and LinkedIn engagement to evaluate performance, not just clip counts.
• Highly organised with strong project management skills; comfortable running multiple workstreams in a fast‑moving environment.
• Curious and proactive, you actively track industry developments, competitive moves, and the evolving PR/AI landscape.
• Self‑starter who can operate with autonomy and build new programmes from scratch, not just maintain existing ones.

Bonus Points

• Experience of working with Govt lobbying agencies.
• Experience in the crypto, blockchain, or digital assets sector.
• Understanding of AML, financial crime compliance, or crypto regulation.
• Experience working alongside or briefing government affairs or policy teams.

Job Benefits

How we work

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space.

Learning & Development

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.

Vacation / Leave

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays.
• An extra day for your birthday.
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully‑paid leave.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support.
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.