Strategic Communications Lead in London

Who We Are:

We have built the new way for energy to be transacted. tem exists to fix a creaking energy market. Today's wholesale system is stacked in favour of the few - a relic of the oil and gas era, riddled with markups and middlemen. We're changing that. Our product, REDTM, is built on a proprietary pricing engine that bypasses the wholesale market, enabling businesses to buy energy produced by renewable generators directly. That means clear, auditable transactions that ensure affordable bills and fair compensation - giving every business real ownership and control over where their energy comes from. Since launching in 2021, we've saved UK businesses and generators over £25 million, powering a growing network of forward‐thinking companies, from Pizza Pilgrims to Silverstone. Backed by top‐tier VCs including Atomico and Albion, we're creating a new category in energy - one that's decentralised, direct, and built on trust.

The Role:

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements:

• Must haves:

• 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.
• Experience working with global communications advisory / PR agencies.
• Experience working closely with a Chief of Staff or in a leadership operating role.
• Track record of building comms systems that scale with the organisation.
• Familiarity with energy markets, infrastructure, or policy environments.

Benefits & Perks:

• Salary aligned to internal benchmarks and reviewed twice a year.
• Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays. Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you, and enjoy your birthday off.
• Remote first and flexible working, with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• Home working and wellbeing budgets: Up to £1,200 or €1,200 per year for your remote setup. Up to £150 or €150 per month for wellbeing.

Interview Process:

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.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. 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.