PR & Corporate Affairs Lead

Responsibilities

• Own the UK’s external profile across media, issues, and executive visibility.
• Partner with the UK leadership team, marketing colleagues, and external agencies to translate strategy into coverage, conversation, and reputation across the group.
• Own the UK’s media strategy across legal trade press, business titles, and tech media.
• Build and maintain strong journalist relationships, drive proactive coverage, and handle reactive enquiries with judgement and pace.
• Lead issues management and reputation work – anticipating risks, preparing the business, and steering responses when stories break.
• Manage relationships with regulators, professional bodies, and the wider legal ecosystem.
• Develop and run visibility programmes for the UK leadership team and the global CEO, including speaking platforms, awards, podcasts, op-eds, and thought leadership.
• Write and edit press releases, statements, briefing notes, op-eds, Q&As, and internal updates to a publishable standard.
• Brief, direct, and hold to account external PR and creative agencies. Set the standard for what good looks like and make sure budget is well spent.
• Co-author the annual communications plan with the VP of Communications. Set quarterly KPIs covering share of voice, sentiment, message pull-through, and earned coverage, and report against them in a way the business actually finds useful.
• Work closely with Marketing, Product, People, and Customer teams to make sure the external story and the internal reality stay consistent.

Requirements

• Around 7+ years of experience in PR, corporate communications, and corporate affairs, gained in-house, in agency, or a mix of both.
• A track record of placing serious, substantive coverage in tier-one and trade media – not just announcements, but stories that moved the needle.
• Direct experience of legal sector PR is essential.
• AI-savvy, with genuine curiosity about how the technology is changing communications work and a clear desire to learn, experiment, and embed AI best practice into day-to-day workflows.
• Genuine, current legal journalist relationships in the UK.
• Sound judgement on issues and reputation work.
• Excellent writing — clear, fast, and tonally accurate across formats from a holding line to a long-form op-ed.
• The ability to act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, including our global CEO, and to brief and manage external agencies confidently.
• Comfort building in a function that is still being shaped. You bring structure with you rather than waiting for it to arrive.
• Experience in B2B SaaS and/or professional services is a strong plus.
• Public affairs and/or regulatory engagement experience is a welcome bonus too.

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