Head / Director of Founder Brand & Communications
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About the Role
SUMWON STUDIOS seeks a Head/Director of Founder Brand & Communications to build the founder's personal brand and the company's external reputation. The role involves content strategy, PR, storytelling, and building an AI-native communications function.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the long term founder brand strategy
- Build the Founder into a recognised voice across entrepreneurship, AI, leadership, fashion and company building
- Capture conversations, ideas and strategic thinking and transform them into compelling content
- Own the founder platform across all relevant channels
- Build and manage the founder content calendar and editorial strategy
- Identify podcasts, interviews, speaking engagements and thought leadership opportunities
- Prepare speeches, presentations, keynote content and interview talking points
- Run weekly founder debrief sessions to capture ideas and insights
- Build a scalable operating system that consistently turns ideas into high quality content
- Create an AI ready archive of content, ideas and intellectual property
- Define and evolve the company narrative
- Lead PR strategy and media relationships
Requirements
- Experience building founder, executive or thought leadership brands
- Exceptional writing and storytelling ability
- Outstanding strategic thinking
- Strong commercial and creative judgement
- Experience building functions, brands or systems from scratch
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and at speed
- High levels of ownership, curiosity and initiative
- Genuine interest in AI and its application to communications
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About the Role
- This is not a traditional communications role. Nor is it a traditional PR, marketing or social media position.
- We're looking for an exceptional communications and storytelling leader to become one of the Founder & CEO's closest strategic partners.
- Your primary responsibility will be building one of the most influential founder brands in fashion, business and AI, whilst ensuring SUMWON STUDIOS develops a world class external reputation alongside it.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the long term founder brand strategy.
- Build the Founder into a recognised voice across entrepreneurship, AI, leadership, fashion and company building.
- Capture conversations, ideas and strategic thinking and transform them into compelling content.
- Own the founder platform across all relevant channels, ensuring every touchpoint supports the long term vision.
- Build and manage the founder content calendar and editorial strategy.
- Identify podcasts, interviews, speaking engagements and thought leadership opportunities.
- Prepare speeches, presentations, keynote content and interview talking points.
- Run weekly founder debrief sessions to capture ideas and insights.
- Challenge ideas, refine messaging and help shape the Founder's thinking before it reaches the outside world.
- Build a scalable operating system that consistently turns ideas into high quality content.
- Create an AI ready archive of content, ideas and intellectual property that compounds in value over time.
- Define and evolve the company narrative.
What you’ll bring
- Experience building founder, executive or thought leadership brands.
- Exceptional writing and storytelling ability.
- Outstanding strategic thinking.
- Strong commercial judgement.
- Exceptional creative judgement and taste.
- The confidence to challenge ideas and become a trusted strategic partner to the Founder.
- Experience building functions, brands or systems from scratch.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and at speed.
- A genuine interest in AI and how it can transform communications and content creation.
- High levels of ownership, curiosity and initiative.
- Luxury fashion experience is helpful, but it's not essential.
What we'll bring
- 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after your first year.
- 30% employee discount across SUMWON STUDIOS brands.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- Company social events.
- The opportunity to work with a high performing team building brands at global scale.
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