Careers

We are a team corporate communications specialists who have a positive impact on the reputation of individuals, business and brands by earning our way into cultural consciousness and having meaningful conversations with a range of stakeholders including customers, consumers, partners, activists, policy makers and current & future employees. Our success comes from knowing what our audiences care about, building robust narratives that elevate and differentiate our clients and going beyond what is expected. With connectivity at our heart, we match the right people with the right narrative, bringing together clients, partners and friends to amplify our communications and add credibility.  

We create programmes that drive all our audiences to engage with us, we build and protect reputations, shift perception, grow awareness, build relationships and change behaviour. Ultimately ouraim is to connect our clients to their target audiences in a meaningful, relevant and impactful way.

We build, protect & repair reputations for clients at both a global and local level.

We are looking for an experienced communications professional, from Account Manager through to Associate Director level, with strong corporate communications and technology PR experience to help us continue to expand our capability in the technology space. This role will have a particular focus on thought leadership, including proactive opportunities, support around key industry events, and more opportunistic moments across the news agenda. The ideal candidate will have a genuine interest in technology as a sector, including trends across AI and innovation, and the versatility to work across a broad spectrum of clients in this space. They will bring strong writing skills, with the ability to produce toolkits, OpEds, LinkedIn posts and other executive content, alongside a confident understanding of media relations across technology and mainstream media. We’re also keen to meet someone who enjoys new business and is happy to take an active role in pitching.

• Support and lead day-to-day client work across corporate communications, media relations and stakeholder engagement, with scope flexing depending on level.
• Develop clear positioning, messaging and thought leadership platforms that help HP our technology clients tell differentiated corporate stories.
• Drive proactive thought leadership and earned media programmes, building strong relationships across technology, business and mainstream media.
• Bring an interest and understanding of policy developments across the Technology space
• Track and interpret technology trends, particularly across AI and innovation, translating them into credible thought leadership opportunities for clients.
• Produce high-quality written content including toolkits, OpEds, LinkedIn posts, briefing materials and other executive communications.
• Contribute to client meetings, workshops and integrated campaigns, supporting strong delivery, team collaboration and measurable results.
• Play an active role in new business growth through pitch development, proposals, networking and market insight in the technology sector.
• Support and develop junior team members where appropriate, contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability of persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connection with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.

Applications are now open for the Freud Communications 2027 Entry-Level Talent Programme.

We’re looking for our next cohort to join a six-month programme starting in January 2027. It’s for people who are curious about communications, quick to learn and ready to get stuck in from day one.

To give you a flavour of the work, this year we launched the award-winning Joe Wickes X Activate campaign to help get children moving, unveiled a new AI-powered education model, and wrote a speech that senior Google execs presented to the UN. We secured dozens of media articles for CEOs, CSOs and CFOs, masterminded McDonald’s ‘The Counter’, a consumer experience to show-off the quality ingredients in a McDonald’s patty and delivered a standout global launch for Carbone Dubai.

Based in London, the programme gives each participant practical experience, training and support to take their first step into communications.

The programme includes bespoke Freuds Academy training, hands-on experience across Corporate Reputation, Brand, Health and Behaviour Change, and the chance to learn from teams across strategy, social, creative, talent and influence.

Day-to-day responsibilities on the Entry-Level Talent Programme might include:

• Researching and compiling background information for client teams
• Supporting media monitoring and tracking articles of interest
• Using our technology and AI tools as part of a digital-first approach
• Compiling meeting notes, action lists and call agendas
• Assisting with media sell-ins, including preparing press releases and media lists
• Supporting the planning and delivery of PR activity, including events, photoshoots and spokesperson engagements

Essential requirements

• A confident communicator
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• A minimum grade 6 in GCSE English, or equivalent
• Experience using Microsoft packages, specifically Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel
• Curiosity about emerging technologies
• Able to attend our London office at least three days a week. Our office days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
• Right to work in the UK
• Renumeration package will be in line with the London Living Wage

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How to apply

The application process is CV-free, so please do not send us a CV. Instead, tell us, in the format of your choice, about yourself and why you’re interested in a career in communications. Please send all applications to work@freuds.com

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Freuds has been working in Culture and Film and TV for nearly 40 years, supporting artists, musicians, broadcastersand entertainment companies to tell their stories across a range of platforms. Our team of specialists work with corporate media clients and culture and arts institutions to help them meet their audience and to creatively tell their story with clarity.

From reputation management to growth strategies, repositioning to profile raising, cultural campaigns to live events; we use 360-degree communications paired with powerful storytelling and the latest technology, to ensure stories cut through the noise and drive action.

Do you want to be in the room where it happens? Are you a media junkie who consumes culture across TV, film,museums, music and the arts? A rare opportunity has arisen for an ambitious, culturally curious Associate Director to join our Corporate Media and Arts team, working with festivals, arts institutions, philanthropists, broadcasters, producers and entertainment companies.

This role is ideal for a rounded communications professional most likely with strong media contacts and a corporate communications leaning : someone who is proactive and can build relationships quickly, run accounts confidently and bring together public relations instinct, strong media judgement, strategic counsel, creativity and a genuine passion for culture.

The successful candidate will be kind and team focussed whilst comfortable moving between high-profile cultural moments and complex corporate briefs: launching major exhibitions, supporting cultural charities, working the room at TV and film festivals, advising senior clients, handling business and trade press, and responding calmly to sensitive reputational issues.

They will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative team and bring the confidence to deliver proactive communications campaigns across corporate, consumer and earned media channels, while spotting opportunities in the news agenda and helping clients tell their stories with clarity and impact.

• A genuine passion for arts, culture, media and entertainment, with an understanding of the wider political, economic and cultural context in which clients operate.
• Strong relationships with national, broadcast, culture, media, podcast, business and trade journalists, as well as relevant industry contacts.
• Excellent news judgement, editorial instinct and the ability to shape stories that cut through.
• Proven experience securing impactful coverage and managing high-profile campaigns across corporate, consumer and earned media.
• Confidence providing senior strategic counsel and advising clients through reputational challenges, complex stakeholder environments and issues management situations.
• The ability to move seamlessly between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, keeping calm under pressure and trusted with sensitive situations.
• Strong writing, messaging and editorial skills, with the ability to find the right angle for different audiences.
• Commercial awareness, strong organisation and the ability to manage multiple accounts profitably.
• A proactive, entrepreneurial approach to new business, pitches and using new technologies to elevate the work.
• A collaborative, self-aware team style, with an appetite for mentoring colleagues and helping develop talent.
• An understanding that occasional evening work as part of events briefs and participation in an on-call rota are part of the industry we operate in.
• Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, bringing passion, resilience, collaboration and a commitment to belonging into the way we work with clients and each other.

This position sits across the full reputation spectrum and unlike many other cultural roles is across the complete cultural mix from working with mass media content creators to fine art. The candidate will move swiftly from cultural publicity, storytelling and events to corporate communications, stakeholder engagement, talent handling and issues preparedness - always with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of fun.

We are looking for someone who enjoys working as part of a team and understands their role within it. They will  knowhow to handle talent of all levels as well as generate headlines and navigate them for clients. They will deputise for the Director and deliver premium counsel for clients at defining cultural and reputational moments, as well as placing key positioning pieces using their senior contacts book. 

We are looking for an Associate Director to join our crisis and issues offering, with a particular focus on the data, intelligence and investigative work that underpins effective senior counsel. This role will suit someone who is used to operating in highly sensitive situations, who is intellectually curious, forensic in their approach and able to turn complex information into clear, actionable advice.

The successful candidate will work across high-profile issues and crises for global businesses across a range of sectors, senior leaders, organisations and individuals. They will help clients understand the reputation landscape around them by combining media intelligence, social listening, search insight, emerging platform analysis and investigative due diligence. They will be expected to identify narratives, influence networks, audience behaviour, risk trajectories and potential reputational vulnerabilities and translate those findings into practical communication strategies.

This person will be part of our day-to-day crisis operation, supporting clients on live issues, preparedness work and reputation management. They will play an important role in developing our use of technology, data and investigative techniques, helping to build robust monitoring dashboards, interrogate outputs, stress-test assumptions and provide evidence-led counsel in pressured environments.

• Build, manage and interpret media and social monitoring dashboards, using data to track narratives, influence, sentiment, audience behaviour, escalation patterns and emerging reputational risk.
• Combine monitoring outputs with wider intelligence sources, including search insight, LLM monitoring, social platforms, public databases and third-party data, to create a fuller picture of the reputation landscape.
• Conduct investigative due diligence on individuals and organisations, covering media and social coverage, and other publicly available records.
• Create and present reputation, issues and communications landscape reports, bringing together analysis, metrics, evidence-led recommendations and practical implications for senior internal stakeholders and external clients.
• Provide immediate communications support on live and emerging issues, acting as a trusted point of contact for senior clients, supporting out-of-hours response where required and helping to cover a 24/7 crisisoffering.
• Work closely with the Business Partner or crisis lead to assess risk, agree priorities, shape response strategies and develop positioning, messaging and narrative frameworks grounded in data, intelligence and stakeholder insight.
• Stress-test client crisis strategies through issues workshops, scenario planning and crisissimulations, bringing external intelligence, data-led insight and clear judgement into the process.
• Advise global businesses, challenger brands, senior leaders and individuals on media management, reputation protection and issues preparedness, while continuing to build strong networks with colleagues, journalists, online influencers, analysts, professional advisers and other relevant third parties.
• Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, bringing passion, resilience, collaboration and a commitment to belonging into the way we work with clients and each other.

• Substantial experience in corporate communications, issues management or crisis communications, gained in an agency environment or a busy in-house team ideally with some exposure to FMCG, Health and Tech.
• Practical experience of data-led communications, media intelligence, social listening, AI-enabled monitoring or crisis technology platforms.
• Excellent investigative instincts, with the ability to interrogate public information, sense-check sources, identify reputational risk and separate signal from noise.
• Experience producing landscape reports, due diligence summaries, risk assessments or insight-led recommendations for senior audiences.
• Direct experience supporting high-profile issues or crises for corporate clients, business leaders, brands, organisations or individuals.
• Strong understanding of the media, social and digital landscape, including how issues develop and escalate across channels.
• A proactive, intellectually curious and resilient mindset, with genuine enthusiasm for crisis, reputation, data and investigative communications work.

We are a team of consumer specialists who make businesses and brands culturally relevant through impactful earned communications.

Our success comes by transcending the category, we crash the national conversation and go beyond what is expected. With connectivity at our heart, we match the right people with the right brand, bringing together clients, partners, and friends to amplify the campaign and to add credibility. We deliver campaigns that ensure our audience takes notice, we drive engagement, build, and protect reputations, shift perception, grow fame, build relationships, and change behaviour. Our aim is to connect our clients to their target audiences in a meaningful, relevant ways.

We are looking for a culturally connected, strategically minded and results orientated Senior Account Director or Associate Director to join us for 12 months. We’re open to both a 4 and a 5 day week, with 3 days based with us at 1 Stephen Street, London.

The ideal colleague will come armed with big consumer brand experience ready to work across a likely account mix that transgresses luxury through to FMCG brands. We need a motivated leader with experience of inspiring teams to deliver fame-making campaigns that deliver impact in earned and social, with strong publicity, influencer, comms and events credentials.

They should be brilliant with clients, comfortable operating globally, and able to create work that appeals to Gen Z audiences and excites both clients and agency staff. We want someone with the charm, smarts, counsel and proactivity to manage senior clients, large agency teams and form part of the senior team within consumer brands at Freuds.

We value connectivity, hustle and collaboration. We want high energy, motivational leadership and ambition.

• SAD or Associate Director level experience in consumer, culture-led and/or luxury brand communications, ideally within an agency environment.
• Strong publicity, influencer, comms and events experience, with a clear point of view on earned media and the evolving media landscape.
• Seasoned client handler, confident advising senior stakeholders and building trusted relationships globally.
• Proven experience leading teams, managing fast-paced workstreams and delivering standout consumer brand campaigns.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Freuds US is looking for an exceptional SVP to join us, taking on a new opportunity for a strategic corporate communications professional who combines sharp counsel, commercial thinking and creative problem-solving to help clients across sectors including FMCG, Tech and Professional Services navigate complex opportunities, reputational challenges.

Working across an established and varied portfolio of clients and events, you will help shape communications strategies, develop integrated campaigns and partner with senior stakeholders to deliver measurable impact.

• Act as a trusted senior adviser to clients and internal teams, providing strategic counsel across reputation, narrative, audience, channel and risk.
• Own day-to-day relationships with mid and senior-level clients, building strong multi-tier connections.
• Lead the development of insight-led recommendations by staying close to client, competitor, sector, cultural and current affairs.
• Protect the quality of client-facing work, bringing senior judgement, editorial direction and creative thinking to briefs, outputs and reactive moments.
• Manage complex projects confidently, keeping work on track, teams aligned, deadlines met and pressure points escalated early.
• Support the commercial health of client accounts by managing budgets, spotting growth opportunities and contributing to pitches, tenders and credentials.
• Champion smart, responsible use of AI across insight, planning, content and reporting, improving quality and efficiency while applying strong human judgement.
• Be comfortable working with colleagues across territories.
• Contribute to the continued growth and evolution of the US business.
• Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.