Communications Manager, X15ventures

You are a master storyteller, wordsmith and brand advocate
- There is breadth for you in this role across PR, comms, content and social media
- Together we’re building the next generation of solutions for 15 million customers

Let’s introduce ourselves

We’re x15ventures - a dynamic venture-scaler, powered by CommBank.

What’s a venture-scaler you might ask? Well for us, it means we’re not your typical VC fund - we have the mandate to build, acquire and invest-in early-stage digital endeavours that can scale through CommBank’s assets. We actively support experienced entrepreneurs, providing guidance and access to our customer base and distribution networks.

Together, we’re building the next generation of solutions for 15 million CommBank customers and pioneering new ways of working as we go. It’s a cross section of limitless opportunity, and huge unknowns. Your hands will get dirty, and every day will be nothing like the last. If this excites you, you’re in the right place.

Your team

The Marketing & Growth function sits within x15ventures core platform team. We work closely with ventures and partners to consult, build and deploy go-to-market strategies to reach scale, leveraging CommBank channels where it makes sense.

In many ways, we’re providing marketing as a service to our early-stage ventures. We have a focus on speed to market and testing and learning, supporting ventures in achieving product-market-fit and accelerated growth.

The opportunity

This is a newly created position, part of the growing Marketing and Growth function, but reporting to the Brand and Communications Lead, x15ventures.

We are looking for a versatile communications practitioner who’s excited by the opportunity to help tell our story, and who feels at ease managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

You will be a passionate storyteller who’ll play an important role executing x15’s brand, communications and content strategy - engaging regularly with journalists and industry influencers to build awareness, engagement and desirability amongst our target audience.

It goes without saying, but you’ll also be a phenomenal communicator, both written and verbal, able to create high quality content for a wide range of purposes and channels, including social media and the x15 website.

While the role is predominantly focused on building the x15 brand, you’ll also work alongside the Brand and Communications Lead to provide ad hoc communications, social and content support to our growing portfolio of ventures - working closely with our venture teams at various stages of growth.

Day to day you will add value across these four pillars:
1. Communications and Media Relations
- Identify storytelling opportunities inside x15 and our ventures, and work collaboratively to place those with relevant media titles across online, print and broadcast
- Build and maintain strong relationships key journalists as well as industry influencers
- Help manage the approvals process to ensure all comms materials are signed off
- Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of x15’s comms resources, templates and processes to ensure we are ready to scale
- Support the Brand and Communications Lead in the setting of our x15 communications strategy, and subsequent reporting and analysis

2. Content
- Produce high-quality written content for x15 channels
- Get creative and design visual assets in Canva to support your content (we’d also love it if you were interested in photography or videography or keen to learn)

3. Social Media
- Build x15’s presence on social media, creating engaging channel-specific content, growing our online community and providing reporting to drive outcomes
- Work with CommBank social and comms teams to ensure brand and venture channels remain compliant
- Manage the x15 social media content calendar and reporting on performance

4. Venture Support
- Bring the internal marketing teams together assisting with the marketing guild
- Build solid relationships with CommBank and venture stakeholders
- Provide communications, social and content support to our growing portfolio of ventures

Are you a perfect match?
- Significant experience in producing compelling communications content for media relations campaigns (press releases, media pitches, prep materials) and social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram at a minimum)
- Ideally, you’ll have worked in an agency environment or newsroom for at least five years, or spent a similar amount of time in-house, with experience managing multiple projects, dealing with competing priorities, and working with a range of different stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a keen eye for detail and sound understanding of tone
- A creative and versatile self-starter, with a passion for storytelling and communications
- Experience or a clear interest in working in and around startups
- Ability to think strategically and p