PhonePe - Manager - Public Relations

PhonePe is India's largest transactions platform built on payments. It is the crusader of UPI payments and a proud contributor to the hypergrowth of the world's most advanced payments system.

- We are leading the narrative on mobile payments which will change the way people manage their money on the go.

- We want to make digital payments so easy, safe and universally accepted that people never feel the need to carry cash or cards again.

- We see ourselves facilitating this change, through technology at scale, positive disruption, and dogged customer centricity.

- PhonePe started in 2015 and has achieved many milestones in the last 3 years and is rightly India's Payments App.

- Culturally, as a team, we learn fast, fail fast, act to impact, run lean and collaborate to bring out excellence and intellectual honesty in each other.

Job Brief:

- PhonePe is looking for an experienced communications professional to join its PR team. In this role you will be responsible for managing the media outreach while closely working with internal stakeholders like the business, technology and product teams to define the communications strategy. 

- This role requires exceptional writing skills and the ability to work under tight deadlines. While you will have the support of external agencies, this role will be a completely hands-on role.

The ideal candidate should be able to:

- Work independently with the PR head and business stakeholders to close the PR calendar

- Manage and track the output of the external agencies

- Proactively pitch stories to the relevant media

- Independently conceptualize and plan PR campaigns, analyze results and suggest improvements.

- Ensure campaigns run on time and as per schedule

Prerequisites:

- A post graduate degree or diploma in communications

- 8-10 years of work experience in a communications role

- Should have handled media agencies and managed teams

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Attention to detail and ability to work with multiple stakeholders

- Ability to multitask and work on multiple projects in parallel