Head of PR & Communications

Hot Sauce Presents is looking for an ambitious, culturally connected and commercially minded communications leader to join our senior team.

This role is for someone with a proven track record of developing standout campaigns, securing exceptional earned media coverage and creating digital and physical activations that deliver cultural relevance and commercial impact.

You'll lead our communications team, shape the agency's earned media strategy and play a central role in our continued growth, from developing integrated campaigns and talent partnerships to winning new business.

We're looking for someone equally comfortable advising senior clients, leading a creative brainstorm, negotiating a talent deal or picking up the phone to a journalist. Someone with excellent instincts, strong relationships and the ambition to help shape the next chapter of Hot Sauce.

Clients include:

BuzzBallz, WePresent, JD, Heinz, Diageo and more.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Communications & Campaign Leadership

• Lead the development of interesting, insight-led communications strategies that build brand relevance, drive conversation and deliver measurable results.

• Translate client objectives into distinctive, culturally credible campaigns spanning PR, talent, partnerships and experiences.

• Identify emerging cultural trends, media shifts and audience behaviours, bringing proactive ideas and opportunities to clients.

• Act as senior strategic counsel, challenging briefs, shaping brand narratives and advising on communications strategy.

• Champion an earned-first approach across the agency, ensuring PR thinking informs creative development and integrated campaign planning.

Media Relations & Earned Coverage

• Set the standard for exceptional earned coverage across the agency, ensuring consistently high-quality results.

• Bring an established network of senior relationships across national consumer, lifestyle, culture, fashion, entertainment and relevant trade media.

• Lead the development of compelling editorial narratives and maintain hands-on involvement in securing significant coverage for flagship campaigns.

• Build long-term relationships with journalists, editors and influential media platforms, identifying opportunities beyond individual campaigns.

• Develop the team's pitching, media strategy and storytelling capabilities, encouraging proactive relationship building and long-term editorial planning.

Production, Talent & Partnerships

• Work closely with the Head of Production to bring communications concepts to life through culturally relevant physical and digital activations.

• Understand how to develop, budget and deliver integrated 360-degree campaigns, with earned media at their core.

• Identify and develop strategic brand partnerships and talent collaborations that strengthen client positioning and cultural relevance.

• Manage the full partnership and talent deal process, from prospecting and outreach through negotiation, contracting, activation and evaluation.

• Understand the commercial and contractual considerations involved in talent and partnership deals, including fees, deliverables, usage rights and exclusivity.
• Identify cross-departmental opportunities that generate earned media, cultural credibility and commercial value.

New Business & Agency Growth

• Proactively identify and originate new business opportunities, leveraging existing relationships and building connections with prospective clients.

• Lead new business pitches, from strategy and creative development through to presentation, negotiation and conversion.

• Identify opportunities to grow existing accounts through additional campaigns, services and cross-departmental collaborations.

What Success Looks Like

• Hot Sauce consistently delivers standout, culturally relevant earned media coverage and impactful integrated campaigns.

• The PR department is a core creative and commercial driver of the agency.

• The communications team is high-performing, well-connected and progressing professionally.