Careers
What we’re looking for
We look for smart and resilient problem solvers; for creative minds; for individuals who want to push boundaries; to look at things from different angles; and connect the dots in a way others can't.
Our employees come to us to work with some of the world’s best-known brands and influential people, helping our clients identify and tell meaningful stories that drive real change, and genuine connection. Love & Work is our foundation because we do what we love, and we love what we do.
Many of our alumni have gone on to run their own top 150 agencies; to lead the communications and marketing for well-known global brands; and are leaders in their fields of expertise.
We pride ourselves on the ability to assemble teams of passionate specialists from all over the world with a huge variety of backgrounds, all experienced in solving tricky problems.
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all applicants to apply, regardless of race, religion, origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. Freuds strives to ensure a sense of belonging for all; we’re proud to support and utilise a diverse range of thoughts and perspectives in the teams we build as well as the work we create.
Our belonging behaviours are built on the foundation of Collaboration, Connection, Empathy & Understanding and Allyship, these pillars are entwined into our daily life and are one of the markers for how we measure both company and individual success.
Crisis, Data & Intelligence - Associate Director
The Team
The Role
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Substantial experience in corporate communications, issues management or crisiscommunications, 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 crisistechnology 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.
To Apply
Culture - Associate Director
The Team
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.
The Role
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead earned-first, integrated communications strategies across culture-led consumer and luxury brands, confidently articulating the role of earned, influencer, social and media.
- Manage client briefs end to end, from strategy and creative development through to presentation, delivery and measurement.
- Act as a trusted day-to-day and senior client lead, bringing strong judgement, pace and confidence across retained accounts, major moments and global activations.
- Lead six-figure campaigns and motivate teams to deliver high-quality work on time, on budget and above expectation.
- Build strong internal and external networks across journalists, creators, influencers, talent and partners.
- Line-manage and mentor junior team members, supporting their development and helping create a collaborative, high-energy team culture.
- 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.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 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.
To Apply
Associate (SAE)
The Team
The Role
At Freud Communications, our client portfolio spans a diverse range of industries—from global brands like Danone, Nike, and EY, to impactful initiatives such as You Can Adopt (NHS).
As a Senior Account Executive, you are moving from execution to ownership. You will run assigned projects with growing independence, produce output that is increasingly client-ready, and start to build trusted relationships with mid-level client contacts. You are a reliable engine of your team and a supportive presence for junior colleagues.
This role is ideal for someone with solid communications experience who is ready to take greater ownership across accounts and campaigns. We’re looking for someone with sharp writing skills, strong media instincts, sound judgement and the confidence to manage day-to-day client and team interactions with increasing autonomy. We love individuals who hustle and enjoy staying one step ahead.
Key Responsibilities
- Keep activity moving, anticipating next steps and escalating issues as they arise
- Build trusted day-to-day relationships with junior and mid-level client contacts, providing clear updates and well-prepared meeting follow-ups
- Produce high-quality, increasingly client-ready written materials, including press releases, messaging documents, reports, statements, social copy and briefing notes
- Use strong news, cultural and audience awareness to identify relevant opportunities, develop media angles and contribute ideas that move beyond basic execution
- Handle media activity with confidence, from proactive sell-ins and journalist follow-up to handling reactive enquiries and drafting responses for senior review
- Maintain strong journalist, influencer and partner relationships, understanding who matters for each client and how best to engage them
- Coordinate campaign delivery across media, social, influencer, partnerships, experiential and specialist teams, ensuring work is joined up and deadlines are met
- Prepare agendas, contact reports, status documents, coverage updates and evaluation reports that are accurate, useful and delivered on time
- Support measurement and optimisation by tracking performance, drawing out insights and suggesting practical improvements for future activity
- Guide and support junior colleagues by briefing tasks clearly, reviewing first drafts where appropriate and helping maintain team momentum
- Develop commercial awareness by understanding scopes of work, time allocation, budgets and the importance of delivering efficiently against client priorities
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve research, ideation, drafting, reporting and workflow efficiency, while applying sound judgement and quality control
- Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work—bringing passion to everything we do and the resilience to see it through. You’ll also be part of a team that values belonging: we collaborate with purpose, connect authentically, embrace diverse perspectives and support one another.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Prior experience in consumer or corporate PR, gained in agency or in-house
- Strong writing ability across formats: press releases, reports, statements, and online copy
- Confident handling of media enquiries and proactive sell-ins
- Excellent time management and responsiveness in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to juggle multiple accounts and workstreams with varying demands
- Solid grasp of the daily news agenda and broader industry context
- Familiarity with AI tools
- Enthusiastic, proactive, hardworking, and eager to learn
To Apply
Senior Vice President
The Team
The Role
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
To Apply
Influencer Strategist - Associate Director
The Team
This role sits within Freuds' Social & Influence team – an award-winning specialist social media unit within Freud Communications. At Freuds, we combine the art of influence with the speed of social. We are looking for a senior leader who can bring together creative thinking, client service excellence, operational integration and commercial acumen to help shape the next chapter of our social offering.
The team exists to service clients across the agency through social strategy, campaign development, content planning, channel management, paid media, influencer marketing and creative activation. We partner with our earned teams across consumer, corporate, purpose-led, government and B2B briefs, helping brands and organisations navigate an increasingly social-first communications landscape.
The Role
As a Senior Influencer Strategist (Senior Account Director), you are responsible for setting the strategic direction for influencer and creator marketing across key Freuds clients, with a primary focus on the Danone portfolio. You are a senior strategic specialist, providing counselthat helps clients understand the evolving role of influence across comms, culture, brand building and commercial performance.
Your core responsibility is to develop and lead influencer strategies, frameworks, playbooks and planning tools that can be deployed across UK, European and global markets. You will work closely with client teams, social specialists, communications strategists and paid mediateams to ensure influencer activity is fully integrated into wider communications and marketing plans.
You will act as Freuds' specialist lead on influence within the modern communications ecosystem, helping clients navigate a landscape spanning creators, experts, stakeholders and emerging AI-driven discovery environments. You will be expected to continuously raise the quality of strategic thinking, industry knowledge and best practice across the agency.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Lead influencer strategy across Danone brands, including Evian, Aptamil, Actimel, Alpro, Skyr, Cow & Gate and future brands.
- Develop UK, European and global strategies, frameworks and activation models.
- Define the role of influencer marketing within communications programmes and brand objectives.
- Partner with teams to integrate influencer activity into broader communications planning.
- Create influencer playbooks, toolkits, planning frameworks and best-practice guidance.
Audience, Culture & Influence Planning
- Identify relevant influencer tribes, communities and networks using audience, culture and platform insight.
- Translate audience behaviour into clear influencer recommendations.
- Stay close to culture, platform shifts, creator behaviours and audience trends.
Influence Ecosystem Development
- Design influence ecosystems beyond traditional creator partnerships.
- Define the role of creators, experts, media, business leaders, employees and other credible voices.
- Show how different influence types build awareness, trust, credibility, consideration and advocacy.
- Connect earned, owned, paid and stakeholder communications into integrated influence models.
AI Search & Future Influence
- Advise how creators, experts and authoritative voices can grow visibility across social and AI-powered search.
- Identify formats, platforms and content approaches that improve discoverability and authority.
- Stay across emerging AI, platform and creator economy developments.
Measurement & Effectiveness
- Partner with data teams to build influencer measurement frameworks focused on business outcomes.
- Advise on metrics including reach, engagement, share of voice, sentiment, advocacy, brand lift and commercial impact.
Industry Leadership & Thought Leadership
- Maintain expert knowledge of the influencer, creator and social landscape.
- Stay informed on research and effectiveness studies from WARC, IPA, platform partners and industry bodies.
- Support agency thought leadership, new business and influencer strategy innovation.
Client Leadership
- Act as a senior strategic adviser to clients and internal teams.
- Present strategic recommendations confidently at global and local level.
- Build trusted relationships with senior marcomms and digital clients.
- Lead across integrated account teams and specialist disciplines.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- Proven experience developing influencer strategies, playbooks and frameworks for major consumer brands across multiple markets.
- Strong understanding of creator ecosystems, audience behaviour, platform and cultural trends.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders & disciplines in integrated agency environments.
- Excellent presentation, storytelling and client counselling skills.
Desirable
- Experience working on FMCG, healthcare, nutrition or consumer health brands.
- Experience operating across UK, European and global programmes.
- Familiarity with influencer technology platforms, social listening tools and measurement systems including Traackr and CreatorIQ.
To Apply
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