PR & Communications Lead, APAC (Remote, Australia)

We're looking for an engaged, dynamic, and inquisitive person to join our global PR team in the APAC region. As the PR and Communications Lead for APAC, you will work closely with our APAC leadership team to build awareness and understanding of Shopify across the APAC region overall, as well as being directly responsible for PR & Communications for Australia and New Zealand. You will also work closely with teams in Singapore, China, Japan, and India.

We want someone who is eager to shape the global story of Shopify with creative and impactful communications and a passion for building for the long term. This role will report directly to the Senior Communications Lead for International on Shopify's global PR team, based in London.

Qualifications

You'll need to have:

• Established media relationships with key business, tech and trade outlets across Australia, New Zealand and APAC.
  
• A strong strategic approach to communications and the ability to take on complex communications initiatives, either agency-side or in-house
  
• The ability to work with many teams and executives to build effective localized product messaging, simplify highly technical topics, and develop compelling narratives to showcase them
  
• The drive to be highly aligned with all relevant product and country leads, understanding how new offerings impact Shopify's merchants in multiple markets
  
• Experience working in Australia/NZ and across APAC markets
  
• Experience in adapting and amplifying global and corporate announcements and product launches to ensure they are relevant to local markets and news cycles.
  
• The autonomy and confidence to act in an agile manner, and make great decisions quickly
  
• Excellent writing, editing, speaking/presentation skills, and a passion for storytelling
  

• The ability to work full-time remotely from home as this role is a remote position, and across International time-zones. Down the line there may be international travel throughout Europe and Canada, but this is expected to be limited.
  

It would be nice if you had:

• A comprehensive understanding of the retail, tech and business media landscape in Australia and APAC markets, including: national print outlets, broadcast, blogs, radio, trade magazines, podcasts and more
  

• Experience working for an International and/or North American company in Asia
  
• Experience in launching businesses and brands in news markets is a plus
  
• Handling tech product PR or communications at a tech company
  
• Developing communications around events
  
• Working at management level at an agency with experience working with tech clients
  

You'll get to work on things like:

• Building and extending Shopify's PR strategy across Australia and APAC markets
  
• Develop, execute, analyze, and report on comprehensive targeted APAC communications campaigns
  
• Work closely with the global communications team, as well as in-market and marketing teams to brainstorm unique story angles
  
• Train and provide strategic direction to company executives and spokespeople for media interviews, presentations, events and more
  
• Work closely with our country managers and product teams to identify, plan, and execute communications activities to support product launches, partnerships and more locally
  
• Ensure communications are consistent and leverage all opportunities to move Shopify's brand forward
  
• Manage multiple in-market agencies
  

At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

How we hire

At Shopify, we put a lot of care and time into who we hire. We believe that in order to build the best products, we need to build high impact teams. Our recruitment process centres around what we call the Life Story interview, a conversational-style interview where we get to learn more about you.
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