Senior PR Manager
Upvest provides regulated, API-first investment infrastructure for fintechs, banks, brokers, and wealth managers across Europe and the UK.
Funding history
About Upvest
Upvest is a Berlin-based, regulated investment-infrastructure company serving financial institutions that want to launch and scale brokerage, wealth, and pension products. Its cloud-native Investment API provides brokerage, settlement, custody, and real-time investment functionality, while its operations offering automates middle- and back-office processes. Upvest supports flexible operating models under its own or clients’ licences and offers fractional securities, portfolios, and savings plans across European and UK markets.
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About the Role
You'll take ownership of Upvest's PR strategy across Europe, with a strong focus on Germany. You'll build and deepen direct relationships with tier-1 journalists across business, fintech and financial services media, and lead all press office activities including inbound requests, proactive pitching and reactive communications. You'll drive press announcements, exclusives, background briefings and media commentary from start to finish, and shape thought leadership and agenda-surfing opportunities in close alignment with leadership. You'll prepare, brief and support senior spokespeople for interviews, panels and media appearances, and strategically leverage events, awards and industry moments to strengthen media relationships and narrative visibility.
Requirements
- 5+ years of PR experience, ideally in fintech, finance, investment or B2B SaaS
- A strong existing network of relevant tier-1 media contacts in Germany (ideally also the UK)
- Proven experience leading complex PR stories with strong news judgment and strategic framing
- Experience working with technical, regulated or API-driven products
- Hands-on experience managing senior stakeholders and briefing executives
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong storytelling instinct
- Outcome-focused mindset with the ability to prioritise signal over volume
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced scale-up environment with high ownership
- Experience building an in-house PR function is a plus
- Experience using events and awards as strategic PR levers rather than one-off activities is a plus
- German language skills (C1 - C2) are a plus
Responsibilities
- Own and execute Upvest's PR strategy across Europe with a focus on Germany
- Build, maintain and deepen direct relationships with tier-1 journalists across business, fintech and financial services media
- Lead all press office activities, including inbound requests, proactive pitching and reactive communications
- Drive press announcements, exclusives, background briefings and media commentary end to end
- Shape and execute thought leadership and agenda-surfing opportunities in close alignment with leadership
- Prepare, brief and support senior spokespeople for interviews, panels and media appearances
- Strategically leverage events, awards and industry moments to strengthen media relationships and narrative visibility
Benefits
- €20,000 per year AI tools budget
- 30 days of annual leave
- Sports benefits
- Confidential professional coaching
- Flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year
- One-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years of working at Upvest
- Personal development budget
- Flexible work environment across hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn, hybrid or remote
- Equity participation program
- Company-wide events, dinners, offsites and Holiday party
- Employee Resource Groups
