Head of Communications

Charging your car should feel as natural as charging your phone. That’s the future we’re building: a network of EV chargers where life happens. We don’t just install chargers. We accelerate sustainable mobility. We obsess over partnerships. We grow relentlessly: our network, our partners, ourselves. Powerdot has spent the last seven years building one of Europe’s leading EV charging networks: 12,500+ charging points live, 20,000+ contracted, across Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Poland. We’re looking for a Head of Communications to own how Powerdot tells its story, to the market and to our own team. You’ll report directly to the CEO and be the person who turns what we do into a narrative that partners, investors, media, talent and our own people actually feel.

Responsibilities

Own communications end to end (external and internal) and translate Powerdot’s strategy into a story people remember; Own the narrative: Define and lead Powerdot’s communications strategy across all markets, in lockstep with the CEO and the leadership team; External comms / PR: Lead press and media relations across markets, build relationships with top-tier journalists, shape the editorial agenda, land the stories that matter, and manage agency partners in every country to a high bar; External comms / Social: Own Powerdot’s social presence and tone of voice, turning scale, partnerships and performance into content that builds reputation and pulls in talent, partners and drivers; Internal comms: Design and run how we communicate with our own team across five markets, from company-wide updates to CEO messaging to the rituals that keep a fast-growing, distributed company aligned and energised; Storytelling: Take a complex, technical, operational business and make it land simply and memorably in a press release, LinkedIn post, internal all-hands or investor narrative; Manage and grow the team: Lead one direct report and orchestrate a network of agencies across all markets; Protect the brand: Own messaging consistency and reputation management, and be ready to lead communications when the stakes are high; Measure what matters: Bring rigor to comms, share of voice, reach, sentiment, and the link between our story and our commercial and talent goals

Requirements

10+ years in communications, with a blend of PR, social media and internal comms, in a scale-up, tech or high-growth environment; A genuine storyteller, you can prove it with work that shifted perception, not just activity; Hands-on experience running PR and media relations, and managing agencies across multiple markets; Track record building or running internal communications for a distributed team; Comfortable operating directly with a CEO and leadership team, and translating strategy into message; Fluency in English; Player-coach mindset: senior enough to set strategy, hands-on enough to write the post yourself

Nice to have

Ideally a mix of agency and in-house; Portuguese is a strong plus; Any additional market language (Spanish, French, Polish) is a bonus

Benefits

Private health insurance coverage; Gym membership; Flexible working hours; Annual offsite; Regular team-building events; English Training; Free office snacks and unlimited coffee & Meal allowance for every worked day; Special discounts for charging your electric vehicle