Location: Home based, UK (with regular travel to our London office, customer sites, events and internationally to the EU and USA alongside the CEO as needed)
Reports to: Marketing Director
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: (Depending on experience)
Role Overview
As our Content, PR & Media Associate, you will be the creative engine behind our Founder’s public presence. You aren't just managing channels; you are a technical producer and a strategic voice. You will own the ‘top-of-funnel’ by architecting a data-driven content strategy that builds market authority. This will directly support our growth initiatives and enterprise AI Enablement narrative across podcasts, social media and national press.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Podcast Production & Managed transition: You will partner closely with our external production agency to oversee the current shoot, sound, and final cut workflows for the Data and AI Mastery podcast. You will turn long-form recordings into premium episodes.
- Social Media Reach and Engagement: You will extract high-impact, viral social clips from the Founder's long-form content to keep his personal brand top-of-feed. You will command the audience growth metrics for his digital channels, maximising subscriber count and expanding his executive reach.
- The Founder’s Ghostwriter: You will partner closely with the Group CEO to translate his ideas into punchy, authoritative LinkedIn posts and X threads. You will capture his voice so well that the audience can't tell the difference.
- Strategic Research & Content Architecture: You will actively research global AI trends, competitor frameworks, and technical updates. You will build out content calendars and pitch ready-to-go concepts to the CEO, minimising his prep time during weekly recording slots.
- Asynchronous Thought Leadership & PR: You will focus intensely on drafting, pitching, and placing authoritative Op-Eds, white papers, and expert commentary in leading business and tech publications (Sifted, FT, TechCrunch etc.)
- AI-Native Execution: You will leverage AI to achieve the output of an entire media team. Whether deploying AI for rapid video subtitling, automated show notes generation, or asset creation, you are meticulous about maximising 'leveraged' output.
- Production Logistics: You own the master content production calendar. You will book high-profile guests, prep the Group CEO for interviews, and ensure all studio gear is optimised and ready for every shoot.
Candidate Specification
- Evidence of Impact: You bring a strong portfolio of work (video, written, or PR results) proving your ability to grow an audience and manage a premium brand’s voice. You are naturally data-driven and comfortable utilising platform analytics (e.g., LinkedIn Analytics, YouTube Studio) to track reach, measure growth, and iterate on strategy.
- Technical Production & Design Skills: You are an exceptional, hands-on editor who creates content that feels premium, not ‘stock’. You possess a deep understanding of cloud recording and production suites (e.g., Riverside, Descript, Adobe Premiere) alongside design tools like Canva to rapidly build high-fidelity social graphics and episodic thumbnails. Experience training AI models on executive brand voices to safely automate asset distribution is a major plus.
- The "Writer’s Ear": You write with distinct personality and authority. You excel at framing complex, technical AI and EdTech topics into highly accessible, engaging social content.
- An AI-First Workflow: You maintain a personal toolkit of frontier AI applications that you use daily to work faster and better. You see AI as an essential collaborator and leverage multiplier, not a gimmick.
- Scale-Up Resourcefulness: In our environment, things move fast. You are completely comfortable "figuring it out", whether that means troubleshooting a microphone array on a live shoot or finding a creative angle to reach a hard-to-get guest.
- Radical Ownership: You do not wait for a brief. You proactively spot content opportunities, grab them, and run with them from idea to final publication.
Company Benefits:
- Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
- 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
- A day for volunteering
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
- Annual Summer and Xmas events
- Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
- CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
- Private medical insurance and cash plan
- Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
- Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor
Background to our Organisation
We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.
We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.
Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.
At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:
Entrepreneurial
We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.
Team Spirit
Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.
Customer-focused
Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.
Gold Standard
We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.
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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.
