ABOUT YOU

Head of Communications (all genders)

ABOUT YOU  •  Hamburg, DE (Onsite)  •  24 days ago
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Job Description

ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.

  • Holistic strategic direction and continuous development of corporate communications in alignment with company objectives
  • Overall responsibility for Corporate, Consumer, and Internal Communications
  • Strategic advisory and positioning of the Management Board and Senior Leadership Team, including the development of core corporate narratives
  • Development and management of integrated communication strategies across all relevant channels and stakeholders
  • Close, aligned collaboration with Zalando’s communications department
  • Overall responsibility for steering and further developing press and media relations, as well as building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships
  • Responsibility for communication in critical situations, including the management of company-wide crisis communications
  • Overall responsibility for the PR-driven execution of ABOUT YOU events (e.g. fashion shows), including media relations and stakeholder management
  • Steering and quality assurance of key communication content and formats (e.g. communication strategies, press materials, internal formats, executive communications)

Qualifications

  • Several years of comprehensive experience in corporate communications with responsibility for Corporate, Consumer, and Internal Communications
  • Proven experience in strategic advisory and positioning of top management, particularly at C-level
  • Strong track record in managing complex communication initiatives as well as leading press and media relations, including in the context of high-reach and international events
  • Confident handling of demanding internal and external stakeholders, with extensive experience working in matrix organizations
  • Experience working directly with a Management Board or comparable senior leadership bodies
  • Strong entrepreneurial mindset with a keen sense for relevant topics, narratives, and media dynamics
  • High conceptual strength combined with a clear execution focus and decisiveness
  • Strong presence, assertiveness, and the ability to provide guidance in critical situations
  • Business-fluency in German and English

Additional Information

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Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!

A Place Where You Can Be You

We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.

Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.

What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.

ABOUT YOU

About ABOUT YOU

The ABOUT YOU Group is an international e-commerce group, organized into different strategic business units: The online fashion store ABOUT YOU represents the Group's business-to-consumer business. With over 13 million active customers, ABOUT YOU is one of the largest online retailers for fashion and lifestyle in Europe and the leading provider of a personalized shopping experience on smartphones. In the award-winning ABOUT YOU app and on aboutyou.com, customers find inspiration and a range of around 750,000 items from nearly 4,000 brands. The Group's business-to-business operations are largely handled by SCAYLE GmbH. SCAYLE offers a modern, cloud-based enterprise shop system that enables brands and retailers to scale their digital businesses quickly and flexibly, and adapt to growing customer needs. Around 300 online stores choose SCAYLE's Commerce technology under a license model, including leading brands and retailers such as Harrods, Manchester United, Deichmann, Fielmann, and FC Bayern. The newest subsidiary of the ABOUT YOU Group, SCAYLE Payments GmbH, complements the Group's portfolio of payment services. The payment service provider received the payment services license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in October 2024 and is currently being rolled out across various European markets. SCAYLE Payments enables the seamless integration of modern payment solutions and helps to scale customers' digital business models.

For further information, please visit: corporate.aboutyou.de/en.

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ABOUT YOU Holding AG

Domstrasse 10

20095 Hamburg Germany

E-mail: info@aboutyou.de

www.corporate.aboutyou.de

Local court: Amtsgericht Hamburg

Registration number: HRB 189825

Management Board: Tarek Müller, Hannes Wiese, Sebastian Betz

Chairman of the Supervisory Board: David Schröder

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Hamburg, DE
Year Founded
2014
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