PR & Communications Manager

We're looking for a PR + Communications Manager to lead communications and creator relationships across Kepler Interactive's portfolio, from early access and live service titles through to back catalogue.

This role carries broad ownership, you'll move comfortably between creative thinking, commercial decision-making and data, working across multiple simultaneous projects. This is a hands-on role, and you'll partner closely with Creative, Social, Marketing and Production teams, as well as external PR and Influencer agencies, studios and creator partners, to find the stories worth telling and get them in front of the right audiences: press, creators, players and beyond.

This is a role for someone who understands the fundamentals of great PR in video games but doesn’t feel constrained by them. You’ll need strong judgement, excellent communication skills and the confidence to bring ideas to the table, challenge convention and adapt your approach to the project, studio and audience in front of you.

You’ll have proven experience in, and be confident, in owning and executing impactful PR campaigns for ongoing messaging, updates, and community engagement for games that receive continuous, long-term content updates

This is a hybrid role based in London, on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Own and execute impactful, integrated communications campaigns that reflect each game's identity, audience and Kepler's broader vision, across a number of projects, early access launches, live service titles and various games within our back catalogue.
- Build and manage external PR and influencer agency partnerships across key markets, from announcement through post-launch
- Create integrated campaigns in partnership with Marketing, Social and Production teams
- Work closely with our development partners, building trusted relationships with studios around the world and providing thoughtful PR counsel, expertise and recommendations.
- Balance competing priorities across multiple games and projects at once, adapting quickly as priorities shift
- Contribute strategic direction and ideation aligned with company goals, and communicate performance and ROI to stakeholders
- Copywriting for press releases, news posts, store pages and campaign messaging.
- Oversee industry moments including awards submissions, events and announcements
- Monitor coverage, sentiment and campaign data to refine strategy
- Cultivate relationships with international development partners and studios globally

What We’re Looking For

You’ll have experience working in PR and/or communications or games marketing, either in-house or agency-side, and a strong understanding of how games reach press, creators, players and wider audiences.

More importantly, we’re looking for someone who:

- Can plan and executes ongoing messaging, updates, and community engagement for games that receive continuous, long-term content updates
- Is creative, curious about games and culture, and comfortable generating ideas as well as executing them.
- Can proactively take ownership of PR activity from early thinking through to execution and evaluation.
- Has a thorough understanding of the press and creator landscape, staying ahead of where it’s shifting to enable our campaigns to continually improve and evolve.
- Is a strong writer and communicator, able to adapt tone and messaging for different games, studios and audiences.
- Has excellent judgement around tone, audience and brand, including a genuine grasp of what make Kepler Interactive’s own identity and vision distinctive both separately and together with the games we publish.
- Can manage multiple projects, campaigns and priorities without losing sight of the detail.
- Builds strong relationships and is comfortable working with everyone from development teams and specialist agencies to senior internal stakeholders.
- Seeks influences from everywhere and anywhere, not just relying on those commonly seen within video games.
- Is comfortable giving a point of view, receiving challenge and evolving an idea through feedback.

Priority skills

- Creative, curious and comfortable generating ideas as well as executing them.
- Able to interpret coverage and data, to use it to improve content and decision making.
- Strong judgement around tone, audience and brand, including a genuine grasp of what make Kepler Interactive’s own identity and vision distinctive both separately and together with the games we publish.
- You seek influences from everywhere and anywhere, not just relying on those commonly seen within video games.
- Comfortable experimenting, learning quickly and adapting.
- A genuine interest in video games and the culture surrounding them.

Working at Kepler

Creativity sits at the heart of Kepler. We back artistic vision, give talented people space to do their best work and believe different perspectives make the work stronger.

Our values shape how we do that:

Experimentation: We challenge the norm, stay curious, and move with confidence into the unknown.

Kindness: We believe how we treat people matters. We empower and uplift with clarity and honesty.

Excellence: We aim high. We think creatively, embrace feedback, and celebrate both wins and lessons learnt along the way.