The Role

We’re hiring an M1 Brand Manager. This role exists to build and run the team and operating system that delivers tem’s brand execution across the company. You will lead the team responsible for turning tem’s brand strategy and narrative into consistent, high-quality work across the moments that matter. Your job is to ensure Brand execution is reliable, high standard, and scalable as tem grows. You will manage Brand ICs and Experts, deploy resources to the highest-impact priorities, and establish the systems that allow teams across tem to move quickly without losing clarity or quality. You will report immediately into the Chief Growth Officer, and in the future an incoming VP. This is an M1 role at tem. Managers at tem are accountable for people performance, hiring, and resource deployment for their scope. (Expert IC leadership sits on the E track; this role is explicitly the management track.)

Scope and leadership bar (M1 at tem)

As an M1, you are a first-line people leader responsible for team performance and execution reliability. You are accountable for:

• Performance management
• Set clear expectations for Brand ICs and Experts.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and development.
• Make performance decisions that maintain a high bar.

• Hiring and bar-raising
• Partner with the CGO on hiring plans.
• Ensure new hires strengthen the team’s craft and judgement.

• Resource deployment
• Allocate team capacity to the highest-impact work.
• Make trade-offs explicit when demand exceeds capacity.

• Operating rhythm
• Establish clear workflows and cadences for Brand execution
• Ensure positioning and brand is anchored across all teams and engines of the business.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the brand 'execution + content' team
• Manage the performance and development of Brand ICs & Es.
• Coach writing quality, message clarity, and brand judgement.
• Set clear standards for what “ship-ready” work looks like across design and content.
• Partner with the CGO on hiring plans, team design, and bar raising.
• Partner with our future Creative Director and VP of Brand & Comms on org design and craft direction.
• Own tem's content system (strategy to production)
• Ensure content is clearly owned across priority areas (web, lifecycle, sales enablement, exec comms, launches).
• Build the content operating model: briefs, editorial standards, planning, reviews, and approvals.
• Ensure the team can produce high-quality copy at speed without relying on you as the primary writer.
• Establish tone of voice guidance and message architecture that makes writing scalable.
• Run the execution operating system
• Own briefs, prioritisation, reviews, and delivery workflows.
• Establish a weekly cadence for intake, reviews, and retros.
• Ensure stakeholders know how to engage Brand effectively.
• Maintain quality control without becoming a bottleneck.
• Introduce and embed AI-enabled workflows that increase speed and quality (without lowering craft).
• Deploy resources to the highest-impact work
• Allocate capacity across launches, web, sales collateral, company communications, and content.
• Ensure the most important work receives the strongest attention.
• Make prioritisation decisions visible across stakeholders.

• Build and evolve brand standards and systems (not maintain them)
• Build the standards for tem’s visual and verbal identity, and make them easy to follow.
• Create the system for guidelines, templates, and toolkits to stay current through ownership and cadence.
• Define review and approval workflows that protect quality without slowing teams down.
• Coach ICs and stakeholders to the standard, and intervene only when needed.

• Enable stronger credibility work across tem
• Partner with Product, Growth, and Commercial teams.
• Encourage early collaboration by making Brand support efficient.
• Raise the bar for quality and taste
• Be a consistent voice for clarity and strong storytelling.
• Challenge work that is off-brand or poorly framed.
• Help tem’s brand feel technologically literate and confident.

Requirements

• Must haves
• Experience managing brand, creative, or content teams.
• Strong judgement across brand execution and messaging.
• Ability to run multiple workstreams through a team while maintaining quality.
• Clear standards for what high-quality work looks like.
• Strong stakeholder management in fast-moving environments.
• Systems mindset - you improve how work gets done, not just the outputs.
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate output while maintaining quality.

• Bonus points
• Experience in fintech, infrastructure, AI, or regulated industries.
• Experience supporting executive communications or major launches.
• Experience building brand systems (guidelines, templates, review processes).
• Experience working with agencies or freelancers.

Interview process

We move fast. Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer. Intro call with Talent, 30 minutes. Hiring Manager interview, 60 minutes. Practical exercise, 60 to 90 minutes. Culture Add interview, 45 minutes. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.