Media & Comms Strategist

Ancient Gaming is seeking a Media and Comms Strategist to manage and enhance its public reputation across major platforms like X/Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and traditional media. The role involves controlling narratives, neutralizing negative publicity, and transforming controversies into positive momentum, particularly for products like CSGORoll and HypeDrop. The strategist will be responsible for rapid response during high-noise events, building key relationships, and developing consistent internal messaging frameworks to align the company's public image.

Must Have

• Previous experience as a Journalist or PR professional
• Strong understanding of media narratives, sourcing, and evidence
• Proficiency in online culture, virality, and misinterpretation
• Ability to communicate clearly, directly, and charismatically
• Strong understanding of community-driven marketing, especially in gaming
• Ability to own and shape public narrative across X/Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and media
• Capability to respond quickly during high-noise moments with solid messaging
• Skill in building relationships with creators, journalists, and influencers
• Experience in creating internal messaging frameworks
• Adept at turning controversies into opportunities

Perks & Benefits

• Work from anywhere (remote flexibility)
• Annual team meetups in epic locations
• Home office budget
• Growth fund for courses, conferences, and skill development (plus unlimited Udemy access)
• Mental health support through Spill
• Opportunity for career advancement in a fast-growing company
• Fast-paced work environment ("Get Shit Done")
• Culture that embraces learning from failure
• Remote-first company culture
• Player-obsessed approach to design

Job description

We’re looking for a Media and Comms Strategist who can control narratives, neutralise attacks and turn controversy into momentum. You’ll own our public reputation across X/Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and media, shaping how the world sees us, especially when things get loud.

You will be working on:

CSGORoll - the world’s #1 skin gaming site. A community social gaming platform specifically designed for CS2 players, featuring unique in-house custom-built games, such as Roulette, Crash, Unboxing and PVP.

HypeDrop - a leading gamified shopping platform, where over 500,000 users experience the excitement of real-time mystery box openings, box battles and customizable deals. Since 2018, HypeDrop has sold over 150 million boxes, revolutionizing the way people shop and win.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the company’s public narrative across X/Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and media.
• Respond fast during high noise moments and keep the messaging rock solid.
• Build relationships with creators, journalists and people who actually move conversations.
• Create internal messaging frameworks that keep everyone aligned.
• Flip controversies into opportunities to show transparency, leadership or just well timed humor.
• Communicate with confidence and charisma, people should want to listen.

Job requirements

Who you are:

• Must have previous experience as a Journalist, PR or similar role.
• Strong understanding of sourcing, evidence and how narratives form in the media.
• You get online culture, virality and how quickly people misinterpret things.
• A clear communicator, direct, human, not corporate robot speak.
• Able to be charming, confident, and likable when the moment calls for it.
• A strong understanding of community driven marketing, especially around gaming communities, creators and user behaviour.

The Perks That Actually Matter:

Work From Literally Anywhere – Beach in Bali? Mountain cabin? City apartment? Your call.

Annual Team Meetups in Epic Locations – Previous destinations have included vibrant European capitals, tropical islands, and adventure hubs

Home Office Budget – Get the setup you need to do your best work

Growth Fund – Dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and skill development (plus unlimited Udemy access)

Mental Health Support through Spill – Because creative brains need care too

Be Part of Something Big - We're growing fast, which means unlimited opportunities to level up your career

Our "Not-So-Secret" Secret Sauce:

We Get Shit Done – No endless meetings or analysis paralysis. We move fast

Failure = Learning – We celebrate bold attempts, not just successes

Remote-First, Not Remote-Compromise – Our distributed team is our strength, not an afterthought

Player Obsessed – Every design decision starts and ends with our users