Sr. Director, Head of Communications APAC

Role Overview

We are seeking a forward-thinking Senior Director of Communications to redefine how Match Group brands show up in culture across Asia. This is not a traditional PR leadership role focused solely on earned media volume, but a strategic position that shapes cultural relevance, drives conversation, and builds meaningful connections with our users.

This leader will shape and amplify culturally resonant narratives that connect deeply with Gen Z audiences — across social platforms, creator ecosystems, pop culture, emerging media formats, and evolving digital communities.

You will architect integrated storytelling strategies that transcend traditional press coverage, blending earned media, social-first storytelling, cultural partnerships, and community influence to drive relevance and brand meaning.

- Traditional PR KPIs:

- # of articles

- Media reach

- Tier 1 coverage

- Future-facing KPIs:
- Quality and impact of reach and coverage
- Cultural conversation penetration and narrative adoption
- Creator-led amplification and engagement
- Share of voice within priority platforms and ecosystems
- Depth of subculture and community ownership

What You'll Own

1. Cultural Narrative & Positioning:
• Define and evolve Tinder and Match group brands cultural narrative across Asia, ensuring resonance with Gen Z and young millennials.

• Translate brand strategy into culture-shaping storylines that travel across earned, social, creator, and entertainment ecosystems.

• Anticipate cultural moments, tensions, and trends to proactively insert the brand into meaningful conversations.

2. Social-First Communications Strategy:
• Design comms strategies that start in social, not end there.

• Ensure Tinder narratives are optimized for how Gen Z consumes content: short-form video, creators, podcasts, niche communities, and emerging platforms.

• Design storytelling frameworks that originate in social, not just traditional media.

• Partner closely with Marketing, Social, and Brand teams to ensure narrative cohesion across paid, owned, and earned channels.

3. Creator & Cultural Ecosystem Engagement:
• Develop relationships beyond journalists — including creators, cultural commentators, podcast hosts, community leaders, entertainment IP, and subculture tastemakers.

• Identify new amplification nodes: digital-native publishers, newsletters, Discord communities, YouTube formats, etc.

• Lead strategic partnerships that build long-term cultural relevance (not just campaign spikes).

4. Modern Earned Media Leadership:
• Continue to steward key journalist relationships and top-tier media strategy, but evolve success metrics beyond coverage volume.

• Drive quality, sentiment, narrative pull-through, and cultural impact.

• Integrate traditional outlets’ social extensions and digital platforms into comms plans.

5. Reputation & Issues Management :
• Lead crisis and issues management with a real-time, cross-platform lens (including TikTok, Reddit, X, etc.).

• Develop proactive narrative guardrails and response playbooks suited for viral environments.

• Partner with MG corp comms and legal to manage reputational risk.

6. Measurement & Impact:
• Redefine comms KPIs to include cultural impact, share of conversation, sentiment, narrative adoption, and social amplification.

• Build reporting frameworks that connect comms to brand equity and business impact.

Who You Are:
• 10-15+ years in communications, with significant experience beyond traditional PR.

• Proven track record shaping narratives that resonate with Gen Z or digital-native audiences across social platforms.

• Deep understanding of Asian cultural nuance across key markets (Japan, Korea, SEA, India preferred).

• Strong instincts for internet culture, pop culture, and emerging platforms.

• Experience integrating earned, social, creators, and brand storytelling into a cohesive strategy.

• Has led crisis communications in fast-moving digital environments.

• Executive presence — able to counsel regional leadership and global stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like:
• Tinder is meaningfully present in youth culture conversations, not just media headlines.

• Narratives originate in social ecosystems and travel outward.

• Strong creator and cultural partner network across Asia.

• Earned media reflects deeper storytelling, not transactional announcements.

• Improved brand perception and cultural relevance among Gen Z audiences.

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