Account Director - Travel & Hospitality

New York City, NY (On-site)

$100K/yr – $105K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Proactively builds and implements strategy for clients
  • Evaluate and understand client business objectives and crafts strategies that reflects those business objectives.
  • Lead client programs and campaigns from planning to execution within the specified budget including new hotel launches
  • Event conception and management
  • Pull and collaborate with different divisions across the agency and office to ensure the client is getting access to the agency's network-wide expertise
  • Manage client benchmarks and deliver strong media coverage through leadership and guidance
  • Consistently produce high quality internal and external communications content
  • Manage and motivate other members of the team to ensure day to day operations run smoothly and PR results are delivered, while supporting them in their growth to the next level.
  • Proactively seek out and propose new business ideas, creating proposals and pitching
  • Strategize, execute, and manage global media relations campaigns across lifestyle, travel, fashion and business media.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of travel/hospitality public relations experience at a PR agency
  • A track record of success opening new hospitality venues (hotels/restaurants) and generating consistent ongoing media coverage
  • Familiarity with the luxury market and clientele
  • Ability to be very nimble and work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced environment
  • Integrated communications campaign conception beyond traditional media
  • Articulates ideas succinctly and is comfortable with public speaking and presentations
  • Superior high-level media contacts across broadcast, print and online media
  • A “proactive” attitude and team mentality and experience leading a team
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Exceptional problem-resolution skills, including the ability to think creatively and outside the box
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Welcome to Purple — home of the one, the only, the Purple GridTM. Ranked #1 in Customer Satisfaction with bed in a box mattresses by J.D. Power, including best in both support and comfort! We’re a one-of-a-kind innovation brand that is on a mission to meaningfully improve lives by helping Every Body get the comfort they deserve and the support they need. Our premium comfort innovation products start in the bedroom and extend beyond to provide optimal comfort everywhere you go. With a variety of mattresses, bedding, bases, seat cushions, dog beds, and more, Purple is quickly becoming the iconic color of true comfort, true innovation, and truly feeling great.While most new mattress companies only focus on just a simpler mattress buying experience with the same foam mattresses, Purple is committed to simply making a better mattress (with the better buying experience, to boot!). The only mattress with the Purple GridTM, Purple is instantly soft where you want it and firm where you need it – all at once. It's the comfort you crave, the support your back needs. Plus, 1,500+ open airways help dissipate body heat rather than trapping it, so you don't sleep hot.It all started in 1989 when two engineer brothers, Tony and Terry Pearce, set out with a mission to invent technology and create local jobs that meaningfully improve the lives of everyone involved. Over the last 30+ years, the Brothers Pearce have revolutionized the comfort industry by innovating various No Pressure® cushioning materials used in everything from wheelchairs and critical care hospital beds to sporting goods and high-end mattresses. Then, in September of 2015, they successfully launched The No-Compromise Purple® Mattress on Kickstarter, and it's been uphill from there — continually inventing, improving, and creating ways to make the world a more comfortable place.

Founded in 2015
Lehi, Utah, USA
1.2K employees (115 in marketing)
52% recommend to a friend
52% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.2%
Direct
44.3%
Referral
5.5%
Social
2.5%
Paid
3.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
91 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
5.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$63M
Last Raise
$61M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2023
    Post IPO Equity • $61M
  • Jan 2021
    Post IPO Equity
  • Oct 2016
    Equity Crowdfunding • $2M

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