Junior Account Executive - Design, Arts & Culture

New York, USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New Grad2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead PR and media outreach for agency-focused clients, coordinating coverage, reports, and launches.

  • Own media tracking, reporting, and proactive opportunity identification.
  • Must-have: 1–2 years of PR/agency experience with strong writing.
  • Standout: Experience with influencer outreach and press relations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Monitoring all media, print, digital and social channels for brand coverage and competitor activity, scanning relevant articles for distribution around the team.
  • Responsible for managing product deliveries in a timely manner.
  • Handle product and image call-ins, and compile and manage all mass mail outs.
  • Begin to build media relationships by attending press meetings or launch events.
  • Compiling reports and coverage presentations for all clients.
  • Supporting the team with key launches and events.
  • Maintain and establish industry contacts with digital influencers and bloggers.
  • Day-to-day support on mailings, events, social media promotions, partnerships, blogger and influencer outreach initiatives, and reporting.
  • Monitor and benchmark social media activities of other competing brands.
  • Identify and track emerging trends, initiatives, and vendors in the digital space and develop relevant client applications.

Requirements

  • 1-2 years of PR experience, ideally within the agency scope.
  • Familiarity with the organization of press reports and press clips.
  • Demonstrate solid understanding of ongoing interest in media relations and strategy.
  • Able to identify communication opportunities through a proactive approach.
  • Effective communicator with an eagerness to grow and learn.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment meeting tight deadlines. Excellent prioritizing and time management.
  • Discreet, professional and articulate, with outstanding communication skills.
  • Extremely well-organized, methodical and efficient with strong initiative.
  • Strong writing skills.
  • Computer skills including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, and Muckrack.

Preferred

  • Genuine interest in Design, Arts and Culture as well as communications more generally.
  • Being organised, driven, proactive and enthusiastic are a must.
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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)
2

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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