PR Account Manager, Beauty

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $95K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead PR strategy and media relations for beauty and wellness clients, guiding programs from planning to execution.

  • Lead media pitching and secure impactful placements for clients.
  • 5–6 years of PR agency experience in the beauty and wellness vertical.
  • Oversee junior team members and coordinate cross-divisional work.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Consistently pitch and secure media coverage for clients
  • Produce high-quality internal and external communications content, including writing, proofreading, and editing PR and marketing materials
  • Develop compelling stories and narratives for clients
  • Lead client communications, programs, events, and campaigns from planning through execution, ensuring adherence to budget
  • Collaborate with various agency divisions to leverage network-wide expertise for clients.
  • Cultivate strong connections with leading and emerging editorial talents.
  • Develop and manage relationships with press contacts, key commentators, industry spokespeople, and beauty and wellness influencers
  • Oversee junior team members in reviewing client agendas, recap reports, and clips
  • Provide strategic counsel in collaboration with account leadership as needed

Requirements

  • 5 - 6 years of PR agency experience in the beauty and wellness vertical
  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant field is preferred
  • Comprehensive knowledge of relevant brands, culture and the local landscape, including trends, market dynamics, media
  • Demonstrated success in securing impactful media placements
  • Strong networking abilities with a proven capacity to build relationships with key influencers, media, and industry leaders
  • Exceptional project management skills, with a focus on organization and strategic planning.
  • Superior written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal abilities to foster collaboration and maintain strong professional relationships

Preferred

  • High energy, enthusiastic individual with a passion for communications and PR
  • Results orientated
  • Strong project management skills, ability to multitask, excellent time management and organization
  • Outstanding written and oral communications abilities; including the abilities to elicit information, actively listen, dialogue freely, verbalize ideas effectively, highly comfortable public speaker
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Exceptional relationship building skills, collaborative, able to work well with others.
  • Comfortable in a start-up environment
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The Lede Company

The Lede Company is a full-service strategy, communications and social impact consulting firm, specializing in corporate, entertainment, brand and nonprofit sectors. With dedicated Talent, Music, Strategic Communications, Brand, Content and Social Impact divisions, we work with our clients to advance business and social outcomes through innovative storytelling, media, campaigns and partnerships. Our service offerings draw on our expertise, relationships, and resources, all of which enable us to exceed client expectations and ultimately, deliver results.With extensive experience and expertise in the media, tech, fashion, beauty & wellness, lifestyle, entertainment, music, advocacy, nonprofit and related industries, we help best-in-class organizations and individuals establish and manage their public affairs, as well as develop and support their mission, including brand strategy, internal and external communications and PR, content and campaign development, as well as their social impact, sustainability and advocacy efforts.Proudly founded by a diverse group of women leaders in 2018, the Lede Company has teams and offices in New York City and Los Angeles and is proud to partner with an incredible collective of clients and partners around the globe. Learn more at ledecompany.com.

Founded in 2018
Beverly Hills, California, USA
217 employees (126 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.3%
Direct
44.8%
Referral
4.8%
Social
18.6%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~217

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
123 (57% of company)
Median Career Experience
6 years
Median Tenure
2 years