Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Way to Win's earned media strategy aligned with organizational and political priorities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with national, political, philanthropic, and other priority reporters and media outlets.
• Proactively pitch stories, organizational perspectives, leaders, research, partners, and political insights.
• Respond to inbound media inquiries and coordinate organizational responses.
• Identify emerging news moments where Way to Win has a relevant perspective or opportunity to influence the conversation.
• Maintain and continuously develop targeted media lists.
• Track media engagement, placements, reach, and results.
• Develop media strategies for the President, executive leaders, advisors, and other organizational spokespeople.
• Identify opportunities for interviews, commentary, panels, podcasts, op-eds, quotes, and other thought-leadership placements.
• Prepare executives for interviews and events through briefing materials, talking points, message preparation, and media coaching.

Requirements

• Approximately 7+ years of progressive communications and media relations experience, ideally within politics, advocacy, philanthropy, campaigns, movement organizations, public affairs, or adjacent environments.
• Strong existing relationships with political and/or national media.
• A track record of successfully pitching reporters and securing earned media.
• Excellent writing, editing, messaging, and storytelling skills.
• Strong political judgment and news instincts.
• Ability to translate complicated strategy into compelling public narratives.
• Experience preparing senior executives or principals for media engagement.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving and politically sensitive environments.
• Strong project management and follow-through.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functions while independently owning a portfolio.

Preferred

• Experience with crisis communications or rapid-response campaigns.
• Proficiency crafting messages for multiple social media platforms (LinkedIn, Bluesky, Instagram).

Benefits

• Health Care - Comprehensive and robust 100% employee and family paid health care coverage to all employees.
• Retirement Plan - employees are fully vested in the company’s retirement plan 90 days after their start date. Way to Win contributes 6% of the base salary to the employee’s retirement account, regardless of whether the employee contributes or not.
• Life, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, and AD&D - Employer-paid Life Insurance, Disability and AD&D.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off.
• Office Closure - 30 days of holiday time, this includes a Spring break, Summer break, Thanksgiving break and an EOY break.
• FSA - Three different tax-deferred FSA accounts (funded by employees) – Health, Commuter (transit/parking — including UberPool), and Dependent Care.
• HSA ($2,000 p/y)
• Family Leave -12 weeks of paid Family Leave for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child after one full year of employment.
• Professional Development - Yearly stipend for staff to receive training and development.
• EAP - Confidential Employee Assistant Program (EAP) to all full-time employees to assist with work and personal challenges.