Vice President Public Relations

New York City, NY (On-site)

$160K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own integrated PR and strategic communications for enterprise cybersecurity clients, focusing on retention, staff development, and portfolio growth.

  • Integrated client programs spanning retention, growth, and new-business workstreams.
  • Craft market-moving narratives for executives, trade media, and new media audiences.
  • Influencer strategy and journalist relationships to secure needle-moving coverage.

Job Description

Responsibilities key summary and execution focus.

  • Be responsible for client retention, staff development, and portfolio growth.
  • Be a trusted strategic partner to our enterprise and cybersecurity clients, their executive teams, and drive communications strategies that will help them reach their full potential.
  • Synthesize complex technical concepts into compelling, market-moving narratives that resonate with business, trade media, and new media alike.
  • Work with Mission North’s integrated studio members to provide clients with programs that utilize traditional PR, digital, creator, and social.
  • Maintain and leverage high-level relationships with key journalists, analysts, and editors to secure needle-moving coverage for clients.
  • Manage budgets and team resources.
  • Drive client calls, team planning sessions, new business pitches, end-of-month reporting, and invoicing
  • Conceptualize inventive influencer strategies and drive influencer engagement
  • Serve as a key contributor in new business

Requirements key summary.

  • A minimum of 10-15 years of communications or PR agency experience, preferably with cybersecurity companies or related industries
  • Demonstrated experience developing, directing, and executing strategic communications programs that blend PR, content marketing, social media, and data
  • Experience helping disruptive technology companies develop compelling messaging, storylines, and thought leadership platforms
  • Established relationships with top-tier trade media and bloggers, vertical market media and national and local business media
  • Experience running integrated PR programs, including paid content
  • Experience working with household names and emerging/disruptor brands in B2B technology, including data and cloud infrastructure, applied AI, cybersecurity, business process optimization, SaaS and other key elements of the modern business technology stack

Benefits

  • We invest in our people, offering a competitive compensation package, profit sharing, 401K matching program, professional development stipend, and comprehensive benefits.
  • On top of base compensation, we offer healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan including an employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, and several paid holidays.
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Mission North

Mission North is a strategic communications agency for influential companies to build, protect, and renew their impact. Our stories about breakthrough innovations and movements—and the iconic teams behind them—have influenced hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. A benefit corporation, Mission North is committed to making a positive difference through our work, culture, and community investments.

Founded in 2004
New York, New York, USA
86 employees (25 in marketing)

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