Account Executive, Beauty

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $60K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive beauty PR operations by organizing client work, drafting pitches, and cultivating press relationships.

  • Assist in maintaining timelines, recaps, and status updates for client projects.
  • Must-have: 2-3 years in beauty PR with ability to write pitches.
  • Standout: Proactive media relationship-building with beauty press and influencers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assist in keeping client projects organized and on track by managing timelines, recaps, and status updates
  • Support day-to-day client work by drafting pitches, tracking coverage, and assisting with ongoing client tasks and deliverables
  • Help maintain client trackers, coverage reports, and event recaps
  • Pitch media contacts and follow up to secure meaningful placements
  • Actively build relationships with press through weekly in-person meetings
  • Coordinate logistics for press mailers, influencer seeding, and launch events
  • Draft press materials, talking points, and briefing documents
  • Attend and contribute to client meetings, capturing notes and action items
  • Keep up with beauty news, media moves, and cultural trends to inform client strategy
  • Work closely with senior team members and take ownership of assigned tasks

Requirements

  • 2-3 years of experience in beauty PR, either agency or in-house, is required for this role
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to write clear pitches and confidently speak with media and clients
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain media relationships, with some existing beauty media contacts and a proactive approach to strengthening relationships with press, influencers and KOLs
  • Familiarity with tools like MuckRack, Cision, or similar media databases
  • Comfortable managing timelines and details across multiple projects
  • Experience supporting events, influencer mailers, and product launches
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to pitch and present ideas clearly to clients and media.
  • A Bachelor’s degree in PR, Journalism, Communications, or a related field

Preferred

Benefits

  • A collaborative, creative team that has your back
  • Real opportunities to grow and lead
  • Clients doing cool stuff in beauty, lifestyle, and consumer spaces
  • Hybrid work model
  • Competitive salary, benefits and more
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Melander Marketing & Communications

A full-service boutique marketing & PR agency, Melander Marketing & Communications specializes in developing and establishing beauty, wellness and lifestyle brands.

Founded in 2018
New York, New York, USA
3 employees (1 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (33% of company)