Account Executive - Lifestyle (LA)

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Drive PR operations for hospitality and lifestyle clients at PURPLE, focusing on media relations, event support, and client relationships.

  • Own day-to-day account support and media placements.
  • Must-have: 2 years proven PR agency experience in hospitality or lifestyle.
  • Standout: Global lifestyle agency with cross-market networks and outbound media reach.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate the smooth running of the day-to-day function of each account team, providing support as requested and required by teams.
  • Participate in brainstorms for creative ideas and publicity strategies to enhance PR campaigns, going beyond the role of the press office
  • Maintain regular day-to-day contact and close relationships with key press
  • Generate media placement in appropriate titles
  • Assist with preparation and on-site at events
  • Be a brand champion for your clients and build strong relationships with them
  • Analyse coverage across online, offline and blogs, and leverage added value from all PR activity
  • Conduct research on both brands, products and industry to support the development of client plans and new business proposals
  • Track and clip all media coverage and send to clients
  • Essential administrative support such as call agendas and recaps; monthly reports; media database updates

Requirements

  • 2 years proven experience, full time, or internship at a mid-sized PR agency within a hospitality or lifestyle environment.
  • Familiarity with the organization of press reports and press clips.
  • Solid understanding of and ongoing interest in media relations and strategy.
  • 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.
  • Extremely well-organized, methodical, and efficient, with strong initiative.
  • Strong writing skills.
  • Computer skills including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Doc, Cision
  • You are a team player who is hardworking and dedicated
PURPLE logo

PURPLE

3.4 Glassdoor

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

Recent News