Responsibilities

• - Client Relations / Account Management - Serve as a reliable day-to-day contact for assigned clients and build responsive relationships - Understand each client’s business, goals, audiences, messaging, priorities, and competitive landscape - Draft client meeting agendas and recaps, lead appropriate portions of meetings, and ensure follow-up on action items - Anticipate client needs and proactively bring forward solutions-oriented recommendations - Contribute to long-term planning, campaign development, communications plans, and timelines - Own assigned deliverables, deadlines, and account responsibilities, escalating risks when appropriate - Draft client-facing and media-facing materials accurately and with minimal revisions - Represent Allied and clients professionally during meetings, events, interviews, photoshoots, and influencer activations - Media Relations / Campaign Execution - Consistently pitch and secure meaningful earned media placements with local, regional, and national outlets - Identify creative, timely story angles aligned with client objectives - Build and maintain relationships with journalists, producers, editors, creators, and influencers across relevant markets - Proactively build media relationships through introductions, desksides, meetings, events, and ongoing communication - Lead media outreach with tailored, compelling pitches relevant to each journalist and outlet - Maintain a strong understanding of client messaging and apply it consistently across outreach and media interactions - Monitor media trends, editorial priorities, cultural moments, and journalist workflows, adjusting outreach as needed - Understand the media landscape across traditional press, digital publications, newsletters, podcasts, broadcast, social platforms, and influencer-driven media - Staff press and influencer opportunities and support events, interviews, photoshoots, and on-site client needs as assigned - Writing / Content Development - Draft clear, compelling press releases, media alerts, pitches, news bites, trend pitches, briefing documents, run of shows, talking points, and other communications materials - Apply AP Style consistently and demonstrate strong journalistic instincts - Adapt writing style and tone to different client brands, audiences, outlets, and objectives - Develop customized pitches for specific journalists and outlets rather than generic outreach - Bring creative thinking and culturally relevant ideas to brainstorms and campaign development - Use AI tools to support ideation, research, drafting, and editing while fact checking outputs, protecting confidential information, and applying human review - Research / Reporting / Analysis - Deliver timely, accurate, strategic client reports with minimal revisions - Track earned coverage and translate results into clear recaps that demonstrate value and progress against client goals - Provide proactive media roundups highlighting relevant news, insights, trends, and opportunities - Conduct competitive analysis and research that supports campaign planning, media strategy, and client recommendations - Identify industry shifts, cultural trends, competitive activity, and media opportunities that can inform strategy - Use AI tools to strengthen research, media analysis, reporting, and workflow efficiency while validating sources, accuracy, and context - Organization / Team Collaboration - Manage multiple accounts, projects, deadlines, and priorities effectively in a fast-paced agency environment - Maintain accurate timelines, trackers, media lists, coverage documentation, meeting notes, and account records - Demonstrate strong time management, proactive communication, and follow-through - Collaborate effectively with senior team members, peers, junior staff, and cross-functional agency partners - Support junior team members in developing media outreach, clip recapping, organization, and task execution skills - Identify workflow obstacles early, communicate workload needs, and help keep teams aligned on priorities - Remain open to constructive coaching and apply feedback to improve performance and professional growth - Agency / Professional Development - Build trust with clients, Allied leadership, colleagues, media, influencers, and business associates through sound judgment, strong writing, responsiveness, and professional communication - Maintain professional conduct in all business and social situations, including a responsible social media presence - Continue developing communication, leadership, creative thinking, strategic thinking, analytical, and independent problem-solving skills - Stay informed about media, culture, technology, client industries, business trends, and the broader marketing landscape - Practice honesty, integrity, and transparency with colleagues, media, influencers, clients, and business associates - Collaborate with leadership on workload planning, evaluations, goal setting, and professional development - Foster team collaboration and positive workplace morale through partnership, mentorship, and support - Understand services offered across Allied Global Marketing and contribute Publicity expertise to integrated client work when appropriate

Requirements

• - Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, or a related discipline preferred
• - 3 years or more of agency, corporate communications, or in-house public relations experience, preferably within hospitality, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, or consumer industries
• - Demonstrated success in media pitching and securing meaningful placements
• - Strong local, regional, and national media and influencer relationships
• - Excellent writing, editing, presentation, and verbal communication skills, including strong knowledge of AP Style
• - Strong journalistic instincts and the ability to craft compelling narratives for diverse audiences
• - Strong understanding of the evolving media landscape across traditional press, digital, social, creators, and influencer-driven media
• - Strong organization and time management with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines
• - Independent, creative, service-oriented self-starter eager to learn, evolve, and take on increasing responsibility
• - Working knowledge of AI tools for research, ideation, writing, media analysis, reporting, presentations, and workflow management

Preferred

• - Experience supporting multicultural communications and publicity efforts, with exposure to Hispanic/Latino, Black/African American, AAPI, LGBTQ+ and other diverse audiences and media, is a plus
• - Fluency or professional proficiency in a language in addition to English, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin or another language relevant to multicultural audiences, is a plus

Benefits

• - The salary range for this full-time position is $50,000-$60,000 annually.
• - This position will be eligible to participate in the standard benefits offered to full-time employees of Allied Global Marketing (medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability and life insurance as well as 401k and Flexible PTO). We also offer 10 company paid holidays.