Responsibilities

• Support the team in day-to-day responsibilities of 4-5 accounts
• Provide thoughtful, forward-thinking communications counsel to the client and account team
• Actively communicate with clients and account team daily; proactively address opportunities and challenges
• Partner with the account team to manage fast-moving projects and timelines
• Participate in client calls with team as well as independently and directly with client team
• Provide strategic input, analysis and feedback on client calls in addition to providing updates
• Support strategic plans that reflect the client’s goals and objectives and demonstrate modern tactics reflective of the brand
• Support communications for internal and external stakeholders
• Regularly audit clients’ existing internal and external communications platforms and content; provide strategic recommendations to optimize content and channels
• Proactively search for story opportunities and proactively pitch and place stories in national, regional and trade media.

Requirements

• 3-4 years of experience in public relations role – agency or inhouse/client-side PR experience
• An undergraduate degree in communications, public relations, journalism or similar major
• Demonstrated corporate communications expertise
• Demonstrated expertise across: Media relations; Community relations; Internal and external communications
• Demonstrated media relations expertise featuring b-to-b and b-to-c clients
• Experience working with insurance, healthcare, and/or building trades
• Experience planning and executing PESO communications plans
• Experience collaborating closely with client team is a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and media monitoring tools such as MuckRack, Sprout, Brandwatch, Meltwater

Preferred

• A positive mindset that sees challenges as opportunities; you are a problem solver!
• A disciplined communicator who is always looking to take it to the next level
• A motivated professional with a bold vision; you are not waiting to be told the next step
• A person with charisma on zoom and confidence in the real room; you have a POV to share
• Strategic account leader who can effectively communicate to any audience
• Insatiable curiosity about what drives consumer behavior
• Great interpersonal skills – relationship building
• Skillful writer who can write 200 words or 2,000 words on tough topics
• Fluent in maximizing on paid/owned/earned opportunities
• Obsessed with culture – current trends, and where culture is heading

Benefits

• An opportunity to collaborate and create with some of the smartest, coolest, and most interesting people in the industry
• Frequent professional development opportunities
• A competitive salary
• Health benefits
• Wellness programs
• 401K plus matching program
• Unlimited PTO