Responsibilities

• Manage and align daily activities to assure quality standards and to reach client expectations.
• Monitor media, share trending news stories with the team and strategically capitalize on the news flow.
• Conduct media outreach at a high level of impact. They save moderately difficult media assignments for themselves while delegating others to team members according to skills and abilities.
• Actively participate in the management of the team’s development of daily media queries, add and align against client narrative.
• Build relationships with clients and serve as the “go to” for client suggestions and inquiries.
• Write strategic press releases, blog posts, media queries, and social media posts.
• Have a high level of skill and understanding of productivity, media monitoring and media relations tools.
• Lead internal training events.
• Stay current and add to personal understanding of issues, processes, terms, products, and regulations specific to clients’ industries.
• Provide feedback to VP/SVP on issues of strategic direction, competitive threats and changes in the public relations landscape.
• Attend client and industry events, conferences, etc. Share findings and conclusions.
• Participate in marketing initiatives and support firm and team lead, as requested.
• Identify and refer any and all issues, risks and concerns to the VP.
• All other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in communications, public relations, journalism, English, or a similar major.
• At least 5 years of PR experience
• Proficiency in Google Workspace
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Understanding of AI and how it can support work
• Team player
• Detail oriented
• Organized
• Self-motivated
• Ability to flag issues
• Ability to mentor others
• Excellent communication skills
• Desire to learn
• Client service oriented
• Adaptable to changing work demands and priorities
• Goal oriented
• Positive attitude

Preferred

• Experience or interest in the financial industry (Fin Tech) is a plus

Benefits

• health insurance
• 401(k) plan
• paid time off and paid holidays
• life insurance
• short-term and long-term disability insurance