Job Description

ASC Advisors is looking for an experienced public relations professional to help manage communications initiatives with its global client base. The ideal candidate would have 4-6 years of professional communications experience, ideally at an agency or an investment manager, and thrives working in fast-paced situations within a team-based environment.

Location

Stamford, CT, New York, NY, or Remote 

About ASC Advisors 

ASC Advisors is a strategic communications firm dedicated to the investment management industry. We provide strategic, hands-on communications counsel and execution to world-class investment managers with hedge fund, private equity and real estate offerings.

The range of our capabilities allows us to form long-term relationships with clients and help them with the variety of communications needs they have over time. For many of our clients we coordinate communications on a global basis, through our extensive network of media contacts and our relationships with communications agencies in major financial centers.  

As a boutique firm, ASC Advisors relies on each of its team members to wear a number of hats and collaborate across client accounts on a daily basis. Given the firm’s focus on investment management, it offers its clients a wide-range of capabilities, ranging from day-to-day media relations and message development, including work around alts investment strategy and fund policies, to portfolio company transactions, proxy fights and activist campaigns and crisis communications.    

Responsibilities Include 

• Working collaboratively with ASC Advisors partners, managing directors, senior directors, directors and associates to support client accounts.
• Managing day-to-day client relationships, including development and delivery of materials, media inquiries and relationships and strategic initiative rollouts.
• Building and leveraging relationships with reporters at key financial and trade publications.
• Providing input into client strategy, including digital and social media communications.
• Contributing to new business efforts, including developing relationships with potential referral sources, participating in new business pitches and helping to expand the firm’s profile within the industry.

Skillset Should Include

• Strong written and verbal communications, including the ability to successfully draft, edit and proofread materials such as press releases, reporter pitches, pitch decks, reporter briefings, memos, etc.
• Media relations experience (e.g. pitching stories, scheduling and moderating interviews, managing inbound inquiries)
• Strong research and analysis skills especially regarding client media coverage and wider industry trends
• Proven and established reporter and industry relationships
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to lead and train junior staff members
• Prior knowledge of financial markets and investment management (Hedge fund, Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture Capital)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 4-6 years of communications experience
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Knowledge of or interest in financial markets
• Proficient in Mac, Google Docs, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Familiarity with digital and social media communications
• Ability to handle multiple projects at once, effectively managing time and prioritizing projects to meet deadlines
• M&A and Shareholder Activism experience a plus 

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $110,000-$130,000
• Bonus eligible at end of year
• SIMPLE retirement plan and company match
• Health insurance (dental and vision options included)
• Health savings account
• Paid time off