Media Relations Specialist — Corporate & Networking

Responsibilities

• Corporate Media Relations
• - Support major corporate communications initiatives, including quarterly earnings announcements, financial moments, corporate news, and enterprise-wide media campaigns
• - Research business and financial journalists, develop media lists, and identify opportunities for proactive engagement
• - Help draft compelling pitches, talking points, press materials, and executive briefing documents
• - Coordinate journalist inquiries, executive interviews, media briefings, and follow-up activities
• - Support media monitoring, coverage reporting, and campaign measurement
• - Help identify creative story opportunities that connect HPE’s technology leadership to broader business trends
• - Collaborate with a variety of functional team stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate execution
• Networking Media Relations
• - Support a strategically important business through proactive media relations, high-impact technology launches, executive media engagements, customer announcements, and industry events

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Media Relations, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 5+ years of experience in media relations, communications, journalism, or a related field
• Experience drafting press releases, media pitches, or other professional communications materials
• Prior work history for an agency or in-house for a publicly traded company highly preferred
• Familiarity with media relations, earned media, and the technology industry preferred
• Highly adept in writing, editing, research, and organizational abilities
• Demonstrated ability to manage deadlines and work collaboratively
• The strongest candidate will have existing experience in media relations and building journalist relationships. They will show strong drive and initiative, creative thinking, a well-developed work ethic, a hunger to grow, and AI fluency.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing
• We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development
• We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion
• We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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