MR PORTER Marketing & PR Assistant, North America

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$28/hr – $33/hrEntry Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the NA luxury fashion PR beat for MR PORTER, driving earned media and influencer partnerships while syncing with internal teams and external partners to execute launches, events, and press activations.

  • Growth/Brand: Build and shepherd the earned media strategy across US and Canada with editors, stylists, and creators to support commercial priorities.
  • Operations: Own the monthly pitching calendar, events planning, vendor coordination, and cross-functional asset trafficking to ensure timely, on-brand activations.
  • Insights & Optimization: Monitor coverage and trends, deliver timely recommendations, and run seasonal competitive analyses to protect positioning and spot opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a passionate brand ambassador within the MR PORTER team, representing the brand with confidence and credibility
  • Partner with MR PORTER's PR Manager to drive earned media presence across North America, securing impactful coverage aligned with key commercial priorities
  • Develop strategic relationships with editors, journalists, stylists, influencers, and emerging media contacts across the US and Canada
  • Stay ahead of evolving platforms, cultural trends, and conversations across fashion, luxury, culture, and lifestyle
  • Support the monthly PR strategy and pitching calendar, encompassing key launches, new arrivals, campaigns, and editorial moments
  • Support the planning and execution of MR PORTER brand and client events, press activations, and brand experiences across North America, contributing to guest list development, programming, and onsite execution
  • Act as a liaison with external vendors, brand and event partners to provide clear communication and seamless event project execution
  • Monitor daily press coverage, competitor tracking, and industry news, providing timely insights and recommendations to strengthen MR PORTER's positioning and identify emerging opportunities, and seasonal competitive analyses
  • Support VIP dressing, press loans, influencer research and loans, gifting, and image requests to ensure seamless execution and timely deliveries
  • Maintain and continuously develop a comprehensive North American media database spanning traditional press, social media, content creators, and Substack authors

Requirements

  • 1–2 years of PR experience within luxury fashion or a comparable premium lifestyle environment, ideally in the US market
  • A genuine passion for and understanding of the luxury menswear industry, with a finger on the pulse of culture, style and emerging media trends
  • Comfortable owning their own responsibilities while also rolling up their sleeves on the day-to-day
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with internal and external partners
  • Highly organised, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • A collaborative team player who works well across functions and time zones
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and Excel; experience with PR coverage tools is a plus
  • A proactive self-starter with initiative, good judgement and a positive, solutions-focused attitude

Nice to Have

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and Excel; experience with PR coverage tools is a plus

Benefits

  • Performance bonus schemes dependent on the type of role you are in
  • A pension that both you and the company contribute to
  • A portal with an array of discounts on things like theme park and cinema tickets
  • Our famous staff discount along with exclusive staff sale
  • Private healthcare for you and your family
  • Flexible working
  • A chance to be part of a fun and caring team that support each other
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NET-A-PORTER

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NET-A-PORTER is the ultimate luxury fashion destination for women. Since 2000, it has offered customers a curated assortment of fashion, fine watches, jewelry and home décor, from the world’s most coveted brands. NET-A-PORTER creates unique experiences for its EIPs (Extremely Important People) with dedicated Personal Shoppers and invitation-only benefits. Through content, it provides expert styling advice, engaging storytelling and profiles incredible women via editorial vertical, PORTER. NET SUSTAIN, its product curation of consciously crafted luxury, supports customers to shop with a focus on conscious consumerism. NET-A-PORTER is part of LuxExperience, the leading digital, multi-brand luxury group.

Founded in 2000
London, England, GBR
997 employees (385 in marketing)
19% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$381.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.4%
Direct
56.5%
Referral
3.3%
Social
2.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~988

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
209 (21% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2018
    Series Unknown

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