Responsibilities

• Project manage multiple campaigns with and on behalf of high-profile client(s), ensuring seamless integration internally and solid execution from start to finish.
• Conducting research to support campaign creation, spokesperson identification, event vendor selection, etc.
• Media relations activities, including maintaining knowledge and key understanding of and engagement with travel and lifestyle publications
• Coordination of media and influencer trips to international destinations (and occasionally staff these familiarization trips)
• Press release development and other writing responsibilities
• Maintain an understanding of clients’ businesses, industries and issues that directly and indirectly affect those clients
• Event coordination and support
• Manage and mentor junior staff, reviewing materials, supervising media reporting and monitoring and providing constructive feedback

Requirements

• 2 – 4+ years of relevant agency experience or internships, with strong working knowledge of evolving lifestyle/travel media and pop culture landscapes (a true afficionado); travel agency experience preferred, but not required
• Strong media relations experience, understanding the importance of developing relationships with key consumer, travel and lifestyle media and influencers and regularly securing top-tier placements for clients
• Strong writing ability
• Organizational and people skills
• Event planning and production experience
• Ability to handle multiple assignments and manage time in an organized manner while ensuring deadlines are not just met, but exceeded
• A proven understanding of and affinity for digital tools and media platforms
• A can-do attitude
• Fluency in Meltwater, Cision and/or Muck Rack (or related PR software)
• In-process fluency in AEO, GEO and LLM-centered public relations and earned media tactics, direction and measurement/tracking helpful (but not required)