Responsibilities

• Support high-volume media cycles across corporate issues and company news announcements, helping coordinate responses and drive execution in fast-paced environments.
• Build and maintain relationships with reporters, industry influencers, and content creators, identifying opportunities to place stories and strengthen client visibility.
• Serve as a day-to-day contact for clients and internal stakeholders, providing informed recommendations, tracking action items, and helping ensure workstreams remain on schedule.
• Draft and develop a wide range of communications materials, including pitches, media materials like FAQs, executive briefing documents, reactive statements, and coverage reports.
• Support news planning operations and own production of daily, weekly and monthly deliverables, coordinating inputs across teams, tracking updates, and delivering accurate, client-ready reports
• Monitor and analyze media coverage, industry trends, competitive activity, and emerging issues; translate findings into actionable insights and recommendations for clients and teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts across multiple client, agency, and partner teams to gather information, align messaging, and support program execution.
• Support integrated earned, owned, social, and influencer campaigns that advance business objectives and support reputation goals, by coordinating deliverables and tracking performance
• Contribute ideas and recommendations during planning sessions and brainstorms, helping identify creative storytelling opportunities and new approaches to audience engagement.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in integrated communications/PR, preferably in an agency setting and/or within an applicable industry. Understanding of communications workflows.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with corporate image, issues/crisis management, and/or strategic communications across multiple audience segments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (particularly Outlook, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Excel) and experience using AI tools like Copilot.

Preferred

• Demonstrated customer service orientation, and ability to establish a consulting relationship with clients.
• Experience engaging with reporters, and desire to foster media relationships and proactively pitch and place stories
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong editorial judgment, including proficiency in AP style and ability to edit for accuracy, clarity and consistency
• Ability to analyze the news and social media environment, and provide strategic recommendations based on business and industry knowledge
• Ability to synthesize complex information and translate it into clear, compelling content for a variety of audiences.
• High level of initiative; takes accountability for role on projects
• Desire to work in a fast-paced team environment (frequent tight deadlines, shifting priorities, multitasking, etc.; job pressure may exist from requirement of handling multiple tasks
• Ability to read, write, and speak English and experience working with colleagues or clients across multiple locations
• May need to work more than 40 hours per week on occasion

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Pretax accounts including HSA (company match), Medical & Dependent Care FSA
• Generous time off including PTO, Holidays, Annual Wellness Break, Summer Fridays and Personal Days
• Short & Long-Term Disability, paid by company
• Parental Leave, up to 12 weeks for birthing and non-birthing parent
• Caregiver Leave, up to 2 weeks to help eligible family member with serious health condition
• Community Engagement, up to 24 hours
• Bi-annual Wellness Credits, up to $300 per year
• Support with home office equipment
• Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)