Responsibilities

• Take a larger role in planning and strategy, asking for leadership help when needed in creating a direct impact on client-directed financial goals/initiatives
• Implement strategy and evaluate the performance of KPIs
• Deftly navigate Harvest to see how your team is spending their time and can often make quick changes with help from the Leadership team to ensure everyone (teams and clients) remains happy
• Oversee collective account workflow
• Act as a trusted and valuable partner to clients
• Liaise directly with clients while also encouraging the Publicist or Senior Publicist on your account to have visibility too (with the occasional behind-the-scenes guidance)
• Nurture your network of editor, writer, and freelance connections for agency clients, as well as create new relationships, through ongoing introductions, targeted pitches, and minimum of 2 (two) media meetings (phone, virtual, or in-person) each month. Continue to be a trusted source of media knowledge for your teams
• Demonstrate deeper media relations expertise by delivering more impactful hits
• Mentor your teammates to grow their media relations skill-set through behind-the-scenes coaching or bringing them with you for meetings with key journalists
• Focus on brand-building media relations meetings (pitching, organizing media visits, in-person meetings, reviewing and approving media lists) while occasionally dividing big lists with your team when needed

Requirements

• College Degree or comparable experience required
• At least 7 years of agency public relations experience in the hospitality, culinary, travel, tourism, restaurant, and/or consumer lifestyle arenas
• Must have stellar client and media references
• Must have strong and proven relationships with local, regional, and national media contacts
• Must have strong, effective, and proven management skills

Benefits

• Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
• Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K with employer match
• Accrued PTO
• Birthday PTO
• Flexible Release Fridays
• Hotel trade with our world-class clients (complimentary stays across our entire portfolio)
• Hybrid office schedule (2-3 days in office), Fridays remote
• Corporate ClassPass discounts
• Pet insurance discounts