Responsibilities

• Be responsible for client retention, staff development, and portfolio growth.
• Be a trusted strategic partner to our enterprise and life science clients, their executive teams, and drive communications strategies that will help them reach their full potential.
• Synthesize complex technical concepts into compelling, market-moving narratives that resonate with business, trade media, and new media alike.
• Work with Mission North’s integrated studio members to provide clients with programs that utilize traditional PR, digital, creator, and social.
• Maintain and leverage high-level relationships with key journalists, analysts, and editors to secure needle-moving coverage for clients.
• Manage budgets and team resources.
• Drive client calls, team planning sessions, new business pitches, end-of-month reporting, and invoicing
• Conceptualize inventive influencer strategies and drive influencer engagement
• Serve as a key contributor in new business
• Cultivate the agency’s sphere of influence with agency peers, VCs, etc.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10-12 years of communications or PR agency experience, preferably with life science technology, AI, and cloud infrastructure companies or related industries
• Demonstrated experience developing, directing, and executing strategic communications programs that blend PR, content marketing, social media, and data
• Experience helping disruptive technology companies develop compelling messaging, storylines, and thought leadership platforms
• Are passionate about how these technologies are redefining how we live and work.
• Established relationships with top-tier trade media and bloggers, vertical market media and national and local business media
• Experience running integrated PR programs, including paid content
• Experience working with household names and emerging/disruptor brands in B2B technology, including data and cloud infrastructure, applied AI, business process optimization, life science technology, healthcare technology and other key elements of the modern business technology stack
• Experience with driving new business

Benefits

• We give back 2% of profits, 2% of our time, and 2% of partner equity to support causes in our local communities, and have invested more than $2 million through grants, donations, and pro bono services.
• Through our cross-industry fellowship and sponsorship initiative, Foster the Future, we’re creating pathways for the next generation of communications leaders.
• Diversity, belonging, and equity are woven into our business and culture. We continue to advance our policies and practices to foster a more progressive organization and industry.