Senior Media Strategist, Tech PR

Responsibilities

• Campaign Architecture: Build multi-layered, long-term media, thought leadership, and influencer campaign strategies that map directly to high-profile client business goals.
• Premium Content Creation: Lead the creation of high-profile press materials, complex strategic pitches, and sophisticated thought leadership platforms.
• Editorial Quality Control: Review and approve all media content from junior team members, offering sharp editorial feedback to ensure flawless writing consistency across projects and teams.
• Cross-Client Leverage: Deeply understand the full SourceCode client roster, strategically identifying and leveraging cross-client opportunities to create larger, trend-driven media moments.
• Media Network Expansion: Act as the primary anchor for key media relationships, continuously building your personal network within top-tier business, tech, and trade publications.
• High-Level Placement: Deliver high-level media outreach efforts, pitching complex, nuanced tech stories to top-tier media and securing consistent, impactful coverage.
• Rapid Response Leadership: Read trade publications daily to flag relevant breaking news and connect shifting macro trends to clients to fuel immediate, high-impact rapid-response commentary.
• Insight-Driven Pitching: Act as the bridge between research and implementation, using tools to analyze open data, draw out themes, and shape client media strategies.
• Pivot Strategy: Continuously track media open data and account performance to identify where pitching approaches need to pivot, optimizing strategies in real time to ensure success.
• Morning News Sweeps: Oversee and quality-check daily media monitoring and morning competitor sweeps, ensuring relevant trends are extracted and shared with teams via Slack each morning.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of progressive public relations agency experience, with a heavy emphasis on media relations, narrative strategy, and running account teams.
• Core Characteristics: You are an accountable, people-first, and highly disciplined professional. You are bold, ambitious, curious, and imaginative. You are a natural problem solver (not a problem presenter) who balances creative storytelling with tactical, data-driven thinking.
• Media Landscape Mastery: Deep, demonstrable knowledge of tech and business media landscape, with a proven track record of securing high-profile tier-one coverage.
• Strategic Autonomy: Proven capability to manage complex materials, take loose executive direction, and independently translate it into a bulletproof client media plan.
• Business & Resource Acumen: Strong understanding of account operations, budget tracking, resource allocation, and team utilization constraints.
• Elite Communication: Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the maturity and confidence required to serve as an indispensable day-to-day counselor to clients.

Benefits

• Robust benefits program
• Unlimited vacation with PTO minimums
• 401k with company match
• Monthly mental health stipend, 2 ‘NOPE’ days/year, and quarterly wellness challenges
• Profit-sharing program
• Workplace flexibility
• Professional learning and development allotment
• 6-month paid parental leave
• Transit benefits
• Paid volunteer and professional development days