Senior Professional, Media Relations, LA - Converse

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$85K/yr – $167K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead LA media relations and local storytelling, aligning with global strategy to engage youth culture and sports audiences.

  • Own LA media engagement and local storytelling with global alignment.
  • Must-have: 3+ years in media relations or related fields.
  • Standout: Deep LA media and athlete/sports networks and culture awareness.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the day-to-day lead for LA-specific media engagement, ensuring local relevance while maintaining global consistency.
  • Support the development and execution of audience-oriented media relations strategies for the LA market and global initiatives, in support of storytelling around new product launches and key sports and culture moments.
  • Activate consumer-focused communications strategies to build momentum where the brand has the greatest opportunity to shape conversation with youth culture.
  • Build and maintain relationships with LA-based media, creators, influential voices and external communities and partners.
  • Identify and forge strategic local partnerships and event collaborations that enhance visibility and connect the brand to cultural moments.
  • Contribute to global events when necessary, working closely with teammates in NYC and Boston.
  • Support proactive and reactive media engagement across brand, product, and cultural moments.
  • Draft press materials including releases, statements, media alerts, and Q&A documents.
  • Monitor media coverage, cultural trends, and industry news to inform communication strategies.
  • Support media training, briefing materials, and preparation for spokesperson interviews.
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Converse

With a 115-plus-year legacy behind us, we’re looking to the future — a future in which conformity falls and originality rises. A brand of and for creators, we provoke and enable those independent enough not to follow to challenge convention through their ideas, actions, and ingenuity. We design so you can express your true self. We innovate so you can leap before you look. We create space for you and other mavericks and dreamers to break the rules, together. Because rules limit possibilities.Based in Boston. Part of NIKE, Inc., but distinctly ourselves.

Founded in 1908
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4.6K employees (697 in marketing)

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Traffic Source Mix
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38.6%
Direct
51.8%
Referral
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Social
3.8%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
456 (10% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
7.6 years

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