Senior Vice President, Media Relations

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted, veteran advisor to senior clients, bringing clear thinking, calm authority, and perspective that signals “you’re in good hands.”
• Navigate complex, high-stakes client situations with confidence and composure, offering guidance that is both strategic and actionable.
• Act as a steadying force across accounts, someone who raises the bar without creating noise.
• Lead and support new business efforts with presence and polish, able to command a room, connect quickly, and leave a lasting impression.
• Translate earned media strategy into compelling narratives that win prospective clients and build long-term partnerships.
• Leverage deep, long-standing relationships with top-tier and industry media, including outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, STAT, Endpoints, and other key publications that shape our industry.
• Open doors, shape narratives, and position clients in the conversations that matter most.
• Serve as a go-to resource for both clients and reporters, grounded in a credibility and trust that has been built over time.
• Mentor and elevate staff, modeling best-in-class client leadership and media engagement.
• Step in seamlessly where needed, solving problems, removing friction, and keeping the engine running.

Requirements

• 15+ years in earned media, with a strong track record in consumer, healthcare, biotech, or life sciences.
• Deep, enduring relationships with top-tier business and healthcare media.
• Proven ability to both win business and grow it, with a natural executive presence.
• A reputation as a calm, credible, and strategic counselor at the highest levels.
• Strong leadership instincts, while still shaping direction and outcomes.
• A low-ego, high-impact approach: confident, unflappable, and focused on what matters.

Benefits

• All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
• No matter where you work, you’ll benefit from the monthly cell phone reimbursement.
• Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
• 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
• Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
• Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
• Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
• Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.
• 401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
• Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.