Responsibilities

• Lead earned media strategy for Highwire’s most complex and high-profile client engagements, ensuring alignment with client business objectives and communications priorities.
• Provide executive-level counsel on narrative development, media positioning, executive visibility, and integrated communications planning.
• Champion media excellence by sharing best practices, strengthening journalist relationships, and helping teams deliver measurable client outcomes.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends across business, technology, and industry media to inform client strategy and identify new storytelling opportunities.
• Provide senior media counsel during crisis and issues communications, helping clients navigate high-stakes situations with confidence.
• Serve as the agency’s senior media advisor, counseling C-suite executives on earned media strategy, executive visibility, reputation management, and thought leadership.
• Build and maintain strong, active relationships with top-tier business, technology, financial, and trade journalists.
• Oversee and contribute to high-impact media programs, including corporate announcements, executive thought leadership, product launches, funding announcements, M&A, and other strategic communications initiatives.
• Maintain an active role across priority client accounts, partnering with account teams to develop media strategy and support exceptional execution.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client narratives and create meaningful connections between business objectives and media opportunities.