UK Media Outreach Specialist

London, UK (Hybrid)

£31K/yr – £36K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end media success for the UK, driving outreach, journalist engagement, onboarding, and support while ensuring high-quality expert responses and strong user adoption.

  • Manage high-volume outreach to journalists, build relationships, and onboard media users.
  • Monitor requests, triage issues, and surface top expert contributions to improve journalist experience.
  • Track activity and support KPIs, aiding process improvements in the UK market.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the Head of UK Media Success with day-to-day execution across outreach, engagement, and user support
  • Conduct high-volume outreach to journalists and media professionals across the UK including cold calling and cold emailing
  • Build and maintain relationships with reporters, editors, and other media contacts
  • Serve as a first point of contact for journalist and media user questions, troubleshooting, and support needs
  • Help onboard new media users and encourage adoption of the Qwoted platform as part of their day-to-day workflow
  • Assist with platform demonstrations and follow-up for interested media contacts
  • Monitor and triage inbound requests, escalating urgent or sensitive issues when needed
  • Identify, review, and surface high-quality expert responses to support UK journalists using the Qwoted platform
  • Help ensure Source Requests receive strong, relevant responses by monitoring activity and proactively step in where Source Requests are underperforming to help improve outcomes
  • Assist in curating and highlighting the most useful expert contributions to improve journalist experience

Requirements

  • 1 to 2 years of experience in journalism, PR, communications, media relations, customer support, or a related field
  • Familiarity with how journalists work and an understanding of newsroom pace, deadlines, and expectations
  • Experience reviewing or working with expert commentary, quotes, or contributed content is a plus
  • Confidence communicating with reporters and media professionals
  • Comfort with high-volume outreach and managing multiple conversations at once
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail
  • Able to work independently while also collaborating closely with internal teams
  • Proactive, resourceful, and service-oriented
  • Interested in media, storytelling, and helping users get value from a platform
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Qwoted is the network where experts, small businesses, and PR pros connect with journalists to get featured in tomorrow’s news. If you have a story to tell, we’ll connect you with media pros ready to help you share it.

Founded in 2018
New York, New York, USA
57 employees (21 in marketing)
100% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
311.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$34.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.2%
Direct
72.2%
Referral
3.9%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~57

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
20 (35% of company)
Median Career Experience
20 years
Median Tenure
0.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$3M
Last Raise
Corporate Round, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2019
    Corporate Round