Senior Media Relations Manager

The Senior Media Relations Manager is among a select group of talented media relations professionals within the agency who’ve shown a unique aptitude and penchant for working with the media. In this role, your day-to-day will involve direct outreach to journalists, reporters, editors, influencers, Substack writers, podcasters, and show producers. You will be joining the Media Expert team, a focus area in our Public Relations Department that specializes in pitching our B2B technology and services clients to the highest-value media targets. The roles first objective is to initiate and nurture strong relationships through authentic, thoughtful engagements with members of the media. To that end, the Senior Media Relations Manager should already have existing media relationships, a fluent understanding of the media landscape, and an understanding of the media that goes above and beyond that of a typical public relations professional. As a member of the Media Expert team, you’ll be a permanent fixture on a small number of PR accounts, while also providing temporary guidance to other agency teams as needed. In this role, you’ll engage in direct communication with reporters and journalists on behalf of your clients, to whom you will provide counsel in determining the news value of campaigns, how to reach the highest-value, most competitive reporters, and how to plan effectively for complex announcements that need exposure in the media. You will also be expected to play a strong role in our media excellence initiatives, contributing to trainings to upskill our media relations specialists, and other internal / operational projects designed to foster outstanding media relations. The Senior Media Relations Manager should display experience and interest in managing and/or mentoring junior media relations staff.