Public Relations Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Builds and maintains productive client relationships, including serving as a day-to-day contact
• Monitors news and other published content relevant to clients to assess news opportunities, reputational risks, etc. 
• Collaborates on media relations strategies and story angles
• Helps create and maintain targeted media lists
• Helps research and identify potential social influencers 
• Communicates with media to pitch story ideas and cultivate relationships
• Builds and maintains relationships with key media and influencers                  
• Conceptualizes, writes and distributes content for clients including thought leadership, awards, blogs, guest columns, op-eds, technical pieces and other long-form content
• Contributes to client planning 
• Utilizes media and influencer monitoring and research tools 

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience required
• Minimum 2 or more years of related experience and/or training
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral
• Ability to work autonomously, lead projects and work on a team collaboratively
• Impeccable attention to detail and stellar organizational skills
• Creative problem solver with strong critical thinking skills to manage the unknown and plan ahead
• Media relations experience, including pitching national, regional, local and trade news media and securing interviews and coverage for clients
• Influencer relations experience including influencer identification, outreach and managing relationships and content creation