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Media Relations Specialist
Skills
EditingJournalismListsMedia RelationsPress ReleasesPublic RelationsReporting
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 4+ years in public relations or journalism
- Startup or high-growth agency experience strongly preferred
- Excellent writing and self-editing skills
- Strong cold-pitching ability with top-tier placements and trade coverage
- Ability to find news angles from little or no news
- Comfort with ambiguity pivots and fast-paced work
- Self-starter energy in a remote environment
- Openness to client-facing growth over time
- Desire to grow with a rapidly scaling team
Nice to have
- creative
- strategic
- self-directed
- collaborative
- detail-oriented
- ambitious
Day to day
- Develop sharp pitch topics and news angles that position clients against competitors and create moments from breaking news holidays and pop culture
- Write concise pitches press releases and content for funding announcements product launches and milestone moments that break through cold
- Run targeted media outreach build smart media lists and land consistent earned coverage while partnering with account leads and supporting client relationships
Hiring process
- Short pitch exercise
- Live conversation