Public Relations Assistant, Consumer Lifestyle Brands
The Brand Guild is a passionate team of PR professionals focused on consumer lifestyle brands. They are seeking a PR Assistant to manage client clips, write press releases, and maintain media relationships while thriving in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage client clips and reporting
- Write press releases, media briefings and prepare information for the media
- Assist with development of compelling pitches and proactively identify media opportunities
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with media contacts
- Ensure ongoing monitoring of editorial calendars and proactive pitching of story ideas, news developments and expert sources to media
- Perform in-depth research to support communications and messaging
- Follow industry and client category trends and regularly share insights, thoughts and key findings
- Attend and provide support at press events
- Provide administrative support for the press team on all relevant projects, including media list maintenance, meeting agendas and notes and reporting
- Analyze, measure and report on communications and media projects
- Learn from the best in the business
Skills
- 1-2 years of experience in public relations
- 1 year of public relations agency experience (internship experience will be considered and experience in lifestyle brands a plus)
- Ability to find and develop stories and drive visibility -- from creating major moments to maintaining a drum beat of ongoing pitches
- Ability to provide essential support for press initiatives including research and writing
- Ability to work alongside a team, from interns to senior staff
- Ability to independently manage multiple projects and clients with changing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Commuter benefits
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Comprehensive PTO package (including vacation, sick leave, mental health days, religious observance, bereavement, miscarriage leave, jury duty, volunteer hours and Summer Fridays)
- Generous paid family leave
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