At Hotwire, our Sr. Associate role is equivalent to a Sr. Account Executive.
This hybrid, full-time role is open to our San Francisco location.
About you...
You love a good story and use your outstanding media chops to drive B2B tech client strategy and campaigns that break the mold. You eat, breathe, and execute media strategy on a daily basis.
You’re excited to build media relationships and expand that digital rolodex through a variety of in-person and online networking. You are a professional and strategic influential voice in client meetings and a reliable go-to person for your teams.
You enjoy multi-tasking anything and everything media strategy and you can juggle a variety of tasks and projects across different tech industries. You understand the nuances of each client, their business, their needs, and you design media solutions unique to the situation.
You love learning and utilize that drive for crafting media strategy to propel you to become an industry expert for the accounts you support and an advisor to your teams and clients.
If this sounds like you, please read on…
About Us
We are the global communications and marketing consultancy that powers the world's most innovative tech brands. We are a group of expert communicators who are fanatical about tech and are here to help businesses ignite their possibilities. Our local experience and global scale allow us to deliver bold but pragmatic comms guidance to tech companies all over the world.
When you work with us, we connect and support you in a way that allows you to achieve limitless success and career growth. For years now, we’ve been named a Best Place to Work by PR Week, PRNews, and Crain’s New York.
We are connected, ambitious, adventurous, transparent, and proactive, but most of all we are one team working together to be the global alternative.
We are looking for an exceptional person to join our North America team as a Senior Associate, Media Strategy.
As a Senior Associate, Media Strategy you will work with client teams to drive media results. You will work closely with your Account Managers and other Senior Media Managers to develop and execute media campaigns tied to everything from newsjacking and thought leadership to product and corporate news. You love a good story and building relationships, staying on top of news trends, and providing recommendations for engaging with media.
Daily You Will:
- Consume news and look for ways to get clients to be part of the broader conversations driving news cycles.
- Be a part of the team that serves as the engine of client campaigns and programs, driving activities with determination and enthusiasm to deliver results that will make an impact for the client’s business, and make your team shine.
- Be organized, thorough, motivating, and always remain curious.
- Understand client objectives and know when to escalate or flag something up to leadership when the situation calls for it.
- Assist with various PR4Hotwire activities, positioning Hotwire as an industry expert among key influencers as a part of the media strategy team.
- Be the eyes and ears of your clients’ industries, ensuring your account teams are up to speed on what’s happening across the wider sector.
- Constantly build your media and sector knowledge and develop proactive story angles.
- When needed, develop client call agendas before calls; take detailed notes to map out action items and owners post-call.
- Communicate with clients – on the phone, by email, and in person.
- Brainstorm new ideas for integrated comms campaigns and media storylines.
- Pitch, network, and converse with a range of influencers across tech and business publications to secure regular coverage in target outlets.
- Create client-ready written materials (i.e., press releases, pitches, speaking and award abstracts).
- Track and deliver status updates and metrics reports that show impact.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships and open communication with day-to-day client contacts.
- Deliver assigned objectives on time and within budget.
- Volunteer time to serve other teams or new business efforts to maintain full utilization.
You’ll Bring:
- Experience story mining and pitching on behalf of B2B tech companies/clients.
- Media relationships with various publications in a variety of industries.
- 2-5 years of media experience (required) as an agency AC/AAE/AE or in-house comms or media specialist.
Why Us:
- Flexibility – We understand that life doesn’t always fit around the 9-5; and that work/life integration is crucial.
- Global Reach & Opportunity – You will have the opportunity to work within global teams and travel within the US and globally to connect with clients and colleagues.
- Great Benefits - Strong benefits package includes paid time off, holidays, sick leave, cultural celebration days off, paid time off for community involvement, medical, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, 401K match, and a paid 6-week sabbatical after every 4 years of continuous employment. Hotwire offers a variety of bonus opportunities to include business development, annual company bonuses, and referral bonuses. Additional benefits include wellness allowance, internet, and phone reimbursement.
- Development Opportunities – A strong learning and development program with training opportunities at all levels.
- Autonomy – The freedom and support to be limitless, and the opportunity to own your career and create the future you want.
- Variety – No day is the same as the last. Both within our own walls and with our clients, we navigate change daily and there’s always an opportunity to stretch your skills, learn something new, seek out a new challenge, and gain expertise.
- Our Amazing Team – We are connected, ambitious, and friendly. We don’t step on toes to get ahead, we build each other up, develop and teach each other, and understand that each person’s individual success is a win for all.
We engage in Thoughtful Working, empowering our talent to determine the best way to work for our clients, our team, and Hotwire every single day.
Compensation Range: $67,000 - $85,000
The range listed is just one component of Hotwire’s total compensation package for employees, which includes bonus opportunities and a variety of benefits mentioned above. Hotwire takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected work to be performed, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. A potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.
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