Summary:
The Global Communications Associate is a foundational role within VXPR, VaynerX’s modern earned media engine. This position supports a fast-paced blend of traditional PR, cultural intelligence, and social-first storytelling across a growing roster of consumer and lifestyle brands. Reporting to the Associate Director of Comms, you’ll help craft culturally resonant narratives, support campaign launches, strengthen reporter relationships, and power the cross-channel storytelling that amplifies our clients.
Responsibilities:
- Manage media relations — draft sharp press materials, secure coverage, and build strong relationships with reporters and creators.
- Pitch proactively and surface timely ideas, angles, and opportunities that drive client programs forward.
- Be the day-to-day hub for your accounts, coordinating across clients, teams, and partners to keep deliverables organized and on track.
- Write with excellence across press releases, pitches, audits, reports, recaps, and briefing documents.
- Monitor the news and industry trends, flagging relevant moments, insights, and reporter moves for rapid-response pitching.
- Support social and digital needs, including content development and leveraging paid opportunities when helpful to amplify earned efforts.
- Become an expert on client products and narratives, confidently representing them in media conversations.
- Collaborate across the agency to support integrated work and team growth.
- Bring strong presentation and interpersonal skills to internal and external interactions.
- Interest or sharp eye for design and deck-building is a major plus.
Qualifications/experience:
- 1–2 years of experience in communications, PR, journalism, or advertising (internships included).
- Deep fluency in social platforms, social culture, and emerging digital behaviors - modern social instincts a plus.
- Passion for the advertising, creator, cultural, and media industries; active consumer of trade and mainstream news.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust-bed relationships across a matrixed organization.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; comfort writing for both press and social environments.
- Highly organized, detail-obsessed, and able to juggle multiple fast-moving priorities.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with comfort working in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with Google Workspace (including Gemini) and Microsoft Office Suite.
Unsure if you meet the qualifications? We are always looking for talent which will continue to cultivate an inclusive and representative team that will enhance our perspectives, skill sets, background, and behaviors. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!
- Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
- Employer-sponsored 401k with match
- Medical, Dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Caregiver (Parental) Leave
- Health and Wellness benefits
Top Skills
What We Do
VaynerMedia is a global creative and media agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Singapore and Mexico City. We work differently because we’re built differently.
We are consumer-centric, not boardroom-centric; We respect the internet's impact on culture, not Madison Avenue’s; We have the humility and curiosity to find what’s right, not to debate it for months on end; We are all practitioners; We scale the unscalable; We value real consumer signals; We create ideas consumer-up, not ego-down; We believe that it’s our responsibility to deliver business results for our clients.
