Public Relations Account Supervisor – Technology PR (NYC)
LOCATION: The Public Relations Account Supervisor- Technology is part of our FINN Partners NY, NY Office’s Technology Public Relations team. This AS role can be based either within our NYC Office or our Boston office. This is the ad for the Boston Office and there is a strong preference for qualified metro Boston area current residents as applicants. This is a hybrid role -working 3 days in the office and 2 days remotely each week- and is a full time, direct hire position.
Finn Partners is an award-winning, global, integrated marketing and public relations agency. We are a bold collective of communications advocates, who steward brands, protect reputations, influence public policy, and leverage data and analytics to shape the most important conversations of our day. FINN’s Technology Public Relation team is one of the best in the industry! Our PR Account Supervisors are passionate about public relations and communications, ready to jump-in to enhance this team's continued success, and love working with leading national and international B2B and B2C technology clients. The AS is an essential contact for clients, who ensures that our team develops and executes high-quality strategic PR campaigns and client media relations that exceed client expectations.
What are our values? As our CEO Peter Finn says, "We work hard- place nice!" - kindness is a key value at Finn Partners. We also value creativity, dedication to our clients, collaboration, respect, diversity and inclusion, mentoring, teaming, and work-life balance.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple concurrent public relations client account teams and programs
- Participate in the development and execution of creative, strategic client public relations programs and campaigns, including budget and KPI tracking.
- Develop new public relations business pitches
- Implement core PR campaigns - planning, media strategy/pitching, event management, social media, industry analyst relations, content writing/editing, research, and account administration
- Provide strategic public relations counsel to clients including crisis communication.
- Execute strong media relations activity while motivating and mentoring junior staff on larger storytelling techniques, expert positioning and reactive media relations. Ensure the department is securing national, trade, and local media placements by actively researching and pitching compelling story angles.
- Draft and/or edit content written by PR jr. staff members such as client-ready documents, strategies and other communication including pitches, articles, blog entries, bios, press materials, and meeting reports
- Oversee weekly, biweekly, and monthly verbal and written client reporting.
- Provide day-to-day counsel and leadership of technology public relations junior staff who work in our NY and Boston offices.
- Manage weekly and monthly metrics and reporting.
- Manage and professionally develop our public relations technology practice's junior staff members.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, or public relations.
- 4-6 years of prior PR agency experience working with B2B or B2C technology clients
- Utilizes enthusiastic big-picture thinking; course-corrects and pivots when needed in order to achieve effective and decisive action.
- Experience working with traditional and social media strategies and campaigns
- Strong project management skills and the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects
- Possesses strong media relations strategy and storytelling skills
- Crafts compelling messages that drive business goals and elevate client programs; is a refined communicator.
- Generates grammatically sound, client-ready communication as a skilled writer and editor.
- Has some prior experience supervising and driving high-level thinking among junior public relations staff to ensure a full pipeline of top-tier, trend and feature stories
- Displays compassionate and inspiring mentorship skills; counsels junior level staff in a positive and motivational manner.
- Advises and drives results that effectively meet internal and external needs, and exceeds client expectations.
- Strong communications skills, both oral and written (including editing skills)
- Experience using all Microsoft Office products
- Detail-oriented, deadline-oriented, able to work in a fast-paced, growing environment.
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Salary range is $70k - $100k. The salary offered will be commensurate with the selected candidate’s experience and dependent upon the workplace.
To Apply:
Please upload your resume and cover letter, as well as indicate your target salary in $US Dollars that aligns with our stated salary range budget shown above. While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have a greater interest.
About Finn Partners:
FINN Partners was launched in 2011 to realize Peter Finn's vision to create a leading communications agency dedicated to shaping a bold new future in which innovation and partnership are strong drivers of the brand. Finn Partners specializes in the full spectrum of communications services, including digital and social media. Practice areas include arts, consumer lifestyle & sports, corporate social responsibility, education, health, manufacturing, technology, travel, and public affairs. We are entrepreneurial-minded, global, and focused on integrated programs that bring to life the world-changing technologies, products, and services of our client partners. Our company culture celebrates delighting our clients with innovative and creative campaigns and programs, and we provide opportunities for our employees to conduct career-meaningful work in a creative, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun environment. We work hard and play nice.
Headquartered in New York City, the agency has 1,300+ employees with offices in 32 cities around the world: Atlanta, Bangalore, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Frankfurt, Fort Lauderdale, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jerusalem, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Madison (Wisc.), Manila, Mumbai, Munich, Nashville, Paris, Portland (Ore.), San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Tamuning (Guam), Vancouver (Wash.) and Washington D.C.
What We Do
1400+ People. 3 Continents. 33 Offices. We are a global integrated marketing agency transforming and inspiring the world of communications every day.
A LETTER FROM PETER FINN:
DECEMBER 2011. FINN PARTNERS WAS BORN. After 11 years serving as co-CEO of an historic agency that carried my father’s name— and mine!—and after 30+ years of working at the firm, I wanted to build something different, bold, meaningful and amazing for clients, our colleagues and the community. "Amazing" was, and is, for me an important word. I imagined we could be "amazing" every day, knowing this is a goal not always achieved but always pursued. A place where talented people could gather and do big things for clients as well as make a difference to the communities important to us.
WE LAUNCHED WITH A GROUP WHO SHARED A VISION. This was to be a "new" agency model, driven by a collaborative spirit. We asked, "Can we bind our 60-year legacy to the energy and speed of today’s hi-tech world?" We had $24 million in fees at our founding. Today, we have more than $85 million in fees, over 700 colleagues and 18 offices across three continents. Our Founding Managing Partners, highly respected colleagues who took the leap with me from our former agency, have been joined by the principals of other great agencies that became Finn Partner companies. So many other talented individuals are with us, too, intrigued by the idea of doing amazing things in an amazing workplace community.
WE’VE MADE OUR MARK QUICKLY. Finn Partners has been named “Best New Agency,” “Best PR Agency to Work for in North America” and“Best Mid-Sized Agency of the Year” three times. Now, we’re one of the world’s largest agencies.
WE ARE A YOUNG AGENCY. We share the genes of a respected agency that pioneered today’s integrated communications. But we are not them. We are unique. We are ourselves. We are focused on the future, building that future during each amazing day.
