Manager,Earned Media Job New York New York USA,Marketing / Advertising / PR

Location: New York

Job Description

Current Global is looking for an earned media strategist and executioner with strong media relationships they can leverage on behalf of their clients. Constantly curious about what comes next in culture, the ideal candidate is passionate about storytelling, building innovative earned media strategies built for today’s modern landscape, securing coverage, and leveraging the intersection of earned, influencer, and social, to accelerate ideas across our connected media world.

Agency

Weber Shandwick

Job Function

Communications and PR

Job Subfunction

Public Relations

Job Description

About

You

You are a culture vulture with an entrepreneurial spirit and a grasp of modern, earned-first media campaigns. You are local to the tri-state area and love to build and maintain authentic media relationships. You don’t shy away from implementing media strategies from concept to execution, finding new ways to meet client objectives and achieving top-notch results.

Your Skills

Trusted Advisor:
Providing proactive and reactive strategic media counsel to key clients.
Development and Execution of Earned Media Strategies:
While connecting with teams to develop integrated approaches to our work.
Craft Compelling Stories:
Designed to earn positive client headlines and coverage.
Build and Maintain Relationships:
Forge strong connections with key media contacts to leverage on behalf of clients.
Be Ahead of the Curve:
Actively monitor for and be an early adopter of new media trends, platforms, and practices that could serve clients across our portfolio.
Have Your Finger on the Pulse:
Identify news cycles, cultural shifts, industry trends and issues that affect clients, distilling meaningful insights and inserting clients’ narratives in targeted, relevant and insightful ways.
Bring Ideas to the New Biz Table:
Contribute to new business opportunities and pitches with creative media ideas.

Minimum Requirements

A minimum of 3-4 years of experience in PR and earned media; agency experience highly preferred.
Excellent communication and presentation skills; verbal and written.
Strong decision-making and project management skills; deadline and detail oriented.
In-depth knowledge of the evolving media landscape.
Experience working with integrated teams and on integrated campaigns.
Social media and influencer marketing literacy.

Current Global is a human-centered creative communications agency. That is marketing mumbo jumbo for: we eat, play, and dream in culture, so we can help brands stay ahead of the trends to forge deeper and more authentic connections with their consumers.

Our portfolio of iconic brands is a creative person’s dream, offering endless opportunities to work across a wide range of assignments and sectors. The diversity of our client roster reflects our inclusive team structure and collaborative process. We believe the most powerful creative ideas are sparked by bringing together people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

At Current Global, the best ideas come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds, and experiences—a fusion of creatives, strategists, media and marketing specialists, and client experience experts, all working together to deliver highly effective, award-winning work. This winning formula has earned us 41 Cannes Lions, along with numerous other accolades, including Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in 2021 and 2024, and recognition in The Valuable 500 in 2023.

Current Global is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Current recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability,…

Manager, Earned Media