Director of Media Relations

confidential; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexibility

Healthcare

401(k) with company match

Bonus eligibility

Company-provided computer

$100/month phone stipend

Potential ownership opportunity

Lots of autonomy

Job summary

Haus is a boutique, founder-led PR agency focused on media relations for consumer brands, including food and beverage. We are high-touch, highly collaborative and chronically online, with a nimble structure and little bureaucracy.

This role offers autonomy, direct collaboration with the founders and clients, and the opportunity to shape how Haus grows. You will own media relations across consumer clients, pitch reporters, craft strategies, mentor juniors, and contribute to new business.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of PR/media relations experience, ideally at an agency.
• A strong, demonstrable network of media contacts, including national lifestyle, entertainment, culture, trends, fashion, beauty, wellness, travel, home media.

Responsibilities

• Own media relations across a roster of consumer clients, with a particular focus on lifestyle and food & beverage.
• Build and maintain relationships with reporters, editors, producers, freelancers and creators across national, lifestyle, culture and food media.
• Develop and execute proactive and reactive media strategies that generate meaningful coverage.
• Pitch constantly: news, trends, products, experts, data, partnerships and cultural moments and whatever else might get a reporter's attention.
• Draft pitches, media alerts, press releases, talking points and other media materials.
• Support client launches, events, announcements and ongoing news engines.
• Serve as a media relations expert and trusted partner to clients, including joining client calls and helping guide earned media strategy.
• Track, report on and communicate media results and learnings.
• Collaborate closely with the founders and broader Haus team on client strategy and execution.
• Help mentor and manage junior team members as Haus grows.

Job description

Own media relations across a roster of consumer clients, with a particular focus on lifestyle and food & beverage. Description NYC or Chicago preferred | Remote-friendly

What You'll Do

Own media relations across a roster of consumer clients, with a particular focus on lifestyle and food & beverage.

Build and maintain relationships with reporters, editors, producers, freelancers and creators across national, lifestyle, culture and food media.

Develop and execute proactive and reactive media strategies that generate meaningful coverage.

Pitch constantly: news, trends, products, experts, data, partnerships, cultural moments and whatever else might get a reporter's attention.

Evaluate ideas through an earned-media lens and identify what will actually make a reporter care.

Stay deeply plugged into the news cycle, social media, cultural moments, emerging trends and, yes, whatever everyone is talking about on the internet that day.

Draft pitches, media alerts, press releases, talking points and other media materials.

Support client launches, events, announcements and ongoing news engines.

Serve as a media relations expert and trusted partner to clients, including joining client calls and helping guide earned media strategy.

Track, report on and communicate media results and learnings.

Contribute to new business when opportunities arise, and pursue as much of it as you're interested in.

Collaborate closely with the founders and broader Haus team on client strategy and execution.

Help mentor and manage junior team members as Haus grows.

What We're Looking For

6–8 years of PR/media relations experience, ideally at an agency.

A strong, demonstrable network of media contacts, including existing relationships with national lifestyle, entertainment, culture, trends, fashion, beauty, wellness, travel, home media.

Food and beverage media experience is a major plus.

A true pitcher and doer.

You're happiest when you're in the weeds getting coverage.

Tenacity.

If the first pitch doesn't work, you don't just shrug and move on. You figure out what might and are resourceful enough to find a new angle when the obvious one isn't landing.

Curious about clients' businesses and able to quickly understand what makes a story interesting.

Someone who can look at an idea and say, 'Cool, but will a reporter actually care?'

Easy to get along with, collaborative and low ego.

Comfortable working independently in a very flat, entrepreneurial environment.

Confident in communicating directly with clients.

An excellent writer and communicator.

Able to juggle multiple clients, deadlines and priorities without losing the plot.

What We Bring

We're small, which means you'll actually get to do the work. You'll work directly with the founders and have meaningful exposure to clients, media and strategy. You'll have a lot of autonomy, a flexible remote environment and the opportunity to help shape how Haus grows.

A few other things we offer:

• Remote-first flexibility.
• NYC or Chicago preferred, but open to the right person anywhere in the U.S.
• Periodic travel to NYC, Chicago and/or client events, approximately quarterly.
• Healthcare.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Bonus eligibility.
• Company-provided computer.
• $100/month phone stipend.
• Potential opportunity for ownership as Haus continues to grow.
• Lots of autonomy and very little bureaucracy.
• A genuinely fun team that takes the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.

Compensation

Compensation: $120,000–$150,000, commensurate with experience.

Interested? If you're someone who knows the media landscape, has the relationships to prove it and gets a little too excited when you see a perfect reporter/story match, we'd like to meet you.

About the Company

Haus is a boutique, founder-led PR agency with a very simple philosophy: know the media, know the culture and make things happen. We are high-touch, highly collaborative and, admittedly, chronically online and deeply invested in knowing what is happening in culture before everyone else does. We are also nimble by design, without layers of bureaucracy. You work directly with founders, clients and media, have real ownership over your work, and get to see the impact of what you do. Our clients span consumer brands, with a particularly strong roster of food and beverage / CPG, and we are looking to expand our team to support exciting new clients, including a major spirits brand.

Haus is an equal opportunity employer. We believe great teams are built by people with different experiences, perspectives and points of view, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds.