Manager, Earned Media

Current Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 74,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k

Tuition reimbursement

Monthly wellness stipend

Flexible time off

Flexible holiday schedules

Short-term disability

Paid employee family leave

Family building benefit

Job summary

Current Global is seeking an earned media strategist with strong media relationships to drive coverage for clients. You will craft earned-first campaigns, leverage influencer and social intersections, and accelerate ideas across our connected media world.

You are a culture vulture with an entrepreneurial spirit, locally based in the tri-state area, and adept at building authentic media relationships from concept to execution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 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; deadline- and detail-oriented.
• In-depth knowledge of the evolving media landscape.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive and reactive strategic media counsel to key clients.
• Develop and execute integrated earned media strategies with teams.
• Craft compelling stories to earn positive headlines.
• Build and maintain relationships with key media contacts.
• Monitor trends and be an early adopter of new media practices.
• Identify news cycles and cultural shifts; pitch client narratives accordingly.
• Contribute creative media ideas to new business opportunities and pitches.

Skills

Trusted Advisor

Earned Media Strategies

Story Crafting

Relationship Building

Trend Monitoring

Insightful Messaging

New Biz Proposals

Job description

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

Media

Job Subfunction

Earned Media

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.

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, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.

Current Global recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. We offer a full suite of benefits including medical; dental; vision; 401k (with employer match); tuition reimbursement; $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards nourishing your health; flexible time off policy; flexible holiday schedules; short-term disability; paid employee family leave; family building benefit.

NYC Salary range: $74,000 - $85,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

$74,000 - $85,000

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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$74,000 - $85,000