Senior PR Account Lead - Media Strategy & Insights

Ruder Finn; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

401k match

Cell phone allowance

Paid time off

Transit benefits

Professional development

Social events

Job summary

Peppercomm, a Ruder Finn company, is seeking an Account Supervisor in New York City to lead data-driven PR programs for consumer and B2B clients. You will manage account teams, drive media relations, and craft strategic content across social, digital, pitches and white papers.

The role emphasizes writing excellence, strong media relationships, and a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on client growth and results. Competitive base salary and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of agency or in-house experience within public relations/communications, with experience working with consumer and B2B clients.
• Strong and reliable industry relationships with both trade and top-tier media.
• Knowledge and experience with tools such as Muckrack and Cision.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with a strong attention to detail and experience across varying types of content creation.
• Proven ability to write strategic documents as a clear, concise and persuasive writer.

Responsibilities

• Account Management: Develop strong relationships with clients, as their day-to-day lead, and deliver sound counsel and recommendations.
• Serve as a manager on your account teams, keeping teams updated on client activities, projects and assignments.
• Do a deep dive into the clients' business, products, markets and influencers and contribute strategic ideas and recommendations to help build public relations programs.
• Offer creative and innovative ideas to brainstorms, client meetings, new business presentations and internal initiatives.
• Create content for a broad range of materials, including social media posts, digital copy, pitches, proposals, announcements, award entries, bylines and white papers.
• Media Relations: Drive earned media for clients through data driven story development, growing and maintaining media relationships with trade and top tier press, creating and executing media strategies for clients.
• Regularly conduct proactive media outreach, including opportunistic and feature coverage, leveraging traditional media, as well as digital/emerging technologies, for PR programming.
• Monitor media to gain insights from coverage and identify newsjacking opportunities.
• Leverage influencers to impact clients, their brands and program goals.

Skills

Public relations

Media relations

Writing & editing

Client management

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Muckrack

Cision

Multi-tasking

Tools

Muckrack

Cision

Job description

Peppercomm, a Ruder Finn company, is seeking an Account Supervisor in New York City to lead data-driven PR programs for consumer and B2B clients. You will manage account teams, drive media relations, and craft strategic content across social, digital, pitches and white papers.

The role emphasizes writing excellence, strong media relationships, and a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on client growth and results. Competitive base salary and benefits are offered.