Finnish-speaking Communications & PR Professional

San Francisco Oy

2d•$4,000 - $4,600•Remote

About The Position

San Francisco Agency is an award-winning international comms & PR agency, with a growing client base in Europe and the US. Our mission is to help companies and brands spread stories to the world by leveraging the PR industry’s best practices and our own technology. We’re a team that values our company culture highly. We appreciate a good laugh, but we take our work seriously. Before applying, read our Code of Conduct to see if you’re on the same page as us. We are the agency that Nordic and global businesses trust when they have a story that deserves to be told. Local relevance matters just as much as international reach, which is why we operate with local teams and languages across all Nordic markets and global English-speaking markets, with no copy-paste solutions. We exist to set the standard for tech PR and communications. We work with leading companies with exponential growth potential and a positive impact on the world. We help them create messages that travel far and earn thousands of media hits annually. Our clients include the hottest technology startups, publicly listed global companies, private equity investors, and multi-national expert organizations and research centres. In 2025, we served 120 companies from 10 different countries, helping them with a variety of strategic communication services, from PR operations to crisis communications and building key messaging assets that stick. Our clients got over 5,400 media hits globally, and gave us an NPS of 76 – well above the industry standard. Now, we’re looking for a new Finnish-speaking colleague to join our multi-national team: we have colleagues from five different countries. We have a fully remote work policy, but if you want to, you can work in our office in Kaivokatu 10, right opposite the Helsinki Central Railway Station. You get to: Help our clients tell their newsworthy stories to the Finnish audience and media. Work with both innovative Finnish companies and multicultural global companies that want us to execute their PR on the highest level of expertise. Write content that dives deep into current hot topics, our clients’ industries, and tech applications, often explaining complex concepts in a simple and clear way. This could be in the form of press releases or editorial-level opinion and thought leadership articles. Lead client teams, as well as work with your colleagues in a supportive role. Engage with clients to create effective PR and communications strategies, as well as help them in cases of crisis communications or other urgent communications needs. Develop and maintain relationships with journalists and media. Work together with the whole team to attract the best clients and talent. Work with our team of 10+ international PR and communications professionals.

Requirements

You are expected to produce flawless content in Finnish for our clients and check the work of others.
You have the know-how of the Finnish media landscape with a proven track record of having journalists publish stories you pitched.
You have experience with variety of public relations and communications tasks – from leading strategy projects to multi-channeled implementation, from building thought leadership to handling day-to-day PR operational tasks.
You are creative in coming up with solutions to our clients' communications issues.
You have 5+ years of experience in PR and communications.
You are open and honest with your team members and clients, and you love to work as part of a team.
Working proficiency in English as English is our official internal language.
You have great organizational skills and are able to lead client accounts and balance multiple client cases simultaneously.
You have a proven track record in sales, and you are enthusiastic about helping us gain new clients.

Nice To Haves

Fluency in Swedish will be considered a major plus.
Know-how in AI tools and implementing them in your workflow without compromising the quality

Responsibilities

Help our clients tell their newsworthy stories to the Finnish audience and media.
Work with both innovative Finnish companies and multicultural global companies that want us to execute their PR on the highest level of expertise.
Write content that dives deep into current hot topics, our clients’ industries, and tech applications, often explaining complex concepts in a simple and clear way. This could be in the form of press releases or editorial-level opinion and thought leadership articles.
Lead client teams, as well as work with your colleagues in a supportive role.
Engage with clients to create effective PR and communications strategies, as well as help them in cases of crisis communications or other urgent communications needs.
Develop and maintain relationships with journalists and media.
Work together with the whole team to attract the best clients and talent.

Benefits

An opportunity to focus on PR while working directly with a variety of industries and build long-term client and media relations, with the support of your team.
Working with some of the most exciting clients – our clientele includes rapidly growing startups, big IT companies, innovation units of larger corporations, and research organizations.
Possibilities to be part of new client acquisition and earn sales commissions on top of your competitive base salary.
You get to work with an international and diverse team that is, quite frankly, awesome.
MacBook laptop, phone benefit, and home internet up to 100€ a month
The possibility to work remotely as much as you want, or come to our office in downtown Helsinki! We only expect to see you once a month for our monthly team day.
External training sessions with top experts.
We have extensive occupational health and travel insurance, as well as an annual ePassi benefit for 400 euros that can be spent on well-being, culture, and sports.
Our agency has transparent salary ladders.
For this position, the base salary is 4000–4600 euros a month.
On top of your base salary, everyone gets a team bonus plus a personal sales commission.