Media Relations Manager

Flock Safety

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About The Position

We are looking to hire a dynamic Media Relations Manager to join Flock Safety’s Communications team. In this role, you'll be an important part of a dynamic team, soliciting stories from customers, drafting press releases, pitching stories to news outlets, supporting press conferences, and building and maintaining relationships with reporters and Flock Safety’s public sector customers. This is a fast-paced, high-energy role that requires a creative, problem-solving mindset and the ability to handle a complex PR process. The PR Manager should display exceptional communication skills, an eye for detail, and the ability to balance many moving parts. You should love speaking with customers and reporters, extolling the virtues of Flock Safety, and working in a constantly-changing environment. Success in this role requires securing a high volume of positive press coverages each week through tenacity and persistence, and responding quickly and with efficiency to daily media questions. The ideal candidate has 6-8 years of PR and communications experience either with an agency or in-house, preferably for a technology company. Direct experience dealing with reporters is required. Public speaking skills are preferable, as is experience dealing with public sector employees (law enforcement, elected officials, or city/county employees). This candidate must be based on the East Coast, with a preference for candidates located in the Boston or New York City metropolitan areas.

Requirements

• Ability to engage with, develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders. You are comfortable cold calling a customer or reporter to pitch a story and you are not deterred by rejection.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, familiarity in press release and media pitch writing styles, and a solid understanding of the media landscape.
• Strong organization and time management skills. You are able to balance a pipeline of multiple projects in various stages of development each week.
• Self-starter mentality with the ability to work independently and quickly in a fast-moving environment. You meet deadlines, respond to requests quickly, and don’t require reminders to accomplish assigned tasks.
• 6-8 years of public relations experience, either at an agency or in-house.

Nice To Haves

• Prior relationships with reporters a plus, prior relationships with public sector employees (especially law enforcement) a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, journalism, marketing, sales, or a relevant field a plus

Responsibilities

• Soliciting stories from customers
• Drafting press releases
• Pitching stories to news outlets
• Supporting press conferences
• Building and maintaining relationships with reporters and Flock Safety’s public sector customers
• Securing a high volume of positive press coverages each week through tenacity and persistence
• Responding quickly and with efficiency to daily media questions

Benefits

• When you join the Flock, you are joining a diverse team of passionate, ambitious, intelligent people that put team over self.
• We offer competitive salary (commensurate with experience), equity in the company, take what you need vacation policy, and the opportunity to grow your career at a fast-paced, high growth mission-driven startup.
• We genuinely care about the well-being of our employees both in and out of the office and understand the importance of work/life balance.
• We’d love for you to join us in the fight to eliminate crime, one community at a time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees