About the Role
Manage overarching strategy, client relationships, and integrated campaigns for diverse creative and innovative brands across food & beverage, wellness, and consumer tech. This role involves concepting novel initiatives for social virality and press headlines, and overseeing a team of talented junior staffers.
Responsibilities
- Drive long-term strategy and create tentpole campaigns for clients on retainer and project-based engagements.
- Manage expectations, set goals, timelines, and deliverables, ensuring client KPIs are met or exceeded.
- Originate innovative ideas to strengthen client marketplace positioning and earn attention through press or earned talkability.
- Collaborate across disciplines to create and execute integrated campaigns.
- Participate in new business meetings and proposals, contributing to business development and growth.
- Manage and mentor junior team members and freelancers, ensuring work quality and breadth.
- Provide thought leadership, elevating client work and pushing influencer marketing & PR boundaries.
- Lead overall management and execution of paid and earned influencer programming across various platforms.
- Manage budgets to ensure cost-effectiveness and strong ROI.
- Maintain a deep and diversified rolodex of influencer and agent relationships, negotiating efficient rates.
- Develop insights capturing quantitative and qualitative results based on relevant metrics.
- Generate earned press strategies with message development, target verticals, and an emphasis on new media.
- Maintain a deep and diversified rolodex of press contacts for placements.
- Secure feature stories and placements.
- Shape ideas from clients and agency partners for maximum earned impact, providing diplomatic guidance.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5-8+ years of relevant experience in influencer marketing and earned PR (agency or in-house).
- Experience negotiating contracts.
- Experience creating and managing successful influencer campaigns.
- Experience maintaining a strong network of influencer, agent, and media relationships.
- Capable of understanding client businesses and providing strategic counsel.
- Proven track record of developing strategic influencer and press campaigns that achieve client goals and KPIs.
- Ability to monitor progress of personal and team deliverables and campaign pipelines.
- Ability to provide project management to teams.
- Detail-oriented, diligent with formatting, double-checking, and meeting deadlines.
- Ability to implement systems that improve efficiency and quality.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to instill client confidence.
- Comfortable leading calls with senior clients, guiding discussions to actionable outcomes.
- Ability to analyze performance, develop insights, and deliver reports with actionable insights.
Skills
- Influencer marketing
- Earned PR
- Strategic thinking
- Organizational skills
- Detail-oriented
- Social media savvy
- Client leadership
- Data analysis
- Content and trend obsession
- Negotiation
- Budget management
- Project management
- Communication
- Analytical skillset
Location
- NYC office
- LA office
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-8 years of experience
- Associate Director
- Director
Salary/Compensations
- $102,500-$120,000
Benefits
- Generous PTO that scales with tenure
- Summer Fridays
- Day of Rests for mental health
- Caregiving days
- Time off for Unsick Days dedicated to preventative care
- Smalls In Sync program for dedicated collaboration and solo work time
- 100% employer-covered medical plan
- 401k match up to 4%
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Innovation leadership (pioneering client brand campaigns on TikTok, unique HR policies, AI Leadership committee)
- Employee-led committees shaping company policy
- Employee-led committees organizing team celebrations (book clubs, outings)
About the Company
- Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company built for today’s complex and fragmented world.
- It integrates people, platforms, and stories to help clients build lasting influence.
- The company offers programs from high-level strategic business counsel to tactical execution.
- Orchestra brings together 700+ people with experience across various sectors including consumer, technology, nonprofit, real estate, sports, travel, and hospitality.
- It is made up of leading firms: BerlinRosen, Civitas Public Affairs Group, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward, and Small Girls PR.
- Orchestra launched Brightmode, a talent acquisition firm for communications professionals, and Versus Media Group, a strategy-first political media team.
- Since 2022, it has acquired nine firms.
- Orchestra is the first communications company built for today’s media landscape.
Equal Opportunity
- People of all backgrounds and abilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Orchestra is committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff.
- Recognizes that its continued success depends on hiring and retaining high-quality creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
- Opportunities for advancement exist, and we are committed to helping all staff develop and grow.
- Information submitted may be shared with network agencies to match applicants with suitable jobs.
- By providing information, you consent to allow Orchestra and its subsidiaries to keep your information on file and contact you regarding job opportunities, recruitment events, and related updates.
