About the Role
The FINN Partners Travel Team is seeking a savvy leader to manage a dynamic and growing team within the travel and luxury consumer business. This role involves providing strategic counsel, developing integrated PR plans, and leading client relations.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic counsel to clients.
- Develop and execute integrated PR plans incorporating media relations, influencer marketing, organic social media, content creation, and events.
- Manage, mentor, and inspire a vibrant team.
- Participate in new business development, including research, audits, proposal development, and pitch presentations.
- Maintain high-level editorial/journalistic/media contacts.
- Guide creative direction for the agency and develop best practices for social media integration.
- Position the agency as an innovator in the social media space.
- Represent the firm on conferences/panels, develop bylined articles and blogs, and identify award opportunities.
- Manage expectations of managers and direct reports compassionately.
- Craft, execute, and manage integrated PR and social campaigns.
- Integrate social media, influencer marketing, and content creation within public relations efforts.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a savvy and collaborative team.
- Manage high-level client relationships.
- Execute PR campaigns, generate results, and cultivate media relationships.
- Manage high-level influencer activations and social media campaigns.
- Manage a small, growth-oriented team.
- Help the agency expand its offerings and grow the team.
Requirements
- A degree and 7+ years of public relations and social media/influencer marketing strategy experience, or comparable employment experience.
- Strong client relations skills.
- Proven media and influencer relationships.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Demonstrated track record of developing and executing successful client campaigns.
- Past PR experience with the travel, hospitality and/or luxury lifestyle industries.
- Experience with high level client relations.
- Experience with high-level management of influencer activations and social media campaigns.
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and client/team communication skills.
Skills
- Public relations
- Social media marketing
- Influencer marketing strategy
- Strategic counsel
- Integrated PR plans
- Media relations
- Organic social media
- Content creation
- Event management
- Executive presence
- Leadership skills
- Business savvy
- Luxury travel industry knowledge
- Consumer industry knowledge
- Client relations
- Collaboration
- New business development
- Editorial/journalistic/media contacts
- Writing
- Storytelling
- Knowledge sharing
- Creative direction
- Social media integration
- Public speaking
- Networking
- Problem-solving
- Organizational skills
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years
- Seasoned pro
Education Level
- Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $95,000-$120,000
About the Company
- FINN Partners is a great place to work, voted “#1 Best Agency to Work For” in the Extra-Large Agency Category by PR Week.
- FINN has ranked in the top five nearly every year since its founding a decade ago.
- Our crew shares an entrepreneurial spirit.
- We often welcome former colleagues back to the fold or as clients.
- All choose FINN because of our cause-minded approach, collaborative culture, commitment to excellence, ethical leadership and exciting roster of clients.
- Our people are deeply loyal to FINN because the FINN team is deeply loyal to each other.
- Finn is committed to representing a different breed of agency.
