The Role

The Communications Executive position is a newly created role within TripleLift's Communications team and will touch nearly every aspect of the team’s day to day responsibilities. The position involve significant collaboration with peers and leadership within the immediate team as well as to working alongside colleagues from other specialist marketing functions. It will also afford regular visibility of the firm’s wider leadership from the office of the Chief Executive down. The role is based in TripleLift’s New York office and reports jointly to the firm’s EU and Internal Communications leads. Paid relocation is not available.

The role calls for a talented, informed, and ambitious communications professional able to blend creativity, strategic insight, and operational excellence all while managing a complex agenda and multiple stakeholder groups in a fast-paced environment.

• Identifying and managing key media relationships for the firm, building a relevant journalist database, tracking activity via regular contact, monitoring output and secured coverage, and devising tactics and strategies to ensure TripleLift is regularly front of mind as a valued content contributor, working closely with our external media relations agency and our in-house media relations team globally.
• Monitoring global business news and other relevant outlets to identify comment and opinion opportunities for TripleLift.
• Providing support and contribution to the firm’s existing C-suite visibility program. This will include assisting in content development, social media activation, and preparing for media and other speaking engagements, as well as identifying new content and comment opportunities on current affairs and business issues.
• Additional responsibilities as identified. This description is not designed to encompass a comprehensive listing of required activities, duties, or responsibilities.

What You’ll Need

The role is an exciting opportunity for a communications professional looking to start a career in technology PR, eager to learn, grow and succeed. The decisions and actions taken in this role are in pursuit of outcomes which have significant impact on the firm and how it is perceived externally. It requires a highly energetic, motivated, and technically excellent individual with the following attributes:

• Storytelling excellence, a love for writing with first class written and oral presentation skills in English.
• A passion for news and current affairs married to the ability and desire to find ways to align TripleLift with the stories of the day and pitch the firm accordingly.
• A deep understanding of the value, purpose, and requirements of effective use of social media.
• Intellectual agility, able to take high concept ideas and distil them into compelling, easily accessible outputs.
• Ability to work autonomously and exhibit excellent stakeholder management skills, able to manage and build rapport in all directions.
• Proactive and responsive; able to remain calm and manage multiple large and complex projects simultaneously under time pressure and adapt to changing circumstances using sound judgment as to when escalation is required.
• Curious, creative and motivated - not afraid to pick up a phone and cold-pitch a journalist, strong at establishing instant connections with strangers, service-oriented with an eagerness to respond to media queries no matter how onerous or challenging.
• Ability to work a minimum of 3x per week in an office; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States. No VISAs available for this position.

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