Vp of Public Relations

Can you effectively manage a hard-charging team of PR professionals, including senior, mid-level, and junior team members?

How about tracking department Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and identifying potential client issues before they happen?

Or training up team members on everything from pitch writing to the use of the latest technological tools?

Are you also prolific at hiring, screening and onboarding of new PR employees and contractors?

And can you jump into problem clients and quickly gain top-tier media hits when it is absolutely necessary?

Simply put, if you're someone who has extensive senior-level PR management experience — and you’ve done this for an agency team rather than in-house — then we might have the perfect role for you.

Some things to know about us:

- First, we're not like every other PR agency. We believe in the power of data. We embrace new tools and technology. We swoon over an elegant process or system. We love pitch blueprints. If it ain't broke, optimize it. As a result, we're growing faster than pretty much any other PR agency around.

Second, we work a little differently. In 36 marketing disciplines across 6 functional groups, we're redefining what a full-service PR and marketing agency can be. PR was our very first service discipline and what made us famous. Notably, our PR team takes a data-driven approach to creating news stories and thought leadership, leveraging our in-house market research capabilities and proprietary survey platform. We're growing quickly in the U.S. and UK but also building a global footprint in 20+ countries.

Third, we're known for our flexible work environment. Not only are we fully remote, but we actually coordinate remote culture and team-building activities on a global basis. Need to work unusual hours or pick up your kids at a set time each day? No problem, we've got your back.

Does any of this get you super excited? Are you ready for potentially the best professional experience of your PR career?

**Duties**:

- Manage day-to-day operations of a global + regional PR department
- Evaluate, mentor, coach, and recruit junior and senior talent
- Provide quality control and review client pitches, correspondence, proposals, press materials, messaging, and more.
- Develop client relationships with an eye to expand our overall business
- Maintain cross-departmental relationships on integrated marketing clients - connecting work plans and flows between teams
- Generate long-term plans and program recommendations for clients
- Develop KPI measurement strategy for campaigns and deliver on them
- Ability to multitask on a fast-paced account, providing strategic direction and feedback to CEO, teams, and clients in a timely manner
- Attend account reviews and staff meetings - provide ongoing communications and feedback
- Client problem fixing and troubleshooting, including the early diagnosis of potential issues
- Translate client asks into actionable creative briefs and scopes of work
- Participate in new business networking and proposal opportunities

**Requirements (unless you convince us otherwise)**:

- 10+ years of prior PR experience working in an agency setting, including managing a business unit, department, or the entire staff
- Strong managerial skills - ability to manage and prioritize multiple work streams and staff, including management of teams of 5 to 20 people
- Must be proactive and flexible, a team player able to work in a fluid environment with changing priorities
- Excellent organizational skills, including management of complex projects simultaneously
- Ability to read a room and tailor your message and style for the audience
- Ability to command respect with insights at client meetings
- Experience in placing consumer, technology, corporate/marketing brand and executive leadership stories
- Relationships with top-tier domestic and international media outlets
- Excellent pitch writing and editing skills (English)
- Detail-oriented and self-motivated in a remote work capacity
- Technologically inclined, including learning new tools quickly

**About TOP Worldwide**
- If you want the feel of a fast-growing startup with the variety of work that comes from a top global agency, then you've come to the right place.