Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Note: This is a freelance, remote position. We will only be considering full-time applicants.

CBR is looking for a dedicated Lead Editor to oversee the TV Features related coverage on our team. Are you a pop-culture enthusiast dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest TV shows?

If so, then we need you!

CBR offers a unique opportunity for team members to grow and connect with other freelancers from all over the world. As a TV Lead Features Editor for CBR, you will work with a dedicated remote editorial team to create original and informative articles that our discriminating audience demands, with the eye-catching aesthetic they crave.

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Responsibilities:

• Edit and publish a minimum of 25 TV Features articles weekly on the Features team
• Manage weekly publication scheduling for CBR’s TV Features section
• Oversee all Junior Editors and writers as well as help them develop their skills and adapt to CBR’s standards
• Communicate expectations effectively, along with deadlines and quotas
• Work with new writers to develop their skills and help them adapt to CBR’s standards
• Work with existing writers by providing general guidance to develop those suitable for internal development (staff writing, self-publishing, editing)
• Spearhead planning of coverage for the respective teams, in conjunction with the Senior Features Editor
• Update the corresponding planning
• Craft headlines, blurbs, and peripheral text to capture new and existing traffic optimize SEO traffic for various avenues of dissemination
• Idea Generation
• Help generate a steady stream of feature ideas to ensure writers have articles to write
• Develop content plans
• Use Google Analytics to help identify topics that provide opportunities for expansion of coverage and category growth
• Weekly meetings
• Come prepared with notes and analyses

Requirements:

• Relevant experience in senior writing and editing roles (digital publications, entertainment content)
• Broad working knowledge of current TV shows, as well as past TV
• Quick learner with strong sense of urgency
• Excellent command of the English language
• Ability to write articles free of typos and grammatical errors

Applicants with experience in the following areas will be given favorable consideration:

• Image editing
• Google Analytics
• SEO
• Analytics (GA)
• Freelance writer management
• Proven track record of growing a team, expanding coverage, and driving traffic

Only applicants who possess the necessary skills and experience will be contacted, and only applications containing a resume and cover letter will be considered. You will not be considered for the role if this information is not included.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Valnet

Summary

Brand Agency London, the home of Ciaté London, Lottie London and Skin Proud,

are looking for a full time Public Relations Assistant Manager to work across the three brands as part of the marketing department. This is a fundamental role within marketing department working closely with the PR Manager and being responsible for brand awareness across press.

The Role:

• Responsible in supporting the running of all day-to-day activities related to media and press across brand and markets
• Responsible for managing external partners across brands and marketing including global hub management of three regions and four PR agencies (US, AUS/NZ, UK)
• Support in creation and implementation of global PR strategy to increase brand awareness and storytelling
• Responsible for global awards calendar and entry process
• Responsible for all press send outs and mailers as well as global stock levels leading by example with the PR Assistant
• Responsible for delivering on agreed earned reach KPIs, working on creative approaches to achieve targets and meet business goals
• Responsible in leading the day-to-day management of media outreach through creative weekly pitches and e-blasts
• Responsible for cultivating relationships with key media targets to ensure consistent conversation and conversion
• Responsible for upskilling junior team

Reporting

• Manage creation of daily coverage monitoring and monthly report working closely with PR Assistant to ensure all content is to the highest standard for PR manager to review
• Manages day-to-day activity of PR Assistant, guiding and teaching skills to enhance PR skill levels

Profile:

● Ciaté London, Lottie London and Skin Proud are looking for someone who can communicate well and work intuitively; the individual must be hands on and good at timekeeping

● A good knowledge of beauty industry in the UK, particularly beauty media (print, online and digital media) and the Gen Z beauty market

● Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask

● A passion for beauty and interest in the beauty and fashion industries

● A creative flair

What you will learn/ What we will teach you:

● You will gain experience in the beauty industry

● You will learn about beauty PR and agency management

● You will learn about global brand campaigns and product launches

● You will learn how to create and implement a global strategy

● You will learn how to manage relationships both internally and externally

● You will learn how to work within the marketing department and how 360 campaigns with other disciplines work in hand

You will report to the PR Manager

Brand Agency London

Communications Director

Are you obsessed with Beauty and interested in leading conversations for the world’s most exciting roster of beauty clients? Are you visionary in your approach, with strong publicist skills and like to be on the cutting edge of the latest trends? If so, this opportunity to work with some of the leading experts in our industry could just be for you!

SEEN Group Values:

• Creativity

• Inclusivity

• Positivity

• Excellence

The Opportunity

The Communications Director is a true PR expert & inspiration to the account team. With a minimum of 8-10 years’ experience, this role is instrumental in supporting the MD in overseeing the client portfolio, strategy and financial insight and capacity, as well as acting as a an ambassador to elevate SEEN in the US market, embodying the agency’s values on daily basis. They are a true leader who thrives to achieve brilliant results through their team and foster their growth. The Communications Director is a strategic pillar as well as a people person.

The Role

• Senior leader for account portfolio with strong client relations and maintained excellence in client counsel at all times
• Develop and execute engaging campaign activity relevant to the clients brief and key objectives, ensuring you are thinking outside of the box and demonstrating the SEEN way of thought leadership
• Lead in the management and handling of potential issues/crisis situations, ensuring all communication is delivered in a calm and professional manner
• Drive new media angles and proactively create new ideas, and feature placement opportunities for your clients beyond the day-to-day coverage asks
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of client’s business in order to deliver strategic and creative campaigns against briefs
• Proactively pitch new ideas to the client – ensure concepts are aligned with overall business/PR objectives and strategy
• Inspiring and motivating team manager and Senior team peer for wider agency
• Lead in the management and handling of potential issues/crisis situations, ensuring all communication is delivered in a calm and professional manner
• Exceptional industry relationships (including media, influencers, KOLs, artists & experts and retailers), taking a proactive approach to building new relationships for the benefit of in role specialism
• Manage team capacity planning and resource allocation
• Identify incremental opportunities to organically grow existing client business by proactively pitching more PR or SEEN Group integrated ideas

To succeed in this role you will:

• Be a strategic and creative thinker across written and verbal work, ensuring exceptional execution and delivery
• Have excellent media landscape awareness (in and outside of the industry) to support senior level media pitching, to secure BIC feature placements
• Excellent influencer landscape awareness to support earned and paid influencer strategies on behalf of clients, including ability to manage complex partnerships and negotiate contracts and SOW
• Have excellent industry relationships (including media, influencers, KOLs, artists & experts and retailers), taking a proactive approach to building new relationships for the benefit of in role specialism
• Demonstrate understanding of financial health of accounts and billing, as well as ownership of PL alongside VP
• Work on new business opportunities from research, development, and to pitch, giving strategic insight and counsel
• Senior business gravitas demonstrated to your peers and wider agency
• Excellent industry (beauty and wellbeing) awareness to support in role specialism and expertise across your portfolio and cross agency

To learn more about SEEN Group visit seengroup.com* or follow us on Instagram *@seen_group

Benefits:

• 18 vacation days per year
• Sick days
• Hybrid Working – 2 office days a week
• 3 Wellness Days
• Mental health support – including chat and video therapy
• Enhanced Paid Family leave

SEEN Group

About the Role

Ariat is looking for an eComm Photography Art Director with creative passion! The person in this role will have an amazing eye and years of experience creating exceptional on-figure and product photography in a studio setting. The eComm Photography Art Director will understand how to translate a brand into striking yet shoppable imagery. The person in this role will love being part of a team of creatives and have an infectious enthusiasm for all things photography.

This role requires a gift for getting the best out of models, photographers, stylists and the rest of the studio crew. You are part of a team, but you are also the creative driving force—responsible for bringing the brand alive through studio photography. You share your excitement and passion for the work with the whole team.

To be successful in this role, you need to be able to art direct for different targets across our Western, English, Work and Outdoor businesses. This means researching and having a full command of the nuances inherent to those different groups.

The creative team at Ariat is highly collaborative and hands on. We work closely with product and eComm teams as well as our marketing teammates. The eComm Art Director should be comfortable developing and presenting seasonal strategies to these teams. You will work very closely on these strategies with the Design Director, Sr. Photography Manager and Sr. Stylist.

Please Note: Ariat’s corporate headquarters will be relocating from Union City, CA to San Leandro, CA spring of 2023.

You’ll Make a Difference By

• Art direct in-studio photo and video shoots including lay down and on-figure
• Collaborating with other art directors, photographers and stylists bring the brand to life through eComm photography
• Building the eComm photography vision with input from marketing managers, product specialists and the web team.
• Reviewing work with leadership demonstrating excellent presentation skills and natural assurance.
• Bringing the latest industry trends, new ideas, inspiration, and creativity to all areas of your work.

About You

• 8+ years working as a photography/eComm Art Director in a creative agency or consumer goods company
• Strong communicator and people person
• Expertise in Adobe Creative suite applications
• Experience managing large projects; ability to art direct according to business and technical requirements and comfort with ambiguity and changes in direction
• Portfolio of beautiful, compelling work that shows best-in-class art direction
• Degree in art, design or photography
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary range for this position is $140,000 – $150,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Ariat International

Canyon Ranch inspires your well way of life.  Since 1979, Canyon Ranch has been a trailblazer and leader of the integrative wellness lifestyle through immersive, life-changing destinations in Tucson, Arizona and Lenox, Massachusetts, a wellness retreat in Woodside, California and the largest day spa in North America at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.  Canyon Ranch guests experience lasting transformation through curated pathways that answer their wellness intentions.  We deliver personal guidance from world-class experts in health & performance, food & nutrition, spa & beauty, fitness & movement, and mind & spirit that inspire proven, lasting impact on Canyon Ranch members as they pursue their well path.

The Multimedia Design Manager oversees static and motion visuals for all destinations at Canyon Ranch.  Manages video and graphic designers—full time and contractors. Oversees all visual project requests, including intake through the project management system, assigning roles, developing/reviewing creative briefs, identifying production schedules, press checks, and addresses questions or potential problems with clients and vendors. Coordinates and manages visual production vendors from estimates to completed projects and assists in the creation of multimedia projects for all properties.

Oversees compliance to resort brand guidelines ensuring the “look” is consistent, creative, on-brand and of high quality at all times working with direction from the Associate Creative Director, Video and Director of Content. Instructs cross-functional teams on how to use design tools. Develops and approves visual content for print; emails and on-property collateral; web site; mobile app; advertorials; and outbound local sales and marketing collateral. Collaborating with cross-functional teams that include sales, marketing, digital and corporation communications.

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic and Visual Design, or at a minimum an Associate’s Degree in Art and Video Creation – and over four years of experience creating high-end visuals for luxury brands, and knows how to co-lead a team of creatives to produce their best work.  Understands the ever-evolving complexities of traditional and current visual storytelling and uses multimedia design to facilitate consumer-facing messaging about our robust wellness experiences.

Meticulous in creating a finished product, pays attention to all details of design, understands pre-press and overall production, is an expert communicator and collaborator, works great under pressure, has patience to coach and mentor others, and is able to handle multiple deadlines.

Canyon Ranch

About Us

MMGY Grifco is a leading public relations firm specialising in international luxury travel and lifestyle PR. It is a creative, boutique, PR company which nurtures the needs of its travel, spa and beauty clients. As part of the MMGY Global family, Grifco’s clients have access to an international communications practice across all marketing channels – providing a holistic and fully integrated solution to marketing needs.

Based in London, we currently have a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious, curious and creative PR Account Manager to join our team and act as a senior contact for clients. Reporting into an Account Director, the Account Manager is the key day to day contact for clients and ensures PR activities are carried out seamlessly on a daily basis. Commercially minded and creative in nature, we are looking for someone who is adept at building relationships with key commentators, industry spokespeople and senior journalists.

The Account Manager enjoys building relationships, and their main duties would include;
 

• The Account Manager is the day to day contact for their clients, fielding all requests and carrying them out in a timely manner or delegating to their team to action.
• Leading press release writing, delegating releases to other members of your team where needed, outsourcing where needed, and proof-reading all releases for your clients before they are sent to the client or to senior members at the agency first if you need a second opinion.
• You will frequently pro-actively pitch story ideas to journalists whether over the phone, by email or in person.
• You will also be expected to attend events– a great way of networking and meeting new journalists.
• Overseeing and facilitating the organisation of press trips to your all of your clients.
• Building good relationships with tour operator, tourist board and airline PRs to assist with press trip creation.
• Assisting the Account Director and senior management on the creation of PR plans for your clients where requested.
• Assisting with creative idea generation, target media lists, and time-lines.
• Ensuring your team are active on social media for your clients at all times. Working with JAEs to ensure constant stream of information and activity on all of our social media outlets. 

About you

At MMGY Global we believe that to go places as a company, we must give others the opportunity to shine. We strive to create a vibrant, open, collaborative work environment where people can be and bring their best selves to work.

We are looking for a candidate with relevant experience (at least 3 years in a PR setting). You will have a curiosity and understanding of the UK media and social media landscapes with excellent writing and organisational skills. You will also have to demonstrate an ability to work on your own initiative as well as being a team player.

• Previous knowledge or experience in the travel industry would be beneficial
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Organised with the ability to work to strict deadlines and capable of managing and prioritising the workload
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Our industry-leading benefits

• A flexible hybrid work schedule of 3 days in office and 2 days at home
• Generous annual holiday package including 25 days of annual leave, birthday day off (can be taken any day during your month of birth), 2 floating holidays and year-end holiday break over the Christmas period.
• 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave / 4 weeks fully paid caregiver leave
• Private medical, life and income protection insurance and pension scheme contribution from the company
• Lively social calendar with numerous activities and events to take part in.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Industry-exclusive travel perks
• Work from Anywhere / Work from Any Office
• Go Explore! Global Travel Reward Programme: we offer exciting anniversary travel benefits that kick in after 2 years. We want our employees to go see the world – and help pay for it.

MMGY Global

Senior Production Designer

Planet Technology is looking to add an exceptional Sr. Production Designer to assist our iconic tech client with their daily production. In this role, you will be a hands-on production designer creating static and animated assets for their TV platform. The ideal candidate for the role relishes in the details of the production design process, and understands how to deal with daily art production at a high volume and can work across vendors and producers with ease.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for processing large volumes of music photography, graphics, and motion graphics for use within multiple platforms
• Processing of these photos and graphics may include cropping, retouching, and uploading into a CMS system
• Leading vendors in daily art direction for both motion and still assets.
• Familiarity with TV content and new media is a must.
• Group communication on a micro and macro level is one of the biggest components of this role
• Proficiency in slack is desired but not required.
• Must have experience working in an iterative process, as well as experience in high volume QC/QA in a daily workflow.

Key Qualifications:

• Exceptional design skills
• Proficiency with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Keynote
• Expert in presentation layout
• Passion for art & pop culture
• Extreme attention to detail
• Clear and concise communication skills
• Self-starter and able to ask questions when necessary
• Deep understanding of typography for the web
• Understanding of template usage and batching processes for image exports
• Diligence in file-naming structures and file organization
• Ability to work quickly and with multiple points of feedback and changes
• Prior experience in a time-sensitive production environment
• A keen ability to create work under minimal supervision, as well as package and present solutions to the wider creative team. Quickly and beautifully
• Expert level photo retouching skills
• Expert level image compositing skills
• Deep understanding of grid systems, design systems and layouts
• Understanding of actions and batch processing image assets
• Ability to work independently to troubleshoot technical and process related issues
• Knowledge of sports graphics and photography
• Ability to adhere to design guidelines and specifications for a given project
• Knowledge of photo composition

Education & Requirements:

• Portfolio demonstrating modern design with a creative edge
• Must be software savvy
• 5+ years of experience in design, graphic design
• 2+ years of production design experience
• Expert Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other image optimizing applications
• Experience naming files according to production specifications
• Experience working in multiple CMS environment
• Candidates should possess exceptional graphic design skills
• Prior experience in a time sensitive production environment
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

Planet Technology

Who are we?

NowPow, whose name is a play on knowledge is power, is a women-owned and led technology business based on Chicago’s south side. NowPow’s multi-sided platform is a personalized community referral management solution that enables care professionals – social workers, physicians, justice workers – to manage and close the loop on health and social service referrals and directly support patients, members, and clients in their own self care. NowPow helps people get the care they need, whether they are managing chronic health and social conditions or just staying well.

The Role:

The Community Engagement Manager (CEM) is responsible for planning and implementing strategies to build NowPow coordinated community networks and foster sustained partner engagement. Within designated geographies, the CEM leads the identification of community-based organizations (CBO’s), local resource providers and government agencies to build high-quality referral partnerships where clients are efficiently connected to vital resources and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify key network partners for outreach in designated geographies to engage as referral partners
• Drive the implementation and adoption of NowPow technology solutions within network organizations and their community partners

• Create and deliver best practices for process workflows; monitor referral partner performance and recommend action for network partners
• Oversee training, onboarding, and user provisioning of community partners, including contracting and onboarding as needed

• Develop and maintain a pipeline of large community-based organizations and potential referral partners
• Perform analysis of existing partner referral data to ‘predict’ best-case tracked referral partners
• Build, foster and maintain customer relationships; become a valued resource for NowPow partners
• Analyze data to provide insights and better understanding of network performance and referral outcomes
• Continuously collect partner feedback to inform internal teams on client intervention needs and desired reporting

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 years of related professional experience
• At least 1 year of experience working with community-based organizations

Recommended:

• Advanced degree in social work, social science, urban planning, public health, public policy
• Experience managing complex projects with high-level stakeholders
• Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills
• Exceptional strategic planning skills with demonstrated ability to execute against strategy
• Outstanding attention to detail, organization, decision making and analytical skills

• Self-starter, innovator, results-driven with ability to meet both short- and long-term business goals
• Ability to manage time well, meet imposed deadlines and ability to work flexible hours

Why NowPow?

We work at NowPow because we care! NowPowers are passionate about our mission and are excited about the opportunities and challenges we face. At NowPow, we cultivate a culture of collaboration and respect, where everyone is a valued team member.

Our people and our culture are important to us and make working at NowPow special. We invest in the self-care of our team and provide competitive benefits to support this. We celebrate our successes every week with a company-wide happy hour on Fridays and recognize those who went above and beyond in their work. Outside of work, we have fun through company events such as laser tag, ice skating, and heading to the ballpark for beautiful weather and a baseball game – and look forward to being able to do so again!

We are looking for highly motivated and hard-working individuals to join our team and help us connect health care to self-care. Please apply now to join our growing team!

Equal Employment Opportunity

NowPow is an Equal Opportunity Employer. NowPow evaluates applicants for employment on the basis of qualifications, merit, and work-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, associate activities and general treatment during employment.

NowPow (Now part of Unite Us)

Washington College is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive environment that builds community as an essential foundation to the success of our students. Members of the Washington community benefit from a welcoming, energetic culture that empowers students and generates impact well beyond our beautiful campus. Staff and faculty enjoy outstanding benefits and the unique opportunity to work in a setting dedicated to personal and intellectual growth. We strongly encourage qualified professionals from all backgrounds to apply.

The Director of News and Media Relations promotes the Washington College brand story to the world through proactive, strategic, and comprehensive media communications planning. Reporting to the Senior Director/Director of Communications, the Director of News and Media Relations will work to elevate the College’s regional and national reputation by leveraging Washington’s outstanding academics as exemplified through the work of our excellent students and expert faculty and staff. This position will also contribute to the content of the Office of Marketing and Communications (MarComm) by writing stories about news related items for publication on the washcoll.edu website and in the Washington College Magazine.

The position calls for a creative, innovative thinker with excellent written and verbal communication skills who can assess news value while maintaining high journalistic standards of accuracy and integrity. The individual in this role will bring a fresh perspective on ways to gain media attention, be well versed on the latest industry trends and technology and committed to collaborating with others.

Responsibilities

• Develop targeted media lists; build and maintain relationships with newsroom contacts through various channels, including print, broadcast, podcasts, and social media.
• Works with colleagues in MarComm and across campus to identify media trends and opportunities that align with faculty expertise and content with broad media appeal to promote with media outlets.
• Pitches story ideas and write media advisories.
• Supports the College’s senior leadership in conveying complex topics to diverse constituencies via op-eds and talking points.
• Engages in message preparation and media training.
• Serves as a liaison of MarComm to units across the College.
• Facilitates the needs of visiting media on campus.
• Utilize PR Management software platforms to track, analyze, and react to media coverage.
• Manage Merit platform to promote student accomplishments.
• May serve as a spokesperson for the College.
• Serves as a member of the MarComm editorial team, contributing stories and ideas to help build and promote the brand of Washington College.
• Participates in MarComm editing and proofing processes.
• Actively support the College’s plan to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity on its campus and in the community in general.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, English or related field required.
• 5 or more years of experience in a field directly related to media relations and/or communications, including a minimum of 2 years of proven experience working directly with the media and successfully pitching and placing stories.
• Demonstrated ability to handle extremely sensitive and confidential matters.
• Experience preparing talking points, op-eds, and other communications with executive-level staff.
• Experience in higher education a plus.
• Experience with PR Management Software, such as Meltwater or Merit.
• Experience coordinating paid media efforts.
• Experience using web content management systems.
• Ability to shoot and edit video and audio a plus.
• Experience as a spokesperson preferred.
• Passionate about editing, writing and grammar.

About Washington College

Founded in 1782, Washington College is the nation’s first liberal arts institution and the tenth oldest college in the nation. Enrolling approximately 1,100 undergraduates from more than 35 states and a dozen nations, Washington is known for outstanding academics with an emphasis on hands-on, experiential learning across more than 40 multidisciplinary areas of study. The College is home to nationally recognized academic centers in the environment, history, and writing, and has a 4,700-acre river and field campus that provides unique positioning for the College. Learn more at washcoll.edu.

To apply, upload your letter of interest, resume, 5-8 writing samples including at least one media pitch, and names/contact information for three references, preferably as one PDF, through the Careers at Washington College portal. Application review begins immediately and will continue until the position has been filled.

EEO Statement & Title IX

Washington College values diversity within campus community and is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and staff from racial and ethnic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in higher education. The College does not discriminate in hiring based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. For information on Washington College’s Title IX compliance, please visit www.washcoll.edu/title-ix/ .

Other Information

Employment is contingent upon completion of a successful background check and establishment of identity and verification of employment eligibility as required by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

It is the policy of Washington College to provide reasonable accommodations. If you require any accommodations to participate in any part of the hiring process, please contact [email protected].
Washington College

Job Title: Assistant PR Manager, North America

Location: New York (Hybrid Work)

Reporting To: Director of Global Communications

Who we are

At Monica Vinader, we’re on a mission to prove that buying better, wearing longer and doing better don’t have to be mutually exclusive. From our commitment to making the most sustainable jewellery we can using precious materials, to the timeless style and endless versatility of our pieces, we are driven to making everyday fine jewellery accessible and affordable.

And don’t just take our word for it, we are proud to be recognised in the industry through our recent awards, proving we are leading the way in sustainable jewellery:

● Ethical Jewellery Business of the Year 2021, Retail Jeweller

● Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development 2022

● Responsible Luxury Business of the Year 2022, Positive Luxury

● Best Sustainable Luxury Jewellery Brand 2022, Marie Claire UK

We are digital first, customer obsessed, female led and inclusive, focused on creating meaningful relationships with our community, who we owe our success to. We are looking for someone special to join our team to help us make luxury something we can all enjoy everyday.

Where we need your help

We have all the makings of an iconic brand – beautiful products that are timeless and designed to last, service that exceeds our customers expectations, a passionate founder that cares deeply about doing what is right and a loyal and growing community who advocate for us.

The Assistant PR Manager role is an opportunity to play a vital role in the development of the brand in North America. Under the guidance of the Global Communication Director, you will drive the brand’s overall awareness through public relations initiatives to generate impactful visibility for Monica Vinader in North America media outlets, as well as supporting Global opportunities taking place in the region.

What you’ll do

● Work closely with Global Communication Director to bring brand strategies to life through the media in North America.

● Build and maintain a network of press relationships; maintain an effective internal database of contacts that streamlines the planning and pitching process.

● Foster existing and develop new relationships with print/digital press, identify new outlets and media opportunities.

● Develop and execute a dynamic press outreach strategy in order to secure press coverage around trends, new product launches, key brand moments and corporate initiatives.

● Support Global Communications Director in the development of broader strategies and pitching of in-depth, key feature stories & large-scale editorial projects for NA-based outlets.

● Lead press asset development including press materials, bios, backgrounders, fact sheets and in-depth media list development.

● Management of press events and product mailings for new collection launches, seasonal press days, press relationship building events and in-store events.

● Regularly conduct 1:1 appointments with key press to develop relationships and introduce them to the brand or new launches.

● Work closing with PR Executive on press product send outs and managing the US press warehouse inventory.

● Track the jewelry/accessories landscape, competitive environment, and consumer trends in North America to ensure that Monica Vinader is positioned as an industry leader.

● Build, maintain and distribute recaps that show key initiatives and learnings to leverage for future activations – identifying strengths as well as areas for growth.

What you’ll bring…

● Proven experience in PR / media relations

● Experience developing, managing and reporting against press outreach strategies

● Established relationships with fashion, accessories, and lifestyle editors

● Strong written and verbal communication skills

● Able to collaborate and partner cross-functionally in a non-siloed, non-hierarchical manner

● Experience working at a high-growth start-up or scale-up environment where you’ve had to be a scrappy self-starter with a focus on iteration and pragmatism

● A creative approach with a growth mindset, comfortable surfacing your own failures to drive learnings, knowing when to pivot, knowing when to persevere

● Experience with Cision, Launchmetrics or any other brand voice tracking systems is preferred, but not essential

To be successful at Monica Vinader…

● You are a doer

● You’re a team player

● You’re humble

● You are honest, straightforward and transparent

● You are a good teacher/mentor (approachable and accessible)

● You want to get your hands dirty

● You solve problems

● You are resilient

● You are flexible

● You are entrepreneurial, smart, and passionate

● If you don’t know something, you say so. Then go figure it out quickly

● You love working in a creative environment

● You have a sense of humour

● You are an insatiable learner

Additional Requirements

Ability to document your authorization to work in the United States.

Travel Requirements

Occasional travel within the US and to our London office may be required.

Our Aims and Values

Our mission is to be the leading accessible luxury brand, by delivering outstanding quality, design and customer service. We are:

Customer Obsessed

Our customers are at the core of everything we do. We will always deliver an outstanding and personal experience to them every time they interact with us, to ensure their ongoing support and loyalty.

Caring

We treat people with respect, as we would want to be treated. We are apolitical and assume good intentions in others. We are open and honest with each other while ensuring we take an empathetic and supportive approach.

Fast Paced

We are passionate about what we do, and we want to reach as many customers as fast as we can. We combine focus with pragmatism and flexibility so that we can move at pace in whichever direction we need to take.

Exceptional

We have a relentless desire to continually learn and improve to ensure our products and approach are exceptional. Our tenacity, high standards and attention to detail give us a competitive advantage.

Commercial

We focus hard on facts and approach things in a logical, rational and analytical way. We challenge each other to make sure we make decisions and take actions that create value for our business and our customers.

Monica Vinader as a global business makes the following inclusive culture pledge:

Our jewellery is for everyone and so is our community. Together, we will continue to implement sustainable changes to ensure that career opportunities and progression are open to all. We commit to celebrating the diverse voices of our employees, partners, and the customers we serve.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties to be performed by the employee. This job description may be altered to reflect the business needs of the company.

Monica Vinader Ltd