Salary
💰 $115,000 - $130,000 per year
About the role
- Lead media strategy across a portfolio of B2B and B2C technology clients, ensuring media efforts ladder to client business goals
- Develop and maintain top-tier media relationships with business, tech, and broadcast outlets (e.g., Bloomberg, Axios, WSJ, TechCrunch, CNBC, etc.)
- Coach and grow a small but expanding media team, instilling confidence and sharpening media instincts across the agency
- Architect smart, earned-first ideas through StoryHub and other forums, strengthening SourceCode’s agency-wide POV with media
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, with presence, clarity, and a strong POV in high-stakes conversations
- Media train executives and spokespeople, preparing them for interviews, panels, and live broadcast opportunities
- Drive results, consistently securing impactful earned placements and analyzing outcomes to inform continuous improvement
- Be highly billable, providing senior-level client counsel and hands-on media execution
- Contribute to new business, shaping and presenting our media offering with polish and authority
- Provide editorial oversight on all media materials, ensuring quality, clarity, and consistency with client messaging
- Translate industry, client, and market insights into long-term media positioning strategies
- Advise clients on complex media situations, reputation management, and high-level opportunities
- Manage media campaigns and account health, ensuring profitability, staffing, and client satisfaction
- Drive client retention and organic growth by tying media strategy to business outcomes
- Oversee financial leadership of accounts: budgeting, resourcing, and scoping
- Mentor and develop PR professionals across teams, modeling accountability and inclusive leadership
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of media relations or journalism experience (agency experience strongly preferred)
- Deep reporter relationships across top-tier national business, tech, and broadcast outlets
- Proven track record of securing impactful, high-value media placements
- Strong understanding of enterprise tech, adtech/martech, and consumer/business tech
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor teams, building agency-wide media expertise
- Excellent writing, pitching, and communication skills
- Confidence in providing strategic counsel, even when it challenges client assumptions