SourceCode Communications

Director, Media Strategy

SourceCode Communications

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • New York

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Salary

💰 $115,000 - $130,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

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