Senior Manager, Brand PR

Location: Remote, United States

Company

hirify.global is a wholesale market maker connecting buyers and sellers through physical markets, design centers, and digital commerce channels for the home, gift, lifestyle, and design industries.

What you will do

• Manage the day-to-day relationship with the brand PR agency of record, including onboarding, scopes of work, reporting, billing, budgets, and performance optimization.
• Build annual brand PR plans, translate communications priorities into measurable objectives and work plans, and deliver integrated campaigns with Marketing.
• Lead media relations across consumer, lifestyle, shelter, trade, business, and design publications while identifying proactive storytelling opportunities.
• Prepare executives for interviews through briefing books, media coaching, interview staffing, and real-time counsel.
• Oversee press releases, media pitches, statements, talking points, Q&As, fact sheets, paid media deliverables, and media engagement at major markets and events.
• Monitor reputational risks, support crisis communications, establish PR measurement dashboards, and manage the Communications Specialist.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of progressive public relations or communications experience, including agency experience and/or management.
• Experience building and executing media relations strategies and managing PR agency relationships.
• Experience preparing executives for media engagements, including briefing materials and interview staffing.
• Strong conceptual, analytical, written, verbal, organizational, delegation, and project management skills.
• Sound judgment under pressure, particularly during time-sensitive or crisis situations.

Nice to have

• Prior experience managing direct reports.
• Experience supporting crisis communications protocols.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Marketing, Social, Content, Sales, Leasing, Digital, Events, Operations, Legal, HR, and leadership.
• Opportunity to support brand communications across physical markets, design centers, and digital channels.