Media Relations Senior Manager

Location: New York area and Florida facilities; the role focuses on the US media landscape and includes New York-specific media relations as a preferred qualification.

Salary: $84,577.92–$141,121.23 annually. Actual salary depends on experience, specialty, education, and hospital needs; bonuses, differential pay, and benefits are excluded.

Company

hirify.global is an integrated academic health system providing medical care, education, research, and cancer services across inpatient and outpatient locations.

What you will do

• Develop and execute earned and owned media strategies for Perlmutter Cancer Center and assigned clinical specialties.
• Create media materials, including stories, advisories, fact sheets, op-eds, key messages, and positioning statements.
• Build relationships with medical and science journalists, respond to media inquiries, and support spokesperson activities.
• Plan media strategies around academic conferences, press conferences, media roundtables, and high-profile announcements.
• Coordinate external PR agencies and cross-functional partners supporting cancer communications and media projects.
• Track media coverage, web traffic, editorial progress, and campaign outcomes to improve communications strategies.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of public and media relations experience, including proactive media pitching and issues management.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of clinical programs and experience with medical writing.
• Experience executing proactive and reactive public relations programs and managing press relationships.
• Experience with project management, PR agency coordination, event planning, digital content channels, and social media.
• Excellent writing, editing, verbal communication, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• New York-specific media relations experience.
• Experience managing staff.
• Bilingual Spanish/English communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a large academic health system focused on patient outcomes, research, education, and continuous improvement.
• Comprehensive benefits and wellness support for employees and their families.
• Financial security benefits, generous time off, retirement resources, and employee resource groups.
• Holistic wellness programs covering physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.
• Equal opportunity employment and an inclusive recruiting process.