Position Details
Project Program Manager Ii Public Relations Apply
Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers, sellers, and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.
Position: Project/Program Manager II (Public Relations Manager)
Location: Seattle, WA 98121
Duration: 7 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- The Client is seeking a results-driven PR specialist to join the Fire TV PR team.
- This role is central to our communications strategy and will focus on showing press and influencers how Fire TV helps customers find what they want to watch, fast-through our best-in-class search, extensive content selection, and Alexa+ integration.
- You'll work directly with product teams to identify compelling stories worth telling and find the right channels to tell them on, even if that means experimenting with new approaches.
- The ideal candidate can translate product features into customer benefits that resonate, has a proven record of securing coverage that drives results, and is excited to work with a team that's transforming entertainment.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead PR strategy for feature launches across the Fire TV portfolio.
- Story tell about the value of new features through earned, owned, paid, and social channels.
- Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering teams to identify and highlight the most newsworthy aspects of our features.
- Design and implement creative, always-on PR campaigns that raise awareness of Fire TV amongst target customers.
- Develop a cadence of strategic media opportunities to maintain Fire TV's presence in relevant conversations.
Internal description
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong media relations skills with a track record of securing positive coverage- PR can point to "client x" and contractor works with reporters that got hired in news channels.
- Be able to do outlook, word.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the consumer electronics or streaming media industry
- Ability to translate complex technical features into compelling customer stories
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
What makes this role interesting:
- Chance to work for a product line of top interest to tech reporters, meaning they will call TV or Tech reporters, they are interested. Drive tangible results.
Top 3 must-have hard skills
- Media relations- history of working with reporters/ editors
- Writing press releases/ blog or social media posts
- Owning a PR announcement- know client is going to announce new product- thought about strategy of how/ when/ messaging
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
