Needed: an enthusiastic and ambitious PR Account Executive to join a multi award-winning B2B PR & communications agency for technology businesses.
The role
Specialising in AdTech, FinTech, EdTech and deep tech businesses, WithPR work with a variety of clients from start-ups to listed businesses and believe technology is the most exciting sector to work in. They are built on a collaborative ethos and driven by real team work.
Now they need a PR Account Exec to join the team and help push their growth. Interested? Read on.
What will you be doing?
You will be responsible for supporting With’s teams on media campaigns including:
- Writing email pitches and – in due course – pitching stories
- Drafting editorial copy; press releases, blogs, features, by-lines
- Setting up digital content across social channels
- Coming up with creative ideas for posts and sponsored content
- Using simple creative tools to design and make engaging content (i.e. videos, graphics, images etc.)
- Researching how a topic has hit the headlines and summarising key stories
- Taking notes on calls/meetings and drafting recap emails
- Researching and creating media lists
- Evaluating and showing off our coverage in creative ways
- Carrying out social media evaluations
- Getting quotes and commissioning suppliers
- Helping to brainstorm ideas
What are they looking for?
Skills:
- Experience or interest in PR, digital marketing, media, current affairs, finance / fintech, data, technology a real plus
- Strong A levels and minimum 2:1 degree
- Post grad PR or journalism a bonus
- Grammatical excellence
- Confident strong communicator, orally and in writing
- Experience at producing content (written or otherwise, not just academic writing) also an advantage
- Able to use Word and Excel
- Familiar with digital marketing tools
- Able to use Canva or similar photo/image editing tools
- Canny online researching skills – able to present findings in a clear and compelling way
- Able to work to deadlines – that is what PR is all about
Personality:
- Proactive and productive
- Team player with the desire to get stuck in from day one
- Brilliant organisational skills
- Able to keep on top of a fast-moving to-do list
- Great attention to detail
- Friendly, can-do attitude
- Problem solving skills
- Bright and dynamic
- Conscientious
The exciting bits!
- Starting salary of £22,000 a year
- With are a smaller team (15) so there are genuine opportunities for hands on experience
- Tailored training plans for every member of the team
- Linguists get genuine opportunities to use their languages
- Hybrid working – 3 days WFH and 2 days in their office in East London!
Why With are fantastic to work for
Here’s what they have to say: “We are a young, dynamic, and proactive team with a culture of trust and autonomy for every level of the team.
Training programmes are delivered for all team at every level and hands on experience is there for the taking so for those who want to get on in their careers quickly and jump at opportunities there’s nothing standing in their way! No need to be in role for X months before you are allowed to progress onto Y task/job title.”
The interview process
- Submit your application via TalentPool
- Initial 20 minute meet & greet with the MD
- Substantial 45 minute interview with a member of the team
- Simple written or creative task
- Final chemistry meeting with the potential team you would work with
- Offer!
More about With
With is a multi-award-winning, international PR & marketing agency. Together, they are taking tech clients to the future, faster.
Based in London and experts in the UK tech scene, their multi-lingual, culturally-connected team also offers a frictionless experience across Europe. Outside Europe, they have built the With Global Alliance: a tailor-made partnership of agencies who are also experts in technology.
With were finalists in PR Moments’ Tech Agency of the Year, CIPR Excellence Specialist Agency of the Year and PRCA Dare Medium Agency of the Year 2020. They are in the Top 30 Tech Agencies according to PR Week (2021) and the 5th fastest growing agency in the UK according to Provoke (2020). Debbie Zaman, With Founder and CEO, was awarded Industry Leader of the Year 2020 by the PRCA – not too shabby!
Their team has experience across the technology spectrum in sectors including AdTech, FinTech, Retail Tech, Clean Tech, EdTech and Media Tech.