Project Manager, Muck Rack
Client Services
$120-145k
Salary depending on skills and experience. Total compensation for this role consists of base salary and a quarterly bonus plan.
Public Relations software
Job no longer available
Public Relations software
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$120-145k
Salary depending on skills and experience. Total compensation for this role consists of base salary and a quarterly bonus plan.
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the way companies engage with the media.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years professional experience, with 4+ years of related experience directly in managed services, professional services, or project management
- Proficiency in tools including Media Analytics, Media Monitoring, Microsoft PowerPoint/Google Slides, Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets, Slack/Teams
- Experience working with global teams internally and externally
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across media, topics, and audience
- Strong understanding of media landscape, news cycles, and content curation
- Demonstrated experience in team management, hiring, and training, preferably with freelance employees
- Ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external stakeholders and internally with leadership
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Ability to work in group and individual settings
- Detail-oriented team player that is accountable, transparent and dependable
What the job involves
- Be responsible for building and managing a team of news analysts, curating compelling newsletters, and overseeing the successful execution of statements of work with our valued Enterprise brand customers
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, plan, and execute the managed services offering, ensuring alignment with Muck Rack's overall business strategy and customer needs
- Recruit, hire, and onboard a team of skilled news analysts (freelancers or contractors) to ensure the highest quality content curation and analysis for Muck Rack’s Enterprise customers
- Oversee the creation of curated newsletters containing relevant news, industry insights, and media trends tailored to the needs of our Enterprise brand customers
- Manage the end-to-end process of delivering curated newsletters, including content sourcing, analysis, curation, and distribution
- Collaborate closely with Customer Success and Sales teams to understand customer needs, provide updates on managed services, and ensure customer satisfaction
- Work with customers to define and manage statements of work (SOWs), ensuring deliverables, timelines, and expectations are clearly communicated and met
- Assist News Analysts and collaborate with cross-functional teams in project scoping, design, staffing, training, and ensuring profitability and financial stability of projects
- Develop project work plans clearly depicting all tasks, target delivery dates, owners, and stakeholders
- Oversee daily operations of analyst team and projects to ensure efficient and optimized workflows to meet delivery targets and client-facing requirements
- Implement quality control measures to ensure the accuracy, relevance, and timeliness of curated content distributed to customers
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of the managed services offering and provide regular reports to leadership
- Stay current with industry trends, media landscape changes, and emerging technologies to continuously enhance the managed services offering
- Create working templates and automated processes/workflows across various projects to increase efficiency of newsletter generation and sending
- Collaborate with product, marketing, and graphic design on new newsletter deliverables
- Identify, track, and communicate risks and potential mitigation as appropriate
- Brainstorm and strategize ways to evolve and improve newsletter quality and objectives alongside the product team, catering to customers’ changing requirements or feedback
Application process
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A 1 hour Zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Skills assessment (2-3 hours max)
- Peer interviews with several team members
- Final call(s) with executive team member(s)
- Salary
Our take
Muck Rack was founded in 2009 as a platform for businesses to connect with journalists. As of 2022, tens of thousands of journalists have profiles on Muck Rack that are available for companies such as Google, Pfizer, and Duolingo to browse and employ writers from.
The nature of journalism has evolved since Muck Rack’s founding, with social media and digital outlets taking away market share from printed publications. As the landscape changes, Muck Rack has expanded its services to include a Public Relations Management platform.
It’s moves like this, as well as their shift to a “distributed” business (hybrid or remote), that have sparked renewed investor confidence in Muck Rack. Though the company has been bootstrapped since its founding, Muck Rack received its first outside funding of $180 million in 2022, underscoring the importance investors place on their platform.
With this substantial funding, the future is bright for Muck Rack, as it continues to roll out updates and new features to its platform. Digital content can go viral in a matter of hours, and the creators are not always journalists, meaning Muck Rack must remain agile and quick to respond.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Fully distributed - Much Rack are committed to a permanent, fully remote environment, core to the way they do business.
- Geo-neutral compensation - Much Rack believe in equitable pay regardless of where you live.
- Time off - 4+ weeks off-the-grid vacation, sick and mental health days, and company holidays.
- Insurance - Health, vision, and dental coverage paid at 100% for individuals
- Retirement planning - MUck Rack contribute 3% of your annual salary to your 401k automatically.
- Paid parental leave - 8 weeks fully paid bonding for all parents + up to 8 weeks fully paid recovery from childbirth.
- Full WFH set up - Including monthly phone/internet reimbursement and coworking stipend.
- Learning & development - Take advantage of unlimited access to learning platforms and regular training opportunities.
- No meeting Fridays - Take control of your calendar, and make time for reflection and deep-focus tasks
Company HQ
Brickell, Miami, FL
Leadership
Gregory Galant
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently CEO & Co-Founder of the Shorty Awards for social media. Previously CEO of RadioTail and Chairman of Halenet.
Lee Semel
(Co-Founder & CTO)Currently Co-Founder and Producer at the Shorty Awards. Previously Founder and CTO of Innofinity.
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