Communications Coordinator, Wattpad
Wattpad
CA$55-70k
Platform for sharing original writing
Be an early applicant
Platform for sharing original writing
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$55-70k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wattpad's mission is to create a world where everyone's story can be heard, and anyone can belong.
Role
Who you are
- You have 1 - 2 years experience working in a PR agency
- Someone who lives for the news: you’re a savvy media consumer, you pay attention to big media stories and how they play out
- You love operations and process -- making sure everything is organized in a way that increases efficiency makes you happy
- A hawk-eyed grammar geek with a passion for words and how they are put together, who can easily spot a typo or run-on sentence
- You love to read and/or write
What the job involves
- We are looking for an organized and ambitious Communications Coordinator to join our growing PR & Communications Team
- Reporting to the PR Lead, you will support our PR & Communications team at WEBTOON Entertainment through daily media monitoring, building media lists, scheduling meetings and interviews, pitching media, and supporting a variety of administrative PR operations across the team
- This role, appropriate for a junior PR practitioner with agency experience, will put you on the ground floor of a growing PR team, with the opportunity to learn multiple facets of PR and Communications at our innovative global company
- Media monitoring and reporting, including KPI tracking, monitoring as well as calendar management for the PR team
- Building and maintaining media lists
- Supporting internal and external research for all PR initiatives
- Provide administrative support across the PR team, coordinating meetings, interviews, media tours, and other events
- Maintain internal initiatives and editorial calendars
- Copy editing and proof-reading for PR materials
- Supporting media relations activities
- Regularly updating and rolling-out copy changes to our Press Site
- Build and maintain Best Of media coverage for each of our WEBTOON Entertainment brands in North America
- Support presentation and deck development
Application process
- Tell us your favourite journalist and media outlet (Canada) when submitting your application.
- Wattpad is conducting all interviews in a distributed manner using applicable third party software where needed and using visual interface tools such as Google Meet and Zoom
Our take
Content is king and Wattpad has managed to create a platform that aggregates the most loved original writing content in the world, turning the traditional publishing industry on its head.
Where authors used to submit drafts to dozens of publishing houses in the hope of getting some eyeballs on their work, Wattpad opened up the process to millions of young authors by letting them easily submit their work, and fostering a community around their software that offers feedback and help.
The e-reading platform is now looking to double down on its strategy of taking its user-generated fiction and turning it into successful intellectual property upon which original series and movies can be based. However a significant challenge for Wattpad is in producing original, marketable content from its platform given the popularity of fanfiction, stories which are based on existing intellectual property.
Another challenge for Wattpad is the current economic conditions which have affected much of the tech sector and are not sparing digital publishing. Having shelved bold plans for the future it also laid off 15% of its workforce in March 2023. Having realigned for its current business needs however, it is now well placed to weather the current market downturn.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2018
$51m
LATE VC
Apr 2014
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.8m
Company benefits
- Full health benefits
- Career development & Mentorship opportunities
- RRSP matching
- Generous parental Leave top-up
- Flexible hours
- Regular hackathons
- Healthy snacks & drinks
- Your choice of hardware
- Monthly work-from-home allowance
- Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
- Easy access to transit
Company values
- UserObsessed- We make every decision by stepping into our users’ shoes
- Inclusive - We help everyone belong
- Trailblazer - We push ourselves on how we think and how we act
- BuildItForward - We’re always building a foundation for tomorrow
- PlayToWin - We’re driven to lead the pack
- Resourceful -We make the most of every minute and every dollar
- TeamWork - We do what’s best for the greater good
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Allen lau
(CEO)Lau attended University of Toronto where he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering followed by a master's in the same subject. Thereafter he briefly worked as a software engineer for Brightspark before founding his first notable company, Tira Wireless, a mobile development startup. He is also the co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, a fund that invests in Toronto and Waterloo-based early-stage internet companies with strong network effects.
Ivan Yuen
(CSO)Prior to Wattpad, Ivan co-founded FeedM8 and served as the company’s CTO. Before that he was one of the first employees of Tira Wireless, where he helped grow the technical team and developed new and emerging wireless technologies. Ivan graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering and also earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.
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