We’re looking for a passionate PR professional to join our Toronto team as a Senior Account Coordinator. The ideal candidate is creative and collaborative with an excellent understanding of the media landscape and influencer marketing and ready to take on client accounts in the lifestyle, tech, beauty, wellness, hospitality and/or culinary industries.
At Duet PR, we offer clients a high-touch, personalized customer experience and a full-service team with proven international media relations and brand storytelling skills. Beyond getting clients measurable results and winning media coverage in top-tier outlets, we’re a trusted partner and member of their team, developing strategic communications plans that are tailored to their business goals.
We believe in telling stories that matter, creating a culture of accountability, that teamwork makes the dream work, and in celebrating wins together, big or small.
While we’re a high-performing and hard-working team, you can count on us to find memorable ways to celebrate our successes together.
Monthly learning workshops to develop our teams’ skills, once-a-month wellness days, unique team-building retreats, celebratory birthday outings, exciting client events, Bubbly Friday to celebrate the week and a fun office space in downtown Toronto.
We offer flex time, competitive pay, vacation pay, a great employee health benefits program, and flexible work-from-home options.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- A minimum of 2 years of PR experience, either at an agency or in-house (internship experience included)
- A proven track record pitching media to secure media coverage
- Good relationships with Canadian media and influencers
- Knowledge of what makes a great story and what will land with media, and if it doesn’t, the creativity to pivot to something that will land
- Excellent writing skills
- Passion for social media, influencers and content creation
- Ability to manage priorities
- Extreme attention to detail
Role Responsibilities:
- Media monitoring daily for client opportunities, industry competition and sourcing new media contacts and story ideas
- Create press materials for clients for approval from Account Manager (i.e. media kit, fact sheet, etc.)
- Own and maintain media and influencer contacts to create effective media lists
- Write tailored client pitches with minimal edits to introduce media to a client, a product, or share a new story angle
- Brainstorm and craft new story angles for clients
- Prepare key messages for client speaking opportunities to be approved by the Account Manager
- Draft client press releases
- Execute influencer relations from initial connection, coordination and completion with reporting
- Start and complete client coverage reports through MRP and share client coverage with various stakeholders
- Brainstorm, research and execute event planning i.e. budgets, logistics, vendors, food and beverages, asset creation
- Assist with social media content creation, caption writing and strategy implementation
We want to hear from you! Send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]. We thank and encourage all to apply! Those with relevant work experience will be contacted for an interview.
