Media Relations Manager jobs in Minnesota

It’s not enough to know how to tell a good story. Here, you’ll help create them.

Fast Horse, an award-winning, creative communications agency, is hiring a Media Relations Manager/Senior Manager to join our integrated team. Our ideal candidate will have 3-9 years of experience working in media relations and a proven history of executing successful campaigns on a national level. 

We’re searching for someone with the tenacity to drive day-to-day media relations initiatives, including developing creative pitch angles, writing media materials, identifying media targets, conducting media outreach and leading coverage analysis. We partner with some of the world’s best-known companies like Audi, Heineken, Post and Schwan’s on some of their most visible brand campaigns but are just as passionate about the niche projects we bring to life for our B2B clients. Celebrity campaigns, experiential activations, influencer integrations, thought leadership; it’s all on the table as you lock arms with an integrated team that puts ideas ahead of egos.  

This job is best suited for someone who has worked at an agency or in-house driving media coverage for companies, brands, executives – or better yet – all three. Keeping up with the changing media landscape and pop culture trends across industries is a must, as is forming relationships with key reporters across a variety of verticals. We’re looking for candidates who are obsessed with securing results, have an energizing attitude that makes building relationships with media come naturally and can creatively bob and weave throughout a campaign to ensure coverage. If you’ve ever repeatedly refreshed a browser until the page was updated with campaign coverage, you’re in good company.

Our proposition is built to unlock maximum value for our clients and potential in our people. No working in silos or fighting for a seat at the table. No competing interests or incentives. One office designed for integrated teams, not individual departments. Ideas come from everyone and they are optimized for earned, shared, owned and paid media from the outset. To that end, successful candidates must have the ability and desire to work closely with integrated team leads, strategy, creative, social, influencer, and other disciplines to conceive campaigns and flawlessly bring them to life. To be successful in this role, candidates must feel confident contributing ideas throughout the campaign and execute media relations tactics flawlessly.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to creative ideation within an integrated team
• Assist with developing media relations strategies and campaign plans
• Draft media materials, appropriately translating brand voice and tone for written communications including key messaging, Q&A documents, press releases, pitches and fact sheets
• Contribute to risk assessments
• Develop thoroughly researched media lists that detail multiple pitch angles
• Uncover story opportunities where nobody else is looking
• Conduct media outreach, building relationships with key reporters across local, national and global outlets
• Secure media coverage in clients’ priority media outlets
• Provide on-site support and media counsel at music, sports, entertainment and other events
• Monitor for media coverage and provide client updates
• Participate in agency marketing and new business efforts
• Work swiftly to jump on real time media moments and anticipate client needs
• Stay up to date on the latest trends in the media industry, alerting and educating the agency on developments that could affect our clients
• Cultivate a team mindset by collaborating across disciplines to launch integrated campaigns
• Contribute to a culture and environment that fosters professional and personal growth for all employees

• Bring a can-do, problem-solving attitude to the table that welcomes challenges
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment with an ability to prioritize projects to meet aggressive deadlines

Workplace/Compensation

Our workplace and culture give our people the flexibility and resources to thrive personally and professionally. Our award-winning headquarters in the Minneapolis North Loop neighborhood is set up to facilitate communication and collaboration and our team members are untethered by a designated office or desk. 

We offer highly competitive salaries and industry leading benefits, including uncapped PTO, paid sabbaticals, amazing parental and family leave policies, and a variety of annual allowances and perks that allow employees to find better balance in their lives. More information can be found at https://www.fasthorseinc.com/careers/.