Public Relations Account Manager jobs in Broomfield, CO

We are an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group’s Global Marketing Team has an opening for a Media Manager. DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

Live somewhere other than the listed locations? DLR Group has a network of 30 studios across the United States. For this role, we encourage applicants across the ecosystem.

Position Summary

The Media Manager develops and implements strategic public relations plans to raise awareness of DLR Group design expertise with Cultural Performing Arts, Healthcare, Higher Education, and Sports audiences in support of sector strategies and growth goals. They collaborate with sector marketing leaders, sector design teams, and subject matter experts to raise awareness of DLR Group design within client vertical trade media, and with key trade groups and sector influencers.

The successful candidate will:

• Support designated sector(s)' marketing plans by developing and executing a PR calendar and activity.
• Bring a keen understanding of the current media landscape and how to forge relationships with trade, consumer, news, and digital media contacts.
• Establish a high bar for sharp ideas, flawless execution, and measurable results from integrated marketing campaigns.
• Be a creative person who can "think on their feet" beyond the traditional approach to PR and exploit opportunities within new media.
• Develop workable budgets, work plans, and realistic timetables, and lead productive meetings.
• Research, write, proofread, and edit media and communications content.
• Establish KPIs for media activities and measures of success for media outreach and marketing campaigns.
• Leverage deep understanding of sector(s) client universe needs to proactively identify evolving issues and drive compelling pitches that connect with identified target audiences.
• Record discovered project and people information, as well as media placements and mentions, in firm database to ensure institutional knowledge.
• Champion brand standards, voice, and style into all marketing content.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in integrated marketing communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field
• 7 years of marketing communications experience in a professional services environment, preferably the AEC industry, with progressive responsibilities
• Proven ability to independently manage pitch calendar, content production, and approval
• Demonstrated track record of measurably high-impact media placements
• Excellent time-management skills and a sense of urgency to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent deadlines
• Strategic thinker with exceptional communication, writing, and editing skills, with the ability to articulate a point of view on complex issues in clear, concise communications
• Keen understanding of integrating marketing tactics with traditional and social media as part of communications campaigns to attract, engage, convert, and retain clients and talent
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Proficiency in Muckrack or similar public relations management (PRM) software for press contact and pitch management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal skills to foster relationships and navigate cross functionally across different firm teams and with outside partners
• Strong project and people management skills; ability to quickly build consensus, and positively 'manage up' to get senior level individuals to support established processes with input and insight in a timely manner
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign; familiarity with information recording and gathering from a database such as Deltek Vantagepoint

*TO BE CONSIDERED, PLEASE SUBMIT LINK TO WRITING SAMPLES; I.E. PRESS RELEASES, COVERAGE SECURED, AND/OR CONTENT YOU PRODUCED*

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Our ambition is to use our collective design voice to bring about a better society and create stronger communities by recognizing and addressing longstanding inequities in our nation. Leading this change – to deliver a more equitable culture – aligns with DLR Group’s Core Values and our brand promise to elevate the human experience through design. By exploring, discovering, sharing, and ultimately resolving inequities identified within our firm and the broader A/E/C industry, we can develop a more diverse and inclusive design culture to better fulfill our brand promise.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The potential pay range for this role is $70,000 - $90,000.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

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