The Role: Public Relations Manager
The Location: San Francisco, New York or Boulder, CO
The team at Trada has built the world's only performance-based online advertising marketplace, where a community of certified advertising experts build, manage and optimize advertisers' campaigns on Google, Yahoo, Bing and Facebook. Multiple experts work on an advertiser's campaign, with results that no individual or software program could produce: diverse strategies, intuitive, data-driven bidding and targeting, and creative, ever-changing ad copy. We believe we have created the perfect balance of experts, technology, and internally developed tools to maximize the success of your advertising.
Trada is currently searching for an experienced and tenacious Public Relations Manager to create, source, manage and execute our public relations efforts. The ideal candidate will be well versed at developing and executing winning communication strategies including but not limited to traditional press, blogs, social media, and conference panels. Such efforts will focus on a wide array of innovative topics that are core to Trada's marketplace such as internet advertising, ad technologies/platforms, media, to crowdsourcing, labor issues, and B2B small/medium sized business solutions. The Public Relations Manager will be a highly involved role with direct access to and strong support from our CEO and CRO. This position does require travel (30%-40% if residing in Boulder, or 1-2 times per month if incumbent resides in San Francisco or New York City).
Your Required Skills & Experience:
•After reading the job specs you have a clear vision and tremendous excitement about how to leverage Trada's value proposition into a winning PR strategy.
•You have a bachelor's degree in marketing, public relations, communications or a related discipline
•You have three to five years of agency public relations OR in-house public relations experience
•You have a strong technology background with intimate knowledge of the top ad and internet technology publications and contacts within those organizations
•You possess experience strategizing, creating and executing successful public relations campaigns
•You have superb written and verbal communication abilities
•You have written press pieces and can supply a portfolio of your work
•You have familiarity with PR Wires
•You are a high energy, goal-oriented individual and you understand the need for follow through
•You have experience managing social media accounts and/or the strategy behind the accounts
Why work for us?
Trada is an exciting, vibrant company located in downtown Boulder: team members are empowered to move quickly, directionally influence projects, and work in a anti-hierarchical, contemporary environment. No cubicles here! We also offer a generous base salary, medical and dental benefits, life insurance and 401k. For more information, please visit us at www.trada.com.
An ideal candidate for Trada has ideas and executes them, gets excited about completing projects quickly and is a wizard at time management and prioritization. Our team members are passionate, active, fascinating people who spend every minute they're at Trada focused on building the company that they love - then leave each day to pursue their loves of sports, creative projects, community, family and enjoying beautiful Colorado.
If you believe you are the right fit for Trada, please submit a cover letter and resume to prmanager@tradacareers.com. To be considered you must include compensation history. No phone calls please. Qualified applicants will be responded to as quickly as possible.
Please note: Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization that does not require sponsorship for a visa now or in the future.
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