Cannabis Public Relations Account Manager Jobs

NisonCo is the leading cannabis industry PR and SEO firm. With active relationships with thousands of journalists and outlets and connections to thousands of industry specific companies, networking and exposure are the core of what we do. Since our founding in 2013, we’ve worked with over 125 companies to increase brand awareness. Our all-remote team has a proven track record of successful political advocacy in support of the legalization of cannabis and other socially-responsible causes.

As an Account Manager, your role in NisonCo is to foster relationships with reporters and obtain top-tier media coverage for your clients. You are responsible for being the first point of contact for your reporter relationships and assigned clients. Managing all relationships to ensure all parties within the transaction are satisfied and looking forward to the next interaction. The role requires you to work until the task is done, which sometimes means untraditional hours or weekend work, depending on your client's timezone and needs. You are expected to join a weekly team call with other Account Managers and are asked to report back on your successes, challenges and feedback for the group.

The work supports the organization as a whole as you are the link between a reporter and our clients. As a representative of the leading PR firm for emerging industries, you promote our clients, connections, and general knowledge of the field as the go-to source for information.

The “What”

Overall: You’re essential in managing our client relationships and account strategies, bringing stories and opportunities to clients, to ultimately provide high quality published media pieces.

Account Manager: Clients are seeing upwards trends in their PR progress, projects are managed to completion and relationships are fostered

• Being the primary point of contact, trusted advisor and communications expert for your client

• Answering questions in a timely manner, reporting back on successes

• Understanding the client’s story and being a knowledgeable representative for media

• Formulating a strategy that is tailored to your client’s specific needs including formulating pitching angles and timelines

• Maintaining consistent and clear communication, providing updates and following up when necessary

• Providing meaningful reporting on a consistent basis

• Managing Client Expectations

• Educating clients and guiding them in the best way to achieve their goals

• Communicating best and worst PR practices

• Protecting yourself and the company from unreasonable client requests

• Remaining flexible and adaptable as client needs and desires evolve

• Communicating Internally

• Communicating client needs, updates and changes to the team at the appropriate time, documenting in the appropriate place

• Ensuring that every team member is aware of all updates and communicating them correctly externally

Reporter Relationship Manager: Creating, managing, and working closely with reporter relationships to relay team pitch ideas and tearsheets to produce notes for NisonCo’s clients

• Building and maintaining active reporter and reviewer relationships to work with on a regular basis. Maintain a status with these contacts in which you’re reliable, knowledgeable, personable, and the go to person for anything cannabis related they’re working on.

• Keeping a vast resource pool of knowledge on current events and trending news in the cannabis industry through various means of research, recurring updates/news crawlers, and the activities and developments NisonCo clients relay to us through account managers.

• Crafting and contributing unique pitch ideas to the team that can be general trends related to the industry or client specific related to priorities or news angles we can take advantage of to increase note count.

• Organizing your workflow and bandwidth to properly accommodate the needs of reporters while crafting different types of personalized relationships with them in order to efficiently and effectively relay necessary pitches and tearsheets from our team brainstorms and client specific pitches.

• Maintaining your reporter contact databases making sure they’re up to date with your active relationships, the beats they cover, the outlets they work for, and the frequency you are and should be contacting them (this can change as their roles shift over time).

Cannabis/Hemp/CBD/Psychedelics and general emerging industries connoisseur: You can speak of these industries from a deep well of knowledge and passion, and a commitment to facts

• Knowing rather than needing to learn about the industry to provide more thoughtful suggestions to our clients, reporters, and team members.

• Having an understanding of cannabis and its many accessories and consumption techniques, as well as CBD and psychedelics. You do not need to be a consumer yourself, but you must know the language and the culture of these spaces.

• Being interested in the future-focused industries, like green energy, crypto and other breakthroughs that’ll change the way our world work.

Our Core Values – Expectations for all employees!

Integrity: We align our actions with our words, and operate with transparency and good faith. We own our mistakes and give honest feedback.

Adaptability: We’re no strangers to forging paths in new and challenging spaces. Our employees and clients come to us with entrepreneurial spirits and we embrace flexibility and creativity to excel in future-facing industries.

Global Community: We come from a variety of backgrounds and seek to create relationships that are supportive and respectful of those diverse viewpoints. We recognize that our networks and communities are central to our success and contentment with our work.

Inclusivity: We treat each other as we'd wish to be treated. We do not shy away from pushing boundaries and confronting social stigmas using non-coercive and effective methods. We will continue working cognizantly toward promoting greater equity and inclusion in every space we encounter.

Collective responsiveness: We understand employees have their own lives. We can rely on one another in times of need to ensure all responsibilities are met and to keep things running smoothly for the entire team.

NisonCo is an equal-opportunity employer and we do not discriminate based upon gender, race, national origin, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or gender expression.

This is an hourly remote position with a path to become full-time after your three-month trial. Compensation begins at $25/hour with benefits that include:

Paid time off:

• Generous Vacation Policy

• Paid Health Care / Sick Leave

• Paid Family Leave

• Pawternity Leave

• Paid holidays

Insurances:

• Health, Dental and Vision insurance:

• Eligibility after 3 months: Join the plan and you cover 100% of your premium

• After 6 months of employment: Premiums covered at 50% of the base price by NisonCo, you cover the other 50%

• After 1.5 years: Premiums covered at 100% of the base price by NisonCo

• Life Insurance: Standard coverage of $25,000

Financials:

• Retirement Plan: After one year and 1000 hours worked in the same year participate in a 4% match

• Online platform for financial training

Workspace:

• Coworking or cafe monthly stipend

• Yearly workspace set up stipend

Culture:

• Join our team on yearly all-expenses paid staff retreat

• Weekly team bonding opportunities

• Flexible schedules when life comes up

• News subscriptions

• Personalize professional growth opportunities

To apply please email admins @ nisonco . com with the subject link “I’m your next PR Account Manager” and include:

• Your resume or LinkedIn

• An intro to who you are

• How did you find the position?

• What makes you excited about managing PR strategy for clients?

• How did you end up wanting to work in the cannabis and future-focused industries?

• NisonCo prides itself on creating a diverse and inclusive company culture. Please share how you would exhibit DEI values in the workplace?

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

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Job detailsSalaryFrom $50,000 a yearJob TypeFull-timeNumber of hires for this role2Full Job Description

NisonCo is the leading cannabis industry PR and SEO firm. With active relationships with thousands of journalists and outlets, and connections to thousands of industry specific companies, networking and exposure are the core of what we do. Since our founding in 2013, we’ve worked with over 125 companies to increase brand awareness. Our all-remote team has a proven track record of successful political advocacy in support of the legalization of cannabis and other socially-responsible causes.

As an Account Manager, your role in NisonCo is to foster relationships with reporters and obtain top tier media coverage for your clients. You are responsible for being the first point of contact for your reporter relationships and assigned clients. Managing all relationships to ensure all parties within the transaction are satisfied and looking forward to the next interaction. The role requires you to work until the task is done, which sometimes means untraditional hours or weekend work, depending on your client's timezone and needs. You are expected to join a weekly team call with other Account Managers and are asked to report back on your successes, challenges and feedback for the group.

The work supports the organization as a whole as you are the link between a reporter and our clients. As a representative of the leading PR firm for emerging industries you promote our clients, connections, and general knowledge of the field as the go-to source for information.

The “What”

Overall: You’re essential in managing our client relationships and account strategies, bringing stories and opportunities to clients, to ultimately provide high quality published media pieces.

Account Manager: Clients are seeing upwards trends in their PR progress, projects are managed to completion and relationships are fostered

• Being the primary point of contact, trusted advisor and communications expert for your client

• Answering questions in a timely manner, reporting back on successes

• Understanding the client’s story and being a knowledgeable representative for media

• Formulating a strategy that is tailored to your client’s specific needs including formulating pitching angles and timelines

• Maintaining consistent and clear communication, providing updates and following up when necessary

• Providing meaningful reporting on a consistent basis

• Managing Client Expectations

• Educating clients and guiding them in the best way to achieve their goals

• Communicating best and worst PR practices

• Protecting yourself and the company from unreasonable client requests

• Remaining flexible and adaptable as client needs and desires evolve

• Communicating Internally

• Communicating client needs, updates and changes to the team at the appropriate time, documenting in the appropriate place

• Ensuring that every team member is aware of all updates and communicating them correctly externally

Reporter Relationship Manager: Creating, managing, and working closely with reporter relationships to relay team pitch ideas and tearsheets to produce notes for NisonCo’s clients

• Building and maintaining active reporter and reviewer relationships to work with on a regular basis. Maintain a status with these contacts in which you’re reliable, knowledgeable, personable, and the go to person for anything cannabis related they’re working on.

• Keeping a vast resource pool of knowledge on current events and trending news in the cannabis industry through various means of research, recurring updates/news crawlers, and the activities and developments NisonCo clients relay to us through account managers.

• Crafting and contributing unique pitch ideas to the team that can be general trends related to the industry or client specific related to priorities or news angles we can take advantage of to increase note count.

• Organizing your workflow and bandwidth to properly accommodate the needs of reporters while crafting different types of personalized relationships with them in order to efficiently and effectively relay necessary pitches and tearsheets from our team brainstorms and client specific pitches.

• Maintaining your reporter contact databases making sure they’re up to date with your active relationships, the beats they cover, the outlets they work for, and the frequency you are and should be contacting them (this can change as their roles shift over time).

Cannabis/Hemp/CBD/Psychedelics and general emerging industries connoisseur: You can speak of these industries from a deep well of knowledge and passion, and a commitment to facts

• Knowing rather than needing to learn about the industry to provide more thoughtful suggestions to our clients, reporters, and team members.

• Having an understanding of cannabis and its many accessories and consumption techniques, as well as CBD and psychedelics. You do not need to be a consumer yourself, but you must know the language and the culture of these spaces.

• Being interested in the future-focused industries, like green energy, crypto and other breakthroughs that’ll change the way our world work.

The “How” – Keys to Success!

100% follow-through: Stay on top of all emails, specific tasks, follow-ups and general areas of work. When deadlines won’t be met, renegotiate well in advance.

Ownership: You care deeply about getting results in your realm, and you do what it takes to get them, including paying attention to small details, anticipating problems, offering creative solutions, driving work forward, and course-correcting when needed.

Organization: You prioritize work appropriately, following up with projects, checking in with reporters and the team, and keeping and managing SOPs to communicate knowledge and processes to others.

Relationship-Oriented: You recognize the deep importance that relationships with clients and reporters play in our work, and you build rapport and trust with others.

Action-Oriented: Your bias is toward getting things done. That doesn’t mean that you rush through gathering the appropriate information first, but you drive work forward with an urgency to see results.

Attention to detail: You look deeper than most to make sure the work is done right, knowing your work reflects your reputation.

Self-Editing & Proofreading: You effectively follow AP style or your client's preferred style guidelines, draft clean copy, need minimal editorial direction, and avoids spelling/grammar mistakes.

News Proficiency: Consistently monitor news for emerging trends and news hooks, as well as to deepen understanding of the space and the issues that matter (or might eventually matter) to our clients.

Flexibility: Can work with clients and the team on rolling deadlines. Able to pivot quickly to new topics or work with little notice on a time-sensitive project

Public Relations Proficiency: You're aware of all aspects of the public relations cycle and its role in consumer collection, care, and sales generation. Can effectively implement eye-catching and relationship building tactics in pitch writing.

Connection: You foster meaningful relationships with coworkers and participate in group discussions/group spaces (like Slack).

Communication: You work well in a remote environment, which poses different communications scenarios than a regular office job.

NisonCo is an equal-opportunity employer and we do not discriminate based upon gender, race, national origin, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or gender expression.

This is a salaried remote position with a three month trial period for the both of us, upon successful completion you’ll be granted full time status and access to our benefits. Compensation begins at $50,000. Please email haley @ nisonco.com with the subject link “I’m your next Account Manager” and include your resume or LinkedIn and a little bit about yourself, like how did you find the position, why are you excited about PR work, how did you end up wanting to work in the cannabis industry?

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location:

• Fully Remote

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Job details
Salary
Up to $65,000 a year
Job Type
Full-time
Number of hires for this role
2 to 4
Qualifications

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  • Public relations: 3 years (Required)

  • Bachelor's (Preferred)

  • Writing Skills: 3 years (Preferred)

  
  

Full Job Description

Durée & Company, an award-winning boutique PR, marketing and special events firm, is looking for a sharp, talented, overachiever to join our incredible, hard-working team.

Our ideal candidate must have at least three+ years of solid work experience in the public relations field, ideally in a PR agency environment.

You are the ideal candidate if:

• You are a multi-tasking machine. No job is too big or complex.
• You are all about getting it done. You execute on time, every time.
• You are amazing under pressure; you even thrive under it.
• You are naturally persuasive. You could sell ice to an Eskimo.
• You are self-motivated.
• You know how to work on and with a team to get the job done.
• You are a professional in the way you think, behave, act, and dress.

Beyond this, you must have experience in PR as well as the skill set PR requires. Additional requirements:

• You have a bachelor's degree and a minimum of three years’ PR experience.
• You have a portfolio of media placements in any or all of the following industries: nonprofits, restaurants/lifestyle/entertainment, legal, travel, business, real estate, cannabis and medical.
• You can multi-task flawlessly.
• You can write compelling stories, pitches and other PR materials.
• You have experience pitching national, regional, and local media.
• You have solid relationships to bring to the firm.
• You have a solid understanding of the business, and can create PR strategies and media plans.
• You are strategic and can identify media opportunities and originate placements.
• You have great knowledge of social media.
• You have a working knowledge of Cision, Muck Rack, Constant Contact, Microsoft Office for Mac

Pluses: Bilingual, graphic design, knowledge of AP Stylebook

Benefits include: health insurance, disability, retirement, bonuses, summer hours, and more.

At Durée & Company, we are insanely passionate about PR and take great pride in delivering and making the client happy. We are looking for a true fit for the team, and someone who is not only willing to meet the demands of living a true PR lifestyle, but loves it! This includes attending and hosting events – many of them after hours and on weekends -- and networking with members of the media and clients.

If this sounds like you, and you know you can knock our socks off while being part of a fun, fast-paced work environment, send your resume to us. Please do not call or show up at our office. We are a very busy office. If you call or show up, regrettably your resume will be removed from the pile for consideration.

Please email with your resume and cover letter. Put the phrase "PR Rocks” in the subject line, so we know you pay attention to all details.

No recruiters or phone calls, please.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Commission pay

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Writing Skills: 3 years (Preferred)
• Public relations: 3 years (Required)

Work Location:

• One location

Company's website:

• www.dureeandcompany.com

Company's Facebook page:

• https://www.facebook.com/DureeCoPR/

Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply
• Only full-time employees eligible

Work Remotely:

• No

COVID-19 Precaution(s):

• Remote interview process
• Temperature screenings
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Virtual meetings
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place

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