UK Public Relations Account Executive (UK Based)

Max Borges Agency

We’re growing, and officially expanding our services to the UK. As part of this exciting new chapter, we’re looking for a UK-based Public Relations Account Executive who’s deeply plugged into the local media scene. You should know the UK press landscape like the back of your hand and have a strong pulse on what drives both editorial and influencer conversations across the region.

This AE will help lead accounts across media and influencer relations, thought leadership, and broader communications strategy. Depending on the client, work may also include content creation and distribution, social strategy and management, and data-driven reporting and analysis.

Account Executives at our agency are execution pros-skilled at juggling multiple accounts and consistently delivering polished work. You’ll interact directly with clients via email, calls, and meetings, and eventually become the day-to-day lead on 4+ accounts, steering execution, communications, and reporting with oversight from an Account Supervisor or Director. AEs also often play specialist roles within larger, integrated teams.

The right person will be based in the UK, confident, adaptable, and eager to grow. You learn fast, communicate clearly, and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment. While we’re headquartered in Miami, this is a full-time role with Work-From-Anywhere flexibility (see benefits for more).

Some things to note about this role:

• Key responsibility is to consistently produce results within our core services of media and influencer relations.
• AE’s are highly skilled at media facing communications including trade shows, media events, and pitches.
• AE’s are confident in all aspects of written and face-to-face client communications.
• Successful AE’s leverage personal experience and agency expertise to proactively lead their client’s strategy and should be comfortable telling clients what they need to hear versus what they want to hear.
• AE’s are execution specialists, constantly reiterating their daily approach to become more efficient.
• Always learning is key to the advancement of this role, be a student and participant of client communications and strategy development, actively seeking out every opportunity to learn from agency senior team leads.
• The ability to clearly articulate how results produced coincide with client’s goals / objectives, is highly valued and should be a focus as it is a common skill of team members that grow beyond the AE role.

Cover Letter: Feel free to include a cover letter detailing something interesting about yourself and/or career that we will not get from reading your resume. Doesn’t need to be long, just specific to this position. It’s your opportunity to sell yourself, use it.

About MBA : We are a “Best Agency to Work For” and the leading PR agency for consumer technology and innovative lifestyle brands in the U.S. Headquartered in Miami since 2002 (with a full-remote team), we have partnered with more than 800 brands from startups to Fortune 500. We successfully help clients launch, gain market share, enter new categories, sell products, attract retailers, raise capital and get acquired. In addition to providing public relations and digital marketing services, we also offer an in-house primary research and analytics team, and a design studio with a full suite of creative services.

Some advice for how to be successful:

We hire, promote and fire people based on these values. They act as a compass for all communications and decision making.

• Think Like An Entrepreneur: Know the details of our business and understand how you impact our culture, work and financial success.
• Adopt a Growth Mindset: Don’t settle or become complacent. Grow by taking advantage of opportunities to do work outside your comfort zone.
• Take Initiative: Do not wait for someone to tell you what to do. Act in the absence of specific direction. Be proactive and decisive.
• Act with Purpose: Focus on impact above all else. Know the intended result, find the most efficient path, and get shit done.
• Communicate Assertively: Proactively tackle difficult conversations with empathy and confidence. Give and request feedback in real-time with helpful intent.
• Inspire Accountability: Embrace ownership of every task. Surface your mistakes. Share what you learn and use it to improve. Others will do the same.

Other things we think would be cool if you could do:

• Run a 5k in under 25 minutes
  • We have 2 or 3 people that can do this, but we have a couple Ironman athletes (including Max), a few marathoners and a mountain biker who does 80+ mile races. Lots of yogis too.
• Solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute
  • We had an intern that could and it was mind-blowing.
• Compete in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
  • She competed in the Pan-American Championship, largest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in North America, she’s also one of our new Account Coordinators.
• Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
  • Our Director of Operations did this, only blacked-out from high altitude and oxygen deprivation once. Nailed it.
• Be a world champion in anything
  • Youngest Yo-Yo World Champion in history worked with us for years.
• Start your own business
  • Max did and one guy owns his own photography business the rest of us are working on it.
• A snake shot (Foosball)
  • Google it. No spinning.

• Ideally, minimum 2 years of relevant PR or marketing experience. Prior agency setting is strongly preferred
• Understanding of product launches, brand storytelling and media and influencer relations strategies
• Understanding of digital/new media marketing strategies
• Expert in persuasive writing and verbal communication
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills
• Awesomeness

Work hard, play hard is slightly outdated and work life balance implies some sort of struggle to do one and not the other. We think work should be a fun, beneficial, and enjoyable part of your life and that your life should be a fun, beneficial, and enjoyable part of your work. We try our best to provide benefits that make this a reality, and the daily transition and integration of work & life as seamless as possible.

• Unlimited Vacation
  • It’s EXACTLY what it sounds like.
• Work-From-Anywhere-Flexibility
  • Truly work-from-anywhere with flexible schedules, which for some people means fully-remote, WFH 100% and for some includes a combo of home and our Miami office.
  • Approximately 30% of our 50 person team is located outside of South Florida.
• We set you up from day 1 with all the tools to get shit done regardless of physical location.

• For the Moms and Dads out there We have 20+ baby humans in our extended family, needless to say we accommodate the hectic schedules of SuperMoms and SuperDads. 100% flexible schedule helps, but accommodating school drop-offs, and unforeseen events is our specialty and you’ll have the team support to do so with ease. If you would like to speak to one of our parents about their schedule, team support they receive, our maternity/paternity policy and new parent benefits, let us know.

• Social gatherings are a weekly occurrence. We all actually like hanging out with each other, so we find time in a variety of ways including team lunches, happy hours, in person group work sessions, etc. And for those fully-remote outside Miami, there will be one or two occasions throughout the year you can join us in Miami for special events. We also hold weekly virtual meetings and lunches.
• Benefits
  • Flexibility – “Unlimited” and “Anywhere” is as Flexible as it Gets
    • Home Office Stipend
  • Growth – Expand and Fine Tune Your Skills
    • Free Unlimited Self-Help/Business Books
  • Wellness – Add Workout to Your Work Day
    • $600 annual Fitness/Wellness Stipend
    • Parental Leave + Paid Return-To-Work
  • Finance – “Match” is Literally Free Money
    • $360 Annual Cell Data Reimbursement
  • Team – You Will Actually Like Most of Us
    • $1,500 Employee Referral Bonus
  • Fun – Mandatory Company Meetings
    • Paid Miami Visits for Remote Team