PR Director with Entrepreneurial Instincts

The Job:
• Help build the most effective PR team in AZ, and be a contender among boutique agencies on the national stage.
• Integrate seamlessly with strategy, design and new media teams at one of the strongest and smallest full-service agencies, so your client’s dollars are well spent and highly leveraged.
• Actively seek out and close new business with aggressive growth objectives.
• Lead communications strategy development, building integrated PR plans for clients uniquely crafted for their business challenges with fresh creative, then deliver results.
• Build crisis communications plans with the ability think and act quickly responding to crisis and client issues.
• Set bold goals for clients and find ways to turn content molehills into media coverage mountains.
• Help grow the public relations account executives to deliver consistent high performance in a team environment where everyone loves to come to work.

Our dream candidate wish list:
• Years in the Trenches: Your 12+ years’ experience allows you to give great client advice on the best strategy to achieve any PR objective.
• Business Development: You have a history of end-to-end business development success. You are fearless. You can call anyone, and they will listen. Armed with an impressive contact list, you know how to attract and close leads and thrive in an environment with ambitious growth objectives.
• Mastery of the basics: Writing PR plans, pitching, press releases, crisis communication, social media, media training, industry analyst relations, investor and government relations… the essentials are second nature, but you are always finding ways to do it better. You have an impressive portfolio of media placements.
• Client Retention: You know how to retain clients. You have a rich history of clients who have stayed with you for years and can’t imagine building their business without you.
• Strategic: You don't do anything without the context of a well-defined strategy. You have never had a client respond to your PR plan with "this all seems boilerplate to me."
• Management: You know how to nurture a thriving team of PR superstars and retain them in an industry with revolving-door talent.
• Ambassador: Active in the business community and comfortable engaging in speaking opportunities on behalf of Mindspace.
o Education: Holds a bachelor’s degrees in public relations, communications, or journalism. Master’s degree a plus.

Contact:
Darren Steele
pr@mindspace.net
480-941-8497

In business since 2004, and coming off the big win of a “Best in Show” Addy Award, Mindspace www.mindspace.net has experienced tremendous growth every year since it hung out its shingle – both in terms of revenues and clients—even during this recession. What makes Mindspace different? First, we're one of the smaller full-service agencies around—just the right size to be quick and nimble but open to any solution from direct mail to social media, PR, email campaigns, cool web projects and viral videos. Second, our creative and MBA types take a unique and super-secret approach to creating concepts to consistently deliver stellar work and, third, we develop scrappy strategies based on real-world executive business experience. We have folks from Microsoft, Marriott and Google who know what it’s like to work in a big company with accountability and political sensitivities, as well as startup experience with tiny budgets and mercurial speed requirements. With B2B and B2C customers on both coasts and in between, this highly decorated, award-winning agency is building a loyal following of clients and employees, and making the other big dogs in town nervous. We’re the place rising rock stars go after they’ve paid their dues in PR /ad factories and are ready to enjoy their job immensely.