Public Relations Director for a newly formed holding company that will own the sports and entertainment assets of Washington, DC based entrepreneur Mark Ein including the Citi Open Tennis Tournament, a combined WTA International and ATP 500 professional tennis tournament, the Washington Kastles of World Team Tennis (WTT), the winningest team in WTT history, the Washington Justice, the newly-launched esports team representing Washington, DC, in the Overwatch League, and the Washington City Paper. The mission of our organization is to unite and inspire our region, bring together great communities of sports fans in the Washington area and around the globe, and build an iconic portfolio of sports and entertainment brands.
This position is a core part of the company’s marketing team responsible for driving all PR activity with press. Reports to the VP of Marketing.
Desired Experience
Candidate must have 7-10+ years of public relations experience. Candidate should have a deep network of press and PR contacts in the DC-MD-VA area, and ideally national-level contacts as well. Candidate must be highly detail oriented; able to proof their own work as well as act as quality control/editor for the work of freelancers, seasonal staff and other full-time employees. Must have familiarity with sports and/or esports business.
Responsibilities
- Lead and be accountable for public relations across all sports, esports, and media business units.
- Develop and execute on overall comprehensive public relations strategy for each business and company as a whole.
- Work with VP of Marketing and heads of each team to develop messaging across all teams for each season.
- Build deep press relationships to support businesses’ objectives.
- Support senior leadership on key press communications.
- “Roll up sleeves” and get directly involved in creating all PR materials and managing all press interviews and other engagements.
- Draft all press communications, such as news releases, briefings, talking points, scripts.
- Manage day-to-day media contact and serve as company spokesperson on a variety of topics.
- Set and measure public relations metrics to track performance.
- Other duties as assigned.
Position is full-time, year-round. Significant weekend and evening hours will also be required, including attendance at some/all Citi Open, Washington Kastles, Washington Justice and Washington City Paper games/matches/events. Compensation is dependent on experience and will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. A standard benefits package and paid vacation time will be part of the compensation.
We accept and review applications on a rolling basis. Applications will be reviewed and decided upon as they are received. No phone calls please. EOE.