Role summary: We are hiring a PR-agency–trained communications professional who understands how brands think, how PR agencies pitch, and how a newsroom decides what actually becomes a story.
PR ecosystem & brand engagement
– Serve as StrongYes Media’s primary interface with PR agencies, corporate communications teams, and brand storytellers.
– Receive, filter, and evaluate brand pitches, announcements, and story ideas.
– Advise agencies on what StrongYes covers, how to pitch, and what we will not accept.
– Build StrongYes’s reputation as a serious, fair, and influential newsroom within the PR ecosystem.
Story development & pitch shaping
– Convert raw PR inputs into editorially viable story leads.
– Identify trends across pitches (hiring, leadership, AI at work, policy, corporate shifts).
– Collaborate with editors to decide what becomes news, insight, or opinion.
– Push back on promotional, weak, or irrelevant pitches.
Brand visibility & newsroom positioning
– Position StrongYes as a go-to platform for workplace and employment stories, AI & DeepTech, corporate ME developments, leadership, HR and organisational change, and summits & conferences.
– Increase StrongYes’s visibility among PR agencies, communications heads, and brand teams.
– Represent StrongYes in PR forums, industry events, and closed-door briefings.
Ideal background
Experience
– 1–4 years in a PR agency or corporate communications role.
– Strong exposure to UAE/GCC corporate, workplace, or leadership narratives.
– Experience pitching stories to business or policy media.
Skills
– Excellent written and verbal communication.
– Strong news sense with a great understanding of what editors will reject instantly.
– Ability to translate newsroom expectations to non-media stakeholders.
Only Shortlisted Candidates Will be Contacted.
Skills: pr,story,leadership,workplace,communications,announcements,newsroom,media,ecosystem,corporate communications,hiring
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