About Specialty Program Group:

Our goal is to partner with industry-leading specialty businesses to provide them with the ability to achieve their goals and optimize their businesses. Specialty Program Group offers access to capital and investment, deep carrier relationships, creative thinking, product development and broad distribution, while allowing our businesses to maintain the essence of what makes them successful. Specialty Program Group delivers leading-edge specialty expertise backed by transformative digital capabilities and sophisticated data and analytics.

About SquareMouth:

SquareMouth was launched in 2003 with the core goals of becoming the best workplace for its employees and the best place for customers to buy travel insurance. In 2014, we utilized our travel insurance expertise to develop and launch Tin Leg, a travel insurance brand with policies designed to address our customer’s most common and pressing travel concerns. Tin Leg quickly became one of the most popular travel insurance providers on squaremouth.com and continues to offer some of the most comprehensive products in the travel insurance market.

 

We’ve grown from a small team to a company of over 50 employees, gaining national and international recognition along the way as one of the best customer service teams and best places to work.  Widely recognized for our company culture, we are proud of most recently being named one of the Best Workplaces in America in 2023 by Inc. Magazine!

About the Role:

Squaremouth is looking for a Manager of Public Relations & Social Strategy to join its Marketing team. In this role, you are expected to become an expert in our business and vertical to grow Squaremouth’s public image as an innovative company and travel insurance industry leader.

The Manager of Public Relations & Social Strategy should be capable of developing and implementing strategic external communications with key media contacts, including but not limited to media pitches, press releases, and interviews.

Social strategy capabilities include creating and executing our social media strategy to promote the brand and increase customer awareness with an emphasis on content creation, trend analysis, influencer management, and metric monitoring. 

They must possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills. They should be able to actively identify topics and events that are topical and newsworthy and should be able to meet strict deadlines to capitalize on media opportunities.

Responsibilities:

Identify key public relations contacts and opportunities

Secure media placement in trade and business publications

Ability to interact successfully, build relationships, and influence national and local media representatives, reporters and editors

Build out editorial content strategies based on industry events and consumer trends

Research, draft, distribute, and pitch content to key media targets

Execute frequent, engaging press releases, from concept to completion

Act as company representative, with the ability to speak confidently and informatively to media

Ability to communicate concisely and translate complicated topics into lay language

Strong special media experience with a creative eye for creating brand initiatives and campaigns on all social media platforms.

Strong writing skills, ranging from technical to creative writing

Ability to analyze and report on results, and establish improvements

Self-motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously, without close supervision, while maintaining our team approach

Keep a constant pulse on current events and industry changes that impact business, with the ability to develop relevant and newsworthy content

Qualifications:

5+ years in PR, marketing, agency, or relevant experience required

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, or equivalent

3+ years of social media management experience including video production and editing experience

Experience using Cision, Meltwater, WordPress, Excel, Figma and social scheduling apps a plus.

Able to handle constructive criticism and accept different points of view and feedback

Disclosure required under applicable state or municipality regulations: The total compensation range for this position will be between $90,000-$110,000 and will be impacted by factors such as the successful candidate’s skills, experience and working location, as well as the specific position’s business line, scope and level. HUB International is proud to offer comprehensive benefit and total compensation packages which could include health/dental/vision/life/disability insurance, FSA, HSA and 401(k) accounts, paid-time-off benefits, and eligible bonuses, equity and commissions for some positions.

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Department Communications/Public Relations

Required Experience: 5-7 years of relevant experience

Required Travel: No Travel Required

Required Education: Bachelor's degree (4-year degree)

HUB International Limited is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race/ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran's status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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