Manager - PR & Brand Communications

StrongYes Media is the workplace intelligence platform for corporate India and the UAE. We are the single destination where careers, leadership, money, wellbeing, and the AI-driven future come together. We explain how roles evolve with AI, how leaders think and decide, how skills compound into opportunities, and how cultures, promotions, job markets and wellbeing evolve. We also make personal finance approachable by breaking down compounding, SIP discipline, FIRE pathways, tax efficiency, and the steady habits that turn today's salary into long-term freedom.

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. This role exists to make StrongYes the default media destination for PR agencies and corporate communications teams across the UAE, without compromising editorial independence.

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, corporate UAE 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.

Editorial integrity & guardrails

* Maintain strict separation between editorial judgement and PR pressure.

* Ensure no pay-for-play, no advertorial dilution, and no compromised coverage.

* Educate PR partners on newsroom ethics and boundaries.

Metrics that matter

* Track the quality of incoming pitches (not just volume).

* Monitor repeat engagement from top PR agencies.

* Measure influence within the PR and corporate communications ecosystem rather than focusing on vanity reach.

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.

Skills: ecosystem,leadership,story,media,workplace,newsroom,hiring,communications,pr,corporate communications