Media and External Relations Manager - United States

Media and External Relations Manager · About Andela: · At Andela, we know brilliance is evenly distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. For over 10 years, Andela has connected its customers with top global, remote technical talent from over 135 countries with the maj ...

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Media and External Relations Manager

About Andela:

At Andela, we know brilliance is evenly distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. For over 10 years, Andela has connected its customers with top global, remote technical talent from over 135 countries with the majority residing in emerging markets like Africa and Latin America.

As one of the world's largest talent marketplaces, Andela gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy qualified technologists. With talent highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and much more, customers experience 33% faster project delivery. The company's exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, is the industry's only unified platform managing the complete global talent lifecycle and enables customers to fill individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster.

Andela is on the precipice of two breakout industry transformations: one in staffing/hiring and the other in software development, both accelerated by generative AI.

Are you an exceptional, hungry leader seasoned in scaling businesses through transformation and growth? Join us and change the world.

Job Summary:

Andela is seeking a Media & External Relations Manager to expand our public relations execution capacity and help us scale meaningful storytelling through media, speaking engagements, network activation, and strategic visibility efforts. Reporting to the Senior Brand Communications Manager, this person will work alongside our agency partners and internal team to drive more consistent media coverage, accelerate speaking/podcast placements, and foster relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. We need this candidate to be in the Pacific Time Zone.

You'll be the execution engine for our PR strategy, transforming big ideas into high-impact stories, and ensuring our best narratives and speakers find the right platforms at the right time.

Exceptional Leadership:

As an Andelan, you'll serve as a role model for the rest of the company, you do not need to manage people to be a leader at Andela Think about the feedback your peers typically give you – if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you.

• Low ego, low drama: You share credit, take blame. You like being wrong because it means someone else had an even better idea.

• One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above your team alone.

• Great listener, hungry for feedback: You're always seeking to improve – our product, our business, yourself. You solicit diverse opinions and deeply listen.

• Owner, not renter: You see a problem, you fix it or find someone who will. The buck stops with you.

• Team-player: You roll up your sleeves and get scrappy. You do this by proactively collaborating with your team while actively engaging in important details that matter.

• Business problem solver: You're not just a functional expert; you consistently get praise for approaching your function through the lens of solving business problems.

Key Responsibilities:

Media Relations

• Drive journalist outreach in coordination with agency partner

• Source and develop compelling client and technologist stories for media placement

• Monitor and identify trends to pitch our story during timely news moments

• Coordinate reporter interviews, follow-up, and media prep for spokespeople

• Maintain and organize press kit, reporter database, and placement tracker

Speaking Engagements & Podcasts

• Identify and pitch earned opportunities for Andela leaders

• Track speaker and podcast pipelines and maintain internal calendar

• Coordinate briefing documents and speaker logistics

• Collaborate with social media team to repurpose audio/video into social clips and owned content

Relationship Management

• Manage and grow relationships with media contacts, podcast producers, editors, and industry gatekeepers

• Coordinate with internal and external partners, board members, investors, and consultants (e.g., John Winsor) for warm intros and opportunities for engagements

• Support strategic partnership storytelling (e.g., GitHub, CNCF)

Qualifications:

• 3–5 years of experience in PR, media relations, or communications, ideally in B2B tech or future-of-work space

• Strong understanding of the media landscape and ability to secure placements without heavy reliance on paid channels

• Experience sourcing and shaping thought leadership stories for earned channels

• Highly organized project manager able to juggle multiple moving parts, deadlines, and stakeholders

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with executives, marketing, partnerships, and product

Preferred but Not Required

• Experience working with PR agencies and freelance writers

• Global media experience or comfort navigating multiple regional contexts

• Familiarity with tech hiring, AI, remote work, or developer ecosystems

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