Who are IDHL?
At IDHL, we’re more than a digital agency, we’re a strategic partner to ambitious brands, helping them accelerate growth in the digital economy.
Our expertise is delivered through three core divisions: Performance, Web & eCommerce, and Intelligence – all working closely together to create impact across channels.
We’re also home to Fostr, a Shopify Plus agency for luxury and lifestyle brands, and The MTM Agency, specialists in integrated marketing and audience engagement.
What connects it all is our focus on outcomes, not just outputs. We back each other, take pride in what we do, and make sure the way we work works for everyone.
Your role as Digital PR Account Executive
As a Digital PR Account Executive, you’ll play a key role in creating and pitching PR stories and reactive commentary designed to build brand awareness, authority and organic search visibility for clients.
Working within a PR team, you’ll collaborate closely with colleagues to secure high-quality online coverage, backlinks and brand mentions across relevant publications.
This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys combining creative thinking with research, copywriting, media outreach and report creation.
Main Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Support Senior Account Executives and Account Managers in delivering day-to-day client activity and updates
Ideate PR stories based on outlined objectives
Support with high quality research to inform strong strategies and ideas
Write press releases, pitch emails, thought leadership articles, expert commentary and supporting content optimised for the media
Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists across key verticals
Produce considered, and up-to-date media lists and maintain these ongoing
Pitch approved stories and reactive commentary to relevant journalists
Secure high-quality coverage, backlinks and brand mentions from relevant media
Find and log earned results using various PR tools and searching methods
Contribute to client reports with clear summaries of results and insights
Attend client calls and internal meetings, contributing progress updates or taking notes and reporting back, as required
Provide regular updates on the status of your work to Account Manager
Manage your time effectively to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
Complete required business admin without being prompted, for example daily timesheets
Attend and engage with offered training to develop new skills and knowledge
Share new learnings, new contacts or interesting industry blogs / articles / webinar links with the wider team
Proactively seek out additional training in areas that feel unfamiliar but could be helpful to you day-to-day
Key Skills
An understand of PR and how it differs from Marketing
An understanding of Digital PR and its overarching role within SEO
Awareness of backlink quality, domain authority and how coverage can impact search performance
Awareness of brand metrics and quality indicators such as key message inclusion, positive article sentiment and relevancy of the news platform to the client
Good written and verbal communication skills
Ability to tailor pitches and content to different publications and journalist styles
Good research skills to identify media opportunities, trends and data insights
A creative mindset with an interest in media-friendly storytelling
Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment
Comfortable using day to day PR tools such as media databases (or a keenness to learn)
Good attention to detail
A proactive, results-driven approach
A team player
