[Wattpad] Communications Coordinator

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures and languages, around the world come to Wattpad every month to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

Wattpad is part of the WEBTOON family of brands, the largest storytelling platform in the world that enables creators and users to discover, create, and share stories. With over 24 million creators and ~170 million active users per month, we are truly empowering creation by anyone, for everyone. To read more about our family of Brands, check out our website here. 

We are looking for an organized and ambitious Communications Coordinator to join our growing PR & Communications Team. Reporting to the PR Lead, you will support our PR & Communications team at WEBTOON Entertainment through daily media monitoring, building media lists, scheduling meetings and interviews, pitching media, and supporting a variety of administrative PR operations across the team. This role, appropriate for a junior PR practitioner with agency experience, will put you on the ground floor of a growing PR team, with the opportunity to learn multiple facets of PR and Communications at our innovative global company.

What You’ll Do:

• Media monitoring and reporting, including KPI tracking, monitoring as well as calendar management for the PR team 
• Building and maintaining media lists 
• Supporting internal and external research for all PR initiatives
• Provide administrative support across the PR team, coordinating meetings, interviews, media tours, and other events 
• Maintain internal initiatives and editorial calendars 
• Copy editing and proof-reading for PR materials 
• Supporting media relations activities 
• Regularly updating and rolling-out copy changes to our Press Site
• Build and maintain Best Of media coverage for each of our WEBTOON Entertainment brands in North America
• Support presentation and deck development 

What We’re Looking For:

• You have 1 - 2 years experience working in a PR agency 
• Someone who lives for the news: you’re a savvy media consumer, you pay attention to big media stories and how they play out
• You love operations and process -- making sure everything is organized in a way that increases efficiency makes you happy 
• A hawk-eyed grammar geek with a passion for words and how they are put together, who can easily spot a typo or run-on sentence
• You love to read and/or write

Ask:

• Tell us your favourite journalist and media outlet (Canada) when submitting your application.

Wattpad is conducting all interviews in a distributed manner using applicable third party software where needed and using visual interface tools such as Google Meet and Zoom.

About Wattpad

Who are we? Entrepreneurs and Do-ers. Our vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories, and our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world.

What does that mean? We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse.

What are we obsessed with? Our users. Solving complex problems and maximizing flow. Learning constantly. Building the next great storytelling product. Finding the greatest stories ever told. Dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks.

How do we work? Autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully. Balancing with work, family, and play...and all while having a great time.

Wattpad is a remote friendly company and encourages remote candidates to apply as long as they are located and authorized to work in either the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) as a precondition of employment. We are not able to sponsor applicants for work permits.

If you happen to live near the areas of either Toronto, Ontario or Halifax, Nova Scotia, you may also have the opportunity to work from our beautiful offices - 1 located in Downtown Toronto and the other in Halifax.

Culture and Diversity

Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate. Period. 

Wattpad welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We have taken a leadership position on creating a culture and an organization that truly values diversity. We are committed to fostering a global team that reflects the diversity of the Wattpad community. At Wattpad, we believe cultural fit doesn’t mean culturally identical, and diversity of thought helps us to challenge one another to think big and think differently. We consider employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, disability status or any other protected status.

If you have any special needs or accessibility requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.

Don’t meet all the requirements? Studies show women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they do not meet all the qualifications. Therefore, in an effort to build a more diverse workplace, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might actually be the right person or you may be a good fit for a number of other openings we currently have.