Senior Associate, Communications

About the Role

WPP Media is seeking a curious, organized Communications Associate to join its U.S. Communications team. This early-career role is ideal for someone with 1–3 years of experience who can support corporate communications, content, thought leadership, social media, and media relations.

Working with the Communications team and partners across the business, this person will help tell the WPP Media story across internal and external channels, creating content that showcases our expertise, people, innovation, and perspective on the evolving media and advertising landscape.

The role offers a global aperture early in your career, with exposure to a global business, diverse markets, senior leaders, and some of the world’s leading brands. We’re looking for a strong writer and close observer of culture and emerging trends, from entertainment and social platforms to technology, sports, business, and broader conversations.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day corporate communications and content, including announcements, business updates, newsletters, presentations, social content, and other materials.
• Draft, edit, and proofread clear, engaging content for internal and external audiences, with a focus on LinkedIn and other digital and social platforms.
• Help manage WPP Media’s LinkedIn presence, including content calendars, executive content, company news, thought leadership, and audience engagement opportunities.
• Develop stories that showcase WPP Media’s people, expertise, innovation, client work, partnerships, and perspective on the future of media and marketing.
• Support thought leadership, including articles, reports, POVs, executive bylines, and other content that demonstrates WPP Media’s expertise.
• Monitor news, social media, competitors, and emerging trends across music, entertainment, sports, technology, business, and culture to identify relevant opportunities.
• Support earned, owned, and social amplification by researching journalists and publications, maintaining media lists, tracking outreach, monitoring coverage, and summarizing conversation and sentiment.
• Help coordinate communications around announcements, industry moments, conferences, awards, events, and other business milestones.
• Support executive communications materials, including briefings, talking points, presentations, LinkedIn content, and related materials.
• Work with subject matter experts and internal teams to gather information and turn complex topics into clear, compelling content.
• Collaborate with marketing, internal communications, events, and global colleagues to coordinate messaging, identify stories, and bring broader perspective to U.S. communications.
• Maintain editorial calendars, communications trackers, media lists, content libraries, coverage reports, and reporting inputs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, or a related field, plus 1–3 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to adapt content for different audiences and channels.
• Interest in learning about complex business challenges and ability to translate information into clear, concise, engaging content.
• Naturally curious and highly engaged with culture, with interest in music, entertainment, social media, sports, technology, business, and broader cultural forces.
• Strong research, organization, and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
• Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders, gathering information proactively, and working independently while knowing when to seek guidance.
• Interest in corporate communications, thought leadership, content development, social media, and reputation-building.
• Familiarity with LinkedIn, digital content, media monitoring, or social listening is a plus.
• Professional, collaborative, proactive, resourceful, and eager to learn.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for onsite event support.
• Experience in advertising, media, marketing, technology, or professional services is a plus.