Media Associate - Mandarin

The Media team is at the heart of Web Summit, making sure that the world’s most influential
media attend, speak at and cover our events across the world. The team facilitates the best
experience for the media during Web Summits, facilitating discussion and driving coverage
across multiple platforms.

The Media team works with journalists on a daily basis, making sure that every significant
media outlet, reporter and creator across the globe - whatever their platform - knows about,
travels to and covers our events. In doing so, we drive awareness of our events as the
world’s premier tech conferences - and of Web Summit as the world’s leading tech
conference business.

The team also secures the most impactful and relevant moderators for our stage content;
arranges interviews, live podcasts, creator content, press conferences and announcements;
tracks and analyses coverage; sources and highlights relevant content for attending media;
and works closely with Web Summit’s key teams to ensure the maximum impact and
visibility of their work.

You'd support Web Summit’s media and communications team in building relationships with
Chinese journalists and media organisations, particularly across Mainland China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan and other Chinese-speaking markets.

The ideal candidate is a bilingual PR/media professional who understands both Chinese and
Western media, can build relationships with journalists, identify stories that will resonate with
Chinese audiences, and turn Web Summit's speakers, partners, startups and technology
stories into coverage.

Native Mandarin Speaker - you are fluent, comfortable and confident in
communicating in both Mandarin and English.

You have a strong understanding of the Chinese media landscape and the Chinese
technology/business ecosystem.

You’re familiar with platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu
and other Chinese social media platforms, and are comfortable creating compelling
Chinese-language posts, short-form video concepts, social campaigns and editorial
content.

You’re creative, confident and articulate: a clear communicator with excellent
presentation and interpersonal skills

You’re an adaptable and resourceful individual who can work to tight deadlines under
pressure

You’re a strategic thinker with a proven track record of planning, executing and
evaluating activity on a long-term basis

You’re an excellent team player, but with the ability to work on your own initiative

You’re confident using AI tools and data to help manage and focus your work

You have previous experience dealing with media - as a journalist, or in relevant PR
or marketing functions.

You have a strong attention to detail in everything you do

You have a proven track record of achieving targets.

- Subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme (EAP) and more.
- Pension contribution up to 6% (Irish-based only)
- A dedicated in-house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and
resources to help you excel in your career development.
- Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
- Our very own Tramway Team, which drives community and morale-boosting events for
employees to participate in.
- Annual company get-togethers, charity days, and monthly wellbeing talks.
- Wellness subsidy issued to all employees of €1000 per year

At Web Summit, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We want talent from all walks of life to
help us on our journey to digitise the conference sector. Hiring decisions are made purely on
experience, skills and the needs of the business.

 

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as
reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our
recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately
made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed,
please contact us.