Careers

Inspire is a growing agency, nationally recognized as a trusted communications partner to valued brands. With offices in Columbus, Ohio, and Asheville, North Carolina, Inspire provides award-winning communications, marketing, digital and public relations solutions for local, regional and national clients.

Interested in a career or internship with our fun, creative team? We are also always looking out for creative, fun, skilled PR professionals interested in a rewarding career at Inspire. To be considered for a future position, send your resume, cover letter and writing samples to join@aboutinspire.com.

Ready for a Career At Inspire?

Why should you choose a job at Inspire? There are a few reasons you might fit in here.

Values-Based – Words Backed Up with Action

We didn’t just put our purpose down on paper and give it to our team – we crafted it together – as a team. We explored who we are, how we want to be different and where we’re headed. We revisit it regularly, and we measure ourselves against it.

Flexibility – Combined with Radical Responsibility

Our workplace is flexible. We believe in balance – in the power of being together and in the benefit of time for focus. That’s why we embrace a hybrid model of working. It’s typically 3 days in the office and two days out, but our team members can choose how that schedule best suits them each week. On Fridays, we are fully remote, and our associates can work where they choose.

On a daily basis, some team members start earlier and leave earlier – others sleep a little longer and come in to work later and stay later. You do what works for you. Have a school conference or refrigerator repair? It’s okay – you don’t need to take PTO, you can flex your workday as needed.

Flexibility must be paired with accountability, and that’s why we are radically responsible – to our clients, to our colleagues and to our firm. Over-communicating is a must, and we expect our team to be considerate, appreciative and supportive of each other – always.

Benefits – For Now and for Later

Our team members deserve the confidence and reassurance of a strong benefits program. That’s why Inspire provides an excellent benefits package with the vast majority paid by our company for the Inspire employee – including health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Oh, and it starts in your first month – no waiting.

For the long term, we offer a 3% annual 401K contribution (not a match – we’ll put it in whether or not you do!), plus discretionary profit sharing and pension contributions. Our financial advisor is our partner and provides individual counseling to our team members when needed. It also starts in the first month.

It’s an investment in our team that adds up to support for the now – and the later.

Time Off

Inspire offers a flexible paid-time-off policy that starts immediately. For your first six months, you’ll accrue time every month. After six months, you will be eligible to participate in our “unlimited” PTO policy, which reflects our trust in our team and each team member’s accountability to each other and their clients.

With our 8 paid holidays, your birthday off as a holiday, plus a soft close between Christmas and New Year’s Day, you’ll have many days off already in the bank. (Lots of other half-days and mental health self-care moments happen throughout the year as well.)

Professional Development

Talent is what we have to offer our clients – and investing in our talent is a smart strategy. From an annual budget to travel to conferences to monthly Food for Thoughts to webinars and guest speakers from outside our business, we take growing our team seriously. Membership fees in professional associations? Attendance at leadership development programs – yep, we’ll cover it. If you want to advance, Inspire wants to support you in doing so.

Other Perks that Matter

If that’s not enough to convince you, how about these additions?

• Paid monthly cell phone stipend
• Home office set-up assistance
• Quarterly and year-end discretionary bonuses
• $600 annual allowance for mental health, fitness, travel or other mind-body benefit
• Summer Fridays – closing by 3pm on the Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day
• Awesome office space, complete with a patio overlooking a ravine and golf course
• We celebrate – from Hot Chocolate Day to happy hours to holiday potlucks – we love eating (and drinking) together. (Our year-end parties have included dancing, and our happy hours have involved tree climbing)

Interesting Work, Great Clients

We love what we do. Specialty areas of focus? Whatever we’re curious about, and what aligns with our values. We’ve said no to clients who aren’t a fit. We’ve said no to clients we weren’t confident would meet our high client standards.

We’ve said YES to clients who have meaningful social impact, who provide critical human services, who benefit our communities. We’ve also said yes to restaurants, hotels, tourism destinations, schools, renewable energy, food production and farming. We trust our clients, and we want them to trust us.

If you’re new to PR or a recent graduate – no worries. Your only limit is you. If you have the drive and the spark, we’ll give you interesting, important work to do. That’s a promise.

Loyalty + Relationships

Wondering why we do it? We do it for the love of the work, the passion for the profession, the admiration of our clients.

We’re fixers and promoters; we’re believers and strategists.

But most importantly – we are partners. We are in it for the relationships we forge – with each other, and with our clients. Ultimately, that’s where we’ll spend our time – making sure we get what matters most – the earning of trust, for each other and our clients.

Perhaps that’s why several of our clients have passed the 20-year mark with us. And many others are headed toward 10. This is unprecedented in most communications agencies.

We stick together. We learn, we grow and we prosper. We have their backs, and we’ll have yours.

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