Digital PR & Organic Growth Specialist
Key Skills
Job Description
In a nutshell
As Picnic’s Digital PR Specialist, you will lead our efforts to become one of the most visible, talk-about and authoritative brands in the online grocery sector. Your mission is to craft compelling narratives, data-driven insights, and creative campaigns that spark online conversations and are recognized as authoritative by journalists, digital publishers, and AI-driven search platforms. Working alongside our SEO/GEO, data, and brand experts, you’ll transform our innovations into earned media coverage and sustainable organic growth.
In short: you ensure Picnic is impossible to ignore.
Tricks of the trade
- Create stories that travel: Find compelling stories in Picnic’s customer insights, products, data, and business. Turn consumer trends, cultural moments and original research into campaigns that earn coverage, links, and conversation.
- Earn high-quality coverage: Build relationships with journalists, editors, publishers, creators, and other influential voices. Pitch relevant stories across national, regional, consumer, business, and specialist media, positioning Picnic as a trusted source.
- Build organic authority: Work closely with SEO to earn authoritative backlinks, brand mentions, and citations. Identify topics Picnic can credibly own and create evergreen assets that strengthen visibility over time.
- Use data as PR engines: Collaborate with Data and Research teams to uncover insights and turn them into clear, newsworthy stories.
- Experiment with AI: Explore how Digital PR can strengthen Picnic’s presence in AI answers and recommendations. Experiment continuously with new tools and approaches as media and search evolve.
- Measure meaningful impact: Track coverage quality, backlinks, brand mentions, share of voice, organic traffic, and visibility across search and AI platforms. Connect Digital PR activity to broader brand and business growth.
Your superpowers
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or Business
- Native Dutch speaker and fluent in English
- 4+ years of experience in Digital PR, communications, journalism, or organic growth
- Experience working with consumer brands, grocery and retail brands is a big plus
- Strong track record of creating stories that earn meaningful media coverage
- Keen eye on what makes something genuinely newsworthy
- Understanding of SEO and the value of authoritative backlinks, mentions, and citations
- Comfortable working with data and turning analysis into compelling stories
- Strong writing and storytelling skills
- Fast, creative, analytical, and comfortable experimenting
- Knowledge of generative search / AI visibility and emerging GEO practices is a strong advantage
- Familiarity with Google Search Console, Semrush, or similar SEO tools is preferred
- Knowledge of generative search / AI visibility and emerging GEO practices is a strong advantage
Picnic perks
🥗Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚴🏼♂️Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
✍🏼 Learning & development
You’ll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. We offer personal development through Lepaya courses, Academy trainings, and more. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.
All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
Core Responsibilities
You will lead efforts to increase brand visibility and authority by crafting compelling, data-driven narratives and creative campaigns. You will collaborate with SEO, data, and brand teams to secure earned media coverage and improve organic search performance.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or Business. You need at least 4 years of experience in Digital PR or organic growth, along with strong storytelling skills and a solid understanding of SEO.
Benefits
- Fresh lunch
- Coffee and snacks
- Health insurance discount
- Bike plan
- Personal development courses
- Academy trainings
- Mental wellbeing support
- Holiday pay
- Pension plan
- Company phone
- Company laptop
About Picnic
Industry: Retail
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
At Picnic, we’re a team of inventors, builders, dreamers, and best-in-class operators! With our app-only business model and custom-built in-house supply chain, we're revolutionizing the way people buy groceries and eat every day. We're growing across the Netherlands, Germany, France, and beyond. One of the things that makes Picnic different is that we handle almost everything ourselves: from forecasting and building automated warehouses to designing custom electric vehicles and writing our own software. It gives us total freedom to experiment with bold, new ideas (which we do a lot!). We love to challenge ourselves and learn by doing. The best way to grow here? By taking ownership from day one and pushing boundaries every single day. As a diverse team of over 85 nationalities, there’s always something happening - whether you’re into sports, board games, charity work, dancing at our legendary Picnic festival, or licorice tasting (yes, really!). Our scale-up culture means you get to own your work and bring fresh ideas to life. If you’re looking to make a real impact, reach out. We’d love to hear from you!