Muck Rack Welcomes Mandy Steinmetz As Vice President of Product

Muck Rack is thrilled to announce that Mandy Steinmetz recently joined the company as Vice President of Product. In her role, Mandy will be responsible for setting a product strategy that drives value for Muck Rack’s customers, as well as grow the product and design team and practice at the company.

Her appointment comes at a time of rapid growth for Muck Rack, the public relations management (PRM) software platform that enables organizations to build trust, tell their stories and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. The company, which welcomed 65 new employees in 2021, bringing its total to 150, plans to add more than 100 more to its roster of fully-remote staff in 2022. It’s also added dozens of new features to its platform, changing how PR teams find the right journalists for their stories, send customized pitches, build meaningful relationships with the media, monitor news and quantify their impact.

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Mandy joins Muck Rack from Uptake, an industrial artificial intelligence software company, where she spent six years in various product leadership positions, most recently as Senior Director, Product Management & Operations, where she led product strategy and a team of product managers, designers and writers on building, configuring and delivering scalable products to market. Prior to Uptake, Mandy was a product director at Publicis Groupe, where she led the development and strategy of a proprietary digital analytics tool for the communications team. She began her career as a search analyst at StarCom MediaVest Group.

She will work from Chicago and report directly to Gregory Galant, CEO and co-founder of Muck Rack, who said, “Mandy is a proven leader who brings more than 13 years of product development expertise, particularly in building data-driven products that serve as indispensable tools for customers. I’m excited to watch her grow our talented team of product managers and designers as they continue to deliver new features and enhancements that make Muck Rack the leader in public relations management software innovation.”

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