Contractor & Freelancer Opportunities at Orchestra (Various Locations)

Orchestra· Various Locations·6d ago

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If you’re open to contract or freelance roles, we want to hear from you. We’re always looking to partner with talented people who bring creativity, skill, and fresh perspectives to our work.

Project scopes and locations vary — some roles are fully remote, while others may be hybrid or based in one of our offices. If you’re interested in current openings, please apply directly to an active posting on our Careers page.

Orchestra is the first communications company built for today’s media landscape. Since 2022, it’s acquired nine firms, including: BerlinRosen, Civitas Public Affairs Group, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward and Small Girls PR. It also launched Brightmode, a talent acquisition firm for communication professionals. Learn more at: www.orchestraco.com.

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Why work at Orchestra

Culture: Positions itself as a place for “changemakers” – people energized by complexity and collaboration across disciplines. Emphasizes curiosity, transparency, and a forward-looking mindset.
Work model: Headquarters in New York with offices across North America and Europe. Likely hybrid in-office presence given client-facing nature. Not remote-only but flexible locations.
Engineering/product culture: Rapidly building a product organization that values standardization, data, and AI. Offers role of “Account Director, Product” and other innovation-focused positions.
Perks & environment: Not detailed explicitly; however, the blog post highlights an “AI-forward” culture where learning and experimentation are encouraged. Large agency network provides exposure to high-profile clients and complex challenges.
Growth trajectory: Despite headcount fluctuations, the company is investing in product, AI, and integrated delivery – a signal of ambition to lead the next generation of communications.

About Orchestra

Company Overview

One-liner: Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company that combines C-suite advisory, integrated strategy, and multichannel execution to help brands navigate today’s fragmented, fast-moving media landscape.
Entity Type: Private (Privately Held – no disclosed funding rounds; formed through mergers and acquisitions)
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Founded: 2024 (as Orchestra; constituent agencies such as BerlinRosen, Derris, Inkhouse have deeper histories)
Key Leaders: Jonathan Rosen (CEO), Jesse Derris (President), Ben Worthen (Chief Product Officer)

Core Business

Primary industry: Public Relations and Communications Services (integrated marketing, earned media, public affairs, influencer, SEO, paid media, creative)
Target customers: B2B, enterprise, and high-profile organizations (C-suites, brands, nonprofits, policy stakeholders) that need coordinated, advisory-led communications
Mission/purpose: “We shape what’s next” – turning uncertainty into action by uniting advisory, strategy, and execution to earn and sustain the right kind of attention.

Products & Services

Strategic Advisory & C-Suite Counsel: Working alongside senior leaders to diagnose problems, clarify what matters (customers, employees, policymakers, investors), and design integrated strategies.
Integrated Communications Execution: Coordinated delivery across earned media, content marketing, SEO, influencer, paid media, creative, and public affairs under a single “One Orchestra” model.
Prompt Fuel 360 (Answer Engine Optimization): A repeatable product that optimizes brand visibility on generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT) by combining earned media, technical SEO, owned content, influencer engagement, and analytics.
Intelligence Infrastructure & AI Automation: Systems that capture data from hundreds of client engagements, standardize delivery playbooks, and embed AI into workflows to make the entire offering smarter over time.

Market Standing

Valuation: Not disclosed
Key Metric: Headcount ~700+ (website claim includes all collective team members; LinkedIn reports 156 employees under the parent entity, with a -68.6% YoY headcount change – likely reflecting restructuring after acquisitions)
Notable Investors/Partners: No outside funding disclosed; orchestrated through acquisitions of Civitas Public Affairs Group (Sep 2024) and Small Girls PR (Oct 2024). Constituent agencies include BerlinRosen, Derris, Inkhouse, Glen Echo Group, Brightmode Talent, Antenna Group.
Growth Signals:
- 35 active job postings (up 3,400% YoY, but down 30% quarterly)
- Launch of product organization and Chief Product Officer role (Ben Worthen)
- Prompt Fuel 360 already in use across consumer and B2B engagements
- Active in 6 countries (USA, Serbia, Spain, UK, Canada, Colombia)
- LinkedIn followers: 10,112 (130.8% yearly growth)

Competitive Advantages

Integrated “One Orchestra” model: Breaks down silos between earned, owned, paid, and creative – a structure that competing agencies typically cannot offer within a single P&L.
Product-driven approach: Codifying repeatable playbooks and measurement frameworks (e.g., Prompt Fuel 360) that compound knowledge with every engagement, making delivery consistent and scalable.
AI-first infrastructure: Process standardized before automation; each automated workflow feeds data back into intelligence systems, creating a learning loop that gets stronger over time.
Depth of talent: 700+ advisors, strategists, and storytellers from a diverse set of acquired agencies, covering public affairs, consumer PR, creative, and digital.

Strategic Focus

Building the Product organization: Scaling standardized, repeatable offerings that integrate all disciplines (earned, owned, paid, creative, AI).
Embedding AI into client delivery: Moving from foundation-building (AI tools & training) to embedding AI directly into how work is done – with a focus on automation, intelligence, and compound learning.
Expanding Prompt Fuel 360: Taking the Answer Engine Optimization product to more clients and refining its measurement framework.
M&A integration: Continuing to unify acquired agencies under one operational and cultural umbrella (“One Orchestra”).

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