Carrot
Accelerating Reputations
We are not your ordinary bunch of PR professionals.
Sure, we all have the relevant skills and experience to deliver your PR goals and meet your company's business objectives. But we are drawn from disparate backgrounds, from radio journalism to commerce, meaning we are well grounded and can communicate with a wide range of people. Which makes forging strong relationships with journalists that bit easier. And results for your business that bit stronger.
Richard Houghton
Chief Executive
Richard has a 19 year track record in public relations consultancy. His career has spanned senior management positions in leading international consultancies, including Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard and Ketchum and campaigns for BT, Dell, Nokia, Overture and Siemens Mobile.
He founded Carrot Communications to accelerate the reputations of companies in, and associated with, the information technology and internet sectors.
Kate Hartley
Managing Director
Kate joined Carrot from Shandwick, where she directed a wide range of business-to-business, technology, corporate and consumer campaigns.
Her 12 years' experience in the PR industry have included campaigns for international £3bn IT services company, Atos Origin; TNT International; P&O; Nestle; Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks (SeaWorld and Busch Gardens, Florida); Hogg Robinson; BlackSpider Technologies; and search company, Overture.
Working at Carrot
We all know there are some stuffy PR agencies out there who take themselves very seriously. At Carrot, we are passionate about PR but we also subscribe to the truth that happy staff make productive staff. That's why our culture is as much about enjoying the work we do as it is about getting great results for our clients.
Carrot is a well-rounded agency, simply because we value real characters and personalities. So while your work experience and a strong track record are very important, so too is your life experience – we are just as interested in who you are as what you've done.
Obviously, you'll need to be interested in technology, such as the latest gizmos and gadgets, if you want to join Carrot. And while we wouldn't necessarily expect you to know what Steve Jobs has in the pipeline, we would expect you to know who Steve Jobs is.
For our part, we pay competitive salaries and career progression is unchecked. We want our staff to grow alongside the business – it benefits everyone, after all.
[And assuming you haven't had a sense of humour bypass,] we're confident that you'll laugh when you're at the office. You'll laugh a lot, in fact.
If you think you fit the bill, we'd love to hear from you. Contact Kate Hartley at kate.hartley@carrotcomms.co.uk with your CV and/or relevant experience.