Senior Account Executive - Corporate Reputation

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to strategic earned media planning and execute against those plans: developing proactive and reactive pitches, conducting planned and proactive outreach daily, creating and nurturing relationships with key members of media, and tracking the media landscape to bring fresh thinking and best practices to client work
• Development and execution of additional corporate communications strategies meant to enhance client reputation, including thought leadership, executive positioning, and issues identification and management
• Support day-to-day account management and serve as a point of contact for clients, addressing issues thoughtfully and effectively
• Thoughtfully counsel clients based on internal and external landscapes, communications and marketing trends, and understanding of clients’ business goals
• Write in multiple voices and produce clear, persuasive content, including messaging, media pitches, event submissions and more to help tell client stories
• Help set the strategy for quarterly or annual communications plans, content strategies, etc.
• Manage multiple projects from concept to completion by anticipating challenges, troubleshooting problems, proposing solutions, offering client counsel, overseeing quality, and ensuring deadline and budget adherence
• Delegate to junior staff and help motivate and coach team members; manage up to senior staff and consistently provide feedback that leads to continuous improvement
• Contribute to business development, including new business and organic growth with existing clients
• Coordinate with other specialists (e.g., paid media, design, crisis) as needed to meet client goals
• Commit to continuous learning and improvement of leadership skills

Basic Qualifications:

• At least two years of full-time experience in public relations or strategic communications
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (public relations, corporate communications, English, advertising, journalism, business) or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in or around traditional media
• Able to develop communications plans and implement public relations tactics
• The commitment to be immediately responsive to client feedback and incorporate into course corrections where appropriate 
• Positive attitude and desire to work as part of a high-performing, extremely collaborative team 
• Strong organizational, scheduling, and time/project management skills; the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously 
• Proven ability to delegate and accurately judge and edit the work of others  
• Superior verbal communication skills, as well as demonstrably excellent writing skills