Webershandwick

Webershandwick

Account Director, Client Experience

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 72 days ago
CommunicationCollaborationCritical Thinking

About the role

  • We're storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story.
  • Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people.
  • Weber Shandwick is seeking a curious, creative, and media-savvy Account Director to join our team in Chicago.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain excellent relationships with top-tier media across business, national/local broadcast, multicultural and lifestyle verticals
  • Develop strategic, earned-first plans and write high-quality media materials, including pitches, press releases, and messaging documents
  • Deliver consistently high-caliber work with a client-first mindset and sharp attention to detail
  • Collaborate with agency and inter-agency partners, serving as a key contributor across teams to drive alignment and deliver cohesive, large-scale campaign work
  • Mentor and develop junior team members through hands-on guidance, feedback, and professional development
  • Client Service - build trust and deliver results across engagements
  • Collaboration- build strong, high-impact relationships that deliver results
  • We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience
  • Experience leading integrated projects from start to finish, working with teams across various disciplines
  • Experience providing counsel to senior leaders
  • Bachelor's degree
  • With deep knowledge of top-tier business and lifestyle outlets, you know how to get stories placed - and noticed.
  • Fluent in internet culture and always ahead of the trends, you know what's hot, what's next, and how to help organizations break through.
  • The ideal candidate is a seasoned media strategist who understands the complexity of today's business world and has a passion for creating communications strategies that make a real-world impact.

Compensation

  • $95,000 USD - $125,000 USD
  • We make our careers website accessible to any and all users.
  • This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website.

Benefits

  • Proactively and reactively craft compelling, newsworthy stories that drive earned coverage
  • Candidates should have experience working with corporations across multiple sectors - experience in retail, technology, financial services, consumer lifestyle and healthcare sectors is particularly relevant.

Company info

  • Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency - we're an engagement agency and we're working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We're storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.
  • Weber Shandwick is seeking a curious, creative, and media-savvy Account Director to join our team in Chicago. This role is part of our Corporate team, a unit delivering trusted, agile C-suite counsel by blending communications expertise with cultural insights to accelerate stakeholder and organizational value. This role will focus on executing communications, reputation and earned media strategies for corporate, advocacy and public sector clients at the intersection of business, policy, media and culture.
  • The ideal candidate is a seasoned media strategist who understands the complexity of today's business world and has a passion for creating communications strategies that make a real-world impact. They bring a proven track record of delivering effective integrated media campaigns and experience thriving on high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have experience working with corporations across multiple sectors - experience in retail, technology, financial services, consumer lifestyle and healthcare sectors is particularly relevant.
  • This position will be based in our Chicago office on a hybrid schedule.
  • Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency - we're an engagement agency and we're working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape.
  • This role is part of our Corporate team, a unit delivering trusted, agile C-suite counsel by blending communications expertise with cultural insights to accelerate stakeholder and organizational value.
  • This role will focus on executing communications, reputation and earned media strategies for corporate, advocacy and public sector clients at the intersection of business, policy, media and culture.
  • They bring a proven track record of delivering effective integrated media campaigns and experience thriving on high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment.

Equal opportunity

  • Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
  • If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com.
  • Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.

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