Account Executive (Consumer PR)

We’re a creative communications agency made by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across social, earned, digital, and more. After 10 years of cooking up award-winning work, we know one thing for sure - we’re just warming up.

If you're looking for an opportunity to join an ambitious team that is singularly focused on doing great work with great people and making your mark in an industry long overdue for a shakeup, we'd love to hear from you!

As Account Executive, you will be:

• Working across our Consumer portfolio, including lifestyle, wellness, food and beverage, and beer, wine and spirits categories, from national household brands to emerging startups. There may be opportunities for you to support other practice groups, as needed.
• Driving material development for various PR programs taking a first pass at drafting pitches, media lists, press releases, award submissions, research and more.
• An active participant in client and internal meetings, driving the agenda, taking notes and circulating meeting recaps and next steps
• Running point on coverage reports and monthly recaps, as well as other performance measurement/success initiatives
• Working with the account lead/manager to share status updates, flag coverage and more
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of the latest industry and media trends and translating them to actionable insights and recommendations

Requirements

Experience you have:

• You have about 2-3 of public relations/communications experience in an agency setting supporting consumer accounts.
• You’re comfortable building media lists and have experience pitching national, local and trade lifestyle outlets.
• You’re super organized, and teams can lean on you to keep dashboards and activity trackers up to date.
• You know your way around PR tools such as Cision and Muck Rack.

Equally as important, you are:

• Meticulous and well-organized
• Flexible and adaptable
• Collaborative and a team player, with a can-do attitude
• A creative thinker and problem solver
• Ambitious and entrepreneurial
• Inquisitive and eager to learn
• Honest and ethical
• Connected to culture
• Committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace

Benefits

• Salary Range: $55,000 - $65,000 (The actual compensation amount paid may vary and will be determined based on factors including the applicant's experience, expertise, skills and abilities.)
• Comprehensive health insurance with no-employee-contribution options + family subsidy
• Employee stock ownership plan where you receive shares of Project Worldwide, our parent company, for every year you work here
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) options with an annual employer contribution based on company performance
• Four-day workweek
• Flexible time off, more than a dozen company holidays, and mental health days
• Flexible work locations (with approval from leadership)
• Employee assistance program giving you and your family access to mental health resources, family and relationship support, career resources, legal and financial services, discounts, and more
• Paid parental leave and fertility support programs
• Training and team-building programs and activities
• Camp Praytell, our annual company offsite (eligibility based on employee start date)
• Our wonderful employee resource groups
• And more!

Interview Process

• Submit Application
• Phone Screen (30 minutes)
• Team Interview (1 hour)
• Final Interview (30-45 minutes)
• Skills Test (TBD)
• Offer
• Ideal Start Date: Early September

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all people at our company and do not discriminate. Period. All qualified applicants will receive consideration in accordance with federal law requirements, and because it’s the right thing to do. We comply with the applicable state and local law governing non-discrimination in employment in every single one of our locations, and we prohibit any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.