[Remote] Account Executive, PR
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Codeword is a communication design agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences. The Account Executive will play a key role in executing strategic PR programs, supporting day-to-day operations for a portfolio of clients, and developing media relations to achieve high-impact results.
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day PR program execution on a maximum of 6 accounts, including media relations, supporting the account lead, writing, client relations, and reporting
- Scoring high-impact, top-tier media placements for your clients across all media verticals and mediums
- Maintain client activity trackers and drive the client reporting process
- Develop client account resources: media lists, speaking and awards lists, editorial calendars
- Bringing creative ideas to your clients about how to break through the news cycle
- Manage news monitoring process: client and competitor roundups—not just identifying it but also putting forward ideas about what we do with it
- Explain complex tech and industry-changing ideas to journalists in three sentences or less
- Participate in media training sessions and interviews
- Utilizing your writing skills to craft thoughtful content and communications for and with clients and media
Skills
- 1-3 years of experience
- A passionate storyteller and trendspotter
- Motivated, enthusiastic self-starter able to complete tasks with support from your account leads
- A gracefully persistent storyteller that understands how the media works and what's happening in the world
- Excited about building first-name-basis relationships with press, influencers and analysts across B2B and/or B2C tech
- An executor that is passionate about error-free work, double-checking that you've dotted your Is and crossed your Ts
- A team player who loves to contribute to the success of your teammates and clients
- Healthy dose of curiosity, as you'll be trendspotting and researching across your client industries
- Ability to complete the first drafts of creative work, press materials and support the generation of out-of-the-box ideas
- Skills in written and verbal client communication
- Heavily support account management deliverables that help our programs run efficiently and effectively
- Proactively developing hard-hitting story angles that regularly turn into high-impact media results for clients
- Growing your own industry reputation and Rolodex
- Passionate about meeting with journalists, influencers, and industry experts
- Previous experience in the tech (B2B or B2C) and startup worlds is helpful
- Deep understanding of the shifting earned media landscape and how to measure the value of a PR win
- Energetic and nimble self-starter that's comfortable with shifting timelines and priorities
- Doesn't shy away from receiving or giving feedback (even to managers)
- Willing to shoot their shot with a crazy idea, or raise their hand for a challenge
- Day-to-day PR program execution on a maximum of 6 accounts, including media relations, supporting the account lead, writing, client relations, and reporting
- Scoring high-impact, top-tier media placements for your clients across all media verticals and mediums
- Maintain client activity trackers and drive the client reporting process
- Develop client account resources: media lists, speaking and awards lists, editorial calendars
- Bringing creative ideas to your clients about how to break through the news cycle
- Manage news monitoring process: client and competitor roundups—not just identifying it but also putting forward ideas about what we do with it
- Explain complex tech and industry-changing ideas to journalists in three sentences or less
- Participate in media training sessions and interviews
- Utilizing your writing skills to craft thoughtful content and communications for and with clients and media
Benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
- 401k + financial wellness support
- Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services)
- Home office allowance
- Bi-annual Wellness Credits
- Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
- Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy
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