PR Account Director (B2B)

Sling & Stone; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gifted leave days for EOY closure

Parental leave up to 12 weeks

Work From Anywhere program

Global office transfers

Job summary

Sling & Stone in Australia is seeking an Account Director to provide strategic communications counsel and lead ambitious go-getter teams on a mix of B2B and tech clients, working directly with founders and C-suite to shape campaigns that deliver real impact. You'll drive audience-first strategies, manage budgets, grow the business, and expand services while acting as a trusted agency ambassador.

Join our 60+ team across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and access Slingshot learning, career

Qualifications

• 7+ years of public relations experience in B2B/tech.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams and manage budgets.
• Experience overseeing integrated PR, influencer, social and content campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality strategic communications counsel.
• Develop audience-first strategies and lead account teams.
• Work directly with founders and C-suite on campaigns.
• Grow the business and expand services while serving as agency ambassador.

Skills

PR leadership

Team leadership

Strategic counsel

B2B/Tech experience

Budget management

Client management

Influencer/creator campaigns

Job description

We're the communications and marketing agency built for challengers, disruptors and visionaries. We help brands change the way people live, work or play around the world.

Come join the agency where you can shape your future, craft your career, and be you.

Awarded for our culture and work with innovative brands shaping the future, we were recently awarded ANZ PR Agency of the Year and Large Agency of the Year at CPRA’s Golden Target Awards, we can assure you you're joining the best of the best.

Sling & Stone is the public relations agency that unearths, crafts and shares the stories of the most ambitious brands shaping the world. We’re a team of 60+ Slingers across Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Our B2B Tech portfolio proudly includes companies like Google Cloud, Notion, Stripe, Reddit and Tracksuit, all companies doing cutting-edge, sector-disrupting work that shapes the world we live in.

We’re now searching for our next Account Director to join our Australian team. You’ll have access to a best-in-class learning and development program, Slingshot, career growth opportunities, and unique Slinger benefits that bring play to your every day.

The role you'll play

As an Account Director you’ll provide high quality strategic communications counsel, develop audience-first strategies and lead teams of ambitious go-getters. This is an opportunity to get stuck in with a unique set of clients, working directly with Founders and C-suite on communications strategies that make a real impact. You’ll get involved with agency projects, help grow the business and expand our services, all while acting as an agency ambassador.

To be successful in securing this role, you will need to:

• 7+ years of public relations experience, with a deep understanding of the B2B/Tech space


• Experience leading and overseeing integrated public relations account teams from setting strategies, to managing budgets, providing strategic counsel to clients, and assessing outcomes


• Have proven team leadership, people management, and mentor skills


• Experience in managing accounts and client needs on a day-to-day basis


• Be capable of driving strategy, have strong critical thinking skills, and a sense of creativity for a number of public relations campaigns/accounts, ensuring satisfaction across your client portfolio


• Be able to develop scopes of work and budgets, manage service levels with meeting deliverables, while keeping teams engaged and motivated


• Integrated work where you’ve overseen or directly executed not only PR but influencer/creator, social, content or more is a plus

Want to know more?

Here’s a Taste Of Sling & Stone

• We’re a team of 60+ spanning Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, delivering truly integrated campaigns


• We’re deliberate about which brands we work with and say no to those who don’t fit our focus on clients shaping the future


• We’re proud of what we do. Our team is filled with smart, skilled communicators who share and live these core values: Gumption, Build, Play, Tune in


• We give all Slingers the opportunity to do the most impactful work of their careers here, giving them the training, skills and support to develop new passions, services and client portfolios, with the support of a dedicated manager

Employee Benefits

As a valued member of the Sling & Stone team, you will have access to a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing, they include:

• Additional gifted leave days for our EOY agency closure


• 2 Give Back Days to volunteer with a charity of choice


• Inclusive Paid Parental leave up to 12 weeks


• Employee Assistance Platform with 3 confidential sessions per year


• Meeting free FridaysMondays


• Opportunities to extend your holidays and explore new countries through our Work From Anywhere and Out & About programs


• Global transfers between offices


• Catered lunch on the last Tuesday before payday each month


• Technology & mobile allowance to go towards your monthly mobile bill


• A culture built on inclusion, #play, growth, and bringing your best self to work

We've also recently launched our dedicated Learning & Development program, Slingshot, built to empower storytellers, boost career mobility, drive high-impact work, and nurture internal leaders. We combine structured cohort learning, peer-led skill sharing, clear role pathways, and self-directed growth allowances into our everyday culture.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Sling & Stone is built on the talent we hire. We’re only as good as our people, and the best teams are built with people from a variety of backgrounds, offering a variety of perspectives. Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements for our roles, if you think this is the job for you, please go ahead and apply. Studies have shown that certain minority groups will only apply if they meet every specification on a job advert and we want to change this. We do not discriminate against any employee or candidate because of age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or disability or any other basis. Our people are chosen on merit, professional qualities and alignment with our values. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.