Account Director - B2B Tech PR

7GH Golin Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Golin Ketchum in the United Kingdom seeks an Account Director to drive multi-market client delivery across technology, B2B and corporate accounts. You will turn client goals into strategic, data-informed plans, advise on policy and regulation, and lead earned media initiatives with senior visibility programs.

You will partner with Directors to lead day-to-day delivery, grow the team, manage budgets and measure impact against business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Agency experience at Account Director level or strong SAM ready to step up.
• Earned media results with business, trade and national press.
• Experience beyond media relations: thought leadership, exec profiling, analyst relations or social.
• Understanding policy and regulation affecting tech businesses.
• Confidence with data, measurement and AI tools.
• Commercial skills: scoping, budgeting, forecasting.
• Experience managing and developing people.
• Excellent writing and editorial judgement.

Responsibilities

• Turn clients’ business goals into communications strategies grounded in insight and data.
• Counsel on reputation, policy and regulation affecting clients.
• Lead media relations across business, trade, tech and consumer press.
• Run executive visibility and spokesperson programmes.
• Brief and collaborate with Strategy, Creative, Data and Digital teams.
• Own day-to-day client relationships and deliver to time, budget and quality.
• Measure impact against business outcomes; focus on results, not just coverage.
• Spot organic growth and coach the team with clear feedback.

Skills

Account Director experience

SAM readiness

Technology/B2B/corporate

Earned media leadership

Thought leadership

Data & AI tools

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Agency: Golin Ketchum Job Function: Account Management and Growth Job Subfunction: Account Management Job Description: The role We’re looking for an Account Director who is an all-rounder.

You’ll be as comfortable shaping a C-suite narrative as pitching a tier-one business journalist, running a creative brainstorm or managing an account budget. You’ll partner with our Directors to lead day-to-day client delivery and grow the people around you.

What you’ll do

Strategy and counsel: Turn clients’ business goals into communications strategies grounded in insight and data. Counsel, and challenge where needed, on reputation, policy and regulation (from AI and data to sustainability), and on which cultural moments to join or avoid.

Earned media and influence: Lead media relations across business, trade, tech and consumer press. Build influence beyond traditional media, including analysts, creators, LinkedIn voices and the sources behind AI-generated answers. Run executive visibility and spokesperson programmes.

Creative: Brief and work with our Strategy, Creative, Data and Digital teams, pushing for brave, earned-first ideas over safe ones.

Client leadership: Own day-to-day client relationships and deliver to time, budget and quality. Measure impact against business outcomes, not just coverage. Work across UK, EMEA and global teams.

Growth and people: Spot organic growth, contribute to new business from strategy to pitching, and coach your team with clear, kind feedback.

What you’ll bring

Agency experience at Account Director level, or a strong SAM ready to step up, on technology, B2B or corporate accounts.

Earned media results with business, trade and national press, and the relationships to match.

Experience beyond media relations: thought leadership, exec profiling, analyst relations or social A working understanding of how policy and regulation affect tech businesses.

Confidence with data, measurement and AI tools.

Commercial skills: scoping, budgeting, forecasting.

Experience managing and developing people.

Excellent writing and editorial judgement.

Nice to have: specialist sector experience (AI, fintech, semiconductors, telecoms, HCM tech, cybersecurity), multi-market programmes, public affairs or crisis work, creator-led programmes, and award-winning work you can talk us through.

About us

Our growing London Technology team includes corporate and media specialists, B2B strategists, creative technologists and digital experts.

We’re part of a global network with tech hubs in London, San Francisco, Dallas, New York and China.

Our philosophy is to make the complex simple, helping enterprise and consumer tech brands tell human stories.

Golin Ketchum, formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic agencies, is the most awarded PR agency of the decade and is powered by Omnicom’s data and AI capabilities.

We’re fiercely ambitious, fundamentally kind, and we build an inclusive team where every voice is heard.

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