Account Director / Senior Account Director - Public Relations

Sling & Stone; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading integrated public relations agency seeks an Account Director or Senior Account Director in San Francisco. This role involves strategic counsel delivery, team leadership, and contributing to the growth of the agency in an exciting environment supporting revolutionary brands.

Benefits

20 days PTO + 10 wellness leave

Paid Parental Leave up to 12 weeks

Meeting Free Fridays

Diversity and Inclusion Program

Flexible work locations across global offices

Qualifications

• 7+ years of public relations experience, especially with startup clients.
• Experience leading integrated public relations teams across various channels.
• Proven team leadership and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic communications counsel and develop campaigns.
• Lead teams to execute integrated campaigns.
• Grow business presence in the Bay Area and expand services.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Public relations

Networking

Media relations

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Do you want to join a growing integrated public relations agency that’s on an exciting upward trajectory? Do you want to be part of a team with a mission to tell stories for the world's most ambitious brands shaping the future? Look no further.

Sling & Stone is an integrated public relations agency purpose-built for disruptors and challenger brands changing the way we live, work and play.

Globally, we’re a team of 80+ across the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. We’ve won multiple ‘best place to work’ awards and partner with both established brands and cool start-ups, including out of the US tech disruptors such as The Farmer's Dog, Lucidchart, Canva, Bonfire Ventures, Monarch Tractors, Leonardo.ai, and many more.

We’re now on the search for an ambitious Account Director or Senior Account Director, B2B – Public Relations to join our US team and be instrumental to the growth of the business and building out our team in San Francisco.

The role you’ll play

As an Account Director or Senior Account Director, B2B - Public Relations based in San Francisco, you’ll provide high quality strategic communications counsel, develop audience-first strategies and lead teams of ambitious go-getters to execute integrated campaigns and secure results. You’ll also get involved with agency projects, help grow the business and expand our services, all while acting as an agency ambassador in San Francisco You’ll be responsible for helping grow our team, presence, and network in the Bay Area with a focus on permeating tech, startups, and venture capitalists.

In return, you’ll be working with some of the most exciting and innovative brands who are truly disrupting traditional industries, have purpose-driven missions, and are looking to shake things up.

To be successful in this role you’ll need

• 7+ years of public relations experience, with a specialism working with start-up/ scale up technology clients. Integrated work where you’ve overseen or directly executed not only PR but influencer/creator, social, content or more is a plus. A network of media and contacts in VC is a double plus.
• 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
• Build, nurture, and grow relationships with top tier media, stakeholders, and VCs
• Have experience or a desire to work on new business, from proposal development to pitching clients
• Be able to develop scopes of work and budgets, manage service levels with meeting deliverables, while keeping teams engaged and motivated
• A drive and desire to be part of our growth story as we continue building up our US team

Want to know more?

Here’s a taste of Sling & Stone:

• We’re an award-winning global team of 80 spanning the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, delivering truly global 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.
• While we don’t take ourselves too seriously, we do take our work very seriously. 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.
• We offer 20 days PTO per year, which rolls over if you don't use it by the end of the year, and an additional 10 days wellness leave per year which can be taken for physical or mental wellbeing, as well as an agency-wide closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Every Slinger also has access to an additional 2 floating days per year which can be used to observe dates and causes that are significant but not necessarily recognised by standard public holidays.
• We’re supportive of parents and believe in inclusivity regardless of whether you’re considered the primary and secondary carer: we offer up to 12 weeks Paid Parental Leave for anyone, and in the unfortunate circumstance of baby loss, up to 8 weeks Paid Compassionate Pregnancy Loss Leave.
• We enjoy Meeting Free Fridays so everyone gets a full day of uninterrupted focus time.
• A robust DEI program that focuses on mental health, team education, building a diverse team, client work, and community outreach.
• With offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore, as well as sister agencies across the global VCCP group network to which we belong, there are opportunities to extend your holiday or stay in a location and work from another Sling & Stone or group office.

Sounds interesting?

If you’re ready for your next challenge and have gumption, build, tune in and play in spades, hit apply and send us your resume along with a cover letter explaining why you’re the right fit for this role.

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 in 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Public Relations

• Industries

  Public Relations and Communications Services

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