Senior PR Account Lead, Beauty & Lifestyle

Critical Path Advisors; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Critical Path Advisors in New York seeks an Account Supervisor to lead day-to-day client programs across beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands. You’ll build trusted relationships, drive strategy, supervise junior staff and keep campaigns on track from concept through execution.

You’ll partner with senior leadership to optimize performance, manage budgets, and identify growth opportunities while staying ahead of industry trends and emerging AI-enabled tools to strengthen client visibility and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 6-8 years of PR/communications experience, agency setting preferred.
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple client accounts.
• Experience mentoring junior team members.
• Strong media relations across beauty, fashion, lifestyle, consumer outlets.
• Understanding of affiliate and commerce media landscapes.
• Influencer marketing experience with vetting and reporting.
• Excellent organizational and project-management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication, detail oriented.
• Proactive, resourceful and solutions-driven.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day account activity across beauty, fashion and lifestyle clients.
• Own account workflow, priorities and deliverables with deadlines.
• Escalate strategic decisions and opportunities to senior leadership.
• Manage client communications and proactive, thoughtful counsel.
• Mentor junior team members and ensure quality and timeliness.
• Develop and execute integrated strategies across earned media, influencer, digital and events.
• Understand affiliate and commerce landscape for editorial opportunities.
• Lead influencer initiatives from creator identification to reporting.
• Monitor trends to surface timely opportunities for programs.
• Oversee launches, events, mailers, partnerships from planning to reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Project mgmt

Mentoring

Client relations

Strategic thinking

Budget mgmt

Communication

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cision

CreatorIQ

GlobeNewswire

MightyScout

Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

Job description

Critical Path Advisors in New York seeks an Account Supervisor to lead day-to-day client programs across beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands. You’ll build trusted relationships, drive strategy, supervise junior staff and keep campaigns on track from concept through execution.

You’ll partner with senior leadership to optimize performance, manage budgets, and identify growth opportunities while staying ahead of industry trends and emerging AI-enabled tools to strengthen client visibility and