Tech & Cyber PR Account Supervisor

Adelphi Group; Washington; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

FleishmanHillard’s Washington D.C. office is seeking an experienced communications professional to join the Corporate Reputation practice as an Account Supervisor focused on technology, cybersecurity, and telecoms clients.

This hybrid role offers opportunities to lead media relations, craft strategic campaigns, and drive business development across enterprise and B2B segments with a collaborative team. Strong writing, organization, and proactive mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of public relations agency experience, with an emphasis on technology and/or cybersecurity and/or telecommunications, corporate reputation, crisis work, issues management, executive positioning and message development.
• Bachelor's degree in public relations, communications, journalism, or related field.
• Knowledge of media trends and issues and strong understanding of media environment.
• Extremely detail oriented and organized, with experience driving large initiatives and major projects from inception to completion.
• Excellent writing and editing abilities.
• Demonstrated self-starter with a track record of driving projects forward and course-correcting when things shift.

Responsibilities

• Build traditional and nontraditional media relations strategies, manage and execute campaigns and projects with a team, for our clients in the cybersecurity and technology sectors.
• Identify and pursue proactive opportunities (story angles, rapid response opps, newsjacking moments) without waiting to be asked.
• Develop and maintain strong tech media relationships with business and policy reporters and pitch ideas.
• Lead, support, and motivate teams to successfully build and maintain relationships with and correspondence to external: top-tier reporters, client partners, SMEs, etc.
• Write and edit communications materials that capture relevant audiences and reflect an understanding of our clients’ businesses.
• Play a pivotal role in overseeing and finding synergies between several client workstreams and account teams, including managing budgets and forecasts, overseeing projects and clients, and pursuing new business by leading and contributing to proposals and opportunities.
• Manage multiple client contact relationships and deliver according to individual contact needs.

Skills

Public relations

Tech industry experience

Media relations

Writing & editing

Strategic planning

Client counsel

Team leadership

Crisis management

Proactive storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Public Relations/Communications/Journalism

Job description

FleishmanHillard’s Washington D.C. office is seeking an experienced communications professional to join the Corporate Reputation practice as an Account Supervisor focused on technology, cybersecurity, and telecoms clients.

This hybrid role offers opportunities to lead media relations, craft strategic campaigns, and drive business development across enterprise and B2B segments with a collaborative team. Strong writing, organization, and proactive mindset are essential.