Account Manager, B2B Technology
$85,000–$95,000 year
Hybrid · San Francisco, California, United States or Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Account Manager responsible for leading integrated communications plans, providing strategic counsel to clients, and pitching earned media for B2B technology clients. You’ll manage a distributed team, coach staff, support new business pitches, and collaborate across SHIFT’s network to develop proposals. Key duties include leading campaigns, ensuring client- and media-ready output, expanding client relationships, mentoring team members, and helping to shape SHIFT’s content and thought leadership in consumer behavior/experience. Requires a bachelor’s degree in PR/Communications/Journo/Liberal Arts, 5–7 years in an agency or fast-paced client environment, proven media-relations success, and a digital/mobile-first mindset. Benefits include flexible hybrid work, competitive salary, PTO, healthcare, 401k, parental leave, and ongoing professional development.
Required Qualifications
- BA or BS in PR, Communications, Journalism or Liberal Arts
- Five-to-seven year track record of success and increasing responsibility in an agency or fast-paced client environment (some agency experience is critical)
- Demonstrable success in pitching and securing earned media opportunities in top-tier media that align clients/companies with larger trends and world events
- A natural digital- and mobile-first mindset to all you do
- Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication
- Interest and perspective on the world around you, especially on topics that are covered by today’s media
- An insatiable curiosity combined with an innate ability to think critically that translates into creativity, founded in strategy
- Current knowledge of and comfort operating within and across the PESO media landscape
- An ability to inspire those under and around you to work together and deliver stellar work
Desired Qualifications
- Five-to-seven year track record of success and increasing responsibility in an agency or fast-paced client environment
- Demonstrable success in pitching and securing earned media opportunities in top-tier media
- Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication
- Current knowledge of and comfort operating within and across the PESO media landscape
- An insatiable curiosity combined with an innate ability to think critically that translates into creativity, founded in strategy
- Digital- and mobile-first mindset
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