Account Manager
$84,000–$91,000 year
RemoteUnited States or New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Account Manager at SourceCode, a communications firm delivering public relations services for consumer and B2B technology brands. AMs are the day-to-day account leaders responsible for guiding junior team members, achieving program KPIs, and providing senior counsel to clients. Responsibilities include identifying media opportunities, building media and influencer engagement strategies, creating news campaigns and pitches, leading client calls, drafting press materials and byline articles, ensuring campaigns stay within scope and budget, pursuing new business opportunities, mentoring junior staff, and coordinating with senior teams to deliver campaigns. The role requires translating complex technologies into media-friendly narratives, securing Tier-1 media coverage, strong writing/editing, and experience with new business processes.
Required Qualifications
- 6-8 years of professional PR Account Management experience, including managing and mentoring junior PR professionals to ensure their career success
- A proven track record of translating complex technologies into media-friendly narratives to create, oversee and drive media strategies to meet KPIs
- Clear examples of secured Tier-1 media coverage in national business media, trade/verticalized media (retail, marketing, advertising) and general business media
- Proficiency in organizing your own workload against priority and importance for the good of the team and helping other team members to do the same; managing up when there are conflicting priorities and deadlines
- Strong writing and editing skills and the ability to extract insights from large amounts of information; comfort with developing presentations and presenting your ideas to clients and the agency
- Experience with a new business process, including research, identifying opportunities, and the development and delivery of presentation materials
- Benefits
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