Senior Leader (Client Lead) - Dublin
$85,000–$180,000 year
HybridDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Own day-to-day client management for a large, high-visibility account with minimal supervision, shaping proactive media and storytelling opportunities while writing briefing notes and reports to a standard suitable for investors, policymakers, or top-tier press. Manage multiple workstreams autonomously, triaging and delegating tasks to ensure nothing is dropped, and guide thinking across stakeholders to shape outcomes rather than execute instructions. Sign off on detailed creative comms plans and proactively project-manage major announcements or media moments. Identify and pursue new business alongside managing partners. Requires 8-10 years of progressive experience from Director level upwards, with elite writing judgment and a strong network of top-tier reporter relationships.
Required Qualifications
- 8-10 years minimum of progressive experience in communications, having occupied a role from Director, VP upwards
- Senior, largely autonomous account management on a large, complex client
- The judgment to triage, delegate, and keep several workstreams moving without dropping anything
- A fascination with media and storytelling
- An established network of top-tier and trade reporter relationships
- Elite writing and editorial judgment: able to write or tighten briefing notes, analysis, and reports to a standard that can go straight to investors, press, or policy contacts
- Very close attention to detail — non-negotiable
- Gravitas and stakeholder command, with the ability to guide thinking and shape outcomes across multiple stakeholders rather than just execute on instruction
- Fluency in the account's world (the AI landscape, or investor and policy perspectives) so you can spot and shape proactive opportunities, not just react to them
- Communications planning expertise: the ability to sign off on a smart, detailed, creative comms plan before it goes to a client
- Excellent team management and motivation skills: the ability to motivate your team, while keeping work to an extremely high standard
Desired Qualifications
- Experience handling tricky or sensitive media queries
- Sector-specific relationships, whether AI reporters and influencers or energy and infrastructure reporters
- A strong grasp of new and social media dynamics
- Product comms experience
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