Account Director - Trailblaze

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own high visibility communications across earned media, influencer, and crisis work while shaping ideas that become cultural moments and big-media hits.

  • Creative storytelling: lead breakthrough angles and pitches that attract national outlets and top-tier features.
  • Campaign planning with business impact: build annual comms plans and KPI-linked frameworks tied to client outcomes.
  • Executive counsel and team leadership: advise CMOs/CEOs, guide client meetings, manage issues and crises, and mentor staff.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Creative & strategic execution: turn briefs into breakthrough ideas that attract top media and influence, landing features in outlets like the AP, Colbert, and beyond.
  • Campaign lifecycle & measurement: build annual comms plans, editorial calendars, messaging platforms, and KPI frameworks tied to a client’s business.
  • Leadership & advisory: serve as a trusted advisor to CMOs and CEOs, lead client meetings with proactive counsel on issues, crisis, and big moments.
  • Platform fluency & partnerships: operate across platforms, negotiate brand partnerships, and stay ahead of evolving media and regulatory landscapes.
  • Team and client growth: mentor publicists and account staff, grow current clients, and bring in new business through proven results.
  • Culture and moments: invent moments that turn product launches into cultural conversations and trends into high-visibility stories.
  • Newsroom orientation: know what lands where and why, from Forbes to Rolling Stone, and map future placements accordingly.
  • Strategic collaboration: act as right hand to the Founder CEO and liaison to ACC agency partners, ensuring holistic, integrated campaigns.
  • Meeting leadership: lead client meetings with confidence, delivering answers before questions land and guiding senior stakeholders.
  • Collaboration in hybrid environments: foster a high-performing team culture in a hybrid/virtual model.
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Trailblaze

Trailblaze offers creative communications services that are smart, unexpected, and executed for maximum impact.We believe earned media is the ultimate influencer, and that no brand is too small to penetrate pop culture.Our business is built on referrals and a hard-won reputation for bold ideas, tenacious execution, compelling headlines, and record-setting results.We offer client services such as communications strategy, PR, paid media, events, brand partnerships, and influencer campaigns—with a particular specialty in CPG, beverage, and emerging sectors like cannabis, and celebrity brands or collaborations.Trailblaze is women-led and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with satellites in the New York and Miami media markets. We are part of the Acceleration Community of Companies alongside other culture-shaping agencies such as MKG, Pink Sparrow, Pixly, and Stripe Theory.Ready to put YOUR brand on the map? Let's Get to Work! Contact us at: hello@trailblaze.co

Founded in 2018
Los Angeles, California, USA
14 employees (2 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.4K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~14

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (14% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1