Marketing & PR Account Executive (Agency)

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive media strategy and client counseling as a marketing consultant, owning campaigns end-to-end.

  • Own development and execution of marketing strategies and media relations.
  • Strong counselor with excellent writing and client relationships.
  • Collaborative, small-team ownership and budget management for client goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Mix of strategy and tactics in your days.
  • Hands-on work of creating press lists, drafting press releases, and pitching as much as developing and driving the marketing strategy.
  • Media relations as a core part of your work, leveraging existing relationships with reporters and creating new ones.
  • Developing the strategy and preparing clients for their media moment, securing and staff interviews, and seeing pitches through from concept to coverage.
  • Persuasive writing, including client counsel, thought leadership, and ad copy.
  • Being a strong counselor to clients in writing, on calls, and in person, communicating directly and truthfully.
  • Collaborating with others on a small marketing team and with clients; majority of time spent shoulder-to-shoulder with marketers and executives; running the program and serving as primary point of contact; ensuring on track and on budget to hit client goals; delegating and collaborating with account team.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of marketing experience with a track record of developing and executing marketing strategies
  • Expertise in baseline marketing functions and materials: media strategy, messaging and positioning, content development, press relations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Confident and composed consultant presence, w/ the ability to build trusted relationships and provide sound counsel
  • Ability to manage multiple accounts and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  • Curiosity and eagerness to go deep into complex technical topics

Preferred

  • Experience working in or with science/tech companies
  • Agency background or professional services experience
  • Teaching, training, or mentoring experience
  • Experience with community-building, experience design, or events (formal or informal)

Benefits

  • Paid vacation and sick time, including maternity & paternity leave
  • JDI pays 100% of individual health care premiums, and partial premiums for spouses and children
  • 401K plan with matching contribution
  • Access to individualized professional development, as well as a team-wide professional development program
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JDI (Jones-Dilworth, Inc.)

JDI (Jones-Dilworth, Inc.) is a boutique consultancy that brings emerging technologies to market. We help identify and exploit market opportunities and love working with entrepreneurs who are unreasonable for all the right reasons. Our clients are market-defining companies that introduce new categories and destroy old ones. Based in Austin, TX, our team comes from diverse backgrounds—journalism, design, government, event production, academia, film, music, finance... Our work is constantly evolving. We’re a full-stack group that isn’t afraid to forge ahead, developing new channels and techniques along the way.You can read all about our philosophies and processes at www.jones-dilworth.com.

Founded in 2009
Austin, Texas, USA
25 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
17.1%
Direct
61.3%
Referral
8%
Social
12.3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~25

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (32% of company)