PR Account Manager

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$96K/yr – $124K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own client accounts as the primary lead, guiding strategy, managing a team, and driving media-focused initiatives.

  • Oversee day-to-day account activities and ensure quality work
  • Develop media strategy for product announcements, executive visibility and proactive campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As a client manager, you’ll act as account lead for your clients and provide daily counsel, oversee account activities and ensure our work is quality, strategic and creative.
  • You’ll partner with senior account leaders to develop strategy, and then be responsible for overseeing a team of junior staff to execute.
  • In addition to acting as account lead, this role also requires media expertise.
  • On your accounts, you’ll focus on developing media strategy that will earn clients coverage for product/service announcements, executive visibility programs and proactive campaigns that we’ll develop.
  • In addition, you’ll partner closely with junior staff to foster and grow their skill sets across your accounts

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of experience, preferably agency, working in technology (or related) environments, such as AI, cybersecurity, software, B2B and B2C
  • Experience developing media strategy for media initiatives such as product announcements, proactive campaigns, executive thought leadership, etc
  • Proven success earning media results for clients in business, tech and industry trade publications, with press relationships or recent coverage examples and offering counsel to clients on media strategy
  • Ability to lead leading accounts or large programs and providing direct oversight of junior staff (teams of 2-4 people)
  • Strong collaborator with ability and willingness to seek consensus; uniting groups of individuals together to achieve goals
  • A curious, entrepreneurial spirit that will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment by being proactive, always asking questions and taking a solutions-oriented approach to all work
  • Champion the use of AI tools and emerging tech to enhance writing, research, and automate workflows for efficiency
  • Ability to travel on a short-term basis for client and business demands
  • Previous experience of coaching and managing more junior employees
  • Proven record in high client satisfaction and retention levels

Benefits

  • 401k with match
  • Generous employer contributions toward insurance premiums
  • Paid mental health benefits
  • Paid sabbatical after every 6 years of continuous employment
  • Paid short-term disability and extensive parental leave benefits
  • Archetype Academy, mentorship, and other programs to support career development
  • A transparent, collaborative, and inclusive working culture
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Archetype

Setting the standard for the next generation of global agencies, Archetype partners with category creators and industry leaders to build the world’s most magnetic brands. We are 650 curious and creative individuals in 20 offices around the world that work together knowing that our clients’ success is our success.

Founded in 2019
San Francisco, California, USA
972 employees (212 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
27.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.6%
Direct
43%
Referral
7.9%
Social
3.5%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~997

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
151 (16% of company)
Median Career Experience
3 years
Median Tenure
2.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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