Senior Account Executive

Austin, TX (On-site)

$67K/yr – $80K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 11 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and nurture client relationships while leading media relations, content creation, and strategic recommendations across technology accounts to drive coverage and meet deadlines and budgets.

  • Manage client communications and trust building
  • Develop and execute media strategies including outreach and monitoring
  • Produce high-quality written materials and ensure alignment with client goals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as a client contact; continually foster client-agency relationship to build trust and become a valuable resource to clients
  • Conduct media relations efforts, including thorough media monitoring, proactively flagging relevant trends and articles, developing media lists, pulling analysis reports using tools such as Cision, Google Alerts, etc., and conducting media outreach
  • Identify media contacts in technology and business outlets, build relationships and secure coverage
  • Effectively develop full range of written materials including press releases, byline articles, speeches, client correspondence and reports
  • Write, edit, and proofread high-quality content including press releases, social media and blog posts, pitch letters, fact sheets, speeches, presentations, and client correspondence
  • Solid understanding of client business and their competitive environments, including business strategy, products and services, key customers and competitors
  • Support daily interaction with clients and prospects, work collaboratively with team members to achieve client objectives, help develop strategic recommendations, anticipate challenges and ensure deadline and budget are met

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience within the PR, Communications, Media or Technology industry preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing or Technology-related field preferably, or a related field
  • Excellent writing, verbal and presentation skills with the ability to speak with high-level executives internally and externally
  • Detail-oriented, organized and dedicated; proactive and enthusiastic with an ability to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines; a self-starter
  • Display and encourage creativity and innovation in self and others
  • Strong experience and knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Benefits

  • As a Senior Account Executive, you will receive a base salary and will have eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus
  • You will also be able to enroll in our Health, Dental, Vision, company paid Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, as well as 401k (match) plan
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone, office equipment, etc.
  • Generous PTO policy with paid maternity/paternity leave
  • Professional learning and development opportunities
  • Workplace flexibility
  • On-site and off-site social gatherings

Touchdown PR - a Ruder Finn company

International, award-winning PR agency with 110+ staff operating in the USA, Europe, and APAC and ANZ serving innovative and high-growth global B2B and enterprise technology brands. Specializing in cyber security, data analytics & AI, education, recruitment, networking communications, channel & MSP and many other innovative business technologies. Now a Ruder Finn company. Ranked by PR Week and O'Dwyers annually as one of the market leaders by revenue.Call: +44 1252 717040 or email: info @ touchdownpr.com

Founded in 2006
Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
54 employees (10 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.9%
Direct
38.9%
Referral
6.9%
Social
6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~54

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (19% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1