Senior Associate, Client Experience

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$59K/yr – $65K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own multi-channel PR initiatives and earned media storytelling for iconic brands, shaping culture-first campaigns and high-visibility product launches that land with media and audiences.

  • Multi-channel PR: plan and execute campaigns across media, social, and owned channels.
  • Earned media leadership: develop thought leadership, product launches, and earned-first creative programs.
  • Culture-driven storytelling: translate brand ideas into culturally relevant campaigns that resonate with target audiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support multi-channel campaigns and help bring to life the best in-culture ideas for some of the most iconic brands.
  • Contribution to earned media campaigns including thought leadership, product launches, earned-first creative campaigns, and more.

Requirements

  • Senior associate with a minimum of 3-4 years of experience and a background in consumer, consumer-tech, travel, fashion and/or CPG PR.
  • BA or BS in Public Relations, Communications, Journalism or related field.
  • Strong experience with both large-scale and start-up business environments preferred.
  • Excellent communication/presentation skills; verbal and written.

Preferred

  • Bonus points for media databases and social tracking tool experiences.
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Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
74.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
5.6%
Social
11.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
882 (20% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
7 years
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