Account Director, Client Experience, Corporate at Weber Shandwick | San Francisco, CA | $100K/yr – $130K/yr

Weber Shandwick

Account Director, Client Experience, Corporate

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive executive visibility and reputation for corporate clients by leading integrated, multi‑disciplinary campaigns and consulting senior leaders.

Own complex campaigns from strategy to high‑impact media materials.
Must-have: 7+ years in corporate communications, public affairs, or media relations.
Standout: Experience shaping executive positioning across advisory capabilities and cross‑functional teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Shape and execute integrated reputation, executive visibility and stakeholder engagement strategies in partnership with agency and client teams
Counsel senior clients and executives on communications strategy, emerging issues, reputational risk and cultural dynamics
Develop earned-first campaigns that connect business priorities to broader cultural, societal and stakeholder conversations
Build and maintain strong relationships with top-tier business, national, local, trade, multicultural and lifestyle media, as well as emerging influence platforms including creators, newsletters and podcasts
Monitor and synthesize developments across media, policy, technology, culture and business to identify risks and opportunities for clients

Requirements

7+ years of experience of corporate communications, executive visibility, strategic communications, public affairs, media relations or reputation management
Experience leading integrated communications and reputation campaigns across multiple disciplines
Strong earned media strategy and media relations experience, with a focus on executive visibility and positioning
Experience counseling senior executives and client leadership teams
Understanding of the evolving media, creator and digital influence ecosystem
Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and teams in fast-paced environments
Bachelor’s degree

Preferred

Experience counseling executives on thought leadership, platform development, narrative strategy and high-profile visibility moments is strongly preferred.

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)

www.webershandwick.com