Account Director, Client Experience, Technology

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$105K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive proactive earned media programs from strategy to execution, serving as senior client counsel, shaping narratives for complex B2B tech, and collaborating with analytics and influencers to extend reach.

  • Lead strategic media programs and mentor junior team members
  • Secure high-profile placements and influence executive visibility

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Earned Media Strategy & Execution: Design and execute proactive, integrated earned media campaigns that align with client business objectives. Secure top-tier business, financial, and tech trade coverage.
  • Strategic Client Counsel: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients. Provide real-time counsel on media landscape shifts, crisis/issues management, and executive visibility opportunities.
  • Narrative & Message Development: Translate complex, highly technical B2B products and services into compelling, culturally resonant stories that appeal to both technical decision-makers and the broader business community.
  • Integrated Collaboration: Partner seamlessly with Weber I/O (analytics and AI) and Weber Create (integrated media and influencers) to ensure earned media is machine-readable, optimized for search, and integrated into broader marketing ecosystems.
  • Media Relations: Maintain and continuously cultivate deep relationships with key journalists, editors, and analysts at top-tier business and technology publications.
  • Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and inspire junior Technology team members. Guide their professional development and ensure excellence in execution across all account operations.
  • Business Development: Play a critical role in agency growth by contributing strategic media insights and participating in new business pitches for the Tech Practice.

Requirements

  • Experience: 8–10 years of experience in public relations, communications, or journalism, with a heavy emphasis on B2B technology within an agency environment.
  • Media Prowess: A proven track record of securing high-profile placements in top-tier business (e.g., WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC) and technology trade publications. Deep, active relationships with key tech reporters.
  • Strategic Thinking: Exceptional ability to connect macroeconomic trends and cultural moments with enterprise tech narratives.
  • Writing Excellence: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; ability to draft compelling pitches, bylines, press releases, and executive briefing materials.
  • Leadership: Demonstrated experience managing and developing junior talent, with a collaborative approach to working across cross-functional teams.
  • Agility: A high degree of adaptability and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed, global agency environment.
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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)

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Account Director, Client Experience, Technology

Weber Shandwick · Los Angeles, CA · Hybrid