Account Director - Trailblaze

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own integrated communications leadership for complex, regulated categories, shaping bold, newsworthy angles across earned media, influencers, and partnerships to drive client business and industry influence.

  • Own cross-channel PR strategy and breakthrough angles that land major outlets and move brand narratives.
  • Lead and mentor a hybrid team, guiding client meetings with proactive counsel and crisis-ready thinking.
  • Navigate regulated environments, regulatory guardrails, and trends to convert insights into high-impact campaigns and new business.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own integrated communications strategy across earned media, influencer, creative, and executive visibility
  • Turn briefs into breakthrough ideas that get major outlets and headlines
  • Build annual comms plans, editorial calendars, messaging platforms, and campaign frameworks with KPI ties to business
  • Understand and navigate platform restrictions and regulatory guardrails
  • Invent moments that turn launches into cultural conversations and trends into stories
  • Know what's landing where, from Forbes to Rolling Stone, and plan next placements
  • Lead the team in generating and refining creative pitch angles, PR stunts, and hooks
  • Operate with platform fluency and scout next brand partnerships and workflows
  • Be the trusted advisor for CMOs, CEOs, and founders
  • Lead client meetings with proactive, authoritative answers
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Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC)

Composed of acquired marketing, media, and communications agencies, Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC) was created in May 2018 by 30-year marketing and communications industry expert and operator Michael Nyman with the intent to guide and advise clients to move quickly and more efficiently with their branding, marketing, and media decisions. ACC has developed a new go-to-market business approach with a series of strategic and complementary acquisitions. Acceleration's unique community of specialized firms helps clients move quickly and efficiently with their branding, marketing, and media decisions and actions, by ensuring all agencies are tech-enabled, with data and analytics utilization linking them all together and driving maximum results for their clients. Members of the community include Advisory, ACC's in-house marketing and brand strategy agency; MKG, a creative and brand experience agency; Pink Sparrow, a design, fabrication and 3-D printing shop; Stripe Theory, a data marketing analytics and reputation management agency; Pixly, a full-service, performance-minded influencer company; Trailblaze, a marketing communications firm specializing in regulated industries; powerhouse public relations firm DKC and its creative services studio, HangarFour. Across the community, ACC has over 550 employees across 12 offices nationwide as well as in London and Asia and represents some of the most influential brands in the world including Pepsi, T-Mobile, Stanley, Netflix, Google, Airbnb, TikTok, Meta, the National Basketball Association, and Delta, among others.

Founded in 2018
Los Angeles, California, USA
47 employees (7 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.1%
Direct
46.2%
Referral
6.2%
Social
16.8%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~47

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (13% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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