Account Executive, Brand

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$55K/yr – $70K/yrEntry Level, Mid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You’ll be responsible for maintaining a broad scope of day-to-day account work, including media relations, tracking, reporting and social media monitoring.
  • Collaborate within the team, drive results inclusive of traditional and emerging public relations tactics, and develop a comprehensive understanding of your accounts – their business, products, markets, and industry influencers. In addition, you will convey this knowledge credibly to members of your account team and to the media in order to drive media relations results.
  • Support day-to-day client communications.
  • Communicate proactively with account teams to ensure alignment on timelines, deliverables, and priorities.
  • Participate in client calls and meetings, with growing responsibility and comfort presenting updates, ideas, and results.
  • Develop a strong understanding of client businesses, including industry landscape, competitors, products, and target audiences.
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines are met.
  • Support teams with administrative and organizational tasks, including timelines, trackers, agendas, recaps, and status documents.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in public relations, communications, or a similar agency environment
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, with sharp attention to detail
  • Comfortable presenting to clients and engaging professionally in meetings and live environments
  • Collaborative, proactive, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
  • Ability to think on your feet and adapt quickly as priorities shift
  • Excellent writer with the ability to craft clear, compelling communications
  • Media-savvy, with interest or experience in consumer media

Preferred

  • Experience with Cision and/or Muck Rack

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance with prescription plans
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Be Kind to Your Mind program with Headspace subscription and access to mental health providers and other services through a best-in-class employee assistance program
  • Employee resource groups
  • Generous vacation, paid holidays and self-care time
  • 401(k) plan
  • Pretax flexible spending accounts
  • Tuition assistance
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Zeno Group

Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global, integrated communications agency, born from PR. We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients across industries and sectors unleash the power of strategic communications. Guided by our purpose to champion the courageous to achieve something better for humankind, we push boundaries to achieve real business value and societal impact for clients. Winner of the industry’s most coveted awards including the 2023 PRWeek Purpose Agency of the Year, 2023 PRovoke Purpose-Driven Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek U.S. Large Agency of the Year, 2022 PRovoke Best Large Agency to Work For in North America, 2021 PRovoke Global Creative Agency of the Year, 2021 PRovoke North American Agency of the Year, 2021 PRWeek Agency of the Year and a four-time winner of PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. Zeno has also been previously recognized by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Zeno is a DJE Holdings Company.

Founded in 1998
New York, NY, US
899 employees (182 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
34K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.7%
Direct
43.6%
Referral
8.4%
Social
3.8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~910

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
140 (15% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
21

Funding

Last Raise
Pre Seed, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2022
    Pre Seed

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