Account Executive

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$54K/yr – $68K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end media relations lifecycle from researching target journalists to pitching, coordinating interviews, and managing ongoing relationships, while shaping coverage and messaging; support strategy, timelines, and new business opportunities through cross-functional collaboration.

  • Manage media relationships and craft pitches and campaigns
  • Develop persuasive messaging and campaign materials
  • Support strategy, timelines, and new business opportunities

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Research target journalists, craft compelling pitches, coordinate interviews, help shape coverage, and manage ongoing media relationships
  • Develop and edit written materials - media pitches, press releases, client correspondence, press briefs, Q&As, thought leadership pieces and reporting - with attention to nuance on complex business, finance and international issues
  • Build and maintain a growing network of media contacts who are in business, finance, and international affairs beats; including monthly in-person touch points with journalists
  • Support strategy development for media engagement programs, bringing curiosity and fresh perspectives
  • Manage project timelines and deliverable deadlines
  • Support new business opportunities, including helping contribute ideas to RFP responses
  • Draft or refine messaging, pitch, Q&A documents and other campaign materials, as well as plans and recaps
  • Participate actively in the team's collaborative culture, sharing insights, asking questions, and supporting colleagues

Requirements

  • Minimum 2 years of experience providing public relations counsel to clients
  • Knowledge of media trends and issues and an understanding of the media environment
  • Intellectually curious – you follow the news, media trends and understand the media environment
  • High attention to detail
  • Excellent writing and editing abilities
  • Analytical thinking and the ability to understand complex concepts quickly
  • Energetic self-starter and resourceful problem solver – you get things moving, keep things on track; and know when to ask for help.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, persuasively, and make informed recommendations

Benefits

  • a range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off and/or other benefits also are available.
FleishmanHillard logo

FleishmanHillard

Founded in 1946, we push ourselves and our clients to rise above the status quo. As the world’s top communications agency for global clients, we’re committed to doing what’s right and pursuing what matters. We’re on a mission to not only be the world’s most inclusive agency, but to make the world a more inclusive place. FH Perspectives guides DE&I at FleishmanHillard. It’s how we welcome and celebrate the unique experiences and skills each colleague brings to the table. FH4Inclusion, the community service branch of FH Perspectives, is how we spread our culture of inclusion, by donating our time and expertise to local organizations in the fight for social inclusion. We frequently earn 100+ accolades each year, including the coveted Cannes Lions and PRSA Silver Anvils. And we’re a workplace of choice, being named one of Seramount’s (previously NAFE’s) “Top Companies for Executive Women” for 12 years running and one of the Human Rights Campaign’s Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality for four consecutive years. FleishmanHillard is part of Omnicom Public Relations Group, and has 79 offices in more than 30 countries, plus affiliates in 45 countries. Scam AlertFleishmanHillard is committed to a professional and respectful recruiting experience for all candidates. Our official job postings for FleishmanHillard can be found on our Join Us page and emails from us related to the recruiting process will be sent specifically from our @fleishman.com email address. FleishmanHillard will never request money, payment, bank account, credit card or credit score as part of our application process; we will not send you recruiting related emails from any other email domain name, extension, or variation. If you receive a suspicious email that is not sent from a team member specifically at our @fleishman.com email address or if you receive any suspicious outreach on social media, please forward the communication to Vickie.barrett@fleishman.com so that we can review and verify.

Founded in 1946
St Louis, Missouri, USA
2.1K employees (396 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$54K/yr – $68K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

See all FleishmanHillard salaries

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
60.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42%
Direct
40.5%
Referral
9.2%
Social
6.9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.2K

Recent News

FleishmanHillard logo

Account Executive

FleishmanHillard · New York City, NY · Hybrid