Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the agency PR and client-portfolio leadership for food and beverage, driving media and influencer relations, events, and new business while collaborating across the network to lift outcomes.

  • Ownership of top fast food / restaurant client with cross-team collaboration to win earned media and drive events
  • Audience engagement: build influencer and analyst relationships that move campaigns and protect brand narrative
  • Delivery engine: lead proposals, budgets, and SHIFT content contributions to establish credibility in consumer behavior/experience

Job Description

Own the agency PR and client-portfolio leadership for food and beverage, driving media and influencer relations, events, and new business while collaborating across the network to lift outcomes.

  • Responsibilities: Manage a large fast food / restaurant client
  • Responsibilities: Ensure your team’s work is client- and/or media-ready before we press send
  • Responsibilities: Collaborate with experts across the network to strengthen your team’s efforts
  • Responsibilities: Run client events in the Chicago area (and beyond) in collaboration with owner/operators
  • Responsibilities: Identify and work with media, influencers and partners
  • Responsibilities: Ensure all clients are kept informed on emerging trends, actively engaged in our relationship and delighted with our work
  • Responsibilities: Nurturing and growing your network of trusted relationships with the media, industry analysts and influencers
  • Responsibilities: Lead new business prospecting, proposals and presentations
  • Responsibilities: Contributing to SHIFT’s content engine to help cement SHIFT as voice of authority/credibility and you as a thought leader in the consumer behavior/experience space
  • Responsibilities: Building SHIFT’s and your own personal profile through active engagement in relevant industry/trade groups, events and initiatives
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SHIFT

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SHIFT specializes in creating services that sell and is fully committed to supporting our clients’ business growth. We provide comprehensive IT solutions to help realize a smart, efficient society with no waste.Through software testing, we deliver safety and peace of mind in a world increasingly driven by IT. Beyond that, we help our clients achieve “services that sell,” contributing to Japan’s delayed digital transformation (DX) and the improvement of labor productivity.

Founded in 2005
Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN
849 employees (13 in marketing)
95% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
237.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
70.4%
Direct
20.2%
Referral
8.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~877

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$9.8M
Last Raise
$4M
Series A, 13 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2013
    Series A • $4M
  • Mar 2012
    Series Unknown • $5.7M

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