Executive Vice President, Earned Media Strategy

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$210K/yr – $260K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Lead and shape cross-channel earned media and integrated communications for major corporate clients, guiding senior client relationships, strategic storytelling, and high-stakes media engagements while driving growth across disciplines and geographies.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategic vision for earned media and integrated communications across major corporate clients
  • Serve as a trusted counselor and business partner to internal partners and senior client leaders, advising on complex communications challenges, executive visibility, reputation, and high-stakes media engagement.
  • Lead the development of audience-led, culturally relevant ideas that create impact across earned, social, owned, paid, creator, partnership, and emerging channels.
  • Partner with Strategy, Analytics, Creative, Client Experience, and integrated media teams to deliver distinctive solutions that address marketing and broader business needs.
  • Shape the choreography of ideas across channels, ensuring each touchpoint works together to maximize relevance, reach, and impact.
  • Build and leverage senior media, client, and industry relationships to unlock opportunities
  • Provide executive oversight for major programs, ensuring strategic rigor, exceptional storytelling, strong delivery, and data-informed optimization.
  • Support account growth, retention, and new business opportunities across earned media and integrated communications specialty.
  • Identify and champion opportunities to expand client engagements across disciplines, geographies, specialty capabilities, and agency partners.
  • Develop senior-level strategic recommendations and lead high-impact presentations, pitches, and client discussions.

Requirements

  • 18+ years of experience. Agency experience preferred.
  • Experience leading projects from start to finish, working with integrated teams across various disciplines.
  • Proven track record of success in the corporate sector, including reputation management, executive visibility, crisis communications, and proactive media relations.
  • Bachelor's degree
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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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