Senior Account Director, Integrated PR (Traditional & Digital)

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated communications programs across traditional, digital and AI-enabled media to shape client visibility, authority and discovery, while mentoring teams and turning emerging AI/search trends into actionable agency strategy.

  • Own integrated PR and Digital PR campaigns across multiple client portfolios.
  • Lead and develop account teams, ensuring campaign quality and progress.
  • Translate AI and search developments into client strategies and agency best practices.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead integrated Traditional and Digital PR campaigns across multiple client accounts.
  • Oversee planning and execution of proactive media campaigns, thought leadership programmes and data-led Digital PR activations.
  • Drive national, trade and international media coverage across client portfolios.
  • Lead Digital PR initiatives designed to improve organic visibility, earn authoritative backlinks and strengthen AI search visibility.
  • Oversee AI and LLM-related communications strategies, ensuring clients are positioned effectively across evolving search, discovery and AI-driven information environments.
  • Monitor developments across AI platforms, large language models and search ecosystems, translating emerging opportunities into client strategies and agency best practice.
  • Manage and mentor account teams, supporting development, quality control and progression.
  • Work alongside creative, design and content specialists to develop campaign concepts, reports, research programmes and visual assets.
  • Provide oversight across creative and design workflows to ensure campaigns are delivered cohesively and in line with client objectives.
  • Oversee campaign measurement, reporting and KPI performance across Traditional and Digital PR programmes.

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years’ experience within agency or in-house communications environments.
  • Strong track record delivering both Traditional and Digital PR campaigns.
  • Experience managing teams and developing talent.
  • Strong understanding of media relations, search visibility, Digital PR and reputation management.
  • Commercial awareness and confidence operating within senior client environments.
  • Excellent writing, editing and strategic planning skills.
  • Ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-moving agency environment.
  • Experience working with founder-led businesses, scale-ups, AI companies or high-growth brands is highly desirable.

Preferred

  • Experience overseeing creative or design delivery.
  • Experience working with proprietary research, white papers and thought leadership programmes.
  • Understanding of AI search visibility, organic growth strategies, large language models and evolving search behaviours.
  • Experience contributing to agency growth, new business pitches and service development.
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Group42

Group42 is an industry-specific agency, and as such, we are able to establish and manage true relationships with our clients and the editors and writers covering the shelter industry. Our clients appreciate this level of attention and know that their communications plans are not only implemented, but also nurtured by those who created them. Group42 is known for developing iconic brands through a strong, visual brand identity, logo design, effective taglines, a carefully-constructed brand culture, demographic-identification and market research, and eye-catching advertising, combined with a compelling corporate narrative which is disseminated through the print and digital information streams. In addition, the experts at Group42 create digital PR campaigns specifically designed to pinpoint your carefully-targeted demographic.

Founded in 1997
Hacienda Heights, California, USA
1 employees

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