Account Manager, Fashion and Retail

Location: New York, NY
Field: PR/Communications
Min. Experience: 6 year(s)
Basis: Full-time

Description:

SHADOW is currently seeking a candidate to fill the Account Manager role in its Fashion and Retail Division. The ideal candidate is a skilled and effective leader, with 6+ years running PR and communications activities from a supervisory perspective. They must have extensive knowledge of the Fashion and Retail industry, awareness of SHADOW’s clients in the space, and a strong sense of how those clients can best position themselves to their target audiences. 

What You'll Do

• Client Correspondence: you are the first point of contact for the client, therefore serving as both the mouthpiece and the ear for your teams. You’ll be expected to communicate effectively and authoritatively and filter it to your reports through actionable steps.
• Manage & Multitask: you must effectively manage the daily workflow of three to six accounts simultaneously, while also driving consistent media results. You set the account priorities, communicate them, and thoughtfully review your team’s work so as to develop the talent underneath you.
• Media relations: you manage high level media relationships, identify strategic media opportunities, and provide counsel to clients in response to those opportunities.
• Creative lead: Account Managers are faucets of creativity not just for their own clients, but for the agency-wide portfolio. You are expected to generate breakthrough ideas and concepts that maintain the firm’s position at the industry’s cutting edge as well as help execute cross-divisional projects.
• Contribute: you will be expected to be a thoughtful and leading voice for the division, contributing to brainstorms, projects, processes, learnings that benefit all clients, and more 

Requirements:

• Excellent management skills: a leader and team player in one, you must know how to supervise, mentor, and inspire your reports and create cross-functional, tight-knit teams.
• Established industry connections: as a manager, you are expected to be a true industry player, in possession of strong and reliable relationships with media, influencers and potential industry partners.
• Track record: we will want to see examples of breakthrough campaigns, activations, and placements that you’ve personally led that made an impact for your clients and a splash in the space.
• Savviness: you must be in tune with industry trends, have a strong understanding of the media landscape, have your finger on the pulse of pop culture and social media, and be prepared to advise your clients from a place of personal knowing.
• Composure: you must have a demonstrated ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines and work on multiple projects simultaneously.

What We Provide

• Medical + dental + vision insurance
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Dedicated mental health days
• Unlimited sick time
• Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests, on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching Pre-tax commuter and healthcare benefits
• 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
• Summer Fridays (end work at 3pm on Fridays Memorial Day - Labor Day)
• Individualized career mapping 

Annual Compensation

$85K - $115K commensurate with experience

Additional Information

SHADOW  promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons, and to recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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