Account Manager, Corporate Storytelling, 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 with a focus on Corporate storytelling and executive thought leadership. The ideal candidate is a skilled and effective leader, with 6+ years running PR and communications activities from a supervisory perspective. 

They must have experience with developing compelling corporate narratives and executive profiles, an understanding of the business media landscape, awareness of SHADOW’s clients in the space (spanning industries beyond Fashion & Retail to Beauty, CPG, Spirits, Hospitality & more) and a strong sense of how those clients and their executives can best position themselves to their target audiences. 

What You'll Do

• Client Correspondence: you are a key point of contact for the client, expected to provide authoritative guidance and serve as both the mouthpiece and the ear for your teams. You’ll be expected to lead your reports and clients through actionable steps to achieve success.
• Media Relations: you manage high level media relationships, identify strategic media, award and thought leadership opportunities, creatively identify new story narratives, create your own news when needed and provide counsel to clients in response to those opportunities.
• Manage & Multitask: you must effectively manage the daily workflow of three to six accounts simultaneously, while also driving consistent results. You’ll communicate account priorities and thoughtfully review your team’s work to develop the talent underneath you.
• Contribute: you will be expected to be a thoughtful and leading voice for the division and a contributor across the agency, sharing opportunities, insights, story ideas 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.
• A strategic mindset: you need to have experience thinking innovatively to concept and proactively lead comprehensive strategies across media, awards and thought leadership and demonstrated success securing larger brand feature pieces and executive profiles.  
• Established industry connections: you are expected to be a true industry player, in tune with industry trends and in possession of strong and reliable relationships across business media and industry speaking events (conferences, podcasts, broadcast shows, etc.) to advise your clients from a place of personal knowing.
• Strong written and verbal skills: you will craft materials to bring to life compelling narratives on behalf of the brands and executives we represent and must be effective and polished in your presentation of press releases, statements, media briefing documents and more.
• 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.
• Composure: you must have a demonstrated ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, work on multiple projects simultaneously and communicate effectively with senior executives. 

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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