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[Remote] Senior Account Executive
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Venture PR is hiring a Senior Account Executive to manage day-to-day client relationships and lead strategic PR execution across a portfolio of clients. The role focuses on account leadership, media relations, campaign strategy and content, and providing guidance to junior team members.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for assigned clients, building trusted relationships and maintaining a strong understanding of each client's business, industry, goals, and priorities
- Lead regular client communications, status calls, and campaign planning discussions
- Translate client objectives into clear PR strategies, priorities, and actionable plans
- Proactively identify opportunities, challenges, and potential issues before they become problems
- Keep clients informed on campaign progress, media opportunities, results, and next steps
- Manage multiple client accounts simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail and responsiveness
- Ensure client deliverables, deadlines, and commitments are consistently met
- Develop and execute targeted media outreach strategies aligned with client objectives
- Research and identify relevant journalists, publications, podcasts, influencers, and other media opportunities
- Develop compelling pitches, press releases, media alerts, briefing materials, and other communications
- Build and maintain meaningful relationships with journalists and media contacts
- Conduct proactive and timely follow-up with media contacts to maximize opportunities
- Secure relevant earned media coverage across technology, business, trade, consumer, and other priority outlets
- Coordinate media opportunities, interviews, product reviews, and executive commentary
- Monitor relevant news and industry trends to identify timely opportunities for clients
- Develop creative story angles and narratives that position clients and their executives as credible voices within their industries
- Support product launches, company announcements, funding announcements, events, and other major client initiatives
- Contribute to thought leadership strategies, including bylines, op-eds, executive commentary, and speaking opportunities
- Prepare executives and clients for interviews and media opportunities
- Collaborate on messaging, positioning, media training, and other strategic communications initiatives
- Review campaign performance and use results and industry insights to refine strategy
- Provide day-to-day guidance, feedback, and direction to junior team members, including Account Coordinators, interns, and contractors
- Delegate appropriate research, media monitoring, administrative, and execution tasks while remaining accountable for the final work product
- Review junior team members' work for quality, accuracy, and alignment with client strategy
- Help develop junior talent by sharing PR best practices, media insights, and client-management skills
- Partner with senior leadership to identify opportunities to improve team workflows, account capacity, and client service
Skills
- 5+ years of public relations, communications, or agency experience
- Experience working with technology, SaaS, AI, robotics, consumer electronics, or other high-growth companies
- Demonstrated experience managing client accounts in a PR agency or similar client-services environment
- Strong media relations experience, including pitching and securing earned media
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to independently manage multiple accounts, priorities, and deadlines
- Strong client-management and relationship-building skills
- Demonstrated ability to develop PR strategies and translate them into execution
- Strong judgment, organization, follow-through, and attention to detail
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment
- Existing relationships with relevant technology, business, trade, or consumer media
- Experience supporting product launches, funding announcements, executive thought leadership, or major industry events
- Experience mentoring or providing day-to-day direction to junior PR professionals
- Agency experience managing multiple client accounts simultaneously
Benefits
- Remote (Must be comfortable working PST hours)
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