Account Supervisor - Corporate Reputation, Technology

FleishmanHillard•Washington, DC

18h•$61,000 - $94,000•Hybrid

About The Position

FleishmanHillard’s Washington D.C. office is seeking an experienced and versatile communications professional to join the firm’s Corporate Reputation practice as an Account Supervisor focused on supporting the firm’s technology, cybersecurity and telecoms clients. This is a hybrid role. This position provides a fantastic opportunity for a mid-level communications professional with a background in and passion corporate communications to work with collaborative teams on communications strategy and campaigns, media relations, corporate positioning, business development and content creation on behalf of our industry-leading clients. In this role, you will work directly with enterprise, B2B, B2G, and consumer tech clients, helping devise and execute large-scale communications campaigns that directly impact their bottom line. Our clients will depend on you to be responsive, thoughtful and proactive with ideas, own and drive communications programs from concept through execution, delivering measurable results. You will also own and advance media relations efforts on behalf of these clients across top-tier business, trade, and policy outlets. The ideal candidate is extremely organized, a self-starter who both initiates and executes, and demonstrates an ability to find synergies between multiple workstreams. They bring creative instincts to open-ended challenges and precision execution to tightly scoped ones, switching between both modes fluidly. FleishmanHillard values the importance of impact and inclusion to strengthen the bonds between us, grow our people and create spaces for everyone to thrive. We stay true to our commitment to our people and the communities in which we live and work. As part of our ongoing effort to be the world’s most inclusive agency, we are committed to seeking candidates who possess and demonstrate a profound interest in furthering our impact and inclusion goals.

Requirements

A minimum of 4+ years of public relations agency experience, with an emphasis on technology and/or cybersecurity and/or telecommunications, corporate reputation, crisis work, issues management, executive positioning and message development.
A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in public relations, communications, journalism, or related field.
Knowledge of media trends and issues and strong understanding of media environment.
Extremely detail oriented and organized, with experience driving large initiatives and major projects from inception to completion
Excellent writing and editing abilities.
Demonstrated self-starter with a track record of driving projects forward and course-correcting when things shift. Brings energy and ownership to every account, without waiting to be directed.
Creative thinker who can develop original concepts and storylines independently, not just execute against briefs handed down by senior staff.
Equally comfortable operating in white space and ambiguity as in executing precisely against tight parameters, mandated messaging, or strict brand standards.
Strong strategic planning and demonstrated client counsel capabilities.
Analytical thinking and an ability to understand complex industries and business concepts quickly.
Firm understanding of multichannel editorial content creation, development and distribution in order to manage editorial content and campaigns for client teams.
An ability to work well within a team environment, complementing senior leads and managing junior staff.

Nice To Haves

Agency experience, or experience working in/alongside enterprise tech, defense/intelligence community, federal government, or national security-adjacent sectors is a plus.

Responsibilities

Build traditional and nontraditional media relations strategies, manage and execute campaigns and projects with a team, for our clients in the cybersecurity and technology sectors.
Identify and pursue proactive opportunities (story angles, rapid response opps, newsjacking moments, etc.) without waiting to be asked, bringing a clear point of view on how to capitalize.
Develop and maintain strong tech media relationships with business and policy reporters and pitch ideas. Help shape client stories and messages with partners across media and platforms, with the goal of integrating clients into the broader news cycle.
Lead, support, and motivate teams to successfully build and maintain relationships with and correspondence to external: top-tier reporters, client partners, SMEs, etc.
Write and edit communications materials that capture relevant audiences and reflect an understanding of our clients’ businesses – ranging from internal to external documents, including pitches, plans, memos, research, written content, media materials, website and social media content, client correspondence, and collateral.
Play a pivotal role in overseeing and finding synergies between several client workstreams and account teams, including managing budgets and forecasts, overseeing projects and clients, and pursuing new business by leading and contributing to proposals and opportunities.
Manage multiple client contact relationships and deliver according to individual contact needs.