Senior Account Executive

Quinn PR•Miami, FL

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Interluxe Group is seeking a Miami-based, bilingual English/Spanish Senior Account Executive for its Strategic Communications team. The role supports luxury travel, destination, hotel, resort, restaurant, and culinary clients through strategic communications programs designed to generate measurable business results. The Senior Account Executive is a trusted day-to-day client contact who develops stories, secures earned media, manages account work, and supports press trips, events, and brand activations. The position reports to the Associate Vice President and includes regular on-the-ground support in Miami, as well as domestic and international travel.

Requirements

Four to six years of PR experience, preferably at an agency representing luxury travel, destinations, hotels, resorts, restaurants, or hospitality brands.
Professional fluency in English and Spanish, including confident communication with clients and media in both languages.
Established, active relationships with national travel and/or culinary journalists and demonstrated recent earned placements personally secured.
Excellent writing, editing, pitching, and storytelling skills, with a strong command of professional client communications.
Based in Miami/South Florida and available for regular on-site and on-the-ground client support.
Experience managing multiple client accounts, competing deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.
Self-directed and resourceful, able to proactively identify opportunities and move work forward with limited oversight.
Comfortable traveling domestically and internationally for client meetings, press trips, events, and activations.
Strong organization, attention to detail, and confidence representing clients, partners, and the agency.
Collaborative, polished, positive, and solutions-oriented approach.
Hands-on experience coordinating press trips, media visits, events, partnerships, or influencer programs.
Knowledge of Miami/South Florida media and hospitality, with a national media mindset.

Nice To Haves

Latin America and Caribbean experience.
Experience mentoring junior colleagues.
Crisis communications experience.

Responsibilities

Execute strategic communications plans for luxury destinations, tourism boards, hotels, resorts, restaurants, and travel brands.
Manage day-to-day client relationships, meetings, agendas, reports, deadlines, and timely communications in English and Spanish.
Develop proactive, newsworthy story angles and pitch national travel, culinary, luxury, and lifestyle media.
Write and edit press releases, pitches, media alerts, itineraries, briefing documents, talking points, and other materials.
Build and activate relationships with travel and culinary editors, writers, freelancers, producers, and influencers.
Personally secure meaningful earned coverage across national, regional, trade, broadcast, and digital outlets.
Identify timely travel, hospitality, destination, and dining trends and turn them into relevant media opportunities.
Plan and support press trips, FAM visits, media stays, desksides, client events, and brand activations, including on-site execution.
Support strategic partnerships, influencer initiatives, awards, and executive visibility opportunities.
Track earned media placements, monitor results, and communicate account progress against client goals.
Guide junior team members and coordinate deliverables while taking ownership of assigned workstreams.
Research clients, competitors, destinations, and industry developments to inform creative pitching and strategy.
Stay current on the Miami/South Florida hospitality landscape and the national travel and culinary media environment.
Manage multiple accounts independently, anticipate needs, resolve day-to-day issues, and escalate larger concerns appropriately.