Senior Account Executive, Associate Practice

Key Responsibilities

• Client Leadership: Serve as day‑to‑day contact for clients on assigned projects, managing deliverables and ensuring alignment with objectives. Lead client calls, provide tactical counsel, and proactively flag issues, risks, or opportunities. Build strong relationships rooted in reliability, responsiveness, and trust.
• Strategic Planning & Program Management: Lead elements of strategy development, message framing, and campaign planning. Oversee integrated program execution across functions, ensuring alignment with goals, timelines, and budgets. Collaborate with creative, digital, and analytics partners to deliver seamless, multi‑channel campaigns.
• Content & Storytelling: Write and edit high‑quality materials such as press releases, op‑eds, briefings, and stakeholder or policy documents. Translate insights into clear, persuasive narratives that connect to business and reputation outcomes, and review and refine content from junior team members to ensure quality and consistency.
• Media & Stakeholder Relations: Lead proactive outreach to journalists, influencers, and policymakers; secure earned media and stakeholder engagement results. Monitor trends and provide recommendations that shape client strategy and response, and develop and maintain strong relationships across media, policy, and industry networks.
• Leadership & Team Development: Provide guidance, feedback, and mentoring to junior team members. Model professionalism, collaboration, and inclusion; support performance and development conversations. Contribute to new business initiatives through research, insights, or pitch participation.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 2+ years of professional experience in communications, public affairs, or related discipline.

• Proven ability to lead and manage multiple small or medium‑sized projects simultaneously.
• Clear understanding of clients’ businesses and their missions, and key stakeholders (consumers, employees, investors, regulators, media, vendors, partners, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to develop communication programming and plans, implement integrated tactics, and impart knowledge to junior account team members.
• Ability to perform well under pressure and be a team player.
• Strong research, writing, and editing skills, and ability to interact with clients professionally and maintain relationships with media members.

Salary: $60,000 – $76,000 per year. Pay position within the range is based on education, experience, skills, seniority, location, travel requirements, performance, and business needs. The range is one component of the total compensation package, which also includes annual bonuses, paid time off, and region‑specific benefits.

Benefits:
Medical and dental insurance, vision, 401(k), life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance, wellness programming.

DJEH is a proud equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We seek applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, disability, military status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation in any part of the employment process, please let us know.