Senior Account Executive, Technology PR

Edelman is hiring a strategic, collaborative communicator to join our dynamic Technology accounts as a Senior Account Executive (SAE). With a team of 100+ dedicated professionals across journalism, digital media, creative strategy, consulting, and integrated communications marketing, you’ll work with enterprise technology clients to build brands and achieve business goals.

• Serving as the day-to-day client lead for key work streams, managing ongoing communications, ensuring strong client service, and overseeing delivery of high-quality work.
• Monitoring and flagging client, competitor, and industry coverage, developing media coverage reports, and tracking major media moves.
• Providing strategic counsel on media strategy, narrative development, industry issues, and emerging technology trends such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation.
• Supporting executive communications programs by developing leadership narratives, messaging platforms, and thought leadership content for senior executives.
• Developing briefing materials for executive interviews, including schedules, messaging, and reporter backgrounds.
• Researching, writing, editing, and reviewing press materials such as press releases, pitches, briefing documents, fact sheets, contributed articles, and client correspondence.
• Cultivating and leveraging media relationships while guiding and supporting proactive outreach by the broader team.
• Mentoring junior team members through clear direction, feedback, and professional development.
• Participating in team-wide and client-facing brainstorms on announcement planning, media strategy, and message development.
• Maintaining a strong understanding of key client information—including business strategy, industry context, products, and competitive landscape—to inform program recommendations.
• Advising clients on emerging industry trends and proactively recommending narrative pivots or media opportunities.
• Coordinating with internal account teams across projects to maintain clarity around roles, timelines, priorities, and workflows.

• You possess strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, flexible environment and can manage multiple work streams with a sense of urgency.
• You work effectively both independently and collaboratively and enjoy mentoring team members.
• You are eager to take on greater ownership in client leadership and team management.
• You excel at building and nurturing media relationships and crafting compelling story angles.
• You are passionate about emerging technologies—especially AI—and how they shape the media landscape.
• You understand the evolving media relations ecosystem, including digital, social, Substacks, newsletters, and research platforms, and know how to leverage them effectively.
• You enjoy working on global business and collaborating across regions.
• You bring experience in executive communications and feel confident advising senior leaders on messaging, thought leadership, and public positioning.

• 2+ years of experience in Communications, PR, Marketing, Journalism, or related fields, ideally supporting enterprise technology clients
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Highly curious about technology, news, and people
• A team player – collaborative and participatory with a diverse cross-section of stakeholders and clients
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated understanding of the enterprise technology and AI industry and principles of integrated communications marketing
• Knowledge of tech industry landscape and top tech journalists, outlets, influencers
• Ability to use social media platforms for story mining and industry trendspotting
• Ability to adapt to new conditions, deadlines and assignments
• Strong work ethic and follow-through, and the desire to provide high quality work to clients and teams
• Pragmatic attitude with problem solving capabilities, with confidence to proactively share your ideas
• Solid knowledge of the MS Office suite
• Comfortable with using AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance content development, research, and…