Senior Account Executive; Financial Services

Dukas Linden Public Relations (DLPR), an Infinite Company, is a communications partner for leaders in finance, asset and wealth management, banking, capital markets, professional services, and digital assets. Founded in 2002, we help category-leading firms and innovators expand their share of voice and reach the audiences that matter most in a global marketplace.

Ranked among the top financial PR firms by O'Dwyer's, DLPR brings a deep bench of senior talent and a newsroom-first approach that consistently lands top-tier results. Our teams place clients across outlets like CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and Barron's, with sector strength spanning accounting, consulting, compliance, and law.

As part of Infinite, an international communications firm specializing in PR, Content & Campaigns, and Crisis & Litigation, DLPR now offers clients an even broader platform, pairing deep financial services expertise with an international network across the US and UK.

A media relations practitioner with a few years of agency or in-house experience, ready to take on greater ownership of client work. The Senior Account Executive leverages a solid understanding of media relations techniques to develop and execute public relations initiatives that promote our financial services clients to their intended audiences across business, financial and trade media.

Relying on communication, critical thinking and decision-making skills, you will play an active role in day-to-day client liaison. You will also delegate work to and coach more junior professionals to ensure your team is delivering on its strategic priorities and that clients receive a consistently high level of attention and professional service. Ideal candidates will bring a minimum of three years of PR and communications experience, a keen interest in financial markets, and exposure to financial services clients, with prior agency experience strongly preferred.

• Identify opportunities to build clients’ visibility in business, financial and trade media outlets that reach their target audiences.
• Develop key messages, story angles and effective media pitches on timely news pegs, including market developments and economic news; send pitches to journalists and follow up to secure opportunities.
• Manage multiple projects for multiple clients from concept to completion by anticipating challenges, troubleshooting problems, proposing solutions, overseeing quality, and ensuring deadline adherence and timely communication regarding progress and key developments. When relevant, delegate to junior colleagues.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of your clients’ businesses, including strategy, investment approach, industry issues, products and services, key clients, and competitive landscape. Work with the team to proactively identify and address clients’ needs.
• Ensure the thorough handling of all client service administration activities, including preparing client status and activity reports; taking note of all action items resulting from client liaison; following up on open and pending items; tracking for and compiling media coverage; and coordinating meeting and interview scheduling.
• Develop high-quality written communication, including agendas, reports, client emails, press releases, pitches and bylined articles, with only general direction from your supervisor, and route materials through client compliance review as needed.
• Contribute to the creation of strategic media plans to meet client objectives and work with the team to execute on agreed-upon objectives.
• Leverage existing media relationships and develop new connections with key journalists across financial, business, trade and mainstream media outlets.
• Assist junior…