Senior Account Executive, Associate Practice

About The Role

Senior Account Executives (SAEs) are strong communicators who serve as trusted connectors between clients, teams, and media or stakeholder networks. They show emerging leadership by anticipating needs, solving problems proactively, and influencing both internal and external stakeholders with clarity and confidence.

SAEs demonstrate ownership of work streams, contribute to strategic planning, and provide coaching and quality oversight for junior staff. As they continue to build their expertise, SAEs may begin to specialize in a particular practice area based on their skills, experience, and professional goals.

In this role, you will primarily support work across a global food & beverage consumer brand portfolio.

• Crafting strategic media materials and coordinating proactive outreach for integrated communications programs spanning consumer products, retail experiences and brand initiatives.
• Executing earned-first campaigns and activations that drive brand visibility, cultural relevance and audience engagement.
• Supporting product launches and seasonal storytelling through media relations, event execution and cross-functional collaboration across internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitoring media coverage, social conversation and emerging issues to help inform real-time client counsel, identify opportunities and support rapid response communications efforts.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Review and refine content from junior team members to ensure quality and consistency.

• 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.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across media, policy, and industry networks.

• 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 required
• Minimum of 2+ years of professional experience in communications, public affairs, or a related discipline.

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

$60,000 - $76,000 per year

DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programming.

DJEH is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, military and veteran 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.