Named America’s best boutique agency of 2021, Clyde Group is seeking a Senior Account Executive to join our growing public relations and communications agency. Under our vision to be the best agency to work for, we’re a principles-driven firm disrupting “business as usual” in communications through creative strategy focused entirely on results-driven client service. Our work deals with exciting national-level issues, including healthcare, education, agriculture, financial services, non-profits, civil rights, and more. Clyde Group team members should have an interest in, and enthusiasm for, the development of a rapidly growing agency. Our team is creative, ambitious, collaborative, and highly rewarded.
The Senior Account Executive plays an active role on 1-3+ client accounts (depending on the size of the account). SAEs develop relationships with clients and actively identify opportunities to solve client problems and proactively advance ideas. SAEs respond to clients promptly and professionally, and anticipate client needs by paying attention to relevant industry trends. SAEs understand the difference between outcomes and outputs, and are advancing from tactical execution to strategic development. SAEs plays a role in guiding the professional development of more junior team members on the account team. This is a critical role in account management and moving excellent client deliverables forward.
What you will be doing:
- Work with clients and internal teams to develop communications strategies, and then support in executing media, digital, and creative campaigns
- Establish self as a go-to person for regular client needs and serve as a primary point of contact for one or more clients
- Lead client calls, finding opportunities for junior team members to speak and stepping in as needed
- Develop relationships with clients and be confident and competent when communicating with them through various forms of communication (phone calls, zoom calls, in person meetings, emails, etc)
- Assign responsibilities to internal client teams with clear assignees and deadlines
- Ensure all client deadlines are met, and quality of work is high
- Work closely and respectfully with internal client delivery teams, including content, digital, and design
- Direct multiple client projects at once and be comfortable balancing competing priorities
- Takes visible and vocal role in developing and presenting to clients (training opportunities, board presentations, result reports, etc)
- Make clear assignments to execute client deliverables; ensure that all team members understand directions and deadlines
- Identify possible challenges with accounts and make recommendations on how to resolve them
- Work with account leads to help ideate and create campaigns and communications programs
- Active participant in the business development process for potential clients
- Show initiative in suggesting improvements and solving problems
- Participate in the management of our Fellowship program
- Participate in professional development opportunities for self
- Support hiring efforts through interviews
Position expectations:
- Adhere to firm’s policies and procedures
- Demonstrate a commitment to uphold and defend the highest levels of ethical conduct
- Seek opportunities to interact with and learn from firm leaders
- Have a fierce commitment to, and respect for, a diverse and inclusive workplace
- Possess excellent writing and grammar skills, including the ability to write concisely, clearly, and logically
- Proactively learn about and react to account industry related business
- Prioritize across accounts and competing priorities, and look to account leads and management to help prioritize as needed
- Apply logic to solve problems and get the job done
- Give team members confidence to complete tasks
- Solve problems while ensuring rules and directives are followed
- Confident and articulate when meeting with clients
- Communicate clearly to senior team members on shared accounts
- Quickly develop content as needed to meet client deliverable deadline; able to capture the unique voice of multiple clients for content needs
- Active and vocal participant in staff meetings and retreats
- Participate in business development by helping to develop proposals and join presentations to future clients
- Make recommendations to advance Clyde Group’s mission and vision
Qualifications/Required Skills:
- 3-5 years of communications experience; agency experience preferred
- Speaks with clarity, precision, and purpose in small and large groups
- Possesses excellent writing and grammar skills, including the ability to write concisely, clearly, and logically
- Knows and uses AP Style; can edit work of junior team members
- Comfortable with basic social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter
- Comfortable with Microsoft and Google office products
- Comfortable learning and adopting new tech platforms
- Experience pitching media
- Finds opportunities to deliver constructive feedback to senior team members
- Seeks and is receptive to constructive feedback
To apply, please submit a current resume and writing sample here.
Named America’s best boutique agency in 2021 by PRovoke, Clyde Group is a principles-driven strategic communications agency guided by a vision to be the best agency to work with and the best agency to work for. Based in Washington, DC, with a presence in multiple other locations, Clyde Group offers communications and public affairs services to major corporations, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and trade associations, among others. With a mission to create and connect to move the world forward, Clyde Group is driven by strategy, creativity, and experience, bringing ambitious ideas, creative solutions, and an authentic personality to every task.