Senior Account Executive – Associate Practice

🕒 May 26

🏢🏡 Chicago – Hybrid

💵 $60k - $76k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💼 Account Executive

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Edelman

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5001 - 10000 employees

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

🌍 Social Impact

Media • B2B • Social Impact

Edelman is a leading global strategic communications and public relations firm that helps organizations build trust, shape conversations, and manage reputation through data-driven insights, creative campaigns, and digital innovation. The company produces research such as the Edelman Trust Barometer, offers expertise in brand marketing, influencer marketing, social impact and sustainability, and provides advisory services around responsible use of AI and technology. Edelman serves corporate, government and nonprofit clients worldwide to drive reputation, stakeholder engagement, and measurable business outcomes.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical and dental insurance • vision • 401K • life insurance • disability insurance • paid time off • travel assistance • wellness programing