Senior Account Executive, Public Affairs

CLYDE is an impact agency. Named America’s best boutique agency 2021 & 2022 by PRovoke, we work with clients who want to make a difference by moving the world forward – helping them do it through earned, owned, and paid media programs, creative solutions, and smarter, informed strategies. By strategically harnessing culture, emerging tech, and insights to make maximum impact with communications, our suite of products and services are designed to create and measure effectiveness, ultimately leading to better outcomes.

The Senior Account Executive has 3–5 years of communications experience on political campaigns, Capitol Hill, trade associations, corporate policy offices, public affairs firms, etc. You play an active role on several client accounts (number depends on size of accounts). In this role, you develop personal relationships with clients, and actively identify opportunities to solve client problems and proactively advance ideas. You respond to clients promptly and anticipate their needs. The Senior Account Executive pays attention to relevant industry trends and flags stories as needed. You actively support junior team members as well as be an active participant in the business development process. In this position, you understand outcomes over outputs, and begin to move from tactical execution to strategic development. You play a role in guiding the professional development of members on the account team, play a critical role in account management and in moving deliverables forward.

What you will be doing:

• Work with clients and internal teams to develop communications strategies, and then support in executing integrated creative campaigns
• Establish self as a go-to person for regular client needs and serving 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
• Participate in staff meetings and retreats
• 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 news, proposed legislation, etc. that impacts clients and their industries
• 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's mission and vision
• Craft awards submissions 

Qualifications/Required Skills:

• 3–5 years of political communications experience
• Speaks with clarity, precision, 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 aggregators like Sprout Social, Meltwater, Hootsuite
• Comfortable with Microsoft and Google office products
• Interested and comfortable learning and adopting new tech platforms
• Interested in using practical applications of AI
• Comfortable with digital platforms like Wikipedia, Reddit, Discord, Meta Business Suite, LinkedIn Campaign Manager and social media platforms
• Experience pitching media
• Finds opportunities to deliver constructive feedback to senior team members
• Seeks and is receptive to constructive feedback
• Deep understanding of digital marketing and how SEO works
• Comfortable with digital marketing and confident in SEO programing, ad-buying, vendor management, and reporting
• Understanding of website fundamentals

The salary range for this position is $62,800 - $86,600.

About CLYDE

Founded on the principle that CLYDE is the best agency to work with and the best agency to work for, we strive to impact our staff and clients in positive ways that leave a mark. Here to get things done, CLYDE builds programs and systems that achieve business goals today making it possible for our clients to make a difference tomorrow.

Bottom line, CLYDE impacts outcomes.