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About the Role

As an Account Director, you will provide high-quality strategic communications counsel, develop audience-first strategies, and lead teams to execute integrated campaigns and secure results. You will also be involved in agency projects, business growth, and service expansion, acting as an agency ambassador.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality strategic communications counsel
• Develop audience-first strategies
• Lead teams of ambitious go-getters to execute integrated campaigns and secure results
• Get involved with agency projects
• Help grow the business
• Expand our services
• Act as an agency ambassador
• Oversee or directly execute PR, influencer/creator, social, content, or more

Requirements

• 7+ years of public relations experience
• Deep understanding of the B2B/Tech space
• Experience leading and overseeing integrated public relations account teams
• Experience setting strategies
• Experience managing budgets
• Experience providing strategic counsel to clients
• Experience assessing outcomes
• Proven team leadership skills
• Proven people management skills
• Proven mentor skills
• Experience in managing accounts and client needs on a day-to-day basis
• Capability of driving strategy
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Sense of creativity for public relations campaigns/accounts
• Ability to develop scopes of work and budgets
• Ability to manage service levels with meeting deliverables
• Ability to keep teams engaged and motivated

Skills

• Strategic communications
• Audience-first strategy development
• Team leadership
• Integrated campaign execution
• Business growth
• Service expansion
• Public relations
• B2B/Tech
• Budget management
• Client counsel
• Outcome assessment
• People management
• Mentoring
• Day-to-day account management
• Strategy driving
• Critical thinking
• Creativity
• Scope of work development
• Influencer/creator marketing
• Social media marketing
• Content marketing

Location

• Australia
• Singapore
• New Zealand

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 7+ years of public relations experience

Benefits

• Additional gifted leave days for EOY agency closure
• 2 Give Back Days to volunteer with a charity of choice
• Inclusive Paid Parental leave up to 12 weeks
• Employee Assistance Platform with 3 confidential sessions per year
• Meeting free Mondays
• Opportunities to extend holidays through Work From Anywhere program
• Opportunities to explore new countries through Out & About program
• Global transfers between offices
• Catered lunch on the last Tuesday before payday each month
• Technology & mobile allowance
• Culture built on inclusion, #play, growth, and bringing your best self to work
• Dedicated Learning & Development program (Slingshot)

About the Company

• Communications and marketing agency built for challengers, disruptors and visionaries.
• Helps brands change the way people live, work or play around the world.
• Awarded for its culture and work with innovative brands shaping the future.
• Recently awarded ANZ PR Agency of the Year and Best Consumer Electronics & Telecommunications Campaign at the APAC SABRE Awards.
• A team of 60+ Slingers across Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.
• B2B/Tech portfolio includes companies like Cirrus, Figma, Stripe, and Tracksuit.
• Values senior strategic guidance and creativity.
• Deliberate about which brands they work with and say no to those who don’t fit their focus on clients shaping the future.
• Team is filled with smart, skilled communicators who share and live core values: Gumption, Build, Play, Tune in.
• Gives all Slingers the opportunity to do the most impactful work of their careers.
• Provides training, skills, and support to develop new passions, services, and client portfolios.
• Support of a dedicated manager.

Equal Opportunity

• Sling & Stone is built on the talent we hire.
• The best teams are built with people from a variety of backgrounds, offering a variety of perspectives.
• Encourages application even if not all specifications are met.
• Does not discriminate against any employee or candidate because of age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or disability or any other basis.
• People are chosen on merit, professional qualities and alignment with values.
• Committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.