Account Executive, Corporate

We are looking for an ambitious, proactive, and driven Account Executive to join Assembly on Microsoft’s executive positioning team to join an expanding corporate line of work. We help our clients communicate their most pressing business challenges to a wide stakeholder set, ultimately expanding and improving their corporate reputation. While we help clients with the day-to-day, we also look around corners to help future-proof their businesses. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a relentless passion and understanding for the role of corporate and executive communications on behalf of a brand. We’re seeking candidates with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to push our thinking, share fresh, innovative ideas, and elevate the quality of counsel we deliver for our clients. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with talented corporate storytellers and integrated teams across Edelman’s global network. You’ll be joining a group of dedicated professionals who equally enjoy being on the forefront of business challenges and driving client results as much as they do working with each other.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate excellence in writing and proofreading both internal and client-facing materials, including earned media plans, press releases, pitch letters, and client correspondence 
• Help create traditional media strategies
• Craft pitches, actively build relationships with media, and execute media relations programs
• Provide client service administration support; attend meetings, handle scheduling logistics, and create agendas and recaps.
• Participate in new business processes including research, audits, and proposal development, as needed
• Commit to continuous learning through internal and external training opportunities

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of relevant experience in corporate communications and/or related fields
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent writing skills across various formats and media
• Media relations experience
• Understanding of effective storytelling and ability to think through how best to pitch a client’s story 
• Keen interest and high awareness of current events; understanding of today’s news and media landscape; and industry issues, products, services, and competitors
• Solutions-oriented mindset
• Proficiency with MS Office, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint

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Assembly is an integrated agency providing purpose-built communications to Microsoft – bringing strategy, creative, research, social and digital, and influencer marketing together to drive tangible business results and advance Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.  We advocate for ideas based on real audience insights and sound strategic opportunities and bring them to life with creative executions that earn attention. We are the team behind some of Microsoft’s most exciting work across Surface, Xbox, M365, and Windows to name a few. We are the lead agency for the Microsoft brand across social; the global PR agency of record for Xbox; and the influencer agency of record for Xbox, Surface, M365 and Windows. Assembly is also a strategic partner for executive communications across Microsoft Store and several executives across the company. Our results are a direct reflection of our culture and people – we believe that bringing together diverse perspectives enhance creativity and innovation, and we embrace and celebrate differences both in our organization and through our work. We’ve partnered with Microsoft for 27 years, across 17 countries around the world.  Come be a part of our collective story as we partner with Microsoft to enable each other to achieve more. Assembly Media was founded in 2014 under DJE Holdings to exclusively service Microsoft. In 2019 our parent agency, Edelman, was recognized by AdAge as one of the top 10 creative companies in the U.S. and recognized as a 2019 Best Place to Work.
Employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination before start date. Candidates may request an accommodation due to disability, sincerely held religious belief or exception required under applicable law. 
Assembly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.