Sr. Account Supervisor, Communications & Brand Reputation

Department: Brand Reputation

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York

Reporting To: VP, Brand Reputation

Description

Day One Agency—Fast Company’s #1 on the Most Innovative list —is hiring!

We’re looking to add to our quickly-growing team with an entrepreneurial-minded, high-achieving leader who will be instrumental in growing our thought leadership, corporate storytelling and executive communications function at the agency. This role will serve as a Sr. Account Supervisor, helping to manage priority executive communications, thought leadership and corp comms accounts as well as helping to drive other priority internal/external agency initiatives.  
The ideal candidate will be a communications expert and project manager with the ability to multitask, self-motivate and work within deadlines. We’re looking for someone who has a strong track record of driving results that help brands and their executives build a corporate narrative and break through to achieve earned media success.
Our company culture is at the core of everything we do. It’s what makes every day, Day One. We offer a highly collaborative environment where smart, passionate people come together to solve creative challenges. We work hard on the things we love.  It’s how we produced e.l.f. SKIN’s first-ever global brand campaign based on cultural insights that our team unlocked and how we honed in on the legacy of both Nike and Converse to contextualize each brand’s heritage with creative that resonates with the next generation.
Our relationships power us. Our colleagues, clients, and partners are the most important part of our business. If you want to join a fast-growing, award-winning, creative team, we’d love to hear from you.
This role is full-time, requires a hybrid work schedule, and is available only in New York.

Responsibilities

This role will provide a significant entrepreneurial opportunity, working closely with the co-founders (and other senior leaders), in shaping the company’s culture, chemistry and providing input regarding policies and procedures.  Key responsibilities include: 

• Help to drive corporate communications workstreams forward.
• Focus on corporate storytelling, executive communications and brand narrative development across earned, owned and Executive channels.
• Help craft our clients’ corporate narratives 
• Support competitive analysis and media audits to uncover narrative white space for brands
• Drive forward thought leadership initiatives for key members of the leadership team
• Drive earned business and innovation storytelling for the brand, showcasing new features and products through priority corporate narratives
• Identify, vet and secure speaking opportunities, panels, main stage moments and awards
• Support thought leadership initiatives across innovation and product focused workstreams 
• Partner with existing team to uncover new angles and opportunities to drive our clients’ corporate narratives 
• Liaise with business and trade media 

Ongoing Responsibilities: 

• Demonstrate a clear understanding of our clients’ business and drive results 
• Help develop communications strategies and activations to meet client goals
• Support senior leaders in training and build strategies for C-Suite executives across our client roster
• Drive PR narrative development across priority projects, through the lens of executive voices
• Leverage media relationships to break through with news and ongoing brand narratives
• Create and execute PR strategies for quarterly earnings announcements   
• Develop strategies to raise the visibility of key executives via owned social channels for both executives and the brands they lead
• Be proactive, anticipate client needs and keep multiple activities moving
• Maintain current knowledge of trends, the competitive landscape, and confidently provide strategic point-of-views to the client
• Develop and deliver informed strategic recommendations based on understanding of best practices across each client’s category and competitive set
• Relentless curiosity is a must -- we’re always looking for what’s new, next and never been done before and are open to experimentation and pushing the boundaries.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in integrated communications
• Prior PR agency experience; integrated communications strategy; specialization in thought leadership; strong writing and narrative development skills; expertise in executive comms (owned and earned) 
• Strong media relations skills and contacts
• Experie