Account Director

Do you want to join a PR Agency that's on an exciting growth trajectory and was named the winner of The PR Net Awards 100? Do you want to be part of a team with a mission to tell stories for the world's most ambitious brands shaping the future? Look no further.

Sling & Stone is an integrated PR agency purpose-built for disruptors and challenger brands changing the way we live, work and play.

Globally, we're a team of 80+ across Australia, United States, New Zealand and Singapore. We've won multiple best place to work awards and partner with both established brands and cool start-ups, including out of the US tech disruptors such as The Farmer's Dog, Speck, G-P, Dreame, CiCLO, Leonardo.ai, Lucid Chart, Nourish, Monarch Tractors and many more.

We're now on the search for an ambitious Account Director to join our New York team, who is passionate about working with innovative challenger brands across both business and consumer!
The role you'll play

As an Account Director - New York you'll provide high quality strategic comms counsel, develop audience-first strategies and lead teams of ambitious go-getters to execute campaigns and secure results. You'll also get stuck into agency projects, help grow the business and expand our services, all while acting as an agency ambassador.

In return, you'll be working with some of the most exciting and innovative brands who are truly disrupting traditional industries, have purpose-driven missions, and offer up rewarding work.
To be successful in this role you'll need

• 7+ years of experience (ideally in a PR agency), whether in B2B or consumer work
• Excited to work across a little bit of everything, whether its start ups or established brands, consumer or B2B, tech or lifestyle
• Have proven team leadership, people management, and mentor skills
• Experience in managing accounts and client needs on a day-to-day basis
• Be capable of driving strategy, critical thinking, and creativity for a number of campaigns/accounts, ensuring satisfaction across your client portfolio
• Build, nurture, and grow relationships with top tier media, stakeholders, and industry bodies
• Have experience or a desire to work on new business, from proposal development to pitching clients
• Be able to develop scopes of work and budgets, manage service levels with meeting deliverables, while keeping teams engaged and motivated

Want to know more?

Here's a taste of Sling & Stone:

• We're a global team of 80 spanning Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States delivering truly global campaigns
• We've won multiple best place to work awards, including the 2023 PRWeek Best Place to Work APAC and the 2022 PRWeek Best Culture of the Year APAC, as well as #2 in the 2023 PRovoke Best Agencies To Work For APAC.
• We're deliberate about which brands we work with, and say no to those who don't fit our focus on clients shaping the future
• While we don't take ourselves too seriously, we do take our work very seriously. We're proud of what we do. Our team is filled with smart, skilled communicators who share and live these core values: Gumption, Build, Play, Tune in
• We give all Slingers the opportunity to do the most impactful work of their careers here, giving them the training, skills and support to develop new passions, services and client portfolios, with the support of a dedicated manager
• We offer 20 days annual leave per year, 10 days wellness leave per year, which can be taken for physical or mental wellbeing, as well as Christmas to New Year's Day off in addition to your leave allowance
• Every Slinger also has access to an additional 2 floating days per year which can be used to observe dates and causes that are significant but not necessarily recognized by standard public holidays
• We're supportive of parents and believe in inclusivity regardless of whether you're considered the primary and secondary carer: we offer up to 12 weeks Paid Parental Leave for anyone, and in the unfortunate circumstance of baby loss, up to 8 weeks Paid Compassionate Pregnancy Loss Leave
• We enjoy Meeting Free Fridays so everyone gets a full day of uninterrupted focus time.
• With offices in Auckland, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles and New York as well as many sister agencies across the Outleap global collective, there are opportunities to extend your holiday or stay in a location and work from another Sling & Stone or Outleap office
• Read what our CEO said about how we choose the clients we partner with (and in turn, the brands you get to represent): bit.ly/2au8sEy

Sounds interesting?

If you're ready for your next challenge and have gumption, build, tune in and play in spades, hit apply and send us your resume along with a cover letter explaining why you're the right fit for this role.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Sling & Stone is built on the talent we hire. We're only as good as our people, and the best teams are built with people from a variety of backgrounds, offering a variety of perspectives. Even if you don't meet all of the requirements in our roles, if you think this is the job for you, please go ahead and apply. Studies have shown that certain minority groups will only apply if they meet every specification on a job advert and we want to change this. We do not discriminate against any employee or candidate because of age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or disability or any other basis. Our people are chosen on merit, professional qualities and alignment with our values. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.