Assistant Account Executive

Hill+Knowlton Strategies is seeking a motivated individual to join our team as an Assistant Account Executive, within our expanding U.S. Technology Practice. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that supports clients through various tasks such as writing diverse materials, developing, and managing media lists, maintaining project trackers, providing media monitoring and coverage reports, pitching, and addressing a wide range of client needs.

This position can either be based in California (Costa Mesa, Los Angeles, San Francisco region)

• Monitoring relevant industry news for daily/weekly client monitoring reports
• Drafting press materials and press releases
• Maintain media lists, research reporters and craft media pitches
• Providing research inputs and data analysis, ensuring that work aligns to methodologies and project timelines
• Proactively participating in team, staff and client meetings and proactively seeking and sharing relevant information when appropriate
• Conducting media outreach and scheduling client interviews with reporters, staffing interviews when needed
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with team members across the network
• Learn through a rich curriculum of professional development and training opportunities

What You’ll Need to Get Here:

• Undergraduate degree, preferably in PR, Journalism, Media Studies or related field
• Previous corporate communications and/or public relations; agency-based internship experience preferred
• Superb writing and editing skills across a variety of platforms and content forms with a keen eye for detail (i.e.., experience drafting press releases, white papers, op-eds, talking points, social media content, and more)
• Analytic report writing skills, including analyzing measurement data to produce actionable insights and recommendations
• Professionalism, poise, and confidence in participating in a variety of situations including client meetings, internal executive meetings, and media events
• Interest in purpose-driven communication and storytelling
• Experience with tools such as Cision and TV Eyes preferred, but not required

The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $35,000 to $75,000 Range. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility, and qualifications.

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About

H+K Strategies is one of the world’s largest and most renowned communications firms, with more than 85 offices around the globe.

At H+K here in the U.S., our first priority is our people and creating an experience for each employee that is positive and fulfilling. Do you like being able to work from anywhere and in a way that is best for your life? Come join us at H+K. Do you like working for the industry’s most exciting clients and supporting headline-grabbing programs? Come join us at H+K. Do you like working with nice people? Come join us at H+K. Do you like industry-best benefits, vacation time, wellness time, and parental leave? You guessed it, come join us at H+K.

Come join us at H+K. Where we believe in the power of “Being” everything that our employees need us to be – creating a work life that is all about Being Flex, Being Connected, Being Well, Being Empowered, and Being Valued. And we keep innovating and evolving our employee experience based on what we hear directly from our team members because we strive to be the absolute best place to work.

So, let’s recap, what to expect if you were to work at H+K:

• Nice, passionate colleagues and a supportive work culture
• Flexible work modes program, where you can choose whether you work from home, work from the office or a mix of both – a completely hybrid, distributed workforce
• Exciting clients and apps to stretch up and across to grow within the company
• Competitive compensation
• Amazing, industry-best benefits, such as
  • Comprehensive and inclusive health, dental, vision, and mental healthcare
  • Back-up care paid parental leave (16-week maternity leave!), and other family solutions
  • Retirement savings and student loan refinancing partner options
  • Insanely good vacation and wellness time off, no matter your level
• Plus, other engaging employee programming, such as
  • Ally and Mentorship program
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Employee Experience committees
  • And, worth mentioning, frequent happy hours and gatherings

Most importantly! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, H+K Strategies does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, creed, color, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military status, national origin, or ancestry.

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