Senior Manager, Client Experience - Technology

Weber Shandwick seeks an experienced VP of Client Operations & Integrated Project Management to join our West Project Management team.  

Responsibilities:

• Serve as strategic operations lead across major consumer, tech, and healthcare accounts, demonstrating autonomy and strong decision-making skills.
• Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with internal account leaders, procurement and operations teams across regions.
• Champion consistency in operational and project management practices, driving agency and client-side efficiencies, facilitating effective team integration, and establishing robust operational systems.
• Collaborate with diverse internal and client stakeholder teams to establish efficient and effective ways of working.
• Proactively mitigate and creatively resolve emerging issues and risks, sharing insights and opportunities for improvement with the extended project management team.
• Mentor and guide a team of project managers, continuously evaluating talent, resource needs, and assignments, optimizing the operational and project management infrastructure to support business growth.
• Partner with the client finance team to continuously assess the financial health of the portfolio, reporting to leadership and ensuring adherence to financial guidelines, including consistent scoping practices.
• Design and implement processes, templates, tools, and guidelines to optimize and elevate account/portfolio operations.
• Possess a comprehensive understanding of the production processes behind digital, social, content, media, and public relations campaigns.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Project Management or Client/Portfolio Operations Experience.
• Strong financial management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong experience with scoping, development of budgets and schedules for complex programs with multiple workstreams.

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

California/Washington Salary range: $130,000 – $165,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a Freelance Senior Vice President to join its Public Affairs teams to play a central role with new and longstanding clients.

Candidates should demonstrate a proven track record of leading external communications, including working directly with senior-level clients/stakeholders to shape strategies and messaging. The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of the U.S. political landscape at the federal, state and local levels, as well as the intersection of earned, paid and owned media, including through experience working for elected officials, candidates, or campaigns.

The candidate will also understand the expectations on the private sector to lead – alone, or in partnership with government – to solve important national and global challenges, such as climate change and rising inequity.

Candidates must be driven, poised and team-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to learn issues quickly and communicate effectively with internal and external audiences. They must possess exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors, including legal and government relations partners, and experience managing teams and supervising individuals.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement purpose, public affairs and issue advocacy campaigns on behalf of corporate, non-profit, coalition and trade association clients, including in highly-regulated industries
• Serve as a primary client contact responsible for strategic counsel, management of account deliverables and deadlines
• Develop, oversee and execute corporate reputation, stakeholder engagement and integrated marketing and communications programs and campaigns, including but not limited to: data and analytics, strategic planning, formative research, message testing, creative concepting and production, earned, paid and owned media
• Manage cross-functional teams, providing leadership, direction and guidance to ensure we deliver our best work and exceed client expectations
• Create opportunities for team members to learn and grow – promoting and retaining a collaborative, inclusive work environment conducive to success
• Provide oversight of budget, multi-agency and vendor contracting, timelines and reporting
• Serve as a key senior member of the social impact and public affairs teams, contributing to ongoing business development, management and coaching of junior team members and inspiring emerging leaders in our agency

 DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10+ years related professional experience

Additional Qualifications – Success Factors

• Integrated communications and political/legislative experience
• Experience managing significant client programs, cross-functional teams and integrated campaigns
• Significant media relations experience and contacts
• Fluent in national, business, and political media, as well as digital strategy and social media
• Can turn ideas into workable plans, while anticipating client and team needs
• Ability to work in, motivate, and mobilize fast-paced, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams
• Proactive self-starter and problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Resilient mindset, deep curiosity and a healthy sense of humor

Salary range: $135.00 

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Weber Shandwick is seeking an enthusiastic, driven digital strategist to join our high-energy, high-performance team.

The ideal candidate should have a passion for digital innovation and telling brand stories across digital platforms. To be successful in this role, this individual has a solid digital marketing or background that includes ideating digital content, analyzing results and developing digital-specific project plans. The candidate will have the ability to successfully collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced environment, with responsibility across all aspects of the work we do – from helping to build digital strategies to constructing efficient editorial calendars and concepting social posts.

If that is you, let’s talk!

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in integrated digital marketing strategy and execution
• Ability to build fully-integrated strategies for major campaigns, product launches and digital assets for the world’s biggest brands
• Understanding of performance marketing tactics focused on results
• Background in demand gen, lead gen and social media marketing
• Experience in conducting research of various types such as; market landscape, persona, competitor and content research
• Experience in development of project plans, calendars, and workflow processes
• Ability to brainstorm and pitch compelling ideas for performance campaigns and projects
• Deep experience within cross-channel digital marketing strategies, working closely with different teams including creative, media, planning and PR
• Strong understanding of digital analytics, measurement and performance-driven insights
• Experience within B2B marketing (specifically in tech, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, finance or higher education, etc.)
• Keen interest in staying current with industry trends and updates that directly and indirectly affect our clients and our digital practice

The Essentials:

• Thinking: Seeing the forest through the trees for our clients and not getting caught in the minutia. Intellectual curiosity and creativity is a must.
• Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly.
• Storytelling: Understand the elements that make a story exciting, what brands are doing in the press and on social platforms, and what they should do next.
• Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires and multi-task. Work fast and work well.
• Interpersonal: Collaborate well and play nice, whether it’s in a team, with other teams or independently.
• Passion: Determined to deliver high-quality work, to build close client relationships, to execute effectively, and to be motivated by the work.
• Technical: Skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Analytics tools (Google Analytics, OpenGraph and Insights), research & execution tools (Hootsuite, Brandwatch). Media databases and social tracking tools are a bonus.
• Detail-Oriented: Whether it’s a strategy presentation or monthly reporting insights, attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work is essential.
• Spark: Understand what sets you apart.
• Growth: Recognizing where you can grow and be open to learning opportunities.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Be the lead strategist for digital clients
• Be a demonstrated self-starter and work well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team to deliver client success
• Provide client counsel while serving as a strategic driver for client meetings and presentations
• Expand the digital deliverables and offerings for our team
• Assist in the development and implementation of paid, owned and earned programs
• Efficiently manage client and team resources and deliverables around major campaigns and projects
• Write content briefs and develop project timelines
• Manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously, while managing budgets and staffing around programs and campaigns
• Have excellent organization and time management skills
• Have very strong written and verbal communications skills
• Be able and eager to quickly learn new systems, tools, approaches and platforms
• Effectively manage client and team expectations around timelines, work, and deliverables

Basic Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of experience within the digital communications and marketing industry with a strong understanding of integrated strategies  
• 2+ years management experience leading small groups and projects
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Strong experience with both large-scale and start-up business environments preferred

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

Salary range: $68,000 – $75,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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