Senior Manager, Client Experience - Technology

Junior Editor/Videographer

Job Summary

Weber Shandwick Boston is seeking a talented Junior Editor with strong animation chops to join our growing creative team. As part of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to bring big ideas to life, creating high-profile video content for high-profile clients across the health, wellness, and consumer space.

Our ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the fundamentals of video editing, animation, and visual storytelling and be chronically online, tapping into the latest social media trends and video styles to bring high quality brand content to life. This candidate should also be a problem-solver, able to think on their feet, and be passionate about everything from editing techniques to music.

Experience working with Premiere and After Effects is required.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Support Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters to execute or translate creative concepts into compelling digital content ( short form / long form videos, GIFs, animations).
• Edit high-quality video content with a heavy focus on delivering for social media audiences.
• Ensure all creative adheres to existing brand guidelines and social media best practices.
• Usher projects through the post-production workflow – creative editing, motion graphics, audio mixing and color correction – to ensure high-quality and timely deliverables.
• Work closely with Project Managers to ensure timelines and content deliveries

Qualifications

• College degree or 0 – 1.5 years working in an agency or related digital video production/post production environment.
• Please provide portfolio or examples of work for review.
• Demonstrated creative eye for composition and visual storytelling.
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite software
• Premiere and After Effect Experience required
• Chronically online with a strong understanding of social platforms and video content formats and trends

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: $50,000 – $58,000 
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 Chicago has an exciting opportunity for an Account Director to join our Corporate/Enterprise team.

We are looking for an engaging, curious and collaborative person with outstanding client service and interaction skills, as well as proven analysis, writing, strategic planning, media relations and digital/social media acumen to help drive the growth and success of a variety of accounts. 

Responsibilities:

• Developing public relations action plans; program goals; and earned /social media campaigns, targets and pitch angles that require input from senior team leadership
• Play day to day account lead for retail, B2B, financial sector and professional services accounts
• Managing teams and collaborating/responding to clients
• Researching and writing briefing materials for client executives
• Writing and editing press materials, key message documents, briefing materials, blog posts and pitch letters
• Staying abreast of current industry news and trends, and sharing that information with account team members 
• Developing and managing timelines and weekly action plans to ensure all deadlines on client programs are met
• Breaking down and managing detailed tasks with the account team associated with planning and implementing special public relations events such as press conferences and media trips
• Anticipating and proactively offering solutions to senior team leadership for executional issues specific to assigned programs 
• Interacting with senior management and providing input into tactics and strategies
• Cultivate and enhance collaborative working relationships with media through regular communications 
• Persuasively pitching media and securing high-profile coverage for clients
• Understanding client objectives and priorities to help shape story angles  

Basic Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of communications experience, preferably in an agency environment
• Understanding of and experience working with professional and financial services companies, financial markets and products is a plus
• Excellent communication/presentation skills; verbal and written
• Strong attention to detail and project management skills
• Social media literacy with the ability to identify and recommend social program elements
• Ability to multi-task effectively and work within tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team to meet deadlines and client expectations
• Confident and comfortable presenting in front of groups
• Media relations experience for financial and professional services accounts is a plus

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: $95,000 – $125,000 
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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Senior Vice President, Client Experience, Healthcare

Weber Shandwick works with some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, communicating about some of the most pressing health concerns.

We deliver innovative, impactful work for our clients that has resulted in significant growth of the practice and earned our teams multiple awards. This success is due to our people, our relationships, a culture that inspires, an incredible team of experts in scientific communications, and an embedded digital/social team who make our clients stand out. We are also well-connected to the large Weber Shandwick network, partnering daily with clients and colleagues globally.

About the Role

We are looking for a new SVP for our healthcare practice.

This is a unique, career-enhancing role on large accounts, and an opportunity to partner with exceptional senior account leaders across the company.

This new leader’s overall responsibility is to be the day-to-day strategist for the clients, manage the overall relationship, deploy the teams in the most efficient and productive way to execute flawlessly, and be a supportive coach. The successful candidate will have experience with data and regulatory milestones along with consumer programs, and display passion, never-ending curiosity, a desire to always be better, and the ability to inspire and connect with teams across offices. They will be a hands-on leader that fits with our overall culture. We are a company of doers even at the most senior level.

Responsibilities

• Build and nurture client relationships and grow business by providing leadership, direction and strategic guidance to colleagues, day-to-day teams and senior level clients
• Lead, develop and coach teams
• Guide and inspire clients to continue expand the kinds of communications work they are doing digitally directly tied to meeting their business challenges
• Develop quality standards and ensure client satisfaction
• Draw on our total agency resources for every project, including health creative, digital and media specialists
• Educate teams to ensure that they are delivering state-of-the-art counsel and content to their clients
• Stay ahead of the shifts in the healthcare environment and provide guidance to teams and clients
• Participate in new business pitch development and/or presentations
• Participate as part of the practice leadership team on the operations of the group
• Actively engage in the culture of the agency to lead by example
• Work with peers to further the mission, goals and culture of the agency
• Mentor individuals so that they are able to achieve their professional goals

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years of experience in PR inclusive of agency experience working on large scale integrated communications campaigns

Additional Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of the pharma regulatory landscape
• Experience, at an agency or in-house, managing a large pharmaceutical account (over $1 million in billings) and the keen organizational skills needed to do so. Experience on accounts that span multiple cities with integrated account teams preferred
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Great track record of success leading teams and developing talent
• Proficiency in MSOffice, advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and other presentation platforms

Desired Qualifications

• An entrepreneurial spirit, strong leadership qualities, and a collaborative attitude
• Propensity to organize thinking, break down complexity and manage shifting priorities at a fast pace

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

CA Salary range: $180,000 – $245,000

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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