Vice President, Client Experience
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Published
07/15/2025
We Are Seeking:
The Weber Shandwick Chicago office is currently seeking a Vice President to support several clients in our growing Corporate/Enterprise Practice. The ideal candidate will have experience in brand and reputation building communications, managing executive visibility, media strategy and team leadership. The candidate will have the opportunity to drive a broad range of corporate reputation campaigns across a variety of clients, while leading a team of practitioners and collaborating with Weber Shandwick’s network to develop strategic and creative client work.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Develop and grow positive relationships with clients, maintaining the company’s reputation in terms of delivery and quality
- Provide strategic counsel to clients where possible, being able to assess problems and define logical and effective solutions for clients
- Lead the delivery of high-profile accounts across multiple markets
- Execute client programs to support media relations, corporate event and executive visibility programs
- Work successfully with partner agencies as part of a client integrated agency team, both internally at WS and externally
- Work effectively with finance colleagues to deliver accurate quotations for all client projects or new business work
- Write well-structured, persuasive content and help train other team colleagues to do the same
- Contribute innovative ideas for the client and new business work, inspiring ideation amongst team members
Qualifications:
- 8-10 years public relations experience, corporate PR background desired
- Past experience working in an agency or in-house role coordinating with agency partners
- Experience working on Corporate reputation campaigns across industries
- You are both a creative and a strategic thinker, and a natural team leader
- Needs to have a track record in client service to senior level clients
- Strategic media relations knowledge
- Experience working with C-suite executives on executive visibility programs
- BA or BS in Communications or related degree
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
Illinois Salary range: $119,000 – $155,000
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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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Corporate PR Intern (Fall 2025)
Corporate PR Intern (Fall 2025)
Weber Shandwick is seeking a fall intern to work on a range of corporate clients. This is a full-time (40 hours/week), hybrid, paid internship that will start in September and go through December.
From creative brainstorming to day-to-day execution, Weber Shandwick’s interns become an important part of a talented team that generates groundbreaking, award-winning work. During the internship, you’ll work on campaigns for iconic brands and companies you likely encounter every single day.
What’s in it for you? Our interns will earn practical experience as fully integrated members of account teams and will receive coaching from Weber Shandwick colleagues to help advance your career goals.
More about the position:
What you’ll do all day:
- Create: Craft written communications including media materials, compelling social content, memos, and risk assessments
- Research: Examine brands, industry trends, and various issues using various resources
- Analyze: Answer questions, provide insights, and propose recommendations using quantitative and qualitative data
- Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
- Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc.
- Monitor: Track brands and issues in traditional and social media and analyze conversations; draft reports summarizing conversation to inform client strategies
What we’re looking for from you:
- Thinking: Do it out of the box. Look for holistic and innovative ways to meet needs and challenges. Foster a curious mind and ask thoughtful questions
- Communication: Speak, write, and edit succinctly
- Digital: Know digital platforms (tech, email, CRM, social, etc.), what brands are doing with them and best practices
- Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires, and multi-task. Work fast and work well
- Detail-Oriented: Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work are critical
- Technical: Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite. Familiarity with platforms like Cision, Muckrack, Meltwater, Talkwalker, Brandwatch, and/or Quid are a plus
- Dynamic: You must be able to work in a fast-paced agency environment and juggle multiple time-sensitive tasks
- Spark: Understand what sets you apart and what motivates you
What you’ll get from us:
- Buddy: All new hires are paired with a buddy dedicated to making your time with us amazing
- Built-in mentorship: You’ll be invited to panels and workshops to learn from the greatest in the industry, as well as receive mentoring and guidance from your direct manager
- A possible career: Internships have the possibility of growing into a full-time position
- A paycheck: Interns are paid hourly
Requirements:
- The ideal candidate must be a college graduate by the start of the internship or have demonstrated transferrable skills
- Must be available to work 40 hours a week starting September
Boston salary range: $20.00 – $20.00
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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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Senior Manager, Client Experience
Senior Manager, Client Experience
We’re looking for a bold, creative, and media-savvy Senior Manager to join our Consumer Practice in Chicago. If you love building smart, culture-driven campaigns—and thrive on bringing big ideas to life—this is your next move.
You’ll work across food, beverage, and lifestyle brands, driving earned-first storytelling that breaks through. If you’re fluent in today’s media landscape, obsessed with what’s trending, and excited to make things happen for clients, keep reading.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead day-to-day execution of integrated campaigns across top lifestyle brands
- Craft earned-first strategies that generate buzz and business results
- Build and nurture client relationships—earning trust with smart counsel and standout service
- Drive media relations efforts, identifying story opportunities and securing top placements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on digital, social, and paid integrations
- Manage timelines, deliverables, and team resources across multiple projects
- Contribute to creative brainstorms, strategic planning, and campaign development
- Stay tapped into culture to help brands connect with diverse and engaged audiences
What We’re Looking For:
- 4-6 years of experience in communications, preferably in an agency setting
- Strong background in consumer, lifestyle, travel, fashion, sports or CPG communications
- Proven track record of leading earned media campaigns—product launches, thought leadership, creative storytelling, and more
- Excellent communication skills—clear writing, confident presenting, and strategic thinking
- A collaborative mindset with strong project and people management skills
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- A passion for media, culture, and crafting stories that resonate
- Experience writing including key messages, press releases, blog posts, and pitches
Bonus Points If You:
- Thrive working with brands at all stages—from startups to global icons
- Love finding new ways to tell brand stories across platforms
- Bring energy, curiosity, and a “let’s make it happen” attitude to the work
Ready to bring your spark to our team? Apply now and let’s make some noise together.
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: $81,000 – $98,000
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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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Account Director, Client Experience
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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