Vice President, Client Experience

We Are Seeking:
The Weber Shandwick San Francisco office is currently seeking a Vice President to support several clients in our growing Corporate 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
•    Experience working with tech clients or at a tech company is required 
•    Experience working with publicly traded companies that deal with financial/capital markets, regulatory and issues & crisis matters 

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: $125,000 – $170,000

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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What You Will Be Doing:

Our team is seeking a Manager with client experience and healthcare communications expertise to serve as a counselor to our clients for one of our largest and fastest growing accounts. As a Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic integrated communications programs, supporting overall strategy, and advising healthcare clients. You will be a conceptual thinker with exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.

In addition, you should have an agency background in healthcare communications with experience working on pharmaceutical products and/or disease education programs, as well as knowledge of the media landscape and considerations in this space. The ideal candidate will have broad interest in the full remit of healthcare communications, including social/digital, earned media, data and regulatory milestones, and unbranded disease awareness programming. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have a specific interest or experience in celebrity campaigns.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage account team implementation of agreed-upon programs, ensuring quality standards are met and desired results are delivered on-budget
• Lead project management, ensuring all activities are moving forward and are within deadlines
• Coordinate among interdisciplinary team of research, creative, digital and media strategists
• Develop a range of external and media materials including press releases, key message documents, pitches, social media content, etc.
• Manage client status reports, including materials trackers, media trackers, and website analytics trackers.
• Manage event and activation logistics in a variety of settings
• Set and meet campaign measurement and evaluation criteria
• Identify training and development needs of junior staff and provide opportunities that enable staff members to reach their full potential
• Assist in financial management for clients, including development of invoices and activity reports

 What We Are Looking For:

• Experience working on multi-disciplinary (holistic) healthcare communication initiatives, ideally including disease education campaigns
• Familiarity with data and regulatory milestone communications
• Fluency and/or familiarity with earned, digital and social media
• Strong understanding of the relationship between traditional public relations and the use of current online/digital technology and social media
• Strong budgeting and financial management skills
• Experience with clients and accounts that are measurement and evaluation driven
• Strong presentation skills, poise, and professionalism
• Industry experience in healthcare communications and/or pharmaceuticals

Basic Qualifications

• At least 4 years’ experience in public relations at an agency or corporate in-house (healthcare experience required)
• The ability to manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.
• Be a self-starter who works well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
• BA or BS in Public Relations, Communications, or in a related field

 

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

NYC Salary range: $82,000 – $92,000

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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Junior Video & Motion Graphics Editor

 Job Summary

Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading marketing and communications agencies, is seeking a creative, passionate, and unique thinker to join our Boston office as a Junior Video & Motion Graphics Editor. As part of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to bring big ideas to life, through campaign 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 while tapping into the latest social media trends and animation techniques. This candidate should also be a problem-solver, able to think on their feet, and detail-oriented, with a passion for aspects of video; from storyboards to keyframes.

Experience working in Premiere and After Effects is required.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Support Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters and partnering Video Editors to execute or translate creative concepts into compelling digital content (short form / long form campaign assets, influencer content, and animated sizzle videos).
• Edit high-quality video content with a heavy focus on delivering social assets tailored to each platform.
• Ensure all creative adheres to existing brand guidelines and social media best practices.
• Drive 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 your reel, portfolio, or examples of work for review.
• Demonstrate creative vision, attention to detail, and an eye for visual storytelling.
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite software.
• Premiere and After Effect Experience required.
• Fluent understanding of social platforms, 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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