Senior Manager, Social

Whether clients are reimagining campaigns, reshaping reputation or redefining workflows, we fuse technology and culture to transform modern communications.

A core capability within Weber Shandwick, Weber I/O partners with ambitious leaders to unlock the full power of tech, data and AI. Built for today’s complexity, we deliver solutions where intelligence, innovation and cultural fluency converge—unleashing real outcomes, with velocity.

Core service areas include intelligence, experience, performance and AI Acceleration.

For the latter, we help organizations integrate, scale and activate AI solutions that drive real change. From agentic orchestration, industry-first pilots and scenario planning to machine readability intelligence, change management and organizational design, we balance cutting-edge tech with people first-strategies.

Our AI Acceleration work is central to the firm’s Agency of the Future commitment, with real opportunity to learn, create and collaborate. The Senior Associate is a key role on the team, working closely with Weber I/O leaders and Associates, Halo development team members and TWSC teams across our diverse client portfolio.

Are you excited by the possibilities of new AI platforms and how they’re reshaping the way we work? Curious about the intersections of people and tech? This role digs into emerging technologies—and how we can use them to push our work, and ourselves, forward.

What you’ll do

• Design + demo AI augmented workflows. Create demos and content for client workshops, meetings; learn and apply user experience approaches to new technologies and platforms. Apply client-relevant workflows and goals to strategic scenario planning research, refining and augmenting in partnership with I/O team members and TWSC colleagues.
• Advance agentic workflows. Collaborate with an integrated team to conceive of, develop, test, refine and document new AI agents, pilot model workflows and help evolve Halo, our secure AI workspace. Support SMEs in development of bespoke agents to support their unique workflows. Analyze Halo and Agent usage, recommend additions and refinements, develop resources to support agency-wide adoption.
• Activate + Extend AI + You curriculum. Actively support design and delivery of TWSC’s global applied learning program. Includes leveraging agentic workflows to create bespoke training materials, promotional assets and internal comms; active and ongoing community engagement, including content generation; session prep, production and sometimes presentation; and close liaison with integrated I/O team, internal comms, agency SMEs.
• Monitor, test and assess new platforms, tools and workflows to evaluate their potential relevance for communications and marketing. Spot signals, experiment with and prototype nascent technologies, and exercise creative freedom to build new worlds and assets across novel platforms. Actively contribute to discussions about the applications and implications of AI on our work
• Support priority I/O initiatives and projects. Jump into other I/O priorities including client projects, research synthesis, innovation sprints, external visibility efforts when extra lift is needed.

Must-have skills

• 1–4 years of experience in AI, communications, digital innovation or adjacent fields.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms (including text-, image- and video-generation, deep research, cultural insight tools), social platforms and online communities, and excitement to keep learning as they evolve.
• Excellent research and writing skills, with ability to distill complex inputs
• Strong communications and collaboration skills—we work and solve as a team and everyone has a voice.
• Openness to feedback from mentors and peers, and readiness to contribute your own perspective to our shared growth.
• Organized and adept at time management to balance quick-turn and long-term projects.

You’ll thrive here if you

• Treat change as your natural environment, adapting with curiosity and discipline as new platforms, priorities and ways of working arise.
• Are immersed in, and energized by emerging tech—its possibilities and implications—and can translate it into clear, plain English.
• Believe in the power of secure, responsible AI—and have ideas for demonstrating it daily.
• Think and act on the fly, shifting smoothly between independent work and collaborative team projects.
• Bonus if you enjoy deconstructing and reconstructing technology—or anything, really—just to see how it works and improve on it.

Our Weber I/O team is future-leaning but grounded, legit curious and pragmatic. We celebrate makers and breakers. We ask hard questions, listen to everyone’s POV, make calls and move fast. And we love digging into nascent platforms and figuring out how best to put them to work on our clients’ behalf. If that’s your energy, let’s talk!

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: $70,000 – $80,000

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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It’s not just about the code — it’s about the culture.

A core capability within Weber Shandwick, Weber I/O partners with ambitious leaders to unlock the full power of tech, data and AI. Built for today’s complexity, we deliver solutions where intelligence, innovation and cultural fluency converge — unleashing real outcomes, with velocity.

Our AI Acceleration team translates innovation into actionable approaches, whether reimagining campaigns, reshaping reputation or redesigning workflows.

We’re seeking a seasoned leader to step into a newly-defined role at the Senior Vice President level in North America, working hand-in-hand with our EVP, Global AI Acceleration Lead. If you’re energized by complex client engagements, fluent in emerging technologies, and passionate about agency transformation, keep reading.

What you’ll do

• Serve as AI Acceleration Lead in North America. Lead initial client intake meetings and discovery sessions with a blend of strategic vision and technical understanding. Present AI capabilities clearly and confidently, guiding senior clients and agency leaders through opportunity framing, first-stage ideation and early solution scoping. Field preliminary technical questions about generative AI tools, proprietary platforms and AI service design with fluency and confidence.
• Bring structure to our agentic future. Own agentic workflow mapping and intelligent design interviews (IDIs), transforming service aspirations into actionable and repeatable frameworks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate existing and future workflows, pinpoint automation opportunities, and map “agentic” paths to delivery. Convert insights from IDIs and internal stakeholder engagement into architecture-ready documentation and strategic narratives.
• Navigate the tech-product-agency triangle. Act as a strategic integrator between agency leadership, client teams, and our in-house AI and product development squads. Co-develop MVP specs and new service blueprints alongside tech teams—grounded in user insight, AI capability and operational viability. Help pressure-test product hypotheses and co-create narratives for go-to-market internal and external activation.
• Stay grounded in communications. Apply our PR/communications foundation and your experience to inform and evolve the storytelling, delivery models and activation strategies of our AI offerings. Support internal marketing of our offerings and pilots—ensuring they are positioned and understood across the agency ecosystem. Serve as a strategic thought partner in helping clients and teams understand not just “how” AI works, but why it matters and what to do about it.

You’ll thrive here if you

• Are immersed in emerging tech—its possibilities and implications—and can explain it in plain English.
• Are equal parts technologist, strategist and communicator—and can switch between them at speed.
• Have the confidence to lead high-stakes client interactions and the curiosity to dig deep into user needs, pain points and product gaps.
• Can “see the matrix” when it comes to how things work today—and imagine how they could work better with AI tomorrow.
• Enjoy converting ambiguity into structure and helping teams move from abstract conversation to concrete activation.

Must-have chops

• 12–15+ years of experience spanning communications/public relations, innovation, or digital transformation—with clear exposure to AI technologies.
• Strong grasp of Gen AI platforms, process mapping, and product ideation cycles.
• Comfort presenting to senior clients, fielding early-stage technical questions, and guiding discussions toward action.
• Proven experience navigating cross-functional environments, especially with technical and product development teams.
• Familiarity with intelligent agent design, agentic workflows, and/or service blueprints is highly desirable.
• Ability to communicate clearly in decks, meetings, and whiteboard sessions—making complex tech accessible to all levels.

Bonus points

• Experience launching AI-powered communications or marketing services.
• Track record of delivering structured innovation frameworks in a fast-paced agency or consultancy setting.
• Experience orchestrating integrated media strategies for consumer brand campaigns
• You can vibe code a prototype when inspiration strikes

Our team is future-leaning but grounded, legit curious and pragmatic. We celebrate makers and breakers. We ask hard questions, listen to everyone’s POV, make calls and move fast. And we love digging into nascent platforms and figuring out how best to put them to work. If that feels like your energy, let’s talk about how you can help accelerate the agency of the future!

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: $160,000 – $225,000

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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Title: VP, AI + You
Level: Vice President
Group: Weber I/O
Reports to: EVP, I/O

It’s not just about the code — it’s about the culture.

This mantra is at the heart of Weber I/O, the industry-first unit fusing analytics, data science, performance media, experiential tech and AI advisory to power client advantage.

And it’s the grounding behind AI + You, a learning and activation program to accelerate AI fluency across the agency.  AI + You is how we’re rewiring our daily rituals, turning emerging tech into instinctive, next-gen workflows that supercharge our work.

Game to join our crew, to amplify and advance the momentum we’ve got cooking with AI + You programming? Keep reading.

What you’ll do

• Chart and evolve the learning + activation roadmap. Plan and deliver rich, multi-dimensional AI education and inspiration programming for North America staff. Think less traditional L&D/classroom vibe, more engaging/backstage pass feel.
• Design practical curriculum and content. Collaborate with subject-matter experts to co-create program components that help individuals/teams move quickly from curiosity to confidence. Includes producing live training sessions, deconstructing best practice work, instigating Teams discussions, coordinating virtual office hours and beyond. (New form factors welcome!)
• Roll-out sessions and rally engagement. Draft internal comms, liaise with I/O colleagues and communications team to announce programming, drive attendance/participation. Monitor engagement, sentiment and impact so we can scale what sticks, sunset what doesn’t.
• Keep Halo at the core. Ensure our new and improved secure AI workspace, Halo, is known as the safest—and easiest — place for colleagues to employ AI to elevate their work. Curate top use-cases, gather user feedback, share insights to inform fast-moving and longer-term roadmap and employee learning programs
• Flex and pivot at the speed of tech. Monitor new platforms, tools and workflows to contribute to discussions about the applications and implications of AI on our work.
• Support I/O strategic initiatives (≈20%). Jump into other I/O priorities including new service pilots, market visibility programs and innovation sprints when extra lift is needed.

You’ll thrive here if you

• Are immersed in emerging tech—its possibilities and implications—and can explain it in plain English.
• Believe that utilizing secure, responsible AI is a competitive edge—and have ideas for proving it daily.
• Think “application” before “theory,” transforming complex tools and workflows into how-to’s that colleagues can tailor to a range of tasks/deliverables
• Flex from big-room storytelling to nuts-and-bolts project plans without losing momentum (or sense of humor!)
• Treat change as your natural habitat, pivoting with curiosity and discipline as new platforms, ways of working and priorities emerge

Must-have chops

• 8-10+ years leading innovation, employee engagement, learning or change-management programs—ideally in communications, marketing or a tech-forward environment.
• Hands-on familiarity with Gen AI platforms and a clear POV on responsible use.
• Demonstrated success building integrated content ecosystems that boost engagement and adoption (i.e. immersive workshops, live and virtual trainings, office hours, demos, community channels, etc.)
• Credibility to partner with senior leaders and entry-level AI natives alike, and excitement to collaborate with and inspire doers at every level.
• Fluency in measurement and storytelling with data, turning insights into action.
• Bonus: experience introducing proprietary tech platforms at scale.

Our team is future-leaning but grounded, legit curious and pragmatic. We celebrate makers and breakers. We ask hard questions, listen to everyone’s POV, make calls and move fast. And we love digging into nascent platforms and figuring out how best to put them to work. If that feels like your energy, let’s talk about shaping the next chapter of AI + You.

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: $145,000 – $180,000

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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