Senior Vice President, Client Experience
New York, New York, United States
Published
05/22/2025
Weber Shandwick is looking for a dynamic Senior Vice President to join our Consumer team in our New York office supporting iconic global consumer brands.
We Are Seeking:
We’re looking for a dynamic, self-motivated Senior Vice President to join our Consumer Practice, working across global lifestyle and CPG brands. You will spearhead high profile, award-worthy, earned-driven integrated activations and productions for one of our top alcohol clients, famous for delivering industry-leading creative activations throughout the year. Working in a dynamic agency-client model, you will work with high profile celebrity talent, influencers and oversee global experiences for fans. You will be responsible for managing client and inter-agency relationships, playing a critical role in determining the future and long-term success of not only this business, but also our Consumer Practice. You will be responsible for all aspects of a client relationship and account team and will supervise big pieces of business with multiple work streams and team members.
Other responsibilities include recommending programs and activities coordinating with client’s goals, effectively delegating projects, offering counsel to team members and allocating agency resources to match client budgets. You will also be engaged with business development, strategic program planning, analytics, media relations and the development and execution of creative concepts. Ideally, you will have global agency experience, and have executed multiple global campaigns in scale.
What We Are Looking For:
- Flawless ability to oversee many moving pieces with minimal oversight while managing junior team and clients
- Love for all-things related to sports, lifestyle, entertainment and culture
- Can turn ideas into workable plans and presentations via decks
- Strong ability to counsel clients and deliver industry-leading expertise to both internal and external partners
- Proven experience building programs and ability to shape brand stories that drive earned media
- Capacity to convey ownership of assigned projects to junior team members
- Strong ability to remain nimble and counsel clients through conflict
- Can mobilize and motivate teams while working independently and as part of a team
- Excellent oral and written business communication skills
- Aptitude for financial analysis
- Can complete challenging projects within set parameters
- Exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors
- Commitment and dedication to the agency’s success as well as individual career
- Can anticipate client and team needs
- Attention to detail and quality
- Instills confidence with clients and colleagues
The right person for this role has:
- 12+ years of experience in PR inclusive of agency experience working on integrated communications campaigns
- Deep knowledge of the consumer products space, with experience in – and passion for – beauty, personal care and lifestyle brands
- Proven track record of proactively identifying and delivering strategic opportunities that unlock account growth beyond the current or ‘expected’ remit
- Strong familiarity and expertise related to social, digital and influencer channels that can further fuel earned-driven communications
- Exceptional client service track record with ability to counsel and interact effectively with senior management at client organizations
- Experience managing a large CPG account (over $1 million in billings) and the keen organizational skills needed to juggle multiple client needs at once
- Ability to efficiently manage cross-office teams that span multiple cities and countries with integrated account teams preferred
- Ability to be both strategic and hands-on, to flex with clients’ needs
- Success leading teams and developing talent
- An entrepreneurial spirit, strong leadership qualities, and a collaborative attitude
- A willingness to challenge how things have always been done, in a desire to continuously improve
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Proficient skills in MSOffice (PowerPoint, Excel and Word)
- BA or BS in Communications or related degree
Benefits Statement
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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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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New York, New York, United States
Senior Manager, Client Experience - Technology
Weber Shandwick is looking for a creative, media-savvy Senior Manager with strong client and project management skills to join our Technology practice in New York.
You’ll work with a fun and passionate team supporting a range of B2B technology clients, driving earned-first storytelling that helps break down complex topics into stories that resonate. If you are fluent in today’s dynamic media landscape, have an interest in emerging technology trends like AI and are interested in growing client management skills, this role is for you!
The ideal candidate is someone who has previous project and junior team management experience, can help manage client engagements, has experience or an interest in global campaign coordination, has experience with B2B tech storytelling – with experience in AI-driven narratives a plus – with an understanding of the tech media landscape, and who brings existing media relationships and is interested in building more.
Responsibilities
What You Will Be Doing
- Provide day-to-day internal and client-facing workstream leadership
- Oversee other team member’s media work, to foster excellence and success
- Support client leadership team with internal and client-facing operations to help track against priorities, campaign deliverables and overall client alignment
- Develop a strong understanding of the client’s business and target audience
- Stay current on new and existing media coverage, as well as reporter moves and how to leverage for relationship building
- Source earned media results on behalf of the client – this includes identifying appropriate contacts, writing pitches, developing media lists, making follow up calls, etc. and overseeing junior team members with execution
- Monitor media outlets to understand industry issues that directly and indirectly affect the client
- Analyze and distill meaningful insights from media coverage
- Support creative ideation on a consistent basis and provide thoughtful, proactive recommendations for storytelling initiatives
Competencies:
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Strong research skills stemming from a media focused curiosity
- Ability to build trust and rapport with the client and team across all levels
- Demonstrate a proactive and forward-thinking mindset
- Integrated skill set that combines media relations, content creation and digital expertise
- Excellent collaboration and team building skills
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple jobs in a day
- Intuitive thinker who asks probing questions and anticipates and addresses needs
- Sound business and professional ethics
Qualifications
- Years Experience: 5-7 years of experience in similar industry
- Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
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: $85,000 – $100,000
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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New York, New York, United States
Vice President, Client Experience
Weber Shandwick is looking for a dynamic Vice President to join our Consumer team in our New York office supporting iconic global consumer brands.
We Are Seeking:
We are looking for a driven, self-motivated and culturally fluent, Vice President to join our Consumer team, working across global lifestyle and CPG brands. As Vice President, you will be responsible for leading day-to-day business and spearheading high-profile, award-worthy, earned-driven integrated campaigns for two of some of our top clients including Nespresso & Unilever W&C brands. This is a high-visibility leadership role in a fast-paced, integrated environment with cross-functional collaboration across channels and partners. You’ll work closely with clients, and integrated agency teams to deliver social-first, earned-led programs that drive engagement and buzz, while guiding a team of rising talent.
What the Role Entails:
- Lead multi-channel campaigns with an emphasis on earned media, cultural storytelling, and social/digital engagement
- Collaborate within IATs, working alongside creative, paid media, influencer, and experiential partners
- Oversee campaign launches from start to finish inclusive of planning, event/activation production, management of talent partner(s), and development of media materials and social briefs
- Ability to turn ideas into workable plans and presentations via decks
- Build trusted relationships with senior clients, offering strategic POVs and counsel
- Ensure programs are rooted in insights and measured against KPIs
- Manage diverse internal teams and SMEs with clarity and organization
- Lead by providing mentorship, fostering growth and innovation
Who You Are:
- Must have a strong passion for lifestyle and beauty brands, with a sharp awareness of emerging cultural and consumer trends
- Proven experience executing successful campaigns that generated earned media, drove social engagement, and made a cultural impact
- An expert in navigating Integrated Agency Teams, juggling multiple workstreams, and managing multiple clients
- A strategic thinker with strong instincts for what drives earned media and social buzz
- Strong ability to remain nimble and counsel clients through conflict
- Aptitude for financial analysis
- Confident working with senior clients and leading large teams
- A natural leader with strong presentation skills who pays attention to detail
- Sharp writing skills and a creative mindset
- Commitment and dedication to the agency’s success as well as individual career
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 8-10 years’ experience in agency, PR/Communications space
- Experienced in leading account teams and integrated Media Strategy, ideally within the consumer or CPG industry
- Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Business Management, or 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: $125,000 – $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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We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.