Senior Vice President, Client Experience
Los Angeles, California, United States
Published
08/12/2025
We’re looking for a Senior Vice President to join our Corporate Advisory practice—a strategic leader who thrives at the intersection of society, business, and culture. In this role, you’ll help shape and protect the reputations of industry-leading clients across a range of sectors.
You’ll lead complex, high-stakes communications programs that span reputation strategy, executive visibility, stakeholder engagement, internal transformation, crisis response, and integrated earned-first campaigns. This is a hands-on role for someone who doesn’t just manage accounts—but elevates them.
Responsibilities Include:
- Lead marquee accounts and drive new business tied to reputation, thought leadership, executive visibility and business transformation
- Act as a strategic partner to senior clients, working to guide brand behavior in moments of risk and opportunity
- Architect cross-functional teams across earned media, public affairs, employee comms, digital, creative, and analytics
- Translate cultural context into business relevance—helping clients navigate stakeholder expectations, media pressure, and social momentum
- Advance our firm’s leadership in Corporate Advisory through IP development, thought leadership, and mentorship
- Uphold operational excellence—oversee team performance, resourcing, and financial management for your accounts
- Develop and champion talent—build a strong, resilient team culture that fosters growth, stretch, and trust
Skillset Required
- 12+ years of experience in corporate communications, reputation management, or strategic advisory (agency experience preferred)
- Trusted counselor with a track record of guiding executives and senior clients leaders through complex reputational terrain
- Deep understanding of the evolving corporate reputation landscape, including executive visibility, ESG, DEI, and crisis
- Fluent in both traditional and non-traditional media and how stories travel across channels and communities
- Experience driving integrated campaigns that connect strategy, storytelling, and stakeholder value
- Strong operator: comfortable with financials, team planning, and navigating fast-paced environments
- Committed to developing talent, nurturing teams, and building a culture of accountability and trust
- Exceptional writer and presenter with experience leading new business pursuits from pitch to close
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: $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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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Manager, Client Experience - Healthcare
What You Will Be Doing:
We are seeking a Manager, Client Experience who is passionate about healthcare and making a difference in the lives of patients living with various diseases and conditions. As a Manager, you will work across several teams, serving as a key client contact and overseeing the success of various client program and day-to-day work.
As a successful Manager, you will be a strong leader with excellent writing and communications skills, an ability to translate client needs into project plans, and the ability to guide the work of junior team members. You will also help develop and implement engagement campaigns for a variety of healthcare clients, including pharmaceutical companies. Ideally, you should have agency/consulting or related experience with a background in healthcare communications, specifically pharmaceutical product communications experience.
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
- Familiarity with data and regulatory milestone communications needs
- 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
- 4-5 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
Chicago Salary Range: $78,000.00 – $88,000.00
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
Project Director
Project Director – Digital (Hybrid, NYC)
Flipside Group, part of Weber Shandwick, is seeking a Project Director to lead the delivery of complex digital product development projects, spanning websites, mobile apps, XR experiences, and AI-driven platforms. This role offers the opportunity to work in a closely knit, dynamic team supported by a global network, delivering world-class solutions for a genuinely international client list.
You will be responsible for guiding multi-disciplinary teams—including designers, developers, strategists, and client services—through the full product development lifecycle, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards. This is a senior, client-facing role that requires both strategic oversight and hands-on delivery management.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Leadership – Own the delivery of digital build projects from inception through launch, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Process Management – Define, implement, and adapt Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid workflows to fit the needs of each project; establish and enforce best practices, templates, and documentation standards.
- Client Engagement – Act as the senior day-to-day contact for clients, building trusted relationships and ensuring transparency on progress, risks, and solutions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partner closely with internal and freelance teams across design, development, strategy, analytics and finance to maintain integration and consistency.
- Resource & Budget Oversight – Lead SOW creation, track deliverables against scope, manage budgets, and handle change management processes.
- Risk & Issue Management – Maintain and review project risk/issue logs; resolve conflicts quickly without compromising quality or morale.
- Technical & Quality Alignment – Ensure deliverables meet technical feasibility and adhere to quality assurance processes; oversee bug tracking and resolution in tools such as Jira.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience: 5+ years in project management, with substantial experience delivering web, mobile, and digital platform builds.
- Methodologies: Proven ability to manage both Agile and Waterfall projects, blending approaches as needed.
- Technical Understanding: Solid grasp of web and mobile technologies, system architecture considerations, and digital product lifecycle management.
- Budget Management: Expertise in scoping, pricing, and managing large-scale budgets and multi-workstream programs.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; able to engage effectively with clients and internal stakeholders at all levels.
- Tools: Proficiency in collaboration tools such as Microsoft Office, Smartsheets, Jira, and other project tracking systems.
- Soft Skills: Strong client-facing presence, problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and comfort in fast-paced environments.
Why Join Us?
At Flipside, we combine the creativity and agility of a boutique team with the reach and resources of a global agency. You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-profile, cutting-edge digital products that push boundaries, with a team that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
Diversity & Inclusion: Flipside is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
Salary range: $110,000 – $135,000
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.
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
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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San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Vice President, Client Experience - Technology
About the Opportunity
Weber Shandwick is looking for a Senior Vice President, San Francisco Technology to lead several high-profile, fast-growing technology clients and work closely with agency leadership to shape the future and long-term success of our Technology Practice.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of the client relationship and account team, building a deep understanding of clients’ businesses to develop programs that deliver tangible results, counseling & coaching team members, and allocating agency resources to match client budgets. You will also be engaged with business development, strategic program planning, and the development of creative concepts. Ideally, you will have agency or consulting experience in the Corporate/Consumer Communications and Tech space (both B2B and B2C).
What We Are Looking For:
- Team builder
- Can turn ideas into workable plans
- Capacity to convey ownership of assigned projects to junior team members
- Can solve conflict
- Can mobilize and motivate teams
- Can work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent oral and written business communication skills
- 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
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years’ experience in agency, PR/Communications space
- Experienced in Integrated Media Strategy and Media Relations
- 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
[California/Washington] Salary range: $160,000 – $235,000
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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