Mission North

Account Director, Cybersecurity – Enterprise

Mission North

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Be responsible for client retention, staff development, and portfolio growth
  • Be a trusted strategic partner to our enterprise and cybersecurity clients, their executive teams, and drive communications strategies that will help them reach their full potential
  • Synthesize complex technical concepts into compelling, market-moving narratives that resonate with business, trade media, and new media alike
  • Work with Mission North’s integrated studio members to provide clients with programs that utilize traditional PR, digital, creator, and social
  • Maintain and leverage high-level relationships with key journalists, analysts, and editors to secure needle-moving coverage for clients
  • Manage budgets and team resources
  • Drive client calls, team planning sessions, new business pitches, end-of-month reporting, and invoicing
  • Conceptualize inventive influencer strategies and drive influencer engagement
  • Serve as a key contributor in new business
  • Cultivate the agency’s sphere of influence with agency peers, VCs, etc.
  • Manage 1-2 direct reports as well as mentor Account Managers and Senior Associates

Requirements

  • A minimum of 8-10 years of communications or PR agency experience, preferably with cybersecurity companies or related industries
  • Demonstrated experience developing, directing, and executing strategic communications programs that blend PR, content marketing, social media, and data
  • Experience helping disruptive technology companies develop compelling messaging, storylines, and thought leadership platforms
  • Are passionate about how these technologies are redefining how we live and work
  • Established relationships with top-tier trade media and bloggers, vertical market media and national and local business media
  • Experience running integrated PR programs, including paid content
  • Experience working with household names and emerging/disruptor brands in B2B technology, including data and cloud infrastructure, applied AI, cybersecurity, business process optimization, SaaS and other key elements of the modern business technology stack
Benefits
  • Healthcare benefits
  • 401(k) plan including an employer match
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Several paid holidays
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Profit sharing
  • Professional development stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
strategic communicationscontent marketingsocial mediadata analysisinfluencer engagementbudget managementteam managementreportingpublic relationsmessaging development
Soft Skills
client retentionstaff developmentcommunication strategiesrelationship buildingmentoringcollaborationcreativityleadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solving