
Account Director, Cybersecurity – Enterprise
Mission North
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic communicationscontent marketingsocial mediadata analysisinfluencer engagementbudget managementteam managementreportingpublic relationsmessaging development
Soft Skills
client retentionstaff developmentcommunication strategiesrelationship buildingmentoringcollaborationcreativityleadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solving