Senior Account Executive, Public Relations Job at Honeymoon, Chicago, IL

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  • Honeymoon
  • Chicago, IL

Job Description

About the Role

We’re looking for a creative PR/communications pro who makes brands known, loved, and understood. You thrive in client service, vendor management, creative collaboration, event production, and media relations. You challenge convention, think big, and bring fresh ideas to solve client business challenges.

What You Bring

  • Entrepreneurial spirit – collaborative, flexible, innovative, and future-focused
  • Problem-solving mindset – strategic, calm under pressure, able to navigate challenges big and small
  • Creative energy – pop culture–savvy, marketing-obsessed, and eager to brainstorm
  • Accountability & detail – high standards for yourself and your team, delivering high-quality results

Experience Requirements

  • 5-8 years PR experience (consumer-focused preferred)
  • Agency background a plus
  • Experience with national/global brands
  • Strong production-related skills (events, content, kits, and items)
  • Campaign execution experience

What You’ll Do

  • Act as the key link between clients, creative, media, and internal teams and lead ongoing internal and external status meetings
  • Manage key client relationships and collaborate with account/creative leads
  • Partner with the earned media lead on strategy, audits, research, content creation, pitching, and media relations
  • Serve as executional lead of earned-led activations, events, and integrated 360- campaigns
  • Contribute to influencer work across programs and brand acts, developing strategies, sourcing and managing creator communications and content creation, and measuring success
  • Track and analyze KPIs, reporting results and insights
  • Manage budgets, vendors, and cross-agency relationships
  • Coach junior team members and support their growth

Core Responsibilities

  1. Client Management – Day-to-day contact, strategic counsel, and proactive solutions
  2. Campaign Execution – Deliver high-quality, on-time, on-budget programs with cross-functional teams
  3. Vendor Management – Successfully manage vendors and third-party producers to ensure on-time, on-budget campaign results
  4. Media Relations – Support strategies, craft and pitch stories, secure coverage, and foster media relationships, as needed.
  5. Reporting & Insight – Measure impact, analyze results, and recommend optimizations
  6. Team Coaching – Mentor entry-level talent to build skills and confidence

Key Skills

Client relations • Earned media • Storytelling • Campaign management • Measurement • Event & activation execution • Budget oversight • Vendor management • Digital/social fluency • Team coaching

Our Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plan
  • 401(k) with company contribution
  • Generous PTO
  • Parental & private health leave
  • And more

Honeymoon works alongside teammates Candor and Salient agencies, operating as one to deliver custom, high-impact work for national and global clients. We are owned by Salient Holdings, LLC.

 

Job Tags

Flexible hours,

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