About the agency
This award-winning boutique PR agency punches well above its weight, delivering integrated communications campaigns across PR, social, influencer, content, and experiential. Recognised multiple times as Boutique Agency of the Year at major national industry awards, they pride themselves on deeply creative, out-of-the-box thinking. Their campaigns lean into big-budget, headline-grabbing concepts – from activations in the sky to creative stunts at a Sydney beach for a challenger lifestyle brand.
Benefits & Culture
With a tight-knit core team and very low staff turnover, they are known for their supportive, outcomes-focused culture that rewards autonomy and creative bravery.
Bullet point benefits list:
- WFH 2 days per week with an outcomes-focused culture that offers more flexibility the more you hit client objectives.
- Time in lieu offered for any weekend work.
- Catered team lunches once a week.
- Big celebrations for every birthday and work anniversary.
- Quarterly social events.
About the job
- Lead key client relationships: Act as a senior strategic advisor across a portfolio of consumer and B2B clients, owning relationships at a senior level and ensuring the agency consistently delivers strong strategic, creative and commercial outcomes.
- Set strategic direction: Lead the development of integrated PR and communications strategies, identifying the cultural insights, creative hooks and newsworthy opportunities that can elevate client work and deliver meaningful impact.
- Lead complex campaigns: Provide senior oversight across end-to-end campaigns, from strategy and creative development through to execution, ensuring teams deliver against objectives, budgets, timelines and client expectations across media relations, influencer partnerships, experiential and integrated activity.
- Provide senior counsel: Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, confidently challenge and influence when required, and provide clear, commercially minded counsel across both immediate communications challenges and longer-term brand strategy.
- Lead and develop the team: Set the standard for strategic and creative thinking across the team, mentoring juniors while providing direction, feedback and support to ensure consistently high-quality work.
- Drive account growth: Identify opportunities to deepen and expand existing client relationships, develop new opportunities and contribute to new business pitches, proposals and agency growth.
- Champion creative excellence: Push the team beyond the expected, encouraging fresh thinking and finding distinctive ideas that generate attention, strengthen client reputation and create award-worthy work.
About you
Essential experience:
- Proven PR agency experience at Account Director level (or a seasoned PR Senior Account Manager) with a strong track record of leading major client relationships and integrated communications campaigns.
- Demonstrated experience providing senior strategic counsel, leading teams and managing complex client portfolios with a high degree of autonomy.
The ideal candidate:
- You’re a confident and credible senior client advisor who can build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, challenge thinking and influence decisions.
- You’re highly strategic and naturally look beyond the immediate brief to identify the bigger communications opportunity.
- You have a strong creative instinct and can turn insights into distinctive, newsworthy ideas that deliver genuine impact for clients.
- You’re an experienced people leader who can develop talent, set direction and create a high-performing, collaborative team environment.
- You have strong commercial awareness and enjoy identifying opportunities to grow accounts, strengthen relationships and contribute to new business.
- You’re comfortable operating with autonomy, making senior-level decisions and taking accountability for the quality and performance of both client work and the wider team.
- You thrive in a fast-paced agency environment and can confidently balance multiple senior client relationships, strategic priorities and competing deadlines.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship is available for this role for the successful applicant if required.
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What happens next?
Our team personally reviews every application. If your profile matches the essential experience requirements (or if we see great potential in your background for future roles), we’ll be in touch within 7 days. We’re committed to providing feedback to all applicants, so you’re guaranteed a direct response from us with the outcome of your application.