Account Executive (Marketing)

If you’re a highly driven marketing, PR or advertising professional who’s passionate about securing wins for clients (and likes to have fun in the process), then you’re in the right place. Candor is a team-centric, award-winning agency known for our honest counsel and “get stuff done” attitude. We can’t wait to meet you.

Things We Like

• Honesty and Openness
• Team Players
• Integrity and Humility
• Independent Thinkers
• High EQ
• Multitaskers
• Problem Solvers
• Holistic Marketing Brains

Things We Hope You Like

• Tackling Challenges
• Building Relationships
• Managing Projects and Partners/Vendors
• Learning and Collaborating
• Trends & News
• Taking Initiative
• Never Settling
• Not Being Bored

Things an Account Executive Does at Candor

• Takes ownership of all aspects of an account, from project initiation to completion
• Utilizes public relations best practices, marketing strategy and business acumen to serve clients at the highest level
• Drives strategy and execution of digital marketing, social media and public relations to meet client business goals
• Organizes and supervises the production of video and photo shoots
• Balances client expectations with Candor operational practices
• Acts as a subject matter expert by fully understanding a client’s business, industry, competition, strengths and weaknesses
• Facilitates internal communication, provides clear direction and shares constructive feedback with team members
• Conducts writing, copyediting and publishing of printed and digital content and manages client feedback process
• Proactively fosters and maintains relationships with a broad set of media contacts to successfully pitch and place content
• Monitors all news and media mentions of clients and provides regular reporting
• Recognizes and devises solutions to potential problems while proactively ensuring all plans are executed completely and fully
• Analyzes campaign performance and recommends optimizations based on data and industry trends.
• Assumes personal responsibility for quality of deliverables to clients

Things We Hope You’ve Already Done

• Effectively collaborated with a team
• Crafted and implemented multimedia campaigns
• Have been described as a “people person” and a “go-getter”
• Managed community or corporate events and improved upon them
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail (handled logistics for a thousand little things?)
• Managed a variety of relationships (client, vendors, influencers)
• Utilized Excel, checklists, Outlook, etc. to be highly organized
• Used metrics like CTR and ROAS to evaluate campaign performance.
• Beat a deadline and worked under pressure
• Employed the AP writing style
• Stood up for ideas you believed in
• Sold value to a client and explained ROI

Education/Experience

You graduated from college and likely have a degree relevant to communications and marketing. You’ve had training in some relevant field (our director of digital content has a film degree) and at least 3-5 years’ experience in account management or a related field.

About Candor

Candor is a next generation agency with an award-winning track record across a variety of marketing and communications services. "No smoke, all fire" is our motto — we give candid counsel, have a relentless drive to get things done and with a people-first mindset that allows us to have fun in all we do, no matter the task or challenge. It's an especially exciting time to join our agency as we've joined Salient Global, a leading holistic marketing communications growth company, with capabilities across creative services, data and loyalty marketing.

Benefits

Candor is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a competitive salary and benefits plan, including flexible PTO, a robust holiday schedule, 401(k), medical and dental insurance, 16-week parental leave, reimbursement for family forming and reproductive support and tuition reimbursement. Our performance-based environment offers employees opportunities for advancement. Salary is commensurate with experience; all employees are eligible for business development compensation.

Apply

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Candor is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@candorpr.com.