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Public Relations Account Executive

Honeymoon
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/21/2025

Account Executive, PR (Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto or Oklahoma City preferred, open to other cities) 

 

What We’re Looking For 

A creative PR/communications professional who loves making brands known, loved and understood. You are ready to solve client business challenges. You love and understand client service, creative and media relations. You challenge convention and are ready to build something great.  

 

Our ideal candidate is:  


Entrepreneurial  

You’re collaborative, flexible, hungry and innovative, unafraid to adapt new methods and always thinking about what’s next.   

 

Problem-Solving 

You are an adaptable, strategic thinker who can see through the ‘fog’ and calmly help teams and clients overcome challenges big & small. 

 

Creative 

You are pop culture and marketing-obsessed, excited to brainstorm and collaborate on creative ideas for your clients. 

 

Accountable and detail-oriented 

You have an eye for detail and push for quality, from yourself and your team. You believe in the impact of your work and are ready to deliver results. 

 

Experience Basics  

  • Public relations experience required, preferably Consumer  
  • Agency experience preferred  
  • National or global brand experience required 
  • 2-5 years of industry experience 

 

What You’ll Do In This Role  

  • Help manage clients alongside the account and creative leads 
  • Manage relationships with other agencies and vendors 
  • Partner with earned media lead to develop PR strategies, conduct audits, media research, draft press releases and key messages, build media lists, pitch media, manage media relationships, monitor media and more to make big news  
  • Manage measurement and KPIs for public relations campaigns around media relations, social media/influencer and other related executions 
  • Track budgets and financial items such as invoicing, scoping, monitoring scope progress and needs  
  • Bring big ideas and campaigns to the world (via ideas, content, events and more) on our clients’ behalf, build something great and have a lot of fun while you do it! 

 

 Key Skills  

  • Client relations management 
  • Research and campaign measurement 
  • Budget tracking 
  • Vendor communication and management 
  • Timeline management 
  • Writing ideas / slide building  
  • Earned media relations 
  • Content development  
  • Written and verbal communication  
  • Social and digitally native 

 

We care a lot about benefits. We are proud to offer a highly competitive and progressive benefits package. On Day 1, you will receive Salient’s health plan, 401k retirement plan with company match, generous and flexible PTO package, parental leave, private health matter leave, and philanthropy donation among other benefits. 

 

Honeymoon is a teammate to two other agencies: Candor and Salient. The three agencies operate as one to bring custom work to our growing list of clients. We are owned by Salient Holdings, LLC. 

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