Account Director

Join an agency awarded for its culture and work with innovative brands shaping the future!

Sling & Stone is the public relations agency built for entrepreneurs, challengers and disruptors. We unearth, craft and share the stories of the most ambitious brands shaping the world — from Google Cloud to, Canva, Xero, Notion, Stripe, Tracksuit and many others.  

Globally, we’re a team of 90+ Slingers across Australia, the United States, Singapore and New Zealand.

We’re now searching for an Account Director to join our Australian team who has an interest in working with brands that are pushing boundaries.

The role you'll play

As an Account Director you’ll provide high quality strategic communications counsel, develop audience-first strategies and lead teams of ambitious go-getters to execute integrated campaigns and secure results. You’ll also get involved with agency projects, help grow the business and expand our services, all while acting as an agency ambassador.

In return, you’ll be working with some of the most exciting and innovative brands who are truly disrupting traditional industries, have purpose-driven missions, and are looking to shake things up.

To be successful in securing this role, you will need to:

• 7+ years of public relations experience, with a specialism working with start-up/ scale up technology clients. Integrated work where you’ve overseen or directly executed not only PR but influencer/creator, social, content or more is a plus. 
• Experience leading and overseeing integrated public relations account teams. From setting strategies, to managing budgets, providing strategic counsel to clients, and assessing outcomes
• Have proven team leadership, people management, and mentor skills
• Experience in managing accounts and client needs on a day-to-day basis
• Be capable of driving strategy, have strong critical thinking skills, and a sense of creativity for a number of public relations campaigns/accounts, ensuring satisfaction across your client portfolio
• Be able to develop scopes of work and budgets, manage service levels with meeting deliverables, while keeping teams engaged and motivated 

Want to know more?

Here’s a taste of Sling & Stone:

• We’re a global team of 90+ spanning Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States delivering truly global campaigns
• We’ve won multiple best place to work awards, including the 2023 PRWeek Best Place to Work APAC and the 2022 PRWeek Best Culture of the Year APAC, as well as #2 in the 2023 PRovoke Best Agencies To Work For APAC.
• We’re deliberate about which brands we work with, and say no to those who don’t fit our focus on clients shaping the future 
• While we don’t take ourselves too seriously, we do take our work very seriously. We’re proud of what we do. Our team is filled with smart, skilled communicators who share and live these core values: Gumption, Build, Play, Tune in
• We give all Slingers the opportunity to do the most impactful work of their careers here, giving them the training, skills and support to develop new passions, services and client portfolios, with the support of a dedicated manager
• We offer 20 days annual leave per year, 10 days wellness leave per year, which can be taken for physical or mental wellbeing, as well as Christmas to New Year’s Day off in addition to your leave allowance
• Every Slinger also has access to an additional 2 floating days per year, which can be used to observe dates and causes that are significant but not necessarily recognised by standard public holidays
• We’re supportive of parents and believe in inclusivity regardless of whether you’re considered the primary and secondary carer: we offer up to 12 weeks Paid Parental Leave for anyone, and in the unfortunate circumstance of baby loss, up to 8 weeks Paid Compassionate Pregnancy Loss Leave
• We enjoy Meeting Free Mondays so everyone gets a full day of uninterrupted focus time.
• With offices in Auckland, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles and New York as well as many sister agencies across the VCCP group, there are opportunities to extend your holiday or stay in a location and work from another Sling & Stone or VCCP office with prior sign-off. 

Ready to apply?

Send us your resume and tell us why you’re right for this role! 

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Sling & Stone is built on the talent we hire. We’re only as good as our people, and the best teams are built with people from a variety of backgrounds, offering a variety of perspectives. Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements for our roles, if you think this is the job for you, please go ahead and apply. Studies have shown that certain minority groups will only apply if they meet every specification on a job adver,t and we want to change this. We do not discriminate against any employee or candidate because of age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or disability or any other basis. Our people are chosen on merit, professional qualities and alignment with our values. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.