PR Account Director (B2B/Tech)

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Join an agency awarded for its culture and work with innovative brands shaping the future! Recently award ANZ PR Agency of the Year and Best Consumer Electronics & Telecommunications Campaign at the APAC SABRE Awards, we can assure you you're joining the best of the best.

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. We’re a team of 60+ Slingers across Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Our B2B/Tech portfolio proudly includes companies like Cirrus, Figma, Stripe, and Tracksuit, all companies doing cutting-edge, sector-disrupting work that value senior strategic guidance and creativity. We’re now searching for our next Account Director to join our Australian team and lead this portfolio. We want someone excited about the opportunity to get stuck in with a unique set of clients, ready to fuel your career by working across companies leading unique advancements in this sector. If you’re passionate about the challenge of translating innovation into impactful stories across varied audiences, this could be the perfect fit for you.

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 deep understanding of the B2B/Tech spaceExperience leading and overseeing integrated public relations account teams from setting strategies, to managing budgets, providing strategic counsel to clients, and assessing outcomesHave proven team leadership, people management, and mentor skillsExperience in managing accounts and client needs on a day-to-day basisBe 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 portfolioBe able to develop scopes of work and budgets, manage service levels with meeting deliverables, while keeping teams engaged and motivated Integrated work where you’ve overseen or directly executed not only PR but influencer/creator, social, content or more is a plus

Want to know more?

Here’s a Taste Of Sling & Stone

We’re a team of 60+ spanning Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, delivering truly integrated campaignsWe’re deliberate about which brands we work with and say no to those who don’t fit our focus on clients shaping the future 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 inWe 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

Employee benefits

Benefits

As a valued member of the Sling & Stone team, you will have access to a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing, they include:

Additional gifted leave days for our EOY agency closure2 Give Back Days to volunteer with a charity of choiceInclusive Paid Parental leave up to 12 weeksEmployee Assistance Platform with 3 confidential sessions per yearMeeting free MondaysOpportunities to extend your holidays and explore new countries through our Work From Anywhere and Out & About programsGlobal transfers between officesCatered lunch on the last Tuesday before payday each monthTechnology & mobile allowance to go towards your monthly mobile billA culture built on inclusion, #play, growth, and bringing your best self to work

We've also recently launched our dedicated Learning & Development program, Slingshot, built to empower storytellers, boost career mobility, drive high-impact work, and nurture internal leaders. We combine structured cohort learning, peer-led skill sharing, clear role pathways, and self-directed growth allowances into our everyday culture.

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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

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 advert 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.