Account Director, Travel PR

Praytell is a creative communications agency made by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across social, earned, digital, and more. After 10 years of cooking up award-winning work, we know one thing for sure - we’re just warming up.

If you're looking for an opportunity to join an ambitious team that is singularly focused on doing great work with great people and making your mark in an industry long overdue for a shakeup, we'd love to hear from you!

As Account Director, you will be:

• Joining Praytell’s rapidly-growing travel practice to lead PR strategy for national, regional and city-level DMOs; hotels and accommodations; airlines; and/or travel-adjacent lifestyle brands.
• Acting as the senior point of contact and cultivating long-term relationships with clients.
• Working alongside our travel practice leads to expand our portfolio of global travel brand clients, supporting agency growth by identifying and pitching upsell and new business opportunities.
• Rallying team members across departments to support projects in an empowering, collaborative manner that sets everyone up for success.
• Staying on top of industry trends and translating them into client plans and recommendations.
• Managing all aspects of account health and profitability, from budgets to contracts and allocations.
• Getting involved in agency development programs for staff, new business and culture initiatives.

Requirements

Experience you have:

• You have 7-10 years of PR/integrated comms experience, with at least 4 of those years working with travel, tourism and/or destination brands, and experience in an agency environment.
• You have experience leading large accounts in a highly matrixed, fast-paced environment. You're familiar with working in an IAT model, with other PR, marketing and advertising partners.
• You excel in destination storytelling and how to drive news outside of traditional travel channels.
• You're comfortable interfacing with senior clients and collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver great work.
• You have travel and lifestyle media relationships, including travel media and lifestyle/non-endemic press.
• You’re great at high-level planning but can still be hands-on with day-to-day activities.
• You’ve regularly participated in leading and supporting new business.
• You’re able to occasionally travel for work.
• Note: West coast-based candidates are preferred, ideally in Los Angeles, but open to all locations in the US.

Equally as important, you are:

• Meticulous and well-organized
• Flexible and adaptable
• Collaborative and a team player, with a can-do attitude
• A creative thinker and problem solver
• Ambitious and entrepreneurial
• Inquisitive and eager to learn
• Honest and ethical
• Connected to culture
• Committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace

Benefits

• Salary Range: $105,000-$125,000 (The actual compensation amount paid may vary and will be determined based on factors including the applicant's experience, expertise, skills and abilities.)
• Comprehensive health insurance with no-employee-contribution options + family subsidy
• Employee stock ownership plan where you receive shares of Project Worldwide, our parent company, for every year you work here
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) options with an annual employer contribution based on company performance
• Four-day workweek
• Flexible time off, more than a dozen company holidays, and mental health days
• Flexible work locations (with approval from leadership)
• Employee assistance program giving you and your family access to mental health resources, family and relationship support, career resources, legal and financial services, discounts, and more
• Paid parental leave and fertility support programs
• Training and team-building programs and activities
• Camp Praytell, our annual company offsite (eligibility based on employee start date)
• Our wonderful employee resource groups
• And more!

Interview Process

• Submit Application
• Phone Screen (30 minutes)
• Team Interview (1 hour)
• Final Interview (30-45 minutes)
• Skills Test (TBD)
• Offer
• Ideal Start Date: Late April / Early May

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all people at our company and do not discriminate. Period. All qualified applicants will receive consideration in accordance with federal law requirements, and because it’s the right thing to do. We comply with the applicable state and local law governing non-discrimination in employment in every single one of our locations, and we prohibit any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.