Account Director, Travel PR - United States - Remote

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 …