Senior Account Executive, Tech PR

About us

YourStory PR is a specialist PR agency working with technology clients across the UK, North America, and Europe. We are a burgeoning specialist Tech PR agency, offering a differentiated yet focused and honest approach to PR, Digital Marketing and Content Marketing.

We work with brands and businesses to deliver genuine impact. Together, we deliver bespoke services that we pride ourselves on executing and that the industry and clients welcome.We run campaigns in sectors that move fast and rarely stand still, and our team reflects that. We're small enough for everyone's work to matter and experienced enough to do it properly.

We're a fully remote team that stays genuinely connected. You'll find a collaborative culture here, regular mentoring, and a leadership team that cares about your development as much as client results.

The role

We're hiring a Senior Account Manager to join our London team and take the lead on a portfolio of tech accounts.

You'll own client relationships, drive delivery, and manage junior colleagues, bringing both the strategic thinking and the day-to-day discipline to keep great work happening consistently. This is a role with real breadth: you'll be close to client strategy, active in new business, and a genuine contributor to how the agency grows.

We build the role around your strengths. If you're ready to step up and lead, there's a lot here to get your hands on.

What you'll be doing

Your responsibilities will span:

• Getting deep into each client's business, understanding their market, spotting shifts, and turning them into PR opportunities
• Translating client briefs into clear, actionable plans and priorities for your team
• Running accounts profitably, keeping delivery within retainer or project budgets
• Working with Account Directors to shape strategy and keep output firmly aligned to client goals
• Acting as a trusted day-to-day adviser while keeping the practical PR work moving
• Producing sharp, persuasive writing across formats, from media materials to detailed white papers and Q&As
• Growing your media network through genuine, regularly maintained relationships
• Pitching stories with creativity and finding the angle that lands, even when the brief is tricky
• Putting social and digital channels to work where they genuinely add value
• Holding the quality bar, reviewing team output so nothing reaches a client with errors
• Keeping clients confident and well-informed on where their deliverables stand
• Mentoring junior colleagues and taking formal line-management responsibility for one or more of them
• Leading internal projects and building your commercial and managerial range as the agency grows

About you

You're a credible, self-starting PR professional with a solid track record at Account Manager level, agency experience is particularly welcome.

You'll ideally bring:

• Proven PR experience at Account Manager level, with a background that includes agency work
• A consultative, self-starting approach and genuine curiosity when facing a challenge
• A tech specialism, spanning B2B and/or B2C clients.
• Confidence in front of clients, including senior stakeholders; you're consultative, clear, and easy to trust
• An established media and industry network, and a genuine knack for building new connections
• Strong writing skills and the editorial judgement to improve others' work
• A sharp eye for detail and high personal standards that run through everything you do
• A firm grip on deadlines and the drive to keep a team moving toward them
• Natural leadership; you bring out the best in the people around you
• A live interest in where PR is heading and how that applies practically to client work
• Confidence with social and creative channels is a bonus; it isn't a requirement
• Experience working with US media
• A second language, ideally French

What's on offer

• £45,000–£55,000 depending on experience
• London-based role with flexible/remote working options
• 25 days' holiday plus your birthday off
• Summer Fridays
• Your birthday off
• Pension contributions
• In-house management training, structured support as you grow into the people management side of the role
• A strong progression path
• New business and marketing involvement; you won't be siloed to delivery
• International client exposure across the UK, North America, and Europe