Senior Copywriter

Weber Shandwick is seeking a Senior Copywriter to join our team in Chicago.

Alongside a team that will include AD support, this Senior Copywriter will spend most of their time working toward a variety of creative objectives supporting multiple brands across a single, large‑scale account.

Whether driving a big project like a multi‑channel campaign or handling a real‑time opp to react to news, we need a nimble copywriter who consistently delivers exciting, culture‑first ideas and writing across just about any platform. If there’s a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, we play in that space. We look for well‑rounded, immersive creators who can tell a great story.

Responsibilities

• Concept ideas anchored in the trends, stories, and consumer passions that are being shared in media and across social feeds
• Help drive overall creative direction for key client projects.
• Craft overall messaging direction and maintaining consistency.
• Write short‑ and long‑form copy including concept manifesto, digital/social copy, video script, pitches and a range of campaign support material.
• Take direction and work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
• Help develop long‑term creative plans and recommendations for client objectives.
• Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
• Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of copywriting experience in a related agency or department (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
• Must have a portfolio (share anything that conveys the way you think or approach assignments, even if it was never produced).
• Be curious, self‑motivated, hard‑working, well‑organized, thick‑skinned and resilient to ever‑changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
• Advanced knowledge of brand development, marketing/advertising, and the creative process.

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Short‑Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $80,000 – $110,000

Vice President, Consumer Team – New York

Weber Shandwick is looking for a dynamic Vice President to join our Consumer team in our New York office supporting iconic global consumer brands.

What the Role Entails

• Lead multi‑channel campaigns with an emphasis on earned media, cultural storytelling, and social/digital engagement
• Collaborate within IATs, working alongside creative, paid media, influencer, and experiential partners
• Oversee campaign launches from start to finish inclusive of planning, event/activation production, management of talent partner(s), and development of media materials and social briefs
• Ability to turn ideas into workable plans and presentations via decks
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, offering strategic POVs and counsel
• Ensure programs are rooted in insights and measured against KPIs
• Manage diverse internal teams and SMEs with clarity and organization
• Lead by providing mentorship, fostering growth and innovation

Who You Are

• Must have a strong passion for lifestyle and beauty brands, with a sharp awareness of emerging cultural and consumer trends
• Proven experience executing successful campaigns that generated earned media, drove social engagement, and made a cultural impact
• An expert in navigating Integrated Agency Teams, juggling multiple workstreams, and managing multiple clients
• A strategic thinker with strong instincts for what drives earned media and social buzz
• Strong ability to remain nimble and counsel clients through conflict
• Aptitude for financial analysis
• Confident working with senior clients and leading large teams
• A natural leader with strong presentation skills who pays attention to detail
• Sharp writing skills and a creative mindset
• Commitment and dedication to the agency’s success as well as individual career

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Short‑Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $125,000 – $165,000

Intern – Food & Beverage & Beauty Brands – New York

Weber Shandwick is seeking an Intern to work across major consumer clients. This Intern will work on iconic food & beverage and beauty brands that are household names. This is a full‑time (40 hours/week), paid internship that will start in January 2026. This role is hybrid out of our NYC office.

Essentials

• Thinking: Intellectual curiosity and creativity is a must
• Storytelling: Understand the elements that make a story exciting and how to highlight them in what you read in the press and what you see on social media
• Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly
• Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires and multi‑task. Work fast, and work well
• Interpersonal: Play nice, whether it’s in a team, with a team or independently
• Technical: Know Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Media databases and social tracking tools are a bonus (examples: Cision, Muckrack)
• Detail‑Oriented: Whether it’s a media list or a recap report, attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work is essential
• Spark: Understand what sets you apart

What You Will Be Doing

• Research: Analyze brands using various resources, thoughtful and detailed research helps our bring ideas and plans to life
• Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
• Plan: Assist in event coordination and logistics
• Create: Craft written communications including media materials, from briefing books to media pitches
• Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc.
• Monitor: Track brands in traditional, online, and social media during some of their biggest PR moments of the year. Previous campaign reporting experience is a plus
• Organization: Organize and maintain product closet, check inventory, order product/shipping supplies
• Product send outs: Compile various product mailers and coordinate product shipments

What We Are Looking For

• Someone who has an interest in, and enthusiasm for public relations and consumer brands
• Able to work in a dynamic and fast‑paced agency environment
• Strong writing skills and understanding of the media landscape
• Strong attention to detail
• Go‑getter and proactive mindset – you’re willing to go above and beyond your daily tasks
• A contributing member of the team

Requirements

• The ideal candidate must be a college graduate by the start of the internship or have demonstrated transferrable skills
• Must be available to work 40 hours a week starting January

NYC Salary range: $20.00 – $20.00

Global Crisis Associate – New York

Weber Shandwick’s Global Crisis team helps leading organizations across the world both manage breaking negative issues and events affecting reputation and develop the internal culture and infrastructure needed to predict, prepare, and navigate them effectively. From conspiracy theories, environmental incidents and multinational bankruptcies to executive controversies and sweeping product recalls to high‑profile litigation and fake news, we live at the front lines of media, culture, and conversation.

Candidate Qualities

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What You Will Be Doing

• Serves as key team member to support a range of complex, high‑profile corporate issues /crisis communications situations (i.e., cybersecurity issues, product safety issues and recalls, mergers and acquisitions, executive leadership changes, IPOs etc.)
• Supports development of press releases, crisis plans, media strategies, reactive media statements, talking points, FAQs, memos, crisis simulations and other deliverables as needed;
• Supports monitoring and triaging of client issues
• Conducts pressing research on a wide range of issues, review and prepare executive summaries and or analyses detailing clear and concise findings, distill complex and substantial amounts of information into concise summaries and insights; begin to propose strategic and actionable recommendations
• Provides input during development of projects based on insights and knowledge of client preferences
• Prepares for and takes part in client meetings, including accurately capturing notes, agenda action items, call recaps, updating trackers, timelines and status documents
• Serves as role model to team members, producing high quality work and continually updating manager on activity progress
• Actively builds own knowledge, contributes to inclusive team culture and consistently displays behaviors that support integration
• Participates in our A-Team’s On‑Duty rotational schedule covering evening and weekend hours, to handle critical client reports, ad‑hoc research, and support emergent crises.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong writing skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Strong understanding of social analytics
• Full analytical fluency in all social/digital platforms
• Crisis communications, issues management, and/or public affairs experience
• Sharp curiosity and an analytical mind
• Ability to provide strategic and actionable recommendations based on research
• Highly effective oral and written communication skills
• Familiarity with corporate financials
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage deadlines in a consistent manner
• Comfortable asking for help from and providing direction to team members
• Ability to take ownership, manage and see projects through from start to finish
• Proactive self‑starter and a quick learner
• Strong work ethic

Basic Qualifications

• 1–3 years of professional experience: in an agency/strategic consulting firm, political campaign or organization, law or similar setting
• BA or BS, preferably in Political Science, history, journalism, International Relations or similar fields -Knowledge of basic PR skills and client service
• Fluent in Microsoft Suite (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and proficiency in research, media and social monitoring platforms (e.g., Brandwatch, Sysomos, Cision, Muckrack, TV Eyes, Critical Mention, Lexis‑Nexis)

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Short‑Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $52,000–$60,000

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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