Join Our Award-Winning Team

Are you a curious, thoughtful and creative professional who’s innately driven to make an impact? We’re always looking for resourceful, collaboration-loving experts to consider for future positions.  We offer a high-performance culture, where we value work-life balance because we know it makes us stronger—no apologies.

Though we do not currently have any open positions, we always welcome proactive outreach from rising communications stars with five or more years of experience. Please send us an email at info@akrete.com with your resume and a cover letter for consideration.

Team Akrete (Akrete.com), a national 30-person PR firm headquartered in Chicago, IL, is seeking an experienced public relations agency professional to lead and co-lead accounts in financial services and commercial real estate. This position can be full time or part-time (20 – 30 hours per week) and fully virtual or hybrid.

Are you our candidate? If so, you’ll have 7-15 years’ experience playing a client management leadership role delivering communications strategy, media relations results and content marketing ideas for national or regional B2B brands. You are comfortable assigning and overseeing work done by other teammates, and you are equally proficient at being the primary account director or the co-pilot, working collaboratively with another account leader. You have a head for complexity and way of communicating simply. You have a solid grasp of pitch angles, news hooks and blog posts. And you are adept at making and sustaining relationships within the agency and at the client, at all levels. Ideally, you have both pitched national and trade B2B media and developed complex financial and commercial real estate content as part of your experience to-date.

Ideal for working parents or creatives seeking a day job, Team Akrete includes some of the country’s top PR professionals, who work with flexible schedules that fit our lives. This liquid workforce model works – as shown by our happy clients, winning campaigns and top-tier media results. Contact Jackie Keane for more information about our current opportunities (Jackie.Keane@akrete.com) or meet our team at www.akrete.com.

MORE ABOUT TEAM AKRETE

Akrete is the country’s #5 real estate PR firm, and we’re growing rapidly in the workplace, financial services, professional services and cannabis industries as well. As a member of Team Akrete, you will join a high-performing, non-traditional, innately flexible national team that values results over “time visible at your desk” and excels in creating and promoting complex content. As a group, we are curious, creative and thoughtful. We value media results, powerful content, intelligence, hard work, diversity and the unique skills each individual brings to the table.

You’ll be part of a senior team and unique culture that is simultaneously fiercely independent and decidedly collaborative. We all work where and when it makes sense—always have, since 2011—including sometimes in our homes, and sometimes in our Industrious offices (primarily in downtown Evanston and at the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago). We also have team members who work from home offices around the country in Atlanta, Boston, Florida, California, New York and other locations, too.

Before applying, please read this article published by the Forbes Agency Council by our CEO, and learn more about our culture. Our team is comprised of both 1099 contractors who work less than 40 hours per week and full-time W2 employees.