Senior Account Executive, Fashion & Lifestyle
Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Account Executive to join AZIONE's Fashion & Lifestyle Division on the Media + Brand team, supporting a portfolio of fashion, retail, lifestyle, accessories, and contemporary designer brands.
This position is based in New York City. Our NYC team follows a hybrid work schedule, with a mix of in-office and remote work.
This is not a traditional publicity role. It's a strategic, media-driven position for someone who understands how today's most exciting brands build relevance across editorial, retail, creator ecosystems, partnerships, celebrity, and culture.
You have a strong pulse on the evolving fashion and lifestyle landscape, from luxury and contemporary brands to emerging designers, retail, hospitality, and consumer trends. You know how to translate a product launch, founder story, partnership, or campaign into compelling editorial opportunities that generate meaningful visibility and cultural conversation.
You understand today's media ecosystem across:
- Fashion + lifestyle media
- Retail + business press
- Luxury + consumer publications
- Executive thought leadership
- Cultural relevance + commercial impact
You're naturally curious, proactive, and constantly looking for opportunities to connect brands to the conversations shaping fashion, lifestyle, and modern consumer culture.
Key Responsibilities
Client Relationships & Account Support
- Serve as a trusted day-to-day contact across fashion, lifestyle, retail, and contemporary designer accounts.
- Support client calls, showroom appointments, desksides, interviews, press previews, fashion week initiatives, retail openings, brand activations, and experiential events alongside senior leadership.
- Manage timelines, agendas, action items, and client deliverables with exceptional organization and attention to detail.
- Build strong client relationships through proactive communication, responsiveness, and thoughtful execution.
- Support new business initiatives through research, competitive audits, brainstorms, and proposal development.
Media Strategy & Cultural Storytelling
- Drive proactive media outreach across fashion, retail, lifestyle, luxury, business, trade, and culture publications.
- Develop compelling story angles spanning product launches, seasonal collections, designer and executive profiles, retail expansion, partnerships, collaborations, consumer trends, and cultural moments.
- Identify editorial opportunities that position clients within larger conversations shaping fashion, luxury, retail, travel, hospitality, wellness, and lifestyle.
- Support integrated communications campaigns spanning earned media, affiliate, partnerships, experiential activations, and marketing initiatives.
- Monitor the evolving media landscape and proactively surface timely opportunities, trends, and insights for both clients and internal teams.
Execution Excellence
- Execute product launches, campaigns, partnerships, events, retail openings, and editorial initiatives from planning through completion.
- Draft and refine pitches, press materials, briefing documents, media alerts, executive talking points, client recaps, and reporting with a strong understanding of brand voice and positioning.
- Ensure all client-facing materials are polished, strategic, and aligned with overall brand objectives.
- Stay informed on emerging trends, consumer behavior, retail innovation, affiliate commerce, and the evolving media landscape.
Networking & Relationship Building
- Continuously cultivate relationships across:
- Fashion editors and market teams
- Lifestyle, luxury, retail, and business media
- Brand and cultural partners
- Build a reputation as someone who is responsive, collaborative, well-connected, and solutions-oriented.
- Actively grow and strengthen AZIONE's network across fashion, lifestyle, retail, and cultural industries.
Leadership
- Mentor and support Account Coordinators, Junior Account Executives, and interns through day-to-day coaching and development.
- Foster strong collaboration across PR, VIP, Influencer, Affiliate teams
- Demonstrate accountability, professionalism, responsiveness, and ownership across all client work.
- Contribute to a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and culturally connected team environment while setting the standard for executional excellence.
What Makes You Stand Out
- 4+ years of experience in fashion, lifestyle, retail, or luxury PR, media relations, brand communications, or integrated marketing.
- Experience supporting fashion, accessories, lifestyle, contemporary designer, hospitality, or consumer brands.
- Strong relationships with fashion, lifestyle, retail, luxury, business, and consumer media, with a proven track record of securing meaningful editorial coverage.
- Strong instincts for storytelling, trend forecasting, and identifying culturally relevant opportunities.
- Exceptional writing, communication, organization, and project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple fast-moving priorities in a collaborative agency environment.
- Entrepreneurial, resourceful, highly organized, and solutions-oriented with a strong ownership mentality.
- A genuine passion for fashion, retail, lifestyle, culture, media, and the evolving consumer landscape.
Benefits:
- Salary - $85,000 - $95,000 annually (based on experience)
- 100% medical and dental coverage
- Bonus and commission opportunities
- Year-long summer Friday hours
- 401K benefits
To Apply: Please send your resume to [email protected]. Visit AZIONEPR.com for more information about our company.