Senior Leader (Client Lead) — New York / San Francisco
150Bond | Full-time | Hybrid
150Bond provides strategic communications counsel to C-level executives at high-growth tech startups, top-tier VCs, and Fortune 500s — across AI, fintech, energy and infrastructure, sustainability, web3, venture, and B2B enterprise.
We're a small team by design: you'll report directly to the managing partners.
The role
You'll run point on a large, high-visibility client account with minimal supervision — owning day-to-day client management, shaping proactive media and storytelling opportunities, and writing to a standard sharp enough to go in front of investors, policymakers, or top-tier press without heavy editing. You'll also play a role in growing the firm: identifying and pursuing new business alongside the managing partners.
Must-haves
- 8-10 years minimum of progressive experience in communications, having occupied a role from Director, VP upwards.
- Senior, largely autonomous account management on a large, complex client, with the judgment to triage, delegate, and keep several workstreams moving without dropping anything
- A fascination with media and storytelling
- An established network of top-tier and trade reporter relationships
- Elite writing and editorial judgment: able to write or tighten briefing notes, analysis, and reports to a standard that can go straight to investors, press, or policy contacts
- Very close attention to detail — non-negotiable
- Gravitas and stakeholder command, with the ability to guide thinking and shape outcomes across multiple stakeholders rather than just execute on instruction
- Fluency in the account's world (the AI landscape, or investor and policy perspectives) so you can spot and shape proactive opportunities, not just react to them
- Communications planning expertise: the ability to sign off on a smart, detailed, creative comms plan before it goes to a client
- Excellent team management and motivation skills: the ability to motivate your team, while keeping work to an extremely high standard.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience handling tricky or sensitive media queries
- Sector-specific relationships, whether AI reporters and influencers or energy and infrastructure reporters
- A strong grasp of new and social media dynamics
- Product comms experience
What good looks like in the first 90 days
Clients respect and trust you. Full ownership of client management with nothing dropped across several fast-moving workstreams at once, plus proactively project-managing at least one major announcement or media moment rather than just keeping the trains running.
Benefits and perks
- Summer Fridays, plus a month of flexible work-from-anywhere in August
- Hybrid working the rest of the year
- Moving Day - a day off when you move
- Additional days around July 4, Labor Day, and end-of-year holidays
- Matched 401k, healthcare, and phone
- Personal budget for home office, education, wellness, or gym
- In-house fireside speaker series with authors, journalists, and industry leaders
- Team offsites, appreciation lunches, and happy hours
Compensation: $125k - $250k base salary, plus bonus and commission.
Placement within the range depends on experience.