Strategic Account Executive, Media Intelligence

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do. 

We’re looking for a strategic, consultative, and results-driven Strategic Account Executive, Media Intelligence to join our team and help us accelerate growth in one of our most important expansion areas.

As our Strategic Account Executive, Media Intelligence, your mission will be to drive enterprise revenue for our media intelligence solutions while helping shape how Muck Rack positions and sells this offering post-acquisition. This is a great opportunity for someone who is excited about bringing deep industry expertise into a high-impact role, influencing go-to-market strategy, and partnering cross-functionally to help build a growing business from the ground up.

What you’ll do:

• Build and close a pipeline of large enterprise software and media intelligence opportunities, driving net-new revenue
• Lead complex sales cycles from discovery through close with PR, communications, and insights buyers
• Position Muck Rack’s media intelligence solutions with credibility, clarity, and strong business value
• Act as a subject matter expert for media intelligence across the sales organization
• Partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales leadership to refine messaging, pricing, and packaging
• Collaborate with Customer Success and the Media Intelligence team to support account transitions, expansion, and retention

How success will be measured in this role:

• Confidence to help shape and define a brand-new role, contributing ideas on how the function should evolve and succeed
• Achievement of revenue and quota targets tied to media intelligence solutions
• Healthy pipeline generation and conversion in target accounts
• Strong win rate and sales cycle efficiency
• Expansion and retention outcomes for inherited or acquired accounts
• Positive influence on broader AE enablement and deal support

If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:

• 8–10+ years of quota-carrying sales experience, including significant experience selling media intelligence solutions
• Track record of success in enterprise sales environments with complex, consultative deal cycles, including managing both net-new business and expansion opportunities within existing accounts.
• Strong executive communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience selling to PR, communications, or insights stakeholders
• Proficiency with CRM tools such as Salesforce
• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence GTM strategy in a growing business
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping build process where needed
• Proactively incorporate AI tools into day to day work to improve productively and accelerate delivery

Interview Overview

Here’s what you can expect from our process. We’ll keep you informed at every step and let you know if anything changes along the way.

• Intro call with a member of our Talent Team
• A video interview with the Hiring Manager
• Peer interviews 
• Final call with executive team member(s)

Travel & Team Engagement Expectations

This role requires up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events. As part of our commitment to building strong connections across our fully distributed team, attendance at our annual company offsite (typically held in Mexico) is expected.

Salary

In the US, the on-target earnings for this role are between $260,000 – $300,000+, depending on skills and experience. Total compensation for this role consists of base salary & variable commission. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.

Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

Why Muck Rack?

Remote Work, Forever 

• Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup
• Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership
• Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions)

Transparent & Fair Compensation 

• Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S.
• Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment
• Standardized bonus or commission structure
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• Equity opportunities

Health & Wellness

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents
• 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans
• 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program
• Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits
• Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription

Time Off & Family Benefits

•  4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days
• 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days
• Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Learning and Development

• Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion
• Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training
• Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly
• 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development

Inclusive, Customer-First Culture

• Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives
• Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation
• Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide

Note: Benefits and compensation reflect offerings for U.S.-based employees. Support is provided for employees in other locations, in compliance with local laws and regulations.

While we are a fully distributed team, we do have limitations on where we can hire and maintain a list of acceptable working locations based on job function. If we are unable to hire in your current location for the role for which you applied, you will be notified via email. While we enjoy many benefits as a permanently distributed and remote company, we cannot always support relocation or extended travel and have guidelines in place to ensure compliant work away from your designated permanent residence.

Please note: For detailed information regarding our GDPR and/or CCPA compliance policies, including how we handle personal data and privacy rights, kindly refer to the email correspondence accompanying this application.

Muck Rack does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or any other third parties. Any unsolicited resume sent to Muck Rack will be considered Muck Rack property, and Muck Rack will not pay a fee should it hire the subject of any unsolicited resume.

Muck Rack considers applicants for all positions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs, and without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, familial status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Note to applicants/job seekers: We have recently been made aware of scams impersonating Muck Rack’s HR team. Please be cautious of these attempts to elicit banking or other financial or sensitive information. Muck Rack will never request financial information during the interview process, and follow ups for interviews or next steps will always come from an ‘@muckrack.com’ email address. If you are contacted by anyone from a different domain who claims to be from Muck Rack, please forward the communication to legal@muckrack.com.