Vice President, Activation, Bespoke

Charlotte, NC (On-site)

$149K/yr – $194K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own the development and leadership of large-scale experiential programs, guiding multi-market strategy, client relationships, and post-event learnings to drive measurable impact across sports and entertainment activations.

  • Lead cross-functional teams to shape brand experiences that connect with fans and cultural audiences
  • Shape vision, investment, and execution strategies for top client partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Experiential Strategy & Creative Leadership
  • Lead the development of experiential strategies that connect brands to fans, consumers, and cultural audiences across sports and entertainment
  • Guide the experiential team in translating brand objectives, audience insights, and sponsorship platforms into ownable live experiences that build brand connections and drive return on investment
  • Oversee experiential programs tied to major sports and entertainment properties, including global events, league and team partnerships, music, lifestyle, culture, and tentpole moments
  • Champion ideas that are distinctive, scalable, measurable, and built to create significant brand impact before, during, and after the experience
  • Client Leadership
  • Serve as a senior experiential advisor to clients, helping shape vision, priorities, investment, and executional approach
  • Lead conversations around experience, design, consumer journey, fan engagement, sponsorship activation, and measurement
  • Build trusted relationships with senior brand, marketing, partnership, and agency partners
  • Experience Production & Execution

Requirements

  • 10-15+ years of experience in experiential marketing, sports and entertainment marketing, brand activation, event production, sponsorship activation, or related fields
  • Experience leading experiential programs, tours, event activations, etc. for major brands, sports properties, entertainment platforms, or cultural events
  • Excellent business writing and presentation skills, with the ability to translate insights and ideas into clear, compelling pitch materials with strong communication skills
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially PowerPoint, Word, and Excel for pitch development, proposal support, reporting, and budget-related materials
  • Deep understanding of how to create brand experiences that engage audiences, activate partnerships, generate content, and deliver measurable impact
  • Strong client leadership, executive presence, storytelling, and presentation skills
  • Proven ability to manage large-scale experiential programs, multiple concurrent workstreams, budgets, vendors, and cross-functional teams
  • Experience leading teams, developing talent, and building effective processes for creative and operational delivery
  • Willingness to travel and lead on-site execution. Travel may be 40 - 60%.

Benefits

  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

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526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
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