Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for assigned client accounts, ensuring exceptional communication, responsiveness, and service.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, venues, vendors, agencies, and internal stakeholders.
• Lead planning and execution of experiential marketing programs, sponsorship activations, consumer engagement initiatives, and special events.
• Manage multiple client accounts and projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop strategic recommendations and activation concepts that align with client objectives and marketing goals.
• Create and manage project workbacks, event plans, budgets, staffing plans, and activation timelines.
• Coordinate sponsorship assets, experiential elements, branded environments, promotional materials, and event logistics.
• Manage the preparation, packing, transportation, setup, breakdown, and organization of event assets and equipment, ensuring all materials are event-ready and maintained to company standards.
• Manage promotional merchandise and event asset inventory, including forecasting needs, coordinating production and fulfillment, and ensuring accurate, on-time delivery for activations and client programs.
• Partner with creative, operations, and production teams to bring activation concepts to life.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Event Management, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in account management, client services, experiential marketing, sponsorship marketing, event marketing, or related fields.
• Experience managing client relationships and serving as a primary point of contact.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple experiential programs simultaneously.
• Experience managing budgets, timelines, vendors, and event logistics.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple teams.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and multitasking abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word).
• Ability to travel and support events, including occasional holidays, nights, and weekends.

Benefits

• Health Care Coverage (Podium pays up to $500/month)
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Partial cell phone reimbursement – $50 cell usage, 50% handset reimbursement with manager approval based on need
• 401K after 1 year (4% employer match)
• Paid Vacation/PTO accrues at start of employment
• 1 st year – 10 days
• 3 rd year – 16 days
• 5 th year – 21 days
• Quarterly Paid Mental Health Day
• Automotive Stipend - Podium reimburses $150/month for owning or leasing a recent vehicle