Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior day-to-day client lead across multiple experiential programs.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders across brand, experiential, marketing, partnerships, social, influencer, and creative teams.
• Lead client meetings, status calls, planning sessions, presentations, and post-program recaps.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen existing client relationships and improve the quality of the work.
• Lead the planning and execution of experiential programs, including brand activations, pop-ups, events, tours, launches, sponsorship activations, influencer-led experiences, and immersive consumer experiences.
• Partner with creative, production, strategy, social, and influencer teams to shape activation concepts, experience flows, engagement mechanics, and campaign extensions.
• Bring a strong understanding of how live experiences connect to social, influencer content, PR, and broader brand storytelling
• Manage multiple experiential projects across different clients, workstreams, timelines, and levels of complexity.
• Own or closely oversee scopes of work, workback schedules, budgets, staffing plans, client approvals, and change orders
• Work with project management, production, and operations teams to ensure programs are delivered on time, on budget, and at a high standard.

Requirements

• 7–12+ years of experience in experiential marketing, brand activation, event marketing, integrated marketing, or agency account management.
• Strong background in experiential agency work, including activations, pop-ups, events, tours, launches, sponsorships, and/or immersive brand experiences.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Experience serving as a senior day-to-day client lead.
• Comfortable lifting and moving common event materials (typically 25–50 lbs)
• Strong understanding of experiential strategy, creative development, production realities, and integrated campaign execution.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, timelines, scopes, staffing plans, client approvals, and change orders.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing account teams or cross-functional project teams.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with creative, production, strategy, social, influencer, and senior leadership teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and client-management skills.
• Highly organized, calm under pressure, and comfortable managing ambiguity.
• Comfortable using common tools (Google Workspace, Excel/Sheets, Slides; Slack; Asana/Monday/Airtable a plus).

Nice to Have

• Experience at an experiential agency or integrated agency with experiential, social, influencer, creative, and/or branding capabilities.
• Experience managing six-figure experiential budgets; seven-figure program experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with social and influencer strategies that extend live experiences before, during, and after activation.
• Experience supporting RFPs, pitch decks, scopes of work, and program budgets.
• Category experience in consumer brands, entertainment, sports, beauty, fashion, food and beverage, technology, retail, lifestyle, or culture-driven brands.
• Strong vendor, production, venue, partner, or brand-side relationships.
• Experience mentoring account managers, coordinators, or junior producers.