Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior point of contact for key clients, building strong relationships with decision-makers and trusted partnerships over time. You will be responsible for renewing and expanding business relationships.
• Develop and articulate strategic experiential recommendations that clearly ladder back to client business objectives and messaging. In addition to being a lead producer, you are a strategic thinker who understands the broader MarComms landscape.
• Confidently lead client meetings, presentations, and real-time problem solving, acting as your own “account manager” for relationships that you lead.
• Anticipate client needs and proactively identify solutions, including stepping in to “save the day” when challenges arise
• Lead high-level production, personally driving concepting, sell-in, pre-production, and onsite execution for complex programs and activations. Includes deck development for client presentations throughout the creative and production process.
• Oversee multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring work is delivered on time, on budget, and at a high creative standard
• Manage and guide teams in executing programs with budgets up to $500K
• Bring strong strategic rationale to all production decisions—from venues and vendors to creative activations and guest experience
• Lead and mentor Producers and junior team members, ensuring strong performance, growth, and morale across the team
• Provide clear direction, feedback, and support to help direct reports overcome challenges and develop their skills

Requirements

• 6-8+ years of experiential production experience and are skilled at overseeing and producing events and with budgets of $500k, with or without a supporting team
• Strong grasp of how to allocate client budgets to create maximum impact and are adept at working with finance teams
• Proven track record producing events on your own
• Understand what makes an experience enticing, shareable, and memorable
• Able to collaborate with peers of different specialties to develop integrated programs; understand or can learn earned press and influencer marketing to discuss these specialties at a high level with clients
• Communicate professionally with clients and are able to drive client meetings; experience working directly with clients & their partners regarding strategy, event logistics, budgets, and more
• Know how to earn a skeptical client’s trust or “woo” a client onsite, and are attentive to various client personalities and needs
• Able to mentor junior production staff, review their work, and teach them new skills
• Create decks that effectively communicate original event ideas relevant to client goals
• Able to independently create floor plans and creative mockups; visual thinker who can whip up a design, mockup, and mood board to communicate vision

Nice To Have

• You have a driver’s license.

Benefits

• Atypical Time Off - Generous PTO that scales with tenure, in addition to Summer Fridays, Day of Rests for mental health, Caregiving days, and time off for Unsick Days dedicated to preventative care
• Deep Work Focus - Our Smalls In Sync program ensures you have dedicated time for collaboration and strategic solo work
• Comprehensive Benefits - A 100% employer-covered medical plan, 401k match up to 4%, dental, vision, and more
• Innovation Leadership - Our agency was amongst the first to offer client brand campaigns on TikTok (back when it was still called Musical.ly), has been recognized for pioneering unique HR policies live on The Today Show, and our AI Leadership committee has been training our employees at the intersection of PR and AI for over two years (not two months!)
• Vibrant Culture - Employee-led committees shape company policy and organize team celebrations from book clubs to outings