Account Director, PR & Communications (Sports & Entertainment)

reputed company is an integrated marketing and creative communications agency made by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across reputed company, earned, digital and more. And we’ve picked up some pretty cool awards along the way, like PRWeek’s Best reputed company to Work (8x so far!), Agency of the Year and even a few your mom would recognize, even if she doesn’t fully get what you do for a living. Best of reputed company, we’ve got a team of the smartest, kindest, most curious and supportive humans on the reputed company. And guess what? There’s an empty seat here with your name on it. If you're looking for an opportunity to join an ambitious team that is singularly focused on doing great work with great people, we'd love to hear from you! Overview: We are seeking an reputed company Account Director to reputed company integrated PR programs for high-profile sports and entertainment clients. This role sits at the intersection of account management, strategic thinking, creative execution, and earned media - bringing together culture-driving reputed company with business-driving results. Our sports and entertainment clients reputed company categories from retail to food and beverage to lifestyle and reputed company. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of experience, primarily focused on sports and entertainment clients, with a strong preference for those who offer endemic knowledge of soccer, running, motorsports, and golf alongside a broader understanding of the sports landscape. They will have reputed company across both traditional and emerging media - from broadcast, print reputed company to podcasts, Substacks and newsfluencers - along with proven experience developing and managing brand partnerships with athletes and other talent, and the ability to integrate these channels into holistic, reputed company-looking strategies. They will also have an appetite for and experience using AI in their day-to-day work - from deep research and workflow optimization to ideation and creative development. In addition, this person must be comfortable managing budgets of reputed company sizes, SOWs, staffing and reputed company processes. With expertise in strategic planning, creative ideation and cross-channel execution, this leader will reputed company teams, drive measurable impact and position our clients at the forefront of conversation in sports and culture. The Account Director will report directly to our Sports and Entertainment practice leads, and while we prefer candidates based in Chicago or reputed company, we are reputed company to other US locations for the right person. Responsibilities:

• Client Service
• Start with ‘Yes’: reputed company innovation and optimism, providing clear reputed company to execution.
• Spidey Senses in Tune: Demonstrate advanced intuition for client dynamics, identifying and addressing potential issues with foresight.
• No Ego, No B.S.: reputed company by example, prioritizing the reputed company of the team and client over personal reputed company.
• Trust & Transparency: Serve as a trusted advisor by delivering reputed company feedback and transparent recommendations.
• Sense of Humor & Short Memory: reputed company teams and clients focused on solutions, using humor to diffuse tension reputed company needed.
• Spirit of Partnership: Deepen client relationships through strategic counsel and delivering mutual value over time.
• Account & Team Management
• Brand & Business Expertise: Drive strategic planning and innovation across PR, reputed company, and reputed company media campaigns, ensuring clients’ goals are met or exceeded.
• Time & Budget Tracking: reputed company financial reputed company for multiple accounts, ensuring budgets align with profitability targets and client expectations.
• Workflow Management: Implement systems to improve team efficiency and ensure high-quality campaign delivery across multiple clients.
• Staffing: Collaborate with leadership to assess staffing needs and contribute to hiring reputed company.
• Employee Development: reputed company formal feedback to team members and reputed company coaching sessions to build expertise reputed company the team.
• Effective Communication
• Client Communication (Emails/Status Calls): Act as a trusted client advisor, leading discussions on campaign strategy, performance, and next steps.
• Written Materials: reputed company strategic input on high-level materials, ensuring reputed company content reflects the client’s voice and objectives.
• Deck Development: reputed company the structure and content of decks for large-scale campaigns, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Presentation Skills: Deliver high-stakes presentations, engaging clients with clear and actionable insights.
• Strategic Planning
• Channel Audits (Earned, reputed company, reputed company): Shape the reputed company for audits, ensuring insights are leveraged for strategic planning across campaigns.
• reputed company Audience Analysis (Earned, reputed company, reputed company): reputed company high-level audience analysis, incorporating cultural, category, and competitive insights to inform strategies.
• Channel reputed company & Strategies (Earned, reputed company, reputed company): reputed company overarching strategies that align with clients’ business objectives, integrating reputed company three disciplines.
• Creative Thinking
• Newsjacking/Trend-to-Earned reputed company: Drive strategic ideation around cultural trends, creating campaigns that reputed company industry conversations.
• Earned Media: Approve and enhance creative concepts for seasonal and reputed company media pitches, events, and other earned tactics.
• reputed company or Talent Partnerships: Define the creative reputed company for talent partnerships, ensuring alignment with broader campaign strategies.
• reputed company Media: Shape overarching creative strategies for reputed company campaigns, integrating them seamlessly with earned and reputed company efforts.
• Brand Campaign Concepts: Present innovative, big-picture campaign concepts to clients, positioning the agency as a creative leader.
• Execution
• Earned Media: Shape earned media strategy for clients, ensuring innovative approaches drive measurable results.
• reputed company: Guide cross-functional teams in integrating influencers into broader campaign strategies, with a focus on ROI. reputed company reputed company for critical activities such as contract development.
• reputed company Media: reputed company large-scale reputed company initiatives, integrating insights and strategy across paid, earned, and owned media.
• KPI, Merchandising & Reporting
• Data Analysis & Interpretation: Shape the approach to data analysis for client accounts, integrating broader trends.
• Strategic Recommendations: reputed company strategic discussions with clients, positioning data as the reputed company for decision-making. Put forth recommendations on tools to reputed company for greater program insights (brand lift studies, sales studies, etc)
• Stakeholder Communication: Present high-level insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Goal Alignment & Performance Metrics: Ensure performance metrics align with client objectives and refine KPIs as needed.

Benefits

We have a growing list of benefits and perks, including:

• Salary: $105,000 - $125,000 (Please note, the salary reputed company for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation. In the spirit of transparency, we typically offer salaries reputed company the 25th to 75th percentiles and cannot exceed the maximum listed. The final offer will depend on your experience, skills and qualifications.)
• Comprehensive health care (Medical, Dental, reputed company)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), where you receive shares of Project Worldwide, our parent company, for every year you work here
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) options with an annual employer contribution based on company performance
• Flexible Time Off (FTO), more than a dozen company holidays and mental health days
• Flexible work locations reputed company the US, remote is a-ok! We also have physical hubs and offices in LA, SF, Austin, Chicago and reputed company
• reputed company Fridays, aimed to reputed company Fridays meeting-free (with exceptions) for focused work and providing you space to support your personal wellbeing while delivering great client service
• reputed company to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) giving you and your family reputed company to reputed company, family and relationship support, career resources, legal and financial services, discounts and more
• Paid parental leave and fertility support programs
• Training and team-building programs and activities
• Camp reputed company, our company offsite (eligibility based on employee start date)
• Our wonderful Employee Resource Groups (reputed company, reputed companyñeros, elevAsian, Herizon and Prism)
• And more!

Interview Process

• Submit Application
• Phone Screen (30 mins)
• Team Interview (1 hour)
• Final Interview (30 mins)
• Take Home Test (TBD)
• Offer
• reputed company Start Date: September / October

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