Senior Vice President - Technology and B2B - Catalyst

Golin is looking for a collaborative, results-driven Senior Vice President, Catalyst to support our technology clients and serve as one of our key leads in our Technology Practice. In this role, you will act as one of our primary client senior counselors, an inspirational leader to our account teams and a growth agent to our agency as a whole.

We are looking for with a proven track record leading large account teams, delivering ongoing strategic counsel to senior communications client leaders on all aspects of communications, and developing and executing impactful communications programs that deliver success with measurable results.

You are an experienced leader, collaborative and strategic partner, and a technology subject matter expert who can develop, mentor, and manage high-performing teams.

Ready to "Go All In" with us? Here are the details:

What You'll Do:

• Bring a deep tech expertise and understanding of the landscape, emerging technologies, including AI, providing leadership in the B2B space, partnering with our clients, to help guide and achieve business and client goals.
• Serve as an integral member of the client relationship team, collaborating and partnering on initiatives, addressing the varied and changing needs of your clients, including emerging AI technologies, proactively leading in changing times with solid counsel and program creation that address objectives.
• Drive planning and creative efforts for deeply tech focused clients, with confidence to bring to life new, fresh approaches – large scale to the practical ideas -- that wow our clients.
• Anticipate challenge and create strategies to prepare and chart a proper course to address what lies ahead.
• Stay on top of industry best practices, trends, client, and competitor brand activity, ensuring Golin delivers game-changing ideas and solutions.
• Hold and set a high bar for sound ideas, flawless execution, and outstanding, measurable results.
• Bring an entrepreneurial and consultative approach in creating new incremental business opportunities, and crafting and implementing strategic business development plans that align with agency and client business goals.

What You Have:

• B.S. degree in areas such as Business, Marketing, Market Research, Public Relations, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Must have 20+ years of experience in the public relations or communications-related field, with a heavy emphasis of working in the technology sector, in a client-facing, progressive leadership role.
• Exceptional business savvy and client service skills, with a proven track record of pitching and winning business, overseeing sizeable client activations in the enterprise technology, hardware, and software space.
• Experience leading teams and being positioned as a trusted subject matter expert, specifically in the tech space, and go-to partner to clients and teams.
• Possess a deep understanding of earned social/content and proven experience and success collaborating effectively across all marketing disciplines and other integrated agency partners that help drive demand generation.
• Expertise in the technology industry, its ecosystem of market and business influencers, along with emerging technologies, and a focus on B2B brands.
• Experience working across an integrated team, with a collaborative and proactive demeanor, delivering big-picture thinking, with a passion for technology, mentorship, and sharing of innovative and fresh ideas.
• Robust relationship builder and engaging leader, with strong B2B and technical acumen, and ability to influence long standing, key senior clients.
• Deep seated experience formulating effective strategic communications plans, establishing trust, fulfilling organizational objectives and business goals, in a complex and fast-paced organization.
• Proven team leader, with the ability to build, grow, mentor, inspire, and motivate.

About Golin: 

Golin is a progressive public relations agency designed to reach a profoundly diverse global market. Our ambition is to not only adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of AI but to lead the charge. We are committed to upskilling our workforce and integrating AI into our daily work to maximize the value we deliver to our clients. 

Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin’s 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs.  

We’re especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be courageously happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, workplace hybrid flexibility, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies.  

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.  

Salary range: $150,000 - $220,000

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations. 

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview. 

Golin is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. 

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