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Senior Director, Public Relations - US

San Francisco or New York City

This full-time role at Hotwire is hybrid and open to our office locations – San Francisco or New York

About you...  

You are an experienced leader with deep knowledge in various B2B sectors. Building talented teams is what you do best, and you’re looking for the opportunity to put your stake in the ground as a leader in a fast-growing, global agency.  

You are a strategic and creative thinker with a passion for leading impactful campaigns and building lasting client relationships. You enjoy taking charge of campaigns, guiding teams with minimal oversight, and deliver exceptional client service. You are able to identify growth opportunities and lead new business initiatives while championing company values and culture.

You have strong communication skills and commercial aptitude, and inspire your teams to reach their full potential. You are a team champion and can effectively and professionally balance both client-facing and internal innovative topics. You have the ability to ensure seamless processes and deliver outstanding results. If you're ready to lead, challenge, and make an impact this role is for you!

You have a strong network, like to attend industry events and you have the ability to put that network to work for you. You’re ambitious, creative, entrepreneurial and a natural relationship builder.  

About us... 

We are the pre-eminent global tech communications and marketing consultancy. We are a group of expert communicators and marketers who are fanatical about tech and are here to help businesses ignite their possibilities. Our local experience and global scale allow us to deliver bold but pragmatic guidance to tech companies all over the world.

When you work with us, we connect and support you in a way that allows you to achieve limitless success and career growth. For years now, we’ve been named a Best Place to Work by PR Week, PRNews and Crain’s New York

We are looking for an exceptional person to join our North America team as a Senior Director, Public Relations.  

Senior Directors report into a VP or SVP to plan and drive measurable campaigns campaigns, that generate real business outcomes for clients and own client relationships with minimal involvement from the senior team. Senior Directors fully understand what delivers results and what integrated communications strategies are imperative for your clients, developing campaigns that use the most effective approaches. As a manager to one or more direct reports, Senior Directors are responsible for their team’s development, performance and wellbeing, and as an account leader support the development of the wider Hotwire team. Senior Directors take a leading role in new business activities and work to strengthen the skills needed to build their own client portfolio. Senior Directors are their VP or SVP’s go-to person, stepping in when they are absent and working closely together to lead the team. Senior Directors run and grow established portfolios and work towards becoming recognized for expertise in either a practice area, PR, communications discipline or both.  

Daily, you will:  

  • Own client relationships and manage accounts spanning all B2B technology sectors (Emerging Tech, FinTech, Industrial Tech, Enterprise Tech, Marketing & e-Commerce) 
  • Experience with Financial and Corporate Communication
  • Deliver excellent client service across a group of client accounts
  • Demonstrate account and team leadership of the highest standards
  • Contribute to the success of the agency by contributing to business development and product development
  • Retain and promote top performing direct reports
  • Ensure direct reports meet utilization targets
  • Drive the new business development effort (manage a lead from start to finish) and win new accounts as needed to maintain oversight of account revenue
  • Prepare and present a professional development course to staff twice yearly to grow new and traditional communications skills
  • Display proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint, Excel and Word

You’ll Bring: 

 

 

  • A minimum of 7-10 years’ experience, most recently as as an agency Senior Account Manager, Director or in-house communications PR Director
  • Deep experience in B2B technology industries such as enterprise, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, software & services, IT & infrastructure, digital commerce, etc. 
  • A positive, authentic, solution-oriented team player with a good sense of humor
  • Hands-on experience managing and mentoring direct reports and cross-functional teammates  
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint, Excel and Word
  • A love for storytelling and media strategy and relations with large global brands
  • Experience supporting corporate communications programs that include working with C-suite executives (including CEO) on external communications including building and making recommendations external communications programs for executives
  • Experiences with financial comms and earnings announcements with publicly traded companies
  • An obsession with continuous improvement
  • Curiosity about how the business works how you contribute to the organizations success
  • A drive to produce excellent work
  • Pragmatic and goal oriented mindsets
  • Strong written and presentation communication skills, with the comfort to present ideas and make a case to clients and partner agencies
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint, Excel and Word

 

Why Us:

  • Flexibility – We understand that life doesn’t always fit around the 9-5; and that work/life integration is crucial.
  • Global Reach & Opportunity – You will have the opportunity to work within global teams and travel within the US and globally to connect with clients and colleagues.
  • Great Benefits - Strong benefits package includes paid time off, holidays, sick leave, cultural celebration days off, paid time off for community involvement, medical, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, 401K match and a paid 6-week sabbatical after every 4 years of continuous employment. Hotwire offers a variety of bonus opportunities including business development, annual company bonuses and referral bonuses. Additional benefits include wellness allowance, internet, and phone reimbursement.
  • Development Opportunities – A strong learning and development program with training opportunities at all levels.
  • Autonomy – The freedom and support to be limitless, and the opportunity to own your career and create the future you want.
  • Variety – No day is the same as the last. Both within our own walls, and with our clients, we navigate change daily and there’s always an opportunity to stretch your skills, learn something new, seek out a new challenge, and gain expertise.
  • Our Amazing Team – We are connected, ambitious, and friendly. We don’t step on toes to get ahead, we build each other up, develop and teach each other and understand that each person’s individual success is a win for all.

We engage in Thoughtful Working, empowering our talent to determine the best way to work for our clients, our team and Hotwire every single day.  

Compensation Range: $115K-$166K, depending on level of experience

The range listed is just one component of Hotwire’s total compensation package for employees, which includes bonus opportunities and a variety of benefits mentioned above. Hotwire takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected work to be performed, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. A potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions,

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