VP, Experiential Marketing
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Small Girls PR is looking for an Experiential Services Leader with 10+ years of experience leading the production of multichannel projects across in-person activations and digital experiences. This should include developing a cohesive experiential strategy, managing client relationships, concepting standout experiences that drive social conversation and press coverage, overseeing technical execution across integrated campaigns, managing complex timelines & large budgets, and developing a talented team of producers, ranging from the coordinator to director level. This role is responsible for all elements of experiential, which includes client services, strategy, creative, production, and client management. The right candidate knows how to develop a campaign from ideation through post production, and can project manage in their sleep. They are prepared to dive into the details, knowing that no task is too small in the world of eventsThis role will work with a wide range of creative and innovative brands across beauty & fashion, food & beverage, wellness, consumer tech, and more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There is no one-size-fits-all for an SGPR client, which means your career will be further enriched with meaningful and diversified experience. We've hosted hospitality suites for B2B companies at conferences in Las Vegas and San Francisco, hosted real estate openings in Miami, and more. This team spotlighted Violife with a cheeky Election Day campaign—activating breakfast stations at polling locations and sending bagel ballot mailers—and reintroduced a Jack in the Box product as a “return from the grave” with a Halloween cemetery screening. From events and mailers, to brand partnerships and hotlines: if the team can dream up an idea for audiences to see, do, or touch - our experiential team can produce it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Note: This role is based in either our Los Angeles or New York office, working two days a week in the office on a hybrid schedule. Candidates should be prepared to travel domestically and internationally as needed for event execution.</em></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>How you’ll make an impact:</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Client Leadership & Strategy</strong></span></h3>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oversee a portfolio of experiential projects and client relationships, ensuring strong delivery, client satisfaction + retention, and continued engagement.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Serve as the senior strategic lead across a portfolio of clients, setting vision, KPIs, and success frameworks while ensuring consistent delivery of top-tier results.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Manage a large portfolio client with multiple initiatives overlapping at any given time; experience in the beauty space is a plus, but not required.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oversee Experiential strategy while collaborating with peers to develop integrated campaigns that may touch influencer marketing, earned press, paid media, and more.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build and maintain strong relationships with senior clients, providing ongoing strategic counsel and identifying long-term growth opportunities. Grow revenue under management through outstanding client relationships and client service.</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Business Growth</strong></span></h3>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead new business efforts, including pitch strategy, proposal development, and scoping in partnership with senior leadership. Responsibility includes any and all elements that touch experiential, from creative concept and mockups, to activation ideas, to budget and timeline.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">New business includes RFPs from net-new clients as well as proactively farming your existing book, bringing scope expansion ideas to clients before they come to you, and converting those conversations into signed work. You'll also enable your colleagues across SGPR and the Orchestra network to sell experiential, through pricing packages, one-pagers, internal trainings, and case studies that make it easy for other teams to pitch what we do. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">New business may be specific to experiential or may be an integrated pitch for multiple service lines.</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Strategy, Creative & Production </strong></span></h3>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Conceptualize breakthrough, culturally resonant ideas that define client positioning, communicate product differentiators, and generate meaningful talkability (whether social shares and/or earned media)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Personally develop experiential strategies and creative concepts, and provide strategic and creative direction to elevate team output and ensure all work is differentiated, impactful, and aligned with client goals.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own the measurement framework for programs across your portfolio, defining how success is evaluated, how results are reported, and how experiential work connects to each client's business objectives. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Operate as executive producer (or lead producer for larger, more complex programs) on 5-10 programs at any given time, stepping in to guide execution and troubleshoot when needed. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Understand the technical needs to execute creative concepting, overseeing the fundamentals of each project (timelines, budget, vendor negotiations, permitting, etc) and acting as quality control to ensure every project is best-in-class.</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Team Leadership & Management</strong></span></h3>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with Department Head and peers to understand team capacity and bandwidth and to assign staffers to projects.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Manage and develop Experiential talent, providing mentorship, feedback, and clear growth pathways.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead performance management processes, including goal setting, reviews, and ongoing coaching.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture that prioritizes creativity, accountability, and growth.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Know when to tap into a project and when to delegate, with experience managing 3+ direct reports. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensure timelines and budgets are developed appropriately, thinking proactively through client needs, approval timelines, and shifting deliverables.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Liaise across the in-house team ensuring alignment between the department head, creative, finance, press teams, and producers.</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Financial Performance & Operations</strong></span></h3>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop mastery of SGPR's existing financial systems with the goal of owning scoping, staffing models, and margin management for your clients. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oversee account performance against budgets and staffing plans, ensuring efficient delivery and strong utilization.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Help determine when your group needs to grow, what roles are needed, and who fills them, partnering with the department head and the hiring team to move quickly on the right people. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Support leadership in long-term strategic planning for the team, creating scalable processes and increasing team efficiency</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Why we’ll love you:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Experience</strong> - Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience managing and executing events (agency or in-house), negotiating contracts, creating and managing successful experiential programs, and maintaining a strong network of production partners, vendors, venues, and media relationships. You’ve led an array of projects from pop-ups, to multi-day conferences to product launch events to intimate dinners and mobile activations, and have ample knowledge around permit requirements and application processes in major US markets. You've built your career working across strategy, creative, production, and client service, and are looking for opportunities that allow you to flex your well-rounded experiential perspective. </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Team Oversight & Project Management -</strong> you instinctively know how to develop a realistic timeline and budget, and how to adapt both to meet changing client needs. You have multiple years of experience managing direct reports, understanding how to delegate both up and down to ensure projects are completed on-time and in-line with client expectations. You understand multi-
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