Senior Vice President, Sports Practice Co-Lead

Praytell is a creative communications agency made by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across social, earned, digital, and more. After 10 years of cooking up award-winning work, we know one thing for sure - we’re just warming up.

If you're looking for an opportunity to join an ambitious team that is singularly focused on doing great work with great people and making your mark in an industry long overdue for a shakeup, we'd love to hear from you!

As Senior Vice President, Sports Practice Co-Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Practice Leadership: Define the vision, strategy and objectives for the sports practice group alongside your co-practice lead.
• Strategic Leadership: Lead sports strategic planning and programming across the agency, from articulating sponsorship/integration opportunities to developing and activating go-to-market strategies across our client portfolio.  
• Business Development: Lead business development, identifying and pursuing new business and incremental/upsell opportunities leveraging existing networks and relationships to expand Praytell’s roster of sports clients.
• Client Relations: Serve as a trusted advisor to key sports clients, delivering strategic, integrated solutions that drive business outcomes. Serve as a category expert for Praytell clients considering sports programming or partnerships, contributing to strategy, ideas and plans as needed. 
• Team Development: Nurture talent, mentor and develop team members, and provide guidance, training, mentorship and growth opportunities.
• Client Retention: Ensure long-term partnerships with our sports clients by maintaining high client satisfaction, proactively addressing client needs, anticipating challenges, delivering exceptional results and demonstrating the value of our offerings.
• Practice Health: Oversee accounts budgets, scopes, contracts, staffing, utilization and profitability across the sports practice.

Requirements

Experience you have:

• You have 15+ years of experience in PR/integrated comms experience in an agency environment. Sports experience is a must!
• You’ve worked with a portfolio of sports brands and have experience leading large accounts in a highly matrixed, fast-paced environment. You're familiar with working in an IAT model, with other PR, marketing and advertising partners.
• You deeply understand and can activate sports PR - you have an extremely solid understanding of the sports industry, how to best connect clients with opportunities across various budget levels, and how to develop and activate go-to-market strategies for seasoned sports brands or those new to the industry.  
• You're comfortable interfacing with senior/C-suite clients and collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver great work,and  leaning on your sports expertise to provide well-informed recommendations.
• You have a penchant for new business with a proven history of effectively cultivating and securing new clients.
• You're comfortable managing budgets, scopes, staffing, utilization and profitability across your accounts.
• You’re a people manager and know how to empower teams to do their best work.

Equally as important, you are:

• Meticulous and well-organized
• Flexible and adaptable
• Collaborative and a team player, with a can-do attitude
• A creative thinker and problem solver
• Ambitious and entrepreneurial
• Inquisitive and eager to learn
• Honest and ethical
• Connected to culture
• Committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace

Benefits

• Salary Range: $165,000 - $225,000 (The actual compensation amount paid may vary and will be determined based on factors including the applicant's experience, expertise, skills and abilities.)
• Comprehensive health insurance with no-employee-contribution options + family subsidy
• Employee stock ownership plan 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
• Four-day workweek
• Flexible time off, more than a dozen company holidays, and mental health days
• Flexible work locations (with approval from leadership)
• Employee assistance program giving you and your family access to mental health resources, 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 Praytell, our annual company offsite (eligibility based on employee start date)
• Our wonderful employee resource groups
• And more!

Interview Process

• Submit Application
• Phone Screen (30 minutes)
• Team Interview (1 hour)
• Final Interview (30-45 minutes)
• Skills Test (TBD)
• Offer
• Ideal Start Date: Mid to Late May

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all people at our company and do not discriminate. Period. All qualified applicants will receive consideration in accordance with federal law requirements, and because it’s the right thing to do. We comply with the applicable state and local law governing non-discrimination in employment in every single one of our locations, and we prohibit any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.