EVP, Corporate Communications

We are seeking a strategic and growth-minded agency leader who will be responsible for designing and implementing strategies that continue to strengthen our position in the market. You will lead a dynamic and successful team, win and retain client work that helps some of the world’s most well-known companies promote and protect their brands, and work across offices and geographies to help drive agency growth.

You are a driven, proven agency leader with experience advising senior level clients, a track record of winning new business, and a passion for helping lead and develop people.

A successful candidate has a proven track record of success:

• Leading teams and client portfolios at mid-size and/or large agencies.
• Advising c-suite executives on how to navigate with key investor, policy, employee, and business audiences.
• Building winning corporate reputation and B2B campaigns for clients.
• Recruiting, retaining, and developing talent on agency teams.
• Growing and leading client account teams, helping clients solve business challenges, bringing problem-solving strategies rooted in data and analytics, working across agency and client teams.
• As a strong leader with high EQ, excellent communications skills, experience with top tier media and c-suite engagements.

Responsibilities include:

• Partnering with key leaders on a portfolio of clients, to identify both organic and new business opportunities, develop thought leadership to favorably position us in the marketplace,
• Lead a team of talented team members.
• Oversee and manage successful client assignments.
• New business development including sourcing new business leads, responding to in-bound new business RFPs, pitching and winning business.

Qualifications:

• At least 20 years of relevant experience with a strong preference given to proven success in mid - large agencies.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Client-side experience or mid-large agency experience in successful leadership of client assignments.
• Foster an empowered culture built on diversity and to continue to develop our team talent.
• Excellent critical thinking, writing, presentation, project management, and consultative skills.
• Self-starter, self-guided leader who works well in fast-paced environment.

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. 

Recently named 2024 PRWeek’s Agency of the Year, we tend to Go All In, in everything we do. 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: $185,000-$350,000

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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