Director - Account Leader

Golin is hiring a Director, Catalyst! The Director position leads relationships with clients to deliver against our agency objectives of growth, quality, innovation and profitability. It's an exciting time for the agency to continue to deliver impactful earned work for one of Golin's most exciting consumer accounts!

Why Catalyst?

GOLIN catalysts are relationship builders. They seek to understand, they motivate, they inspire, they bring people together and push out the best work to the clients - championing smart strategies, advocating for killer creative ideas, protecting the Brand's ethos and client priorities.

Catalysts close the deal, open the door, roll up their sleeves and conduct a team of curious, hungry, smart and creative people. Catalysts keep the train on the tracks but let the work fly so that brands win buzz, headlines, praise and awards. They work with strategists and creatives to develop ideas that - not only get heard - but approved, funded and executed. Catalysts relentlessly pursue signed statements of work and are hungry to add big wins to their portfolios.

Golin has been on a winning streak of recognition: PRWeek's Best Place to Work, Provoke Media's Global Agency of the Year, PRWeek's Large Agency of the year and winning two Grand Prix at Cannes.

Riding the wave of recognition and award-winning work, the Director, Catalyst has an incredible opportunity to undertake a client facing and commercial role, working in partnership with a cross-functional team across your clients' businesses that helps promote and protect the brand in Dallas and keep Golin on top.

Please note: This is a hybrid role located in Dallas, TX. You will have an opportunity to collaborate in-person two to three days a week at our Dallas office while maintaining flexibility for remote work.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leads project execution with full accountability for strategic direction and team coordination
• Ensures clear client aligned direction is delivered to the cross-functional team
• Develops comprehensive knowledge of client business objectives, industry landscape, and organizational priorities
• Ensures all client deliverables meet strategic objectives and quality standards before submission
• Able to navigate difficult conversations with the clients and with the internal team for the outcome of successful results
• Drives alignment on project goals with client and internal teams at each stage of the process
• Can set up a business to operate in a way that ensures the work is getting done efficiently, and can oversee that process
• Understands agency business objectives and actively contributes to achieving them
• You effectively seek, and close new opportunities for the client that will expand our remit on the business
• You find opportunities to engage with and build the right relationships on the client side that will open up new opportunities
• You build strong trusted relationships with senior clients on the business
• Earns client trust to become a strategic partner and trusted advisor
• Proven ability to consistently grow organic growth on the businesses you work on
• Partners with PM/client finance to put together profitable staff plans, and scopes of work for our client work
• Actively works towards closing important opportunities of growth for all our clients
• Maintains ongoing awareness of client needs to identify and pursue organic growth opportunities

Qualifications:

• Motivated by developing strong relationships (internally and externally)
• Natural leader, capable of identifying problems and creative solutions
• Experience leading a successful IAT and managing overlapping campaigns at one time
• A passion for modern, integrated marketing with proven experience in the industry
• Strong project management experience with strong attention to detail and ability to manage several workstreams, timelines and channel teams
• Experience working with production teams and third-party vendors and managing budgets
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen with focus on revenue growth and profitability
• Ability to think strategically about clients' needs and turn these into actionable work
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Motivated to actively contribute to the wider agency
• An entrepreneurial spirit, always looking to develop your skills, thinking and value to the agency and to clients
• Bachelor's degree in journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing or related field
• 7+ years' experience in an advertising or public relations agency or similar setting

About Golin:

Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps the company create change that matters. 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.

Every agency is talking about AI. At Golin, we are using AI to rewrite the rules of PR. We're even promising to become the first fully AI-integrated agency by 2026. We are committed to upskilling our workforce, democratizing access to tools, and integrating AI into our daily work to maximize the value we deliver to our clients.

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.

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. Salary range: Salary Range: $94,000 - $165,000

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.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.