Account Director - Racing Team

 

Our team is seeking a PR Account Director, with sports, event management, client management, communications and motorsports logistics background to join our dynamic team! This role will support our automotive client and team, with on-the-ground racing events, managing press, communications, and supporting client and team needs.  

  

We are looking for someone with extensive experience in a sports communications setting, who can effectively work with both our internal and external team to manage our client’s day-to-day business and PR responsibilities, including representing the client at several racing events over the weekend. Traveling, managing weekend events, and working remotely will be an integral part of the role.  

  

Our ideal candidate can execute, oversee, and manage programs, provide client counsel and execute onsite events. We are looking for someone who has strong instincts, is agile and forward-thinking at a moment’s notice. You are a great listener, providing sound counsel, are media trained and can think on your feet in a fast-paced environment. 

  

What You’ll Do: 

• Manage day-to-day activities and event logistics for our motorsport's client and business 

• Make decisions that push our client’s business forward by applying creative and strategic thinking to plans, programs, events and campaigns 

• Provide media and client counsel 

• Have a strong eye for detail, quality control, foreseeing any client and team needs, managing team correspondence and plans 

• Understand traditional media and social media solutions and position them with clients in collaboration with subject-matter experts 

• Manage media relations and traditional PR activity on event days, including speaking engagements, sponsored content, and activations 

  

Travel 

• Ability to travel and work weekends, on-site client events throughout the better part of the year.  

  

What You Have: 

• 10+ years of event management experience, particularly with sporting events 

• Sports marketing experience, along with deep event management, client relations, and logistics experience.  

• Highly adept at writing various types of content and press releases. 

• Understanding of social platforms (social media universe, such as Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) 

  

 Qualities & Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience  

• 10+ years of experience in sports marketing, communications, event management role 

• Ability to take ownership over event logistics, client and team needs, and day-of coordination 

• Experience working with sports, consumer and/ or corporate clients 

• Experience working in sports communications 

• Skilled at providing client counsel, crisis communications counsel and finding solutions 

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 

• Ability to provide clients with media prep for interviews and events 

• Forward-thinking mindset 

 

 

About Golin: 

 

Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps 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: $95,000 - $130,000

 

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.

 

 

 

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