Manager - Tech

Golin San Francisco is on the hunt for a dynamic, experienced Manager (Senior Account Executive) to join our award-winning team to support our technology clients. We are seeking someone who is curious, highly motivated and interested in how technology is transforming our lives at work and at home. Join our tech practice and be part of a team that shapes narratives, tells stories, and spurs conversations about some of the world's most innovative tech brands.

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious team member with a collaborative mindset, earned media orientation, account management experience, and B2B/enterprise tech background to develop and drive key client programs. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of agency experience.

We call this role a "Cata-Connector" - a powerful fusion of our Catalyst and Connector roles at Golin.

As a Catalyst, you are:

A strategic account manager and trusted client partner who thrives on driving the execution of campaigns and delivering standout results. You anticipate client needs before they arise, elevate client service standards, and energize the broader team to consistently exceed expectations. You're a seasoned Tech PR expert with a passion for product and tech news making, brand storytelling, innovation storylines, and execution in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.

As a Connector, you are:

A relentless media relations powerhouse navigating the entire tech media landscape. Shaping stories to stand out among the thousands of pitches reporters receive every day. Golin Connectors don't just reactively wait for ideas to pitch to media, they proactively hunt for opportunities. Not waiting for stories to come to you, but creating them. They have their finger on the pulse of cultural moments and real-time trends our clients can leverage and turn those ideas into nationally covered media stories.They're smart, scrappy, persistent, and hungry for coverage, always finding creative ways to tell our clients' stories. They follow the industry, read the news and reporting, see the work that's winning, and are driven to put points on the board for our clients.

About Golin:

Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps clients create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin's 1,700 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 on a path 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 brands.

What You'll Do:

• First and foremost, develop and secure compelling, earned-first media content for Fortune 500 enterprise/B2B technology brands.
• In addition to securing coverage for upcoming products and technology launches, you'll be responsible for proactively creating earned media opportunities in all types of media, from trade, vertical, business/financial, technology, broadcast, national and local outlets.
• Hold and set a high bar for executing smart and relevant ideas, impactful execution of client programs, and smooth program management.
• Build, nurture and leverage your relationships with media for the benefit of the agency and its enterprise/B2B technology clients.
• Serve as an integral member of the account team addressing the varied and changing needs of clients, proactively providing thoughtful ideas and solutions.

• Have a command of the client's business and use that knowledge to collaborate with internal team members to develop and execute earned media campaigns. Using that knowledge to become a "go-to" resource for your team and your client.

• Look for relevant cultural moments and trends that clients can leverage every day, then turn those into impactful media opportunities.
• Problem-solve in a fast-paced environment while providing strong client counsel and develop and sell-in media strategy.
• Interact with teams and clients to present strategic recommendations, with the ability to address challenges and opportunities.
• Guide junior account staff and help them grow their careers.
• Collaborate with teams across multiple disciplines and geographies to successfully manage complex, fast-moving, communications needs and challenges.
• Join a culture of collective support, growth and partnership among agency teams and clients.
• Occasionally contribute to new business projects to expand and grow the agency's technology client roster.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism or related field with 3+ years of agency experience preferred (client-side experience welcomed, too).
• Understand what earned PR tactics reach enterprise/B2B technology audiences and how to replicate it for our clients.
• Sophisticated understanding of earned media strategy and experience creating media plans. Strong portfolio of story placements.
• Experience working with enterprise/B2B technology brands and the media outlets and journalists that cover them.
• Passion for client service and an ability to juggle multiple projects and changing priorities in real-time.
• Strong attention to detail and polished, client-ready materials.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience managing complex or integrated PR projects, including reviewing and creating client-ready deliverables.
• Superior writing and editing skills that can communicate creatively and in an engaging manner. Understand how to meet client KPIs and how to explain the value PR delivers for enterprise/B2B brands.
• Curiosity for all-things-technology and a real-time pulse on the industry.

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: $70,000 - $95,000

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.

Golinis proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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