Senior Director Communications
Senior Director Communications
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10-04-2025
Job Description
UEG is an awardwinning global agency that specializes in making brands famous. We create breakthrough marketing campaigns by partnering brands with the people places and platforms that shape pop culture. Our business specializes in the entertainment sports and lifestyle space and provides a full suite of services including celebrity and influencer programming musicfilmTV/digitalsports partnerships communications branded content and experiential.
The team at UEG is a dynamic group bringing together bestinclass expertise across entertainment sports and lifestyle paired with a strong understanding of brand building and effective marketing communications. This is an environment where we combine true passion for culture with the innate desire to create industrychanging work for our clients.
We are hiring a Senior Director of Communications. This role is based in New York City and sits on our growing Communications team with an emphasis on Sports & Lifestyle and a specific focus on Olympic and sports sponsorship communications.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for sports and deep experience building and implementing holistic 360degree communications and activation programs for toptier clients with robust sports partnership portfolios.
The candidate also is a skilled account manager adept at providing strategic counsel to clients has proven leadership skills in motivating coaching and nurturing team members and can think like a journalist and execute like a creative marketer to bring stories to life in a fragmented media and audience landscape.
This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and develop/execute highly innovative approaches to help cement our clients as leaders in their categories maximize their sports platforms and programming to demonstrate their brand purpose and show up in culture.
This role will work closely across interagency teams at UEG and within the DJE family of companies and bring an earned lens to the external IAT (interagency team) process. The ideal candidate is a proactive team player has strong media relationships and connections across key sports and lifestyle categories (as well as creators and emerging platforms) has exceptional communication and interpersonal skills and is an avid consumer of sports lifestyle news and culture.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Experience in sports and lifestyle communications within an interagency environment.
- Understand the value of creative storytelling through talent content and bespoke media experiences to push clients with breakthrough ideas.
- Lead a highpriority account as the primary client contact while mentoring a highperforming creative crossfunctional team.
- Deep knowledge of earned media strategies activation tactics of product launches athlete and influencer engagement and the ability to leverage cultural trends through PR.
- Stay on pulse of the media landscapes and trends relevant to clients business; connect content and key opinion leaders to maximize media coverage.
- Manage multiple projects from concept to completion troubleshooting problems proposing solutions and ensuring deadlines and budget adherence.
- Strong financial acumen with experience in budgeting client billing vendor invoicing reporting and profitability management.
- Build and maintain longterm relationships with sports lifestyle fashion fitness tech business and consumer media and influencers.
- Contribute to new business efforts including media proposals and presentations.
- Supervise staff through coaching feedback accountability and performance reviews.
- Commit to continuous leadership development and set stretch goals.
- Understand UEG and department vision contributing to its achievement.
- Assist junior staff when needed.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 78 years of experience in communications focusing on sports lifestyle and culture.
- Olympic or highprofile sporting event experience is a plus.
- Proven success managing highperforming client accounts and teams.
- Strong written verbal presentation and project management skills with attention to detail.
- Analytical skills with experience using data to inform planning.
- Highlevel understanding of paid earned social and owned media in modern media landscapes.
- Solid grasp of traditional and new media tools and strategies.
- Proactive in seeking fresh story angles and providing media counsel.
- Skilled in developing media materials like pitch letters contact lists and reports.
- Ability to juggle multiple clients assignments global teams and time zones.
- Proven leadership in daytoday client work team supervision and independent project management.
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field.
- Agency experience is a plus.
$80000 $120000 a year
An employees pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills seniority geographic location performance travel requirements revenuebased metrics any contractual agreements and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEHs total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses a Paid Time Off policy and regionspecific benefits.
Edelman offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance vision 401K life insurance disability insurance paid time off travel assistance and wellness programing.
An employees pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills seniority geographic location performance travel requirements revenuebased metrics any contractual agreements and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEHs total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses a Paid Time Off policy and regionspecific benefits.
Edelman offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance vision 401K life insurance disability insurance paid time off travel assistance and wellness programing.
United Entertainment Group is committed to diversity equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people members of the LGBTQ community veterans parents individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.
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