Senior Vice President, Consumer Technology

About Us

There’s a reason HUNTER is recognized as a PRWeek Best Place To Work and has been named PRovoke “Consumer Agency of the Year” not once, but twice: At HUNTER, we EARN IT — consumer attention, the trust and loyalty of clients, and the dedication of our staff, currently 350+ strong and counting.

Overview

HUNTER is seeking a Senior Vice President to join our growing Tech practice. This leader will oversee integrated account teams supporting a diverse portfolio of clients across retail, consumer technology, media, and sustainability and social impact.

 

The SVP will serve as a strategic advisor to clients while providing leadership, mentorship, and direction to internal teams. Responsibilities include driving client strategy, ensuring flawless execution of integrated communications programs, fostering strong client relationships, and contributing to the overall growth, operations, and culture of the Tech practice.

 

The ideal candidate has experience advising Fortune 100 companies and/or hyperscaler clients, leading high-performing agency teams of 10+ people, and managing large client portfolios and budgets. They are a trusted counselor with a strong understanding of the agency ecosystem, a track record of growing client relationships, and the ability to develop strategic, creative solutions that deliver business impact.

 

This role reports to the Managing Director of the Tech Practice.

 

Senior Vice Presidents are members of the agency’s “senior staff” ranks and have responsibility for autonomously leading a sizeable portion of the agency’s fee business and a dedicated team of staffers. SVPs are expected to demonstrate and uphold the company’s reputation, mission of Earning Attention (consumers), Building Trust (clients) and Cultivating Loyalty (employees) while expressing the company’s values in all aspects of their ethical, enthusiastic and dedicated service to clients and the staff they supervise.

Responsibilities

CLIENT/ACCOUNT OR SPECIALTY MANAGEMENT 

• Sustain and grow current account/client assignments and seek to turn projects into ongoing budgets and/or renew client budgets annually.
  • Autonomously supervise $1.5-$2MM annually in fee revenue or generate a commensurate amount of fee/opportunity in terms of a VP in agency specialty practices.
  • Lead the development of client programs by proposing strategic, creative ideas and tactical elements that meet client objectives; seek inputs from team members and counsel from MD/SLT/BLT leadership as necessary.
• Cultivate trusted relationships with clients based on demonstration of strong counsel, communications expertise, account management/coordination, team leadership and the ability to drive the business results that benefit client’s business.
• Demonstrate a proactive and strong understanding of the clients’ marketplace/business/industry to build trust and agency’s reputation in the space.
• Actively seek and sell-in incremental and integrated opportunities from across the agency’s specialty services and geographies and drive opportunities for staff members to learn and grow from other staff members within the agency.
• Help set yearly client budgets/stretch goals in conjunction with BLT/SLT/ELT leaders.
• Anticipate client issues; recognize potential fiscal challenges and take action early to correct, report and remedy any potential loss in a timely and transparent manner.
• Recognize and uphold the terms and conditions of client MSA, scopes, policies and procedures and enforce these guidelines while servicing clients and leading the teams to successful outcomes.
• Serve as lead budget tracker/manager across all account assignments.  Ensure accurate time recording, expense management, contracts and negotiation with vendors/partners by:
  • Leading agency revenue recognition process
  • Alert ELT-BLT-SLT supervisor to material changes in budgets in a timely and accurate manner
  • Submitting all expense reports, invoices, time sheets, etc. accurately and on time
• Lead by example and play a visible, active and involved role as the senior leader of the account team and the senior ranks of the agency.  Attend events, travel to client meetings, lead social outings, attend brainstorms and encourage participation in agency culture events.

TALENT LEADERSHIP

• Build, lead and develop engaged, loyal and successful integrated account teams.
  • Lead and mentor team members to develop work that matters that reflects contemporary and forward-thinking practices, involves new technologies or expands the limits of the client’s expectations/business objectives
  • Implement strategies and practice methods that reduce turnover and build loyalty
  • Cultivate an envi