SVP, Strategic Communications

Precision

$180K — $250K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in strategic communications or related fields.
  • Proven track record in managing large client engagements and high-stakes situations.
  • Strong expertise in digital strategy, content creation, and storytelling across platforms.
  • Excellent leadership abilities to guide teams and foster collaboration among cross-functional groups.
  • Demonstrated skills in project management and client budget oversight.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee relationships with clients and manage multiple workstreams effectively.
  • Lead resolution of complex challenges, balancing strategic vision with practical execution.
  • Set the vision for content excellence, integrating creativity and strategic messaging.
  • Define and implement agency standards for digital execution and analytics.
  • Coordinate collaboration across various departments to align client priorities with agency goals.
  • Elevate team performance through mentoring, feedback, and tailored management.
  • Drive business development by identifying opportunities and leading pitches.

Benefits

  • Access to a collaborative work environment with cross-functional integration.
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth within the organization.
  • Involvement in high-stakes, high-impact work that challenges conventional strategies.
  • Engagement with innovative digital tools and storytelling platforms.
  • Flexible work locations in New York or Washington, DC.
Full Job Description
Our team is seeking a Senior Vice President to join our Strategic Communications team in New York, NY or Washington DC to lead in crafting and executing cutting-edge digital strategy for clients ranging from corporate leaders to advocacy groups.

Client Management
  • Owns large client engagements (e.g. oversees relationship with clients and partners; runs and manages workstreams).
  • Leads the structured resolution of complex, high-stakes challenges across clients and internal teams (e.g. bringing clarity to ambiguity, balances strategic vision with executional detail, offers innovative approaches that challenge conventional thinking, and leverages deep knowledge of Precision's capabilities).
  • Follows Precision client management process. Ensures staff have the resources and support to exceed expectations and expand scopes. Ensures staff are delivering high quality work to clients. Keeps to the client budget.

Digital Specific
  • Sets the overall vision for content excellence at Precision. Defines how storytelling, creativity, and strategic messaging power the agency's reputation and results. Shapes the agency's voice, frameworks, and standards for content across all clients and channels. Serves as a thought leader both internally and externally, guiding innovation in creative formats, technology, and emerging storytelling platforms. Partners with senior leadership to connect content to business development, brand growth, and organizational culture.
  • Sets the strategic direction for Precision's platform capabilities, ensuring the agency remains at the forefront of digital execution, innovation, and compliance. Defines the systems, tools, and training that enable operational excellence across all digital work. Partners with senior leadership to align platform expertise with business strategy, service offerings, and new client opportunities.
  • Defines the agency's philosophy and standards for measurement, reporting, and performance storytelling. Oversees how Precision leverages data and analytics to demonstrate impact, drive business growth, and enhance client confidence. Aligns measurement strategy with the agency's broader communications, marketing, and policy objectives.


Collaboration & People Management
  • Orchestrates cross-functional integration across strategic communications, data, creative, and paid media to deliver work that advances client priorities. Works to align leadership and teams around a shared vision. Serves as a central point of coordination and clarity-ensuring transparency, consistency, and adaptability in internal communication as priorities evolve. Commits to build knowledge across teams and share best practices.
  • Keeps the internal team updated on changes and abreast of developments (e.g. leads productive internal meetings, clearly communicates deliverables and deadlines, brings in other teams when needed).
  • Leads and manages mid level staff through 1:1s, goal setting, feedback, and performance reviews; effectively manages teams during periods of change; fosters a high-morale, accountable culture; provides clear, constructive feedback across account teams; elevates issues to leadership.

Project & Time Management
  • Executes complex projects from end-to-end with limited guidance and high-quality outputs (e.g. anticipates shifts in client direction and scope; crafts clear work plans, delegates effectively, and oversees project budgets).

Strategy
  • Owns and advances the firm's content strategy across high-impact, multi-channel initiatives; sets the standard for strategic, compelling storytelling that drives client outcomes. Provides editorial leadership, developing frameworks, mentoring senior staff, and embedding a culture of excellence in content across the organization.
  • Shapes and drives an innovation culture across Precision; anticipates future challenges and market shifts to design transformative solutions; leverages deep cross-functional and industry expertise to create new opportunities and strategic advantages; aligns innovation efforts with Precision's long-term vision and full range of capabilities.

Business Development
  • Actively looks for new business opportunities within their network; lead pitches and presentations from brainstorm to delivery; drive organic growth by expanding client work and proposing new ideas; identifies ways to support firm marketing efforts.

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