Senior Director, Enterprise & Life Sciences

Mission North•San Francisco, CA

3h•$140,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Mission North is a strategic communications agency for consequential companies to build, protect, and renew their impact. Market-shaping brands like Brex, Canva, Ginkgo Bioworks, Google, Sage, LinkedIn, Snowflake, and Zoom have turned to us to navigate change and accelerate growth at every stage. Our award-winning culture of curiosity allows us to attract the best communicators and mobilize them around tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. Our stories about breakthrough innovations and movements—and the iconic teams behind them—have influenced hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. Join our vibrant communications agency dedicated to nurturing dynamic professionals seeking a career embedded in purpose and impact. We're looking for a strategic, curious, and impact-driven Senior Director to play a hands-on role leading and growing our portfolio of Life Science and Enterprise Technology Groups.

Requirements

A minimum of 10-12 years of communications or PR agency experience, preferably with life science technology, AI, and cloud infrastructure companies or related industries.
Demonstrated experience developing, directing, and executing strategic communications programs that blend PR, content marketing, social media, and data.
Experience helping disruptive technology companies develop compelling messaging, storylines, and thought leadership platforms.
Are passionate about how these technologies are redefining how we live and work.
Established relationships with top-tier trade media and bloggers, vertical market media and national and local business media.
Experience running integrated PR programs, including paid content.
Experience working with household names and emerging/disruptor brands in B2B technology, including data and cloud infrastructure, applied AI, business process optimization, life science technology, healthcare technology and other key elements of the modern business technology stack.
Experience with driving new business.

Responsibilities

Be responsible for client retention, staff development, and portfolio growth.
Be a trusted strategic partner to our enterprise and life science clients, their executive teams, and drive communications strategies that will help them reach their full potential.
Synthesize complex technical concepts into compelling, market-moving narratives that resonate with business, trade media, and new media alike.
Work with Mission North’s integrated studio members to provide clients with programs that utilize traditional PR, digital, creator, and social.
Maintain and leverage high-level relationships with key journalists, analysts, and editors to secure needle-moving coverage for clients.
Manage budgets and team resources.
Drive client calls, team planning sessions, new business pitches, end-of-month reporting, and invoicing.
Conceptualize inventive influencer strategies and drive influencer engagement.
Serve as a key contributor in new business.
Cultivate the agency’s sphere of influence with agency peers, VCs, etc.
Manage 1-2 direct reports as well as mentor Account Managers and Senior Associates.
Drive new business development by analyzing RFPs, crafting compelling proposals, and delivering persuasive client pitches.