Climate Tech Practice Lead (Contractor to Permanent Full-Time)

Overview 

What began in 2017 as an idea on the back of a napkin has quickly become an award-winning, fastest-growing communications firm working with some big-name consumer and B2B technology brands. At SourceCode, we’re focused on bringing brains and hustle, humanity and technology, creativity and business intelligence back to public relations and marketing. 

As we continue to add new, specific and focused practice areas to our existing range of industry expertise, as well as double down on our mission to work with brands that are doing their part in improving the world around us, Climate Tech is a perfect next sector for us to set our sights on. We are looking for a seasoned communications professional to serve as the face of this new practice area and work with SourceCode’s senior leadership to drive its growth. With this practice in its pre-launch phase, this role is an ideal opportunity for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit and deep connections and expertise in the Climate Tech space to get in at the ground floor of a high-growth potential business unit within a successful, established agency.

What You’ll Do:

• Work hand-in-hand with our Managing Partners and EVP to officially launch and build SourceCode’s new Climate Tech practice. 
• From a business standpoint, you will: 
• Serve as our resident Climate Tech subject matter expert, overseeing P&L, all business operations, and client service for the practice 
• Manage new business efforts for the practice – leveraging YOUR network to source leads, developing proposals, leading pitches, managing inbounds, and developing proactive outbound strategy
• Work with SourceCode’s marketing team to build awareness of this new practice area and demonstrate our knowledge and expertise in the space to drive new client wins
• Understand agency financial policies and procedures, and manage agency resource and utilization
• From a client standpoint, you will:
• Serve as a senior client advisor, providing strategic guidance, demonstrating in-depth knowledge of their business and their value proposition within the climate tech industry 
• Build rapport and trust with client contacts and assuming the lead client contact role for all strategic and tactical matters
• Align with the team to ensure KPIs and other performance benchmarks for client goals are met each quarter; work with teams to ensure campaigns and projects are delivered to scope, budget and team resourcing goals
• Work with client service team to build media engagement strategies, including the development of timely pitches and/or content, as well as crafting and implementing quarterly and bi-annual plans

What You Have: 

• 10+ years of PR and marketing agency experience; a strong understanding of media relations, corporate communications, and digitally-minded public relations with client leadership experience
• Existing connections and expertise running PR / marketing programs for clients in the Climate Tech industry and tangential sectors
• A proven track record of creating, overseeing and driving strategy for clients that yields top results
• Comfort interacting with senior clients, including C-level stakeholders
• A track record of winning new business and growing a business portfolio, particularly in the climate tech sector
• Ambition and drive, you enjoy working through complex challenges and problem solving
• Experience in managing client campaigns, project managing tasks, workloads and KPIs both for client and commercial success
• The ability to prioritize weekly and quarterly goals that impact client and team demands  
• Strong leadership and people management experience– mentoring junior team members, modeling behaviors, and ensuring the success of your team is important to you
• Experience owning a P&L and the ability to effectively recommend and manage a budget

About SourceCode

SourceCode Communications is an award-winning communications marketing agency launched in 2017 by technology PR industry veterans Greg Mondshein and Rebecca Honeyman. Based in New York, the agency is focused on delivering measurable business impact to brands in five major sectors - Consumer & Lifestyle Technology, Financial Technology, Mobile, Cloud & Telecoms, Insights & Engagement, and Enterprise Technology. SourceCode was recently named a Top Place to Work by Ragan’s Employee Communications Awards, ranked 108 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the Northeast Region’s fastest-growing private companies, and ranked 62 on O'Dwyer's 2023 List of Top PR Firms.