Director, Entertainment Marketing & Advisory at WME | William Morris Endeavor | NY, US | Rezi

Director, Entertainment Marketing & Advisory at WME | William Morris Endeavor

Director, Entertainment Marketing & Advisory

WME | William Morris Endeavor · NY, US

2 weeks ago

Director, Entertainment Marketing & Advisory

WME | William Morris Endeavor · NY, US

16 days ago
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About the Role

Lead the development of commercial narratives, client-facing materials, and strategic business development initiatives to drive growth. This role collaborates with various teams to transform client opportunities into compelling, commercially driven solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategic development of pitches, proposals, and client presentations.
  • Translate client objectives into compelling, commercially viable solutions.
  • Collaborate with agents, business development, creative services, specialists, and executive leadership.
  • Shape strategic recommendations, business objectives, positioning, and client narratives.
  • Bring a deep understanding of culture, entertainment, talent, media, and brand marketing.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to strengthen client recommendations and business development efforts.
  • Lead enterprise positioning across the department, including strategic narrative, presentation approach, flow, and executive messaging.
  • Serve as a strategic partner in client meetings, pitch presentations, and business development discussions.
  • Shape opportunities, strengthen relationships, and drive commercial outcomes.
  • Partner with Creative Services to ensure excellence in design execution, quality control, and final deliverables.
  • Design and continuously improve scalable workflows, intake processes, templates, and operating procedures.
  • Increase efficiency, consistency, and visibility across the department's business development efforts.
  • Maintain and evolve a centralized repository of pitches, proposals, case studies, strategic frameworks, historical work, and best practices.
  • Repurpose insights and strengthen future pursuits.
  • Act as a strategic thought-leader in building enterprise opportunities.
  • Apply cross-category insights to improve recommendations and output.
  • Operate with professionalism, discretion, emotional intelligence, and executive presence.
  • Adapt to fast-paced and highly collaborative environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience preferred.
  • 6+ years of experience in entertainment marketing, brand strategy, business development, or related fields.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with a collaborative style.
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with strong oral, written, and presentation skills.
  • Commercially minded with a clear understanding of how ideas translate into revenue.
  • Strong understanding of the entertainment, media, and cultural landscape.
  • Demonstrated cultural fluency and curiosity around emerging trends, creators, talent, IP, and brand partnerships.
  • Experience managing complex business development workflows across multiple stakeholders, timelines, and competing priorities.
  • Exceptional written communication, storytelling, and strategic thinking skills.
  • Demonstrated experience translating complex business challenges into compelling commercial narratives, executive presentations, proposals, and client-facing materials.
  • Experience partnering with creative and design teams.
  • Experience building scalable systems, processes, templates, and operating models.
  • Confident executive presence with experience presenting strategic recommendations in client-facing environments.
  • Ability to build credibility with senior internal and external stakeholders.
  • Highly detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy, consistency, and quality.
  • Resourceful, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
  • Ability to synthesize information and adapt quickly to evolving business needs.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Keynote).

Skills

  • Entertainment Marketing
  • Brand Strategy
  • Business Development
  • Commercial Narrative Development
  • Client-Facing Materials
  • Strategic Business Development
  • Strategic Recommendations
  • Cultural Fluency
  • Talent
  • Media
  • Brand Marketing
  • Enterprise Positioning
  • Executive Messaging
  • Client Meetings
  • Pitch Presentations
  • Creative Services Partnership
  • Workflow Design
  • Process Improvement
  • Template Development
  • Operating Procedures
  • Repository Management
  • Storytelling
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Location

  • Office (4 days per week)

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • 6+ years

Education Level

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

  • $112,500 - $150,000 annually

Benefits

  • Health care
  • Retirement
  • Vacation
  • Paid time off
  • Additional offerings

About the Company

  • WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion.
  • It is a largely relationship-based business.
  • Fosters an environment of collaboration, develops future talent, and builds on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams.

Equal Opportunity

  • Dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace.
  • Encourages applications from candidates whose past experience may not align perfectly with every qualification.