Company description
About Team One:
Team One is Publicis Groupe's fully integrated media, digital, and communications agency built to help premium brands thrive in a rapidly evolving world. We're known as the 'architects of aspiration' helping luxury brands reach modern affluents and next-gen consumers through culturally fluent strategies and experiences, unmatched access, and the agility to move at the speed of culture.
We're a team of 400+ creators, doers, and difference-makers across six North American offices-Los Angeles (our HQ), Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boise. Together, we're proud partners to iconic brands, including Lexus and the Lexus Dealer Association, Marriott International, The Ritz-Carlton, Barclays, The RealReal, HKS Architects, Metabo HPT, KB Home, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Moet Hennessy, Citi., and Cathay Pacific Airlines.
We take pride in our industry-shaping creativity, connection, and exceptional culture that have been recognized with honors like Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators and Ad Age's Best Places to Work.
Overview
About this Position:
Responsible for day-to-day management of Lexus Dealer Association (LDA) Experiential activity for assigned markets within the Southern region. Develops plans clearly driven by LDA goals and objectives. Maintains the highest levels of integrity in all areas of responsibility. Builds and maintains professional relationships with Lexus Area Management staff, the Lexus dealer body, Team One field account team and headquarters.
What You'll Do:
Lead and manage all aspects of Lexus experiential initiatives and partnerships in the Southern Area-including sports marketing, culinary programs, music, performing arts, and auto enthusiast events-while developing strategies that support sales objectives, vehicle launches, and retail initiatives.
Demonstrate strong communication, attention to detail, and ownership across projects, ensuring seamless coordination and follow-through with internal teams and external partners.
Own experiential programs end-to-end-from strategy and planning through on-site execution and post-event recaps-ensuring timelines, deliverables, quality standards, and brand excellence are met.
Develop and deliver compelling presentation decks that communicate experiential strategies, recommendations, recaps, and performance metrics to Lexus clients.
Build, maintain, and grow strong relationships with key partners to ensure partnership objectives are met, sponsorship benefits are fulfilled, and programs continue to scale effectively.
Manage partnership budgets and oversee financial processes, including POs, invoicing, vendor setup, and budget tracking.
Serve as the primary on-site lead for key activations, overseeing execution, troubleshooting in real time, and representing the Lexus brand professionally with partners and guests/attendees.
Oversee the development, delivery, and management of creative assets across experiential partnerships.
Manage sponsorship contracts in collaboration with internal legal teams, ensuring compliance and timely execution.
Analyze program performance and insights to inform recommendations, optimize future experiential strategies, and drive continuous improvement.
Research competitive automotive and experiential marketing activity, sharing insights and key learnings with internal teams and clients.
Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams, including account management, media planning, creative, and strategy, to ensure seamless execution.
Maintain strong, professional relationships with Lexus stakeholders, including Lexus dealership general managers, dealership marketing teams, and Lexus Southern Area contacts.
What You Bring:
Marketing professional with 6-7 years of event marketing, sponsorship/partnership marketing or sports marketing related experience.
Bachelor's degree required (Business, Marketing, Sport Management, Advertising, Communications preferred).
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Photoshop Skills preferred but not required.
Travel 25% (Southeast United States).
Must be willing to work weekends and nights.
Why It's Great to Work Here:
We live by our C.O.R.E. values:
Collaborative - We work together to get better stuff done than we could alone.
Optimistic - Honest and confident in our quest forward; believing the impossible is possible.
Results-driven - Creativity is always in service of results and never for its own sake.
Entrepreneurial - Build something new. Shoot for the moon.
We offer comprehensive benefits and 'work perks' like great options for medical / dental / vision insurance, 401(k) with company matching, unlimited PTO, generous paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, family forming assistance reimbursement, pet adoption assistance + "pawternity" leave, etc.
We have a hybrid work schedule (3 days a week in office / 2 days from wherever your heart desires).
We're part of Publicis Groupe which is a huge global network, so there are many resources that come with that like Business Resource Groups for a variety of communities like Publicis Parents, VivaWomen, Egalité, etc.
We give back to our communities with our annual Day of Good and volunteer opportunities throughout the year.
We love to grow our talent and promote from within whenever possible, and we offer professional development trainings and regular structured performance reviews.
We have a lot fun! We have a whole committee called "Team Fun" that plans parties and events for us to celebrate birthdays, holidays, cultural moments, etc. Some recent fun events include a flower bouquet bar, origami lessons, and hearing from creative entrepreneurs at our Moonshot speaker series.
Additional information
Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $75,050.00 - $102,700.00. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 6/11/2026.
