Manager, Partnership & Brand Activations

Remote, USA • Full-time / Salaried / Exempt • 20–30% travel

About the role

Join Solomon Group’s Live Events team and help create high-profile, one-of-a-kind events and experiences. Whether planning and executing exceptional custom brand activations or large-scale fan events, the team provides innovative productions, best-in-class consumer engagement, and world-class fan experiences.

The Live Events team is responsible for all aspects of live events, including concepting and ideation, budgeting, production and operations, activation execution, and fulfilling on-air look-ins and integrations. The group also works closely with sponsors and activation agencies to ensure seamless partner integration into the events.

In the past year, the team has produced events, fan experiences, and brand activations at NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Four, Super Bowl, FIFA World Cup, NFL Draft, College Football Playoff, NHL Winter Classic, MLB All-Star, and Essence Festival.

The Manager will play a key role focusing on both client management and brand activation execution at live experiences managed by Solomon Group. The role combines client relationship management, creative activation development, and live event execution. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable leading sponsor strategy discussions, collaborating with creative and production teams, and managing activations onsite. They will oversee projects from initial concept through onsite execution, ensuring every event delivers against business objectives, elevates brand presence, and creates meaningful attendee engagement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for brand partners and agencies integrating into events while building trust through responsive communication.
• Lead recurring client calls, establish project priorities, communicate milestones, and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
• Manage approval processes for creative, branding, and operational plans.
• Compile and track requests from brands and agencies and ensure confirmed requests are delivered.
• Ensure sponsor obligations and partner deliverables are met.
• Build and maintain deep relationships with clients and key stakeholders to understand client goals and anticipate future needs.
• Lead discovery sessions, planning calls, and align objectives with measurable outcomes.
• Develop and manage timelines, budgets, and staffing plans.
• Coordinate with internal and external groups to determine operational and technical needs based on client objectives.
• Guide development of branding and content while ensuring alignment between brand voice, messaging strategy, and experiential design.
• Partner with creative and marketing teams to shape narrative, messaging, and audience journey.
• Responsible for budget development, management, and reconciliation of complex budgets (often $500K–$2M+).
• Participate in team brainstorming and ideation sessions for new business and RFP responses.
• Assist team members with ideating, research, and executing activations for other projects.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience leading sponsor activation programs from concept through execution.
• Ability to balance creative development with operational execution.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting concepts, leading client meetings, and building executive-level presentations.
• Understanding of production, staging, and AV technologies.
• Proven experience forecasting, managing, and reconciling budgets of $1M+.
• Ability to evaluate activation success and identify opportunities to improve future partner experiences.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to multitask and be highly productive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excel in a dynamic team and can communicate effectively to a variety of stakeholders.
• Strong work ethic and an ability to quickly learn new skills and adapt to a variety of event environments.
• Comfortable being on video for virtual meetings.
• Experience in corporate meetings and conferences (e.g., sales meetings, leadership summits, conferences, investor events).
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including MS Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20–30% of the year, including weekends and holidays.

Benefits

• Health Insurance with Employer Contribution.
• Dental, Health, Vision.
• Employer-Provided Life Insurance.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• 401K with employer match.
• Supplemental Benefits.

About Solomon Group

Solomon Group uses its unique art to bring stories to life through Live Events, Exhibits, and Environments for a wide variety of national and international clients. For Live Events, we blend creative, design, and production that delivers effective, award-winning events. For Exhibits and Environments, we use our art of integrating exhibit fabrication with AV technology, offering a single-source solution that delivers unparalleled craftsmanship with efficiency.

Solomon Group prides itself on our values and dedicates ourselves to living them daily. For more information on what we’re made of, see our culture page.