Senior Account Director

Fayetteville, AR (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive full account leadership for production and client programs, owning strategy-to-delivery and multi-level client relationships.

  • Own end-to-end production, client deliverables, timelines, and budgets.
  • Must-have: 8–12 years in field/experiential marketing & live events.
  • Standout: cross-functional leadership and multi-level client relationship management.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and lead all facets of production elements and client deliverables, ensuring the end product meets and/or exceeds JFS & client standards
  • Ensure management of client expectations
  • Develop and manage projects and programs, including strategies, implementation plans, evaluation mechanisms, staffing plans, timelines and budgets
  • Act with a high degree of independence; holds responsibility for overall account relationships
  • Maintain and grow existing accounts, establishing relationships with key client contacts and ensuring that client/agency relationships exists on multiple levels and grow over time
  • Leverage full resources JetFuel, increasing client/agency points of contact
  • Provide proactive leadership to accounts, staff and clients
  • Develop and direct new business program development and presentations working with senior leaders
  • Company Credit Card & Expenses: Employees may be issued a company credit card for business-related expenses, and must ensure proper use, retain receipts, and submit weekly expense reports for approval

Requirements

  • Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, or the equivalent
  • 8-12 years of relative experience within field/experiential marketing & live events
  • Communication skills; ability to communicate highly technical concepts to a non-technical audience
  • Vendor contacts, sourcing and negotiation experience
  • Detail oriented individual with excellent follow-up/follow-through, organizational /documentation/tracking skills
  • Strong computer application skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Suite) and ability to work in a digital work environment
  • Ability to meet deadlines, work independently, think creatively, & evaluate usage data
  • Superior interpersonal skills to work closely with internal creative & accounts team members and client teams
  • Ability to work weekends and travel on occasion, when projects dictate
  • The role may require work outside of typical business hours, including evenings, weekends, or holidays, to meet deadlines or support critical projects.

Benefits

  • Salary annualized compensation
  • Onsite weekend pay
  • Earned comp days for onsite weekends
  • 15 PTO days
  • Health Benefits
  • 401k plans
  • Participation of the JetFuel bonus plan
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JetFuel

An independent brand accelerant built with the hustle mentality of a start-up, and the heritage of a traditional agency.Creating moments of live experiences and breakthrough content, paving the way for brands to amplify connectivity and for people to share through discovery.We live for, sweat for, and celebrate these moments. It's these moments that define JetFuel.

Founded in 2016
New York, New York, USA
57 employees (39 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.3%
Direct
47.1%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~57

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (18% of company)
Median Career Experience
8 years
Median Tenure
3.3 years