Vice President, Accounts

New York City, NY (On-site)

$160K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and grow a high-value client portfolio by tying every move to enterprise goals and P&L health, while building a leadership-capable team and representing the agency at top-tier events.

  • Define and steward the overarching business and marketing strategy for your client portfolio, ensuring every initiative ladders up to clients' enterprise objectives and long-range growth ambitions.
  • Own the commercial health of the portfolio — revenue forecasting, margin performance, pacing, and budget stewardship — driving accountability through your team while maintaining executive-level visibility into financial outcomes.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, positioning Situation as an indispensable strategic partner.

Job Description

Own and grow a high-value client portfolio by tying every move to enterprise goals and P&L health, while building a leadership-capable team and representing the agency at top-tier events.

  • Define and steward the overarching business and marketing strategy for your client portfolio, ensuring every initiative ladders up to clients' enterprise objectives and long-range growth ambitions.
  • Own the commercial health of the portfolio — revenue forecasting, margin performance, pacing, and budget stewardship — driving accountability through your team while maintaining executive-level visibility into financial outcomes.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, positioning Situation as an indispensable strategic partner.
  • Architect organic growth strategies across existing clients: identifying whitespace opportunities, expanding scopes of work, and empowering your team to pursue and close incremental growth.
  • Represent Situation externally as a senior voice of the agency — at industry events, in client conference rooms, and among key decision-makers — cultivating relationships that generate future business.
  • Lead the hiring and development of your account team, building a leadership bench that scales with the business.
  • Coach and develop direct reports (Account Director, Account Supervisor, Senior Account Executive) with clear growth plans and succession pathways.
  • Partner across departments and verticals as a member of senior leadership to identify new revenue streams, improve operating systems, and drive organizational innovation agency-wide.
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Situation

Situation is an award-winning agency built for live entertainment brands and championing the power of shared experiences around the world.With 20+ years of award-winning work, Situation is designed to meet the challenges and opportunities facing the live events industry today. We offer full marketing and creative services for experience-based brands: live entertainment, attractions, theater, sports, arts and culture institutions, and more.Are you looking for a partner to support your end-to-end consumer experience? Whether we’re full-service or full-specialist, our preferred way of working is the one that sets our clients up to win.Want to join our team of experience champions? We are always on the hunt for new team members who share our core values: innovation, collaboration, and commitment. We’re dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities and creating a diverse staff, reflective of the experiences we champion and audiences we build.Situation is part of Situation Group, a global collective that supports life-changing impact—partnering with brand experiences that promote understanding, connection, community, and growth.

Founded in 2001
New York, New York, USA
107 employees (56 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.6%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~107

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
42 (39% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5