Account Executive

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $75K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic client leadership for multicultural brand campaigns with cross-functional teams and growth focus.

  • Own the client relationship and lead cross-functional teams across multiple brands.
  • Must-have: 3+ years in client-facing management and willingness to travel.
  • Standout: Growth-focused with pipeline development and strategic, multi-discipline impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead a cross-functional team for multiple brands.
  • Responsible for achieving a client’s strategic brand objectives and driving award-winning, high impact, integrated campaigns.
  • Own the client relationship, establishing solid relationships with senior level clients. Has ultimate accountability for the success of IW relationship with our client.
  • Drive growth of the client relationship by exceeding client expectations, as well as identifying new opportunities, and building growth strategies into our work.
  • Understand client challenges and able to define IW Group’s approach and strategy and articulate a plan of action and guide successful implementation.
  • Build a high-performing team culture, working in close partnership with strategic, creative, production, PR and activation leads.
  • Knowledgeable of these functional roles and understands how to drive work across all disciplines.
  • Serve as a champion of bold thinking and innovative solutions that surprise and delight the client.
  • Identify and build an ongoing pipeline of opportunities create pathways for our team to grow the business and differentiate our agency’s strengths.
  • Active involvement in strategy reviews, creative reviews and all major presentation reviews, and key client meetings.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or vocational degree from a fully accredited college or university
  • Minimum of 3+ years professional work experience
  • Minimum of 2 years in a client-facing managerial role or above
  • Proficiency in basic software (MS Office) and social media platforms
  • Must be willing and able to travel
  • Must possess good organizational skills, demonstrated initiative, flexibility, sound judgment and a positive attitude
  • Ability to multi-task and effectively manage deadlines
  • Passion for an understanding and supporting multicultural communities or has the capacity to learn quickly

Preferred

  • Experience with multicultural and Asian consumers
  • Experience leading integrated brand campaigns
  • Proven experience growing business, finding new ways in, charting new pathways
  • Ability to role model the agency’s vision and connect it to client’s goals
  • Strong pulse on culture, diversity, community, traditional/digital/social media, and new communications innovations

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (three in-office days per week)
  • 20 PTO days annually
  • 20 paid holidays (including Thanksgiving & Christmas week)
  • Birthday off
  • Year-round Flex Fridays (half-day Fridays)
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-sponsored Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D), and Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Parking and commuter benefits