Digital Senior Account Executive
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 4 months ago
Job Summary
Own end-to-end project delivery for complex campaigns and multiple workstreams while aligning client strategy with internal teams.
- Project Leadership: Manage large campaigns, scope, timeline, budget, and quality across brands and clients.
- Stakeholder & Client Interface: Lead status meetings and provide regular progress updates to clients and internal teams.
- Team & Process Optimization: Guide junior staff, capture lessons learned, and push for continuous improvements.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Develop strategic communications campaigns to achieve impact in progressive causes
- Oversee and direct multiple projects at a time (within a given brand or client) or a single, large scale, complex project
- Ensure projects meet client requirements and work to exceed expectations through creative and thoughtful tactical planning
- Oversee all aspects of a project: scope, risk, schedule, budget, quality assurance, and communication to stakeholders’ fullest satisfaction
- Develop skills to manage increasingly more complex campaigns to be delivered on-time and on-budget
- Manage one or more junior staff within a project, including allocating and assigning their time and project support activities, and overseeing project budget management
- Interface heavily with senior technical and executive management within client teams to assure project goals are understood and align to client strategy
- Lead internal and external status meetings effectively; capture, store and distribute meeting notes and adjust project work plans accordingly
- Evaluate new project requests, identify resources needed, assign individual responsibilities, deploy action items, and escalate as necessary
- Interface regularly with clients to provide updates on project progress as well as lead internally Provide regular updates and progress reports to internal teams and/or client stakeholders
Requirements
- In addition to 3-5 years of experience in digital work or demonstrated equivalent experience, with preference for experience at a firm, we are looking for candidates with strong track record in:
- Advanced knowledge of the following: web technologies, web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative components, media and advertising projects, digital strategy projects.
- Strong knowledge of Google Analytics and other digital metrics platforms.
- Advanced knowledge of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, etc) and community management platforms (Example: Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, etc).
- Advanced understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and facilitate team meetings
- Ability to work on multiple projects, balance competing tasks, and manage a diverse project team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Demonstrated ability to motivate staff/project team, inspire teamwork and take a leadership role
- Ability to solve complex problems with keen instincts and organizational experience
- Expertise in web-based project management software and MS Excel data
- Must be able to simultaneously focus on big picture, details and driving results
- 1-3 years of people management experience
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience required
Benefits
- A competitive salary against industry standards
- Committed to pay equity practices
- Published salary bands across all levels
- Starting salary for Senior Account Executive = 85,000
- Year-end discretionary bonus
- Comprehensive healthcare plans
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401K with employer match
- Profit sharing plan
- Unlimited PTO for exempt staff and generous accrual policy for non-exempt staff
- 11 paid company holidays
- Discretionary company closing between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays
- Pre-tax commuter benefits via WageWorks
- Mobile Phone Reimbursement
Fenton
At Fenton, we are communications strategists for social change. Our clients are the nonprofits, foundations, advocates and brands championing today’s important progressive issues. Fenton helps clients achieve their goals by raising awareness that sparks movements, changes behavior, and generates support for a more just, equitable and sustainable world. Our experts combine tactical experience and creative ingenuity with a deep well of passion and energy. Our strategic work shapes national health care policy, combats voter suppression, protects reproductive rights, promotes racial equity, works for a fairer education system, expands economic opportunity, demands climate action and much more.
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