Senior Account Manager

New York City, NY (On-site)

£125K/yr – £145K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end client relationships and guide multi-channel campaigns from brief to delivery, balancing creative ambition with profitable execution for large brand accounts.

  • Client leadership: translate objectives into briefs and manage expectations across timelines and budgets.
  • Campaign delivery: oversee integrated programs across social, digital, experiential, influencer, and production with Strategy, Creative, and Production partners.
  • Growth and governance: identify upsell opportunities, forecast revenue, and mitigate risks while maintaining quality and momentum.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary contact for brand managers, maintaining and nurturing trusted relationships.
  • Understand client objectives, challenges, and target audiences, translating them into clear creative briefs.
  • Set and manage client expectations, ensuring alignment with campaign strategy, timelines, and budgets.
  • Conduct regular status meetings, presentations, and performance reviews with clients.
  • Identify opportunities to grow client accounts and upsell additional services or campaigns.
  • Lead the successful delivery of integrated campaigns across social, digital, experiential, influencer, production, and content.
  • Partner closely with Strategy, Creative, Production, and Talent teams throughout project development.
  • Ensure work is creatively ambitious while remaining commercially viable.
  • Oversee project workflows from briefing through production, launch, and reporting.
  • Review work before client presentation to ensure exceptional quality and attention to detail.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, or a related discipline.
  • 5+ years’ experience within a creative, social, integrated, or communications agency.
  • Proven experience managing complex client relationships and integrated marketing campaigns.
  • Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, profitability, and forecasting.
  • Excellent project management and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong presentation and stakeholder management experience.
  • Excellent negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
  • Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering high-quality work on tight timelines.

Preferred

  • Experience leading global or regional brand accounts.
  • Experience across integrated campaigns spanning social, influencer, digital, experiential, and production.
  • Familiarity with creator marketing, talent partnerships, and social-first content production.
  • Experience managing high-value production budgets and multiple agency partners.
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The Independents is a global ecosystem of 21 best-in-class partner agencies crafting extraordinary brand experiences that captivate audiences worldwide. In collaboration with its clients across the luxury and lifestyle industries, The Independents creates meaningful connections between people and the brands they love.The Independents’ curation reflects an expansive roster of industry pioneers, including 2 x 4, Atelier Athem, Atelier Lum, Bureau Béatrice, Bureau Betak, Bureau Future, Ctzar, Inca Productions, k2, Karla Otto, Kennedy, Kitten Production, Kitty Events, Lefty, Lucien Pagès Communication, MA+Group, Prodject, Sunshine, Terminal 9 Studios, The Qode and We Are Ona. The group’s capabilities span research, core strategy, communications strategy, design, production and distribution, a scope that adapts to every creative challenge.The group translates strategic insights into creative concepts, which are developed into personally relevant experiences that engage local and global audiences by way of its presence in Milan, Paris, London, Munich, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and Riyadh.In March 2025, The Independents launched L’Incubateur, a pioneering initiative conceived to identify, support and accelerate the next wave of talent, entrepreneurs and creative agencies on a global scale. Since June 2023, The Independents has been backed by Banijay Group and TowerBrook Capital Partners.

Founded in 2017
Paris, Île-de-France, FRA
78 employees (7 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.6%
Direct
35.2%
Referral
6.7%
Social
24.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~80

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (5% of company)
Median Tenure
1.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2017
    Series Unknown