Account Manager
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About the Role
As an Account Manager, you'll lead creative workflows that drive business outcomes for the client’s business. Your day will be spent understanding the objectives of our creative efforts, working with strategy and creative teams to match those efforts with the right creative solutions, and guiding the execution of the work to ensure optimal efficiency and creative quality. With a focus primarily on social strategy related to corporate partnerships and sponsorships, you will be encouraged and expected to be intimately familiar with the client’s brand, product, market conditions and competitors. You will regularly and formally share intel, creative, articles, etc, with your teams. Immersing yourself in the essential dynamics, strategies, and drivers of your client’s business is a must for partnership.
You will coach and inspire the development of junior agency staff (Brand Coordinators) by providing consistent feedback and training. You will also be managed by a Senior account manager or Brand Director and will have exponential growth opportunities within the brand and agency. Prior creative client-facing experience is a must. The ability to kickstart a creative workflow from start to finish, adhering to timing and budget guidelines, is a must.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the internal and external processes for execution
- Manage the day-to-day workflow, leading projects of all sizes depending on experience
- Ensure all work is accurate, reflects client comments, meets brand standards and is on strategy
- Stays on top of all aspects of a project, always able to explain the status, timing implications and budget implications at each step
- Identify how the outcomes we are driving by our work can scale to other parts of the business
About You
The essentials:
- 3+ years of experience working at an advertising agency, marketing firm, client side or start-up
- Comfortability with regular travel (up to 4-5 days per month)
- Potential to be in Seattle and work in the office with clients 1-2 days/week
- Ability to work independently and willingness to take assignments readily
- Strong interpersonal skills to foster optimal department and client relationships
- Ability to head off potential conflicts and problems before they materialize, and have strong problem-solving skills
- Superior organization skills and detail-oriented
- Ability to work independently and willingness to take assignments readily
Not a must, but a plus:
- Desire to maintain and continually improve personal knowledge base
- Ability to change course of action when appropriate or necessary
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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What We Offer
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
