We are currently seeking a Senior Account Executive within our rapidly growing advertising practice with a passion for making social change. They will play a pivotal role in the trafficking of campaigns and supporting the operations of accounts. This requires a detail-oriented mindset, comfort with a fast-paced working environment, and a passion for using ads to affect social change.
The Senior Account Executive is responsible for creative trafficking, media planning research, and general account support. Perfect candidates will have 3-4 years of experience at an advertising agency, political campaign, or advocacy non-profit in a paid media role.
Essential responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Trafficking and Media Deployment
Responsible for trafficking small and medium sized advertising campaigns
Update trafficking spreadsheets to ensure internal and external alignment.
Manage key creative deadlines with vendors and outlets.
Support in developing media flowcharts and avails.
Research and Reporting
Conduct research on publicly available information regarding demographics and attitudes of audiences.
Collate reporting from vendors and platforms on a weekly and monthly basis.
Translate technical advertising nomenclature into verbiage understood by the client.
Communicate performance of simple campaigns to clients on a regular basis
Provide insight on weekly media optimizations.
Contribute to comprehensive final reports on campaign performance, both in terms of outputs against benchmarks and results of controlled experiments.
Digital Marketing
Working knowledge of Google Analytics and other insight/ traffic tools
Responsible for installing Google Tag Manager on agency-developed websites.
Develop UTM codes for ad source attribution.
Compile email and SMS reporting to support direct response campaigns.
Support copywriting and content development of email, SMS, or social media campaigns as needed.
Administrative
Act as a principal note-taker on internal and external calls.
Schedule meetings with agency and client teams.
Client Relations
Prepare and/or review activity reports and status reports for clients
Contribute to client decks and media plan presentations.
Qualifications:
3 – 4 years’ experience with advertising, digital marketing or creative trafficking.
Ability to juggle multiple tasks under tight deadlines, and interact and perform in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Strong project management skills
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively – both verbal and nonverbal, with various levels of staff, clients, contractors, and media
Demonstrated resourcefulness, optimism, and flexibility in approach to project assignment
Attention to detail and organization
Demonstrated writing and editing skills
Fenton Offers
A competitive salary against industry standards – commitment to pay equity practices – published salary bands across all levels
Salary for Senior Account Executive = $85,000
Year-end discretionary bonus
Access to the Fenton Learning Lab, the agency’s proprietary professional development portal.
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
We have adopted a hybrid remote/in-office worksite model. We require all employees to live within a 35-mile radius of any one of our four strategic hubs (New York, D.C, LA or SF). You have the option to work remotely from your home and will travel to Company meetings/events as needed, or you can work from any one of our shared workspaces.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Fenton is an anti-racist and intersectional organization that prioritizes the needs of those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed. We do the work of creating positive social change as an act of repairing the harm done to those who have been and are currently disenfranchised across racial, gender, sexual orientation and preference, religious and other marginalized backgrounds. We are committed to doing work that is rooted in justice and equity and continuing to learn how to do this work better.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to the affirmative hiring of people of color, members of the LGBTQI+ community, people with disabilities and women. We strive to represent the diverse community reflected in our client work and believe that our firm’s continued success is driven by hiring and retaining high caliber staff from all backgrounds, experiences, identities, and orientations. We are committed to supporting our staff in growing their careers.