Freelance Senior Account Manager

Akcelo Australia; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex days on long weekends

Annual ski trips

Social events

Team office drinks

Perks and learning opportunities

Job summary

Akcelo is seeking a Freelance Senior Account Manager to join our Vancouver team. You will support the account management function across key clients, delivering exceptional client service and leading day-to-day project delivery.

The role involves preparing presentations, managing timelines, and fostering strong client relationships across projects and portfolios. Candidates should have 3–4 years of advertising agency experience in account management, be self-starters, highly organized, and eager

Qualifications

• Advertising agency experience (3–4 years) in an Account Management role is required.
• Ideally, strong integrated experience, but curiosity and willingness to learn across capabilities is important.
• Self-starter mindset with high organization, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering high-quality work.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day project delivery and manage timelines across teams and stakeholders.
• Prepare client presentations, scopes, and project plans.
• Run WIP meetings and ensure client expectations are met.
• Oversee all workstreams, identify risks, and manage timelines/budgets.
• Apply agency processes to drive creative quality, client satisfaction and financial performance.
• Build and grow client relationships across projects and portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to expand services and activate Akcelo capabilities.

Skills

Account management

Integrated experience

Agency experience

Job description

Come aboard and join one of North America’s fastest growing agencies! We are a new breed of agency designed for the experience era. An innovation partner that helps organisations navigate the next stage of their brand journey.

Being a strong brand-experience focussed business; working with some of the world’s most famous brands, we provide white-space opportunities for businesses by connecting creativity with experience design to solve business problems. We work on some of the most innovative, creative and experiential projects that we promise will challenge and provide you with professional growth.

Akcelo is looking for a Freelance Senior Account Manager to join our Vancouver team! You will be responsible for supporting the account management team across key clients to deliver exceptional client service.

With the chance to work with the latest technology and some of the world’s most famous brands, a normal day in the role of the Account daily lead includes:

• Motivating the Akcelo team around client business goals and acting as a strong client advocate within the agency
• Leading day-to-day project delivery, owning alignment across teams and stakeholders
• Preparing client presentations, scopes, and project plans
• Running WIP meetings, setting timelines, and ensuring expectations are clear and met
• Overseeing all workstreams, proactively identifying risks and managing timelines and budgets
• Applying and championing agency processes to drive creative quality, client satisfaction, and financial performance
• Ensuring high-quality creative by challenging briefs, reviewing work against client objectives, expectations, and brand standards, and providing clear, actionable feedback
• Building and growing client relationships across projects and portfolio
• Identifying opportunities to expand services, activating the right Akcelo capabilities to meet current and future client needs

Sound like something that you would love to be a part of? Well, take a look at what we provide our team here at Akcelo:

• A workplace that doesn't just have the word flexibility written in a policy
• A company that really values its people... you will not just be another number!
• Unbelievable employee benefits like flex days on long weekends, annual ski trips, social events, team office drinks, and loads more!
• A workplace that offers learning and development opportunities, an unbelievable work environment with state-of-the-art facilities and loads of perks!

To be in the running for this great role, you should have:

• Advertising agency experience (at least 3-4 years) in an Account Management role
• Ideally, strong integrated experience, but more importantly, be curious and excited to learn and be exposed to different capabilities within the agency (the work we do touches everything from Brand, Film, Digital, Social, Activations, PR, Retail, CX, Martech and customer lifecycle strategy)

• Self-starter mindset who loves to solve problems
• Buttoned down, highly organised, detail-oriented and takes pride in delivering all work to the highest standards

• The drive and hunger to learn and develop alongside the business and your team
• Passionate about great ideas, underpinned by commitment to delivery
• Contributes positively to the Akcelo culture and team spirit
• Initiative - you see things that need doing and you take action
• An open attitude and excited by change... you are a problem solver
• Excitement to learn and be exposed to different capabilities and experiences within the agency

Why Join Akcelo?

Over the last five years we smashed the ceilings created by established agencies and created some larger-than-life campaigns, innovative retail-tech solutions, threw some epic events, and besides happy clients, we took home the B&T Agency of the Year, Mumbrella's Experiential Agency of the Year, and a number of APAC Effies.

And we are just getting started. You see, we believe in magic, and value the genuine, the experimental, the limitless, and the imaginative. We make, break and build things, without the fear of failure, and we share our time and our talents. If that is something that excites you too, we want to hear from you!

Our team works collaboratively in office 4 days per week, work from anywhere Wednesdays, and some travel within the US and Canada. We offer a competitive benefits package, including 4 weeks' vacation, personal/sick days, and a global advantage where after your workplace anniversary, we provide opportunities to work for a week from our Sydney, Australia office; Vancouver, Canada office; or from wherever you want to tack on to your personal travel plans.

Akcelo is committed to nurturing, creating and building a diverse environment. We encourage all applications from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs and abilities to apply for this or any role with us.