Early-Career Account Executive – Hybrid (Chicago)

Purple Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group health plan

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Transit benefit

Paid time off

IRA

Anniversary holiday

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Purple Group in Chicago, IL is seeking an Associate Account Executive with 1–2 years of agency experience to support multiple client campaigns across advertising and integrated marketing initiatives.

You will collaborate with creative teams, manage timelines, prepare client communications, and help translate client requests into clear directions. This client-services role emphasizes organization, proactive follow-through, and teamwork in a fast-paced agency setting.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of professional experience in advertising or integrated marketing.
• Understanding of agency workflow from briefing to delivery.
• Experience working directly with clients and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple accounts and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel.
• Familiarity with workflow platforms like Asana or Monday.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day management of advertising and integrated marketing initiatives across multiple clients and projects.
• Participate in client calls and internal meetings, capturing decisions, action items, and next steps.
• Prepare client presentations, agendas, status reports, meeting recaps, and other communications.
• Build strong working relationships with clients, internal teams, and agency partners.
• Help translate client requests and feedback into clear direction and next steps.
• Help manage projects from briefing through creative development, client review, revisions, approvals, production, and final delivery.
• Maintain project timelines, schedules, deliverable lists, status reports, and documentation.
• Capture project workstreams in Asana and coordinate workflow among account, strategy, creative, production, media, digital, PR, and external partners.
• Route creative work for review and help manage feedback and approvals.
• Track project status and proactively flag potential timeline, scope, resource, or workflow concerns
• Support project scoping, estimate tracking, budget organization, and invoicing workflows.
• Help ensure all deliverables are accurate, polished, and delivered on time.
• Help conduct research related to brands, competitors, audiences, culture, and industry trends..

Skills

Client communication

Project coordination

Agency workflow

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Asana

Monday.com

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Purple Group in Chicago, IL is seeking an Associate Account Executive with 1–2 years of agency experience to support multiple client campaigns across advertising and integrated marketing initiatives.

You will collaborate with creative teams, manage timelines, prepare client communications, and help translate client requests into clear directions. This client-services role emphasizes organization, proactive follow-through, and teamwork in a fast-paced agency setting.