Senior Account Executive

Publicis Groupe ANZ; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 60,800 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision insurance

401K

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible time off

Job summary

Publicis Groupe ANZ in Chicago is seeking a Senior Account Executive who will manage day-to-day business autonomously while ensuring high-quality delivery of complex campaigns. The ideal candidate will possess strong account management skills, effective communication, and leadership abilities. Responsibilities include overseeing project workflows, managing budgets, and serving as a vital link across agency teams. A comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and flexible time off is provided, with a salary range of $60,800 to $84,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Experience in a creatively driven agency environment is essential.
• Ability to lead projects and manage high-volume workstreams.
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills across teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects from start to finish, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
• Serve as a liaison between clients and agency teams.
• Support administrative tasks and maintain documentation for projects.

Skills

Brand stewardship and account management experience

Strong understanding of timelines and budget tracking

Proactive leadership

Clear communication skills

Highly organized

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Account Executive, you are the engine that brings strategic and creative ambitions to life. You manage the day-to-day business with increasing autonomy, ensuring work is delivered flawlessly, efficiently, and with a deep understanding of client objectives. You contribute meaningfully to strategic development, and serve as a trusted partner to both clients and internal teams.

This role offers the opportunity to support complex campaigns while serving as a connective force across integrated agency teams (IAT). A successful Senior Account Executive demonstrates strong ownership, proactive leadership, and the ability to anticipate needs before they arise—helping drive creative excellence and consistent, high-quality execution across all workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from start to finish—managing workflows, timelines, budgets, and cross-functional alignment to ensure smooth delivery and creative excellence.
• Serve as the connecting thread across Strategy, Production, Media, Legal, Creative, and partner agency teams to support national multimedia, and smaller ad hoc campaigns.
• Represent the Creative team in client interactions, advocating for high-quality, effective work that meets campaign objectives and resonates with target audiences.
• Interpret and communicate client requests and feedback clearly to internal teams, ensuring alignment and efficient execution across all stakeholders.
• Support trafficking spots out to media partners, ensuring assets are accurate, approved, and delivered on time.
• Manage key administrative responsibilities, including running and updating weekly status meetings and documents, maintaining timelines, resource management and documenting next steps.
• Partner closely with internal teams and clients to maintain momentum, transparency, and shared accountability.

Qualifications

• Hard Skills
  • Brand stewardship and account management experience within a creatively driven agency environment
  • Assist in managing high-volume tactical workstreams, supporting consistency, quality, and timely delivery.
  • Ability to lead ad hoc projects, uniting the IAT
  • Strong understanding of timelines, workflows, and budget tracking
• Soft Skills
  • Confident, proactive leader with a strong sense of ownership
  • Clear, thoughtful communicator able to interpret and translate client feedback into actionable direction
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • Collaborative partner who builds trust across disciplines and teams
  • Calm, solution-oriented, and adaptable in fast-moving environments
  • Ability to lead projects with confidence, knowing when to manage up/inform the right parties when necessary
• Any Knowledge / Ability Mandatories
  • Demonstrate ability to manage projects independently and also demonstrate strong collaboration skills
  • Comfort working cross-functionally with multiple different teams from different focus areas and internal/external agencies

Benefits & Compensation

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: $60,800- $84,000 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.