Senior Account Executive: Client Growth & Campaigns

Morning Walk; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

PTO & Holidays

MW Fuel program

Job summary

Morning Walk is seeking a Senior Account Executive in Chicago to drive client relationships, lead integrated campaigns, and own day-to-day account management. You will translate business priorities into actionable guidance for creative, media, and data teams, ensuring timely, on-budget delivery.

The ideal candidate has 3–5+ years in advertising or agency settings, with strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5+ years of advertising, marketing, or agency account management experience.
• Proven ability to independently manage client relationships, projects, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Experience working with scopes of work, estimates, budgets, and project financials.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to understand broader client and business objectives.
• Ability to anticipate issues, solve problems, and bring forward recommended solutions.
• Confidence working directly with clients and collaborating with senior agency leadership.
• Curiosity and a desire to continually deepen knowledge of clients, consumers, categories, media, and modern marketing practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for assigned client initiatives, building strong and trusted client relationships.
• Lead routine client communication, project updates, status meetings, and follow-up with confidence and professionalism.
• Understand client priorities, business objectives, and expectations and translate them into clear direction for internal teams.
• Anticipate client needs, identify potential issues early, and proactively recommend solutions.
• Support senior account leadership in strengthening client relationships and identifying opportunities to add value.
• Independently manage multiple projects and workstreams from briefing through execution and delivery.
• Own timelines, deliverables, approvals, and next steps, ensuring work stays on track.
• Coordinate closely with creative, media, performance marketing, data, production, and other agency disciplines.
• Prepare and lead project status materials, agendas, contact reports, presentations, and client recaps.
• Maintain strong attention to detail while managing multiple concurrent priorities.
• Identify scope, budget, timing, or resource risks early and work with account leadership to recommend solutions.
• Demonstrate strong stewardship of both client and agency resources.
• Provide clear priorities, context, and direction to cross-functional agency teams.
• Contribute actively to internal and client meetings with a proactive, solutions-oriented perspective.
• Help create accountability across teams while maintaining strong collaborative relationships.
• Provide guidance and support to junior account team members as appropriate.
• Demonstrate the judgment to know when to independently move work forward and when to involve senior account leadership.

Skills

Account management

Client relationships

Project management

Budget management

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

Morning Walk is seeking a Senior Account Executive in Chicago to drive client relationships, lead integrated campaigns, and own day-to-day account management. You will translate business priorities into actionable guidance for creative, media, and data teams, ensuring timely, on-budget delivery.

The ideal candidate has 3–5+ years in advertising or agency settings, with strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.