Senior Account Manager (NYC)

Movers+Shakers; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Movers+Shakers seeks a Senior Account Manager to drive client satisfaction, growth, and cross‑functional collaboration across campaigns. You’ll translate client needs into strategic plans and lead the team to deliver disruptive social media work.

With 5–8+ years in client services at a creative agency or consumer brands, you’ll manage budgets, timelines, and revenue, while mentoring colleagues and presenting compelling strategies to executives.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in client services at a creative agency or consumer brands.
• Expertise in social media marketing, both organic and paid.
• Experience with global client teams and partner agencies.
• Proven revenue generation and account growth within existing accounts.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and proactive.
• Ability to lead strategic and tactical work.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day relationship, success and growth of assigned accounts, with revenue responsibility of $1M-$3M per year.
• Develop strategies to meet client objectives and own all projects from start to finish.
• Lead client and internal teams to create social media strategies that stand out.
• Define account plans and briefs to internal teams; ensure alignment and delivery.
• Upsell and support growth based on client needs; mentor clients and teams.
• Support new business growth and lead client presentations, strategies, and concepts.
• Oversee client paperwork (SOWs, invoices) and quarterly planning with key accounts.
• Develop and maintain revenue forecasts and growth status for clients.

Skills

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Social media marketing

Communication

Proposal and pitching

Team leadership

Revenue forecasting

Business development

Job description

At Movers+Shakers, our mission is to spread joy. As a Senior Account Manager, your mission is to share this joy with our clients--in every meeting, and in every campaign.

Under the leadership of your Senior Account Director, you’ll be responsible for the overall client satisfaction of assigned accounts, their revenue growth, profitability, and project management. You’ll use your deep understanding of social media strategy to lead the client and our internal team to deliver disruptive creativity. And you’ll identify and execute tactical growth plans to grow the business.

ROLE SPECIFICS

As a Senior Account Manager, you’ll oversee the day-to-day relationship, success and growth of our clients. Internally, you’ll manage our cross-functional team to deliver innovative work. You’ll juggle competing priorities, from budgets to resourcing, as you contribute to assuring agency revenue and profitability. Externally, you’ll manage our clients to the success they dreamed of. You’ll intuit their needs and inspire them with what’s possible.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for managing and delivering joy to assigned accounts with minimum accountability for revenue of $1M-3M per year
• Deeply understand and intuit the client’s needs and develop strategies to meet their business objectives; key owner of all projects and processes from beginning to end
• Lead the client and internal team to develop social media strategies that will break through the clutter.
• Work closely with all client team members; participate in defining account plans, needs, KPI’s and translate these requests with clear briefs/direction to the internal teams
• Serve as key partner and mentor to the client. Articulate agency practices, listen strategically, and upsell and support growth based on needs
• Support intake and new business growth as needed
• Build, lead and presents clients presentations, strategies and concepts
• Ensure project alignment by defining roles and aligning with internal key team members to kick off projects
• Oversee client paperwork (service agreements, SOWs, invoices, etc.)
• Conduct quarterly planning and review sessions with key clients/accounts.
• Develop and maintain annual, quarterly and monthly revenue forecasts; track and maintain growth and status

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-8+ years of relevant experience, including client service at a creative agency and possibly brand marketing experience at large consumer brands.
• Understanding of social media marketing (organic and paid), with expertise managing social-first brand marketing campaigns is a plus
• Experience working with global client teams and partner agency teams
• Entrepreneurial spirit. Thrive in uncertainty and ambiguously-defined roles. Passion for trying new things jumping off the deep end.
• Proven experience generating revenue and account growth within existing accounts
• Strong writing and communication skills
• Self-motivated, eager to learn, a drive to succeed
• Excellent communicator, skilled writer, extremely organized, professional demeanor
• Ability to contribute in both a strategic and tactical capacity
• Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with clients and team members
• Builds respect by personal example; is respected by and works effectively with all members of the organization and external contacts
• Intense desire to excel in an entrepreneurial, collaborative environment
• Ability to work with top-level executives
• Demonstrate initiative; is proactive

We look forward to hearing from you!

BASE SALARY RANGE

Our estimated range for this role is $95,000-110,000*

*Don’t let this range drive your decision to apply. Actual compensation packages are based on the level of skill and experience each candidate brings to their role. Similarly, there might also be a more senior or junior position available, that would be a better fit with your expertise. For example, a person may apply for a Senior Creative Producer role, and we may assess that their skills are at the Creative Producer level. Each level has its own compensation range.

At Movers+Shakers, we pride ourselves on competitive salaries, and we work hard to ensure there is pay equity across the company. We welcome open and honest conversations about compensation in all of our initial calls.