Vice President, Client Partnership (New York City)

Huge; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Huge in New York is seeking a Vice President, Client Partnership to lead senior client relationships and cross-functional teams. You will oversee a portfolio, ensuring strategic guidance, strong execution, and growth of enterprise accounts.

You will mentor teams, shape engagement strategies, and drive profitability while maintaining top-tier client service in a hybrid NYC setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading complex, large-scale client engagements in digital, agency, or tech services.
• Proven track record managing $5M+ client work with quality and profitability.
• Experience leading large cross-disciplinary teams (20+).
• Skilled in account growth, and cross-functional leadership to meet client goals.
• Ability to develop engagement strategy with department heads and project teams.
• Excellent client relationship development and post-engagement growth planning.
• Ability to negotiate statements of work and budgets with executives.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and tactical leadership for multiple clients within a portfolio.
• Serve as senior partner for clients and cross-disciplinary internal teams.
• Direct day-to-day account operations and relationship management.
• Lead the development of engagement plans and ensure timely, on-budget delivery.
• Foster a culture of accountability, growth, and client satisfaction.

Skills

Leadership

Client management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Negotiation

Communication

Mentoring

Business development

Portfolio management

Financial acumen

Job description

Vice President, Client Partnership (New York City)

United States

Location: Hybrid | New York, NY.

About Client Partnership.

At Huge, Client Partnership is the engine that powers business ownership and the definitive driver of enterprise value. We are accountable for holistic portfolio health—balancing high-stakes relationship stewardship with surgical P&L integrity. Success requires a \"triple-threat\" leader: a strategic confidant within the client’s matrix, a relentless operator who unlocks new growth, and a champion for the internal teams delivering groundbreaking craft.

The role.

The VP, Client Partnership, is responsible for providing both strategic and tactical leadership for multiple clients within a portfolio. They serve as the senior partner and confidant for clients as well as internal cross-disciplinary teams to ensure the quality of the relationship and work product.

The VP, Client Partnership, will manage a team who are responsible for day-to-day account operations and relationship management. They consistently demonstrate excellent team management skills and operational/business management capabilities in order to drive successful engagements.

They’re passionate about the digital space, creative work, and developing amazing user-branded experiences.

What we’d like to see.

• 10+ years of experience.You’ve led complex, large-scale client engagements in a digital agency, consultancy, or tech-services powerhouse.
• A proven track record of managing $5M+ of client work where quality, efficiency, and financial health are never compromised.
• Experience leading large, cross-disciplinary teams (20+). You know how to lead through others and build a culture of accountability and curiosity.
• Experience with overall account management, account growth, and leadership of cross-functional teams to develop approaches and targets that meet the business goals of our clients.
• The ability to develop overall engagement strategy and work with department heads, discipline leads and project teams to execute plans.
• Constant work to expand contacts with key client executives and maintain strong post-engagement relationships introducing new opportunities accordingly. The end goal is growing/developing long-term DAOR relationships.
• Management of portfolio profitability; working with EDs to develop and negotiate statements of work, and ensuring the work is delivered on budget.
• Ability to identify needs that the client may not recognize and ensure that approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs.
• Consistently manage client expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback.
• Experience working with engagement teams to ensure account work is projected accurately and effectively and efficiently planned and staffed with all deliverables are prioritized accordingly.
• Leading strategic development of new business pitches from RFP response to closing accounts including MSA and contract negotiations.
• Strong presentation, verbal and written skills as well as proven ability to develop well-positioned and thoughtful documents and presentations.
• A genuine eagerness to work with mentor, encourage and learn from a diverse and talented team.

About Huge.

Huge is an independent, human-first AI-native design and technology company. We make things that matter by bringing AI, people, design and technology together as one system. With more than 1,000 design and technology experts working in hub cities around the world, including Bogotá, Chicago, Ho Chi Minh City, London, Los Angeles, Medellín, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, we partner with some of the world’s most ambitious brands, including Google, NBCU, PepsiCo, Vail Resorts, Atlantic Health, and Candescent. Learn more at hugeinc.com .

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The salary range for this position is as listed below. Exactly where a prospective employee will be paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, the actual salary ranges for current and former employees who are either currently filling a similar role or did in the past; the candidate’s depth of experience and qualifications; the level of specialization the role requires; budgetary considerations; the market demand for that role and the local market conditions that exist where the employee will be based. For current Huge employees, tenure will also be a consideration.

Wage Disclosure

$200,000 - $235,000 USD

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