Account Executive - Barbarian : Job Details

Barbarian is looking for a fearless Account Executive to join our team. This role requires an enthusiasm for all things social and digital.

You'll work closely with the client and internal team to coordinate the strategic development, creative development, and tactical execution for projects and campaigns.

What You Do:

Be the Client's Partner

• Be the day to day contact and go-to for the clients on your accounts, under the supervision of senior account team members.
• Act as a liaison between client and Barbarian to coordinate all necessary meetings and reviews, including making sure meeting goals are communicated in advance and all meeting documents are finalized and distributed for each presentation.
• Proactively identify client needs to always stay one step ahead.
• Maintain organized status documents and notes.
• Offer a consistently positive, enthusiastic, and professional attitude in order to build solid relationships with clients.

Manage and Participate in the Creative Process

• Have a strong understanding of client objectives and business strategy and how to evaluate creative work against them. Use KPIs to measure and track success.
• Effectively communicate with internal teams to ensure that clear actions are defined and client deliverables are met.
• Understand the roles of each capability and how they work collaboratively within Barbarian and the account team.
• Manage projects including website builds, integrated campaigns and video production from concept to execution.
• Always know the status of any project, at any time.

Be a Financial Steward

• Participate in the estimating and scoping process.
• Partner with project managers and the finance team to track budgets and expenses for all projects.
• Oversee the client billing process.
• Provide any required administrative support for the account to ensure projects are running as efficiently and effectively as possible.

What you need:

• A recipient of a bachelor's degree.
• 2+ years of experience in a related field. Agency experience is a plus.
• Resourceful, thoughtful, ambitious, humble, and business minded.
• A confident communicator.
• Interested in being a part of best-in-class creative work, and understand the value of it in a world saturated with bad advertising.
• Always asking questions, always pushing to do better, and never afraid to admit what you don't know.

Benefits of Working at Barbarian:

At Barbarian, we consider our people to be our greatest asset. We have benefits and policies in place to create an inclusive and inspiring environment.

• Comprehensive medical benefits, including health & wellness support
• Competitive Parental Leave that gives you time to bond with your family.
• 401k matching, 50% up to the first 5%
• $5,000 employee referral bonus
• Financial incentive for new business introductions
• Flexible PTO

Location: NYC, hybrid

Salary range: $65-$80K

The starting salary will match the skills and experience in the role assessed during the interview process.

Barbarian is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce.