Account Manager

Laundry Service is a full-service marketing agency building relationships between people and brands. We help brands craft a meaningful role in culture across lifestyle, sports, music, technology and entertainment spaces. Our team delivers on strategy, creative, production, media buying and influencer management completely in-house. Laundry Service is a Wasserman company – learn more at www.247laundryservice.com.

Wasserman powers the business of sports, music, entertainment and culture. We serve clients with exceptional insight, influence and creativity, while making a positive impact on our industry and each other. Founded in 2002, Wasserman represents many of the world’s most iconic sports and entertainment figures, musical artists, brands and properties, empowering them to shape culture and captivate audiences worldwide. We operate globally across more than 45 cities, 23 countries and six continents. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.

Please note this is a short-term hire and has an end date of February 29, 2024. There may be an opportunity to be extended beyond that.

We are seeking a dedicated Account Manager to join our team in Los Angeles to grow our existing relationship with one of our Beverage clients. The Account Manager is a multi-faceted role that reports to the Account Director. If you’re a meticulous task manager, a natural-born leader, obsessive about creating incredible work, and adept at forming and strengthening bonds with personalities of all stripes and sorts, we want to hear from you.

Ongoing responsibilities include:

• Managing, maintaining, and growing the relationship with the client and key stakeholders
• Directing and having a positive impact on projects, and teams by providing guidance, direction, and a vision to follow
• Acting as the glue that holds internal teams together, both delegating work when necessary while always being a team player, and helping to define brand vision alongside creative, strategy, etc.
• Managing projects and working closely with team to adhere to deadlines
• Managing ongoing campaign needs
• Being in the loop with social trends, new platforms and functionalities, competitors, memes/internet culture, etc.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in account management and/or project management, preferably with leading CPG or Beverage brands a plus
• Must be willing to work west coast hours (LA based a plus)
• Must have brand experience or experience implementing 360 campaign
• Must have experience implementing social media, digital and integrated marketing campaigns
• Detail focused with strong communication skills: persuasive, strategic, proactive, diplomatic
• A demonstrated passion for and superb understanding of the social media landscape
• You can own a room: you’ve got rockstar presentation skills
• Commitment to excellence — working nonstandard hours when necessary, anticipating issues and communicating with diplomacy, identifying emerging platforms and trends to drive innovation
• Ability to multitask and manage time across multiple accounts
• Comfort running small/medium projects with minimal oversight
• Mid to senior level client-facing experience
• General proficiency and understanding of social analytics

Base salary range: $65k - $70k.

Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc. The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each hire.