Account Executive

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We're seeking a highly motivated and skilled Account Executive (AE) to join our dynamic team. This role is crucial for fostering strong client relationships and ensuring the successful delivery of impactful advertising campaigns. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for both client success and streamlined execution, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

As an Account Executive, you'll be at the forefront of our client partnerships, responsible for:

• Managing significant client accounts, acting as their primary day-today contact and trusted advisor.

• Organizing and executing strategic plans that drive measurable success for your individual accounts.

• Managing project timelines and resources efficiently to ensure timely and effective campaign delivery.

• Coordinating internal agency teams seamlessly to deliver outstanding client work.

• Developing a foundational understanding of the client's business and the ever-evolving advertising industry.

Necessary Skills and Mindset

To excel in this role, you'll need a blend of essential skills and a proactive mindset, including:

• Strong Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Essential for effective client interaction and seamless team facilitation.

• Deep Understanding of Advertising/Marketing: The ability to effectively translate client needs and truly understand the nuances of the agency's work.

• Problem-Solving & Conflict Resolution: A knack for addressing impediments quickly and mediating discussions constructively.

• Adaptability & Flexibility: The ability to navigate the dynamic nature of both client demands and agile development processes.

• Servant Leadership: A core trait to ensure your internal team has everything they need to succeed.

• Context Switching: The mental agility to effortlessly shift between client-facing and internal team-facing tasks.

Key Account Executive Responsibilities

In this role, you'll also apply agile principles to your work, specifically in areas like:

• Client Backlog Management: Collaborating directly with internal clients to understand the scope of work, then identifying and prioritizing these tasks within our Azure DevOps backlog.

• Sprint Planning & Goal Setting (with Client Input): Facilitating planning meetings to outline project deliverables for a given time period, always informed by the client's priorities.

• Daily Stand-ups (Focus on Progress & Impediments): Leading daily stand-ups to ensure the team is aligned, tracking progress, and immediately addressing any roadblocks.

• Client Feedback & Review:Organizing and facilitating sprint or project review meetings for designers to showcase completed work and gather crucial client feedback.

• Retrospectives (Internal Process Improvement): Leading retrospectives to help the internal agency team continuously improve its advertising delivery process and internal collaboration.

U-Haul Holding Company, and its family of companies including U-Haul International, Inc. (“U-Haul”), continually strives to create a culture of health and wellness. Consistent with applicable state law, U-Haul will not hire or re-hire individuals who use nicotine products.  The states in which U-Haul will decline to hire nicotine users are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. U-Haul has observed this hiring practice since February 1, 2020 as part of our commitment to a healthy work environment for our team.   

U-Haul is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, provincial, state or local law. Individual accommodations are available on requests for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Information obtained during this process will only be shared on a need to know basis.