Senior Account Manager

Overview

Placement Type:

Permanent

Salary

$110,000-115,000 Salary

Start Date:

Dec 28, 2026

Duration:

Ongoing engagement with benefits

Have you spent the last few years pitching accounts, writing SOWs, and managing complex deliverables—only to watch someone else call the shots?

Aquent Studios is looking for an entrepreneurial, high-velocity Senior Account Manager to own and scale our partnership with a flagship enterprise technology client in Seattle.

We are not looking for a transactional salesperson who hands off the account the second the contract is signed. We need an end-to-end operator: a strategic partner who builds unshakeable client trust, architects complex solutions across creative and marketing operations, stays actively engaged through rollout, and continuously experiments with AI and automated workflows. If you thrive in ambiguity, take full ownership from whiteboard pitch to delivery, and want a high-visibility platform to accelerate your career, this role was built for you!

This is a full-time staff position based in the Greater Seattle area (hybrid schedule). Package includes robust medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, flexible PTO, and dedicated stipends for continuous learning and career development.

What You’ll Do

• Drive End-to-End Account Ownership: Lead the complete engagement lifecycle, from initial discovery and strategic pitch through SOW authoring, negotiation, kickoff, and long-term account health.
• Expand Strategic Footprint: Embed deeply within multiple product groups and business units, translating client operational challenges into high-impact programs across creative services, marketing operations, digital experience, and content strategy.
• Architect Modern Solutions: Partner closely with internal practice leads, creative directors, and technical teams to design scalable managed service models and bespoke execution plans.
• Champion AI & Modern Workflows: Actively integrate generative AI and automated systems into client operating models, helping clients cut delivery friction and rethink how work gets done.
• Manage Commercial Health & Governance: Own pipeline forecasting, gross margin targets, and engagement profitability. Ensure scopes remain tight, deliverables stay on schedule, and expectations are cleanly managed.
• Bridge Strategy and Delivery: Maintain active oversight through project implementation, ensuring client promises translate directly into operational excellence on the ground.

What You Bring

• Education & Intellectual Curiosity: A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communication, Business or a related discipline. Demonstrated academic performance or clear evidence of intellectual curiosity and initiative (e.g., independent projects, leadership roles, relevant certifications, or continuous self-directed learning).
• 6–8 years of progressive experience in account management, client success, agency delivery, or management consulting—with direct ownership of enterprise or corporate accounts within agencies.
• Proven Commercial Acumen: Hands-on experience independently scoping complex engagements, authoring SOWs, managing budgets, and negotiating contracts.
• Creative & Marketing Operations Literacy: Solid grounding in creative production, digital marketing operations, content pipelines, or managed service delivery models.
• Applied AI & Tool Fluency: Practical, hands-on experience using generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot) and workflow automation tools to optimize workflows and design new client capabilities.
• Systems-Thinking Mindset: Ability to deconstruct complex, messy client problems and architect structured, repeatable delivery systems.
• Enterprise Navigation: Comfort engaging director and VP-level stakeholders within fast-moving enterprise technology environments.

Preferred / Standout Traits:

• Prior experience embedding within large-scale technology enterprises (e.g., Microsoft, Amazon, Google ecosystem).
• A builder profile: comfortable testing unproven service offerings, iterating rapidly on client feedback, and building account playbooks from the ground up.

Client Description

Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!