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Company description

We Are Saatchi.

We’re a crowd of curious thinkers and leaders. We’re dog-lovers, beach-walkers, deep-fried devotees and boundary-pushers. We firmly believe that with a childish sense of wonder, the latest technology and an openness to embrace the new, we can imagine the impossible and prove it is totally within our reach.

With offices in Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle we are brought together to create unparalleled strategies, unexpected fresh ideas, and exceptional advertising.

Overview

The Account Executive works closely with greater account team, agency teams, and clients to coordinate and input on strategic development, creative development, and tactical execution for clients’ marketing campaigns. Account Executives are the **‘composers of the orchestra’** and are essential to make the process, and creative work, wonderful and effective!

Key Qualities

+ Professionalism – an understanding of the appropriate business relationship and conduct

+ Positive - can-do attitude throughout all tasks big and small, even in the face of struggles

+ Organized – detail oriented and thorough, prepared for meetings and team needs

+ Proactive – prepares for what’s next, seeks solutions to problems but knows when to ask for help/guidance

+ Passionate – eager to learn, hunger to contribute, looks for opportunities to support the team

+ Multi-tasker – ability to juggle multiple projects and work with manager to prioritize

+ Resourceful – ability to troubleshoot issues and work on backup solutions effectively

Team Relationship & Management

+ Proactively Manages UP, DOWN, and ACROSS teams

+ Comprehensive but concise communication

+ Over-communication is much preferred than not communicating at all

+ Working with AD to prioritize workload and ability to tactfully say ‘no’ to commit to those priorities

+ Manages AAE and oversees and approves their responsibilities

+ Delegates work efficiently

+ Builds trust and respect from team members

+ Internally - as a Power of One structure, the team will be comprised of Account, Strategy, Creative, Digital, Production, Media

+ Cross-team – there will be interactions, collaboration and partnerships with the other Crest Forms

+ Externally – with P&G clients and other external agency partners

Responsibilities

Creative Development & Production:

+ Status

+ Leads any necessary status calls

+ Reviews and approves AAE’s status documents updates to ensure they are complete and comprehensive

+ Meeting Recaps (Internal/External)

+ Leads process for finalizing meeting reports after all meetings, including confirming need for recap with AD and sharing with AD for approval in timely fashion

+ Timelines

+ Works closely with AD and Project Manager to create and manage project and production timelines

+ Digital & Social Production

+ Spearheads Digital creative development/activation from brief to release and acts as liaison with Brand, Creatives, IP’s, Strategy, and Producers

+ Working with clients to create accurate and actionable briefs, reviewing creative to ensure all work is on strategy, put on “client hat” to evaluate and build on creative during internal reviews, present and defend the work with clients and push creatives team when work can be better

+ Prepares and leads creative calls with Brand team

+ Broadcast/Video Production

+ Support all aspects of broadcast production process, including:

+ Creating decks, Writing Pre-Bids and overseeing development of Pre-Pro Meeting materials

+ Manages substantiation documents, network clearance and legal reviews run smoothly

+ eCommerce (Online Retailer enhanced content & secondary image creation/updates)

+ Spearhead eCommerce creative development from brief to release and acts as owner and liaison with Brand, Creatives, AD and Program Managers

+ Tracking accurately on scope for eCommerce workstream

Oversees and Approves AAE’s Responsibilities:

+ Budgets/Finance

+ Reviews AAE’s budget documents in order to make sure they are kept up to date, accurate, and thoroughly detailed. Ensures this is done consistently, as changes happen in real time, so there is no scrambling/backtracking whenever reconciliation or new budget requests arise. This will help with both accuracy and time management.

+ Working closely with AAE(s) to keep budgets updated and flag any issues.

+ Oversees AAE’s communication with business managers, talent managers, production managers to ensure all Agency/Brand process is abided by in a timely fashion.

+ Talent

+ Keeps a very close eye on all Talent and Trafficking updates to ensure that all Holding Fees, talent terms / expiration dates, upcoming costs, etc are accounted for. Reviews and approves talent estimates and ensuring that talent estimates are accurate according to latest media weights (for North America), and monitors actuals/accrued costs, vs. planned spends, on a regular/as-needed basis.

+ Trafficking (US & CA)

+ Traffics and/or approves AAE’s trafficking responsibilities – TV, print, and digital trafficking process including trafficking forms, asset hand off, substantiation documents, network clearance, closed captioning and legal reviews.

Understanding the Brand’s Business:

+ Well-versed with brands’ historical & current toolkits/work

+ Proactively understands the brand’s historical work, in order to provide helpful perspective & insights based on past campaigns quickly, in times of need.

+ Become competitive activity expert

+ Oversees AAE’s competitive alerts come through on weekly basis to ensure strategically we are providing value.

+ Immersed in P&G culture, updates, trend

+ Stays abreast to latest news, memorize client team structure, and know who’s who in P&G leadership.

+ Be passionate about industry, brand and cultural trends related to our categories and brands.

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of relatable experience in client service and/or project management

• Solutions-oriented; always has solutions in mind when managing up

• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects at once

• Extremely detail-oriented and organized

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• A passion for creativity

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected]. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $64,400- $71,645 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 09/08/2025.