VP Accounts

The role

You will lead cross-disciplinary teams to create and implement digital strategies for non-profit, political/advocacy, and brand clients. You will manage a portion of the business and Accounts team, setting strategic growth plans and evolving the Account Management craft.

What you will do

• Manage a significant portion of the business and Accounts team
• Set strategic growth plans for clients
• Serve as a senior point of contact for a portfolio of clients
• Ensure successful program and project management
• Provide technical, creative, and/or strategic oversight across disciplines
• Develop strategies and tactics to address client objectives
• Write and produce client-facing proposals, presentations, and strategic plans
• Support targeting, pursuing, and closing engagements with new clients
• Focus on the development of the Account Management craft
• Mentor staff across teams and levels

Required qualifications

• 10+ years experience in client services, digital marketing, fundraising or a related area
• Experience in selling and leading digitally-driven campaigns and/or advocacy projects designed to mobilize communities or drive behaviour change
• Deep knowledge of email and direct marketing fundraising strategies and tactics and/or experience in selling and/or delivering email fundraising programs
• Ability to adapt to new situations, think on your feet, and communicate with those around you
• Teamwork and scrappiness required
• A shared passion and curiosity for making change and redefining how business is done
• Comfort with ambiguity
• A restlessness that resists the status quo
• A commitment to quality
• Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model and set the standard
• Confidence to guide clients at a senior, C-suite level

Nice to have

• Some paid media or technical experience, or the necessary facility and willingness to learn

Benefits

• Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
• $1,000 annually in professional development funds
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible and health savings accounts
• 401K & employer match
• Generous paid holiday schedule
• 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits

About the company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency that partners with leading causes, brands, and campaigns to create real change. It is an independent agency in the US and London.