Hill Holliday is seeking an Account Executive to join our team. This is a stimulating and challenging role in an exciting and iconic creative advertising agency with a strong history of award winning work.

The role of account management at Hill Holliday is to create, manage and expand the conditions for great work and ideas to flourish. We strive to create work that moves people, changes the status quo, and drives our clients’ business and our own. Our account managers are dynamic marketing strategists who know their client’s business deeply and proactively bring new thinking and an invaluable outside perspective. They connect the dots and marshal resources and talent to deliver all aspects of modern marketing. They are creative “true believers” who recognize, contribute to, protect, and most importantly bring to life great work and ideas. They drive teams that make things happen so we win for our clients and Hill Holliday.

What you'll do:

• Consistent support of day-to-day business activities to ensure efficient communication and flow of work. Management of smaller business activities and work streams.
• Acting as the day-to-day project contact with lower-level clients, creative teams, internal teams and other agency partners, building and maintaining relationships grounded in accountability and trust.
• Showing curiosity for our client’s business and the category. Supporting the internal agency teams in the upfront strategic process, using insights to solve business problems.
• Developing and exhibiting category and client business expertise and managing the evaluation of competitive sets, consumer and cultural trends, new work and updates.
• Contributing to the development, packaging of presentation of new ideas or opportunities for client review.
• Partnering with internal teams to manage “the making” and delivery of great work, managing multiple smaller projects and supporting more senior leads on larger projects from end-to-end.
• Project managing smaller projects, workflow system data entry and reporting, basic understanding of staffing and scoping. Supporting on client financials; monitoring and managing up on staffing or scoping implications on projects.
  

What we expect:

• Intelligence, energy and enthusiasm.
• Ability to build and maintain positive, productive working relationships.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to define problems, collect relevant information, and draw insightful conclusions.
• Conceptual thinking and ability to deliver a point-of-view about the work.
• Ability to juggle a full plate of assignments across all channels (TV, print, direct, digital, etc.)
• Ability to effectively present work to Creative Director(s), members of the account team, and clients.
• Ability to take feedback from Creative Director(s), members of the account team, and clients.

What you'll bring:

• 2-3+ years of experience in an advertising agency
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite
• Accountability for results while maintaining deadlines
• Strong skills in analysis, critical thinking, problem solving
  

Who we are:

At Hill Holliday, we help our clients fight the daily share battle by swinging hard and fighting smart. We stay laser-focused on the most important part of the equation: the idea. Nothing beats a good one. And every day we come to work to think of more of them into existence to help our clients dominate the noisiest of categories. We also know that work is about more than just, well, work. It’s also about the people. And we find that when we let those people do their thing – their curious, tenacious, scrappy, be-happy thing – what results is innovative thinking that wins.

It is the policy of Hill Holliday and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.