Senior Account Manager, Client Services
The Senior Account Manager, Client Services, is a hybrid account management and project management role designated to support one high-priority, multi-service enterprise account. This role is designed for a complex client engagement with significant annual media investment across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, and SEO.
This role reports into the Enterprise Account Director and serves as a key day-to-day partner across client communication, internal coordination, project management, ClickUp ownership, and executional follow-through. The Senior Account Manager will help keep the account organized, ensure priorities are clearly documented, and translate strategic direction into clear next steps across channel and analytics teams.
Success in this role requires strong client service instincts, project management discipline, digital marketing fluency, and the ability to bring structure to a fast-moving enterprise account with multiple stakeholders, workstreams, and approval layers.
What You'll DoClient Service & Account Support
- Serve as a day-to-day support lead for a dedicated enterprise client, working closely with the Enterprise Account Director to ensure clear communication, organization, and follow-through.
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the client’s business objectives, priorities, stakeholders, approval processes, digital marketing programs, and ways of working.
- Participate in client calls, working sessions, planning discussions, status meetings, QBRs, and executive updates.
- Own structured follow-up from client conversations, including meeting notes, action items, owners, timelines, open questions, and next steps.
- Draft clear, proactive client communications, including status updates, project recaps, timeline updates, and follow-up emails.
- Partner with the Enterprise Account Director on stakeholder management, expectation setting, escalation awareness, and account communication.
- Own ClickUp management for the account, ensuring projects, tasks, timelines, dependencies, owners, and statuses are accurately documented and maintained.
- Build and manage integrated project plans across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, SEO, and Analytics workstreams.
- Support intake and triage of new client requests, ensuring proper documentation, prioritization, and follow-through.
- Proactively identify blockers, timeline risks, resource gaps, and delivery challenges, escalating to the Enterprise Account Director and internal teams as needed.
- Maintain visibility into account priorities, active deliverables, open questions, risks, and upcoming needs.
- Create repeatable processes for status updates, meeting follow-ups, task tracking, reporting coordination, and client request management.
- Serve as a central coordination point across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, SEO, Analytics, and other relevant account support functions.
- Facilitate internal meetings focused on alignment, decision-making, timeline management, and removing blockers.
- Partner with channel leads, analytics partners, and strategy leads to ensure deliverables are moving forward and tied back to client objectives.
- Coordinate performance reporting deliverables, ensuring timelines, owners, data needs, review steps, and follow-ups are clearly documented.
- Ensure internal teams have the context they need to execute effectively and deliver work that aligns with the broader account strategy.
- Connect work across service lines so deliverables, reporting, and client communications feel cohesive rather than siloed.
- Ability to support one high-priority, multi-service enterprise account with multiple stakeholders, channels, approval layers, and workstreams.
- Strong client-facing communication skills with the ability to provide clear, polished, and proactive updates.
- Strong project management instincts, including comfort managing timelines, dependencies, action items, deliverables, and cross-functional accountability.
- Confidence navigating ambiguity and creating structure where it does not already exist.
- Strong attention to detail and comfort owning systems like ClickUp to keep large-scale work organized.
- Ability to connect day-to-day execution back to broader business goals, performance trends, client expectations, and account priorities.
- 5 to 7 years of experience in account management, client services, project management, or a hybrid client-facing delivery role, preferably in an agency environment.
- Experience supporting enterprise clients or complex, high-priority accounts with multiple stakeholders, service lines, approval layers, and workstreams.
- Experience managing or supporting clients with annual media budgets of $25M+.
- Strong working knowledge across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, SEO, and Analytics.
- Experience supporting conversations around budget pacing, forecasting, performance trends, and client expectations.
- Hands-on familiarity with major digital advertising platforms, analytics tools, and reporting systems, including tools such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, programmatic platforms, SEO tools, and other relevant media or measurement platforms.
- Experience with advanced attribution platforms is strongly preferred.
- Experience using project management tools, with ClickUp experience strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to manage timelines, deliverables, action items, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with both clients and internal teams.
- Strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, and ability to anticipate risks, identify blockers, and drive resolution before issues escalate.
- Comfort participating in client meetings, managing executive-level expectations, and providing proactive follow-up.
- A “lean in” mindset with a willingness to immerse deeply in the client’s business, priorities, and ways of working.
Benefits and Perks We Provide
- Remote Workplace. You have the option to work at our office in Boston or remotely in one of these states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, ID, IL, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, SC, OH, OK, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT.
- Paid Time Off. Receive generous paid vacation benefits that increase each year you’re with us, 12 Company Holidays, and Summer Fridays from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
- 401K + Match. 401K plan with 4% Safe Harbor employer match after one year of employment and financial literacy services provided through our retirement provider.
- Life Insurance Benefit. No-cost coverage to ensure peace of mind for your family.
- Short Term Disability Benefit. We've got you covered if you need to be OOO with an illness or injury that keeps you out of work.
- Healthcare. Choose from several competitive healthcare plans for you and your family with 80% employer coverage for all medical and dental premiums, 100% employer coverage for dental, and the option to participate in the FSA program.
- Commuter Benefits. Allocate pre-tax funds towards your commute to save up to 40% per year in transportation expenses.
- Continuing Education. Access to monthly team-led webinars, exclusive 829-cohort based learning, digital course platforms, and funding opportunities to attend national conferences and events.
What We Believe
At 829 Studios, we boldly embrace diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. Our goal: a team rich in backgrounds, perspectives, and talents. Why? Because inclusivity powers our brilliance and client success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, creed, color, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, mental illness, age, ancestry, genetic information, military service, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Who We Are
829 Studios is a Boston-based integrated digital marketing agency with a mission to propel organizations to unlock their full potential and accomplish their most ambitious goals. We harness the power of logic with magic – a balance of data-driven strategy and brand-focused creative. We partner with diverse organizations across various industries and our client list encompasses venture-backed start-ups, publicly traded companies, non-profits, and more. By committing not only to our growth as a company, but the development of our employees and teams’, we have created a collaborative environment that fosters ingenuity and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging values within our community. 829 has been recognized as one of the nation’s top agencies by the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies, Adweek 100 Fastest-Growing Digital Agencies, Boston Business Journal's Fast 50 (Massachusetts' 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies), HubSpot's Top Digital Agencies list, and a we are and employee-certified Great Place to Work.
Salary Range: $85,000 - $95,000
We determine compensation based on experience, demonstrated skills, and current market conditions at the time of hire to ensure fairness and consistency across roles. Actual compensation will depend on experience and may be adjusted based on skills, qualifications, and alignment with the scope and impact of the role.