Associate Account Executive

Founded in 2001, Purple Group is an award-winning independent advertising, marketing, and PR agency with consulting roots. We help our clients create marketing for a better world — combining strategic rigor, creative excellence, and deep cultural intelligence to build work that resonates across audiences and drives meaningful impact.

As an independent agency, we value collaboration, curiosity, entrepreneurial thinking, and genuinely good people. Our teams work closely across disciplines, giving employees broad exposure, meaningful responsibility, and the opportunity to contribute to work that matters.

We’re looking for an organized, proactive, and collaborative Associate Account Executive to join our Client Services team and support integrated advertising and marketing communications accounts.

This role is ideal for an early-career advertising agency professional with 1–2 years of experience working in an advertising or integrated marketing agency environment. You enjoy building relationships with clients and colleagues, but you also excel at the organization, coordination, and follow-through required to keep great work moving.

You’ll work across advertising, social, digital, PR, community outreach, and other initiatives, partnering closely with account leadership, strategy teams, creative teams, production partners, and agency leadership. You’ll help manage the day-to-day details that move work from client request and briefing through creative development, review, revisions, production, and final delivery.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking broad exposure, meaningful responsibility, and accelerated growth within a collaborative independent agency.

This is a client services position, not a standalone Project Manager role. Strong project-management and workflow skills are essential, but we are looking for an emerging advertising account professional who understands how work moves through an advertising agency and enjoys helping both clients and internal teams succeed.

• Support the day-to-day management of advertising and integrated marketing initiatives across a variety of clients and projects.
• Help prepare client-facing presentations, agendas, status reports, meeting recaps, and other communications.
• Participate in client calls and internal meetings, capturing decisions, next steps, and action items, and ensuring appropriate follow-through.
• Help translate client needs, requests, and feedback into clear direction and next steps for internal teams.
• Build strong working relationships with clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Help the team conduct research related to brands, competitors, audiences, culture, and industry trends.
• Help ensure client deliverables are accurate, polished, on-brand, and delivered on time.
• Support account leadership in anticipating client needs by actively listening, asking clarifying questions, and proactively maintaining momentum across projects.

• Help manage projects from kickoff and briefing through creative development, client review, revisions, approvals, production, and final delivery.
• Develop and maintain timelines, schedules, status reports, deliverables lists, and project documentation across multiple concurrent projects with guidance from the Account Director.
• Proactively track project status and flag potential timeline, scope, resource, or workflow concerns.
• Assist with routing creative work and maintaining clear review and approval processes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Help organize and communicate client and internal feedback, ensuring revisions are clearly understood and addressed.
• Support project scoping, estimate tracking, budget…