Account Manager

Title:

Account Manager
Reporting to: VP, Revenue Ops & Strategy
Classification:
Full-time Employee

Location:

Hybrid in New York, New York (3x/week)
Compensation: $90k - $110k annual base + bonus

Wave Sports & Entertainment (Wave) is the leader in digital storytelling for the next generation reaching more than 130 million highly engaged followers globally. Wave's award-winning, programming is led by some of the most popular athletes and personalities in culture today-- including the hit digital series' "Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce," "7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony", and "So True with Caleb Hearon" - dishing out entertaining commentary, unique perspectives, expert analysis, and behind-the-scenes stories about the biggest moments and trends shaping sports and entertainment.

Wave's Media Agency (WMA) collaborates with leading sports leagues and rights holders to create engaging, data-driven digital programming. Our partners include major organizations such as the WNBA and CONCACAF, and we deliver always-on content experiences that engage the internet's largest and most passionate fan communities.

Wave Sports & Entertainment is seeking an Account Manager to join the Wave Revenue Team. This individual will serve a critical role externally managing Wave's advertising and sales relationships across its slate of social & talent-led original programming. This highly collaborative and detail-oriented person will also help develop strategies to renew and expand those partnerships in close collaboration with the Sales team.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of exceptional client management and a keen understanding of the social/digital media advertising landscape.

• Manage day to day client relationships with Wave's key brand partners and sponsors
• Support the sales team on pre-sale efforts in a sales planning capacity, primarily responsible for creating media plans.
• Project manage the delivery of all campaign programs for sold deals.
• Manage post-sale communication and coordination with clients.
• Coordinate and develop partner reporting and other data/analytics and content insights.
• Prepare and present client-facing decks that showcase performance, learnings and future recommendations.
• Stay current with developments within the social and digital landscape to ensure best practices are applied across active and prospective clients.
• Actively seek opportunities to expand the scope of client engagement as well as differentiate the client from competitors.

• 2-4 years of digital mediasales and / or account management experience, with a proven track record of supporting high-quality delivery of campaigns
• Client-facing experience and superior communication skills
• Strong deck making and presentation skills
• Experience managing and executing media campaigns and familiarity with digital and audio media metrics
• Proficiency in Excel
• Proficiency with Ads Manager tools for Meta, Snap, Tik Tok, and other digital media platforms
• Extreme attention to detail
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, for both external and internal purposes
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, high growth environment
• Committed, positive and goal oriented in everything you do
• An outspoken idea-generator on a team tasked with creating "big idea" advertising solutions and presentations

At Wave, we're transparent from the get-go-we want our candidates to know as much about us as possible, even before applying. We're excited about our candidates and want them to feel the same about us!

* This role is a full-time position with a base salary range of $90,000 to $110,000/year, and may be eligible for an annual bonus and equity. Actual salary at the time of…