Why work at Wide Eye?

• Work on meaningful causes, campaigns, and organizations
• Opportunities to work with a highly-creative, award-winning team
• Potential for growth in the role and within the company
• Competitive salaries & benefits
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sabbatical starting at 6 years of service
• Work from home
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Potential to participate in the company 401k and profit-sharing plans
• Annual professional development budget

Responsibilities

Business Development:

• Grow connections and proactively expand Wide Eye’s new business relationships and opportunities, establishing and hitting achievable sales goals year over year.
• Help define, evangelize, and measure Wide Eye’s core value as a creative agency for good.
• Write project proposals, research and ideate client solutions.
• Prepare and lead pitches and presentations to win new business.
• Identify client requirements and help generate solutions and new ideas to meet needs.
• Collaborate with the Founder, Managing Director, and Associate Creative Director, to set marketing and relationship strategies and internal budgets.
• Present reports on account progress and goals to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner with the Director of Project Management to identify opportunities to grow, strengthen, and retain relationships with clients.
• Manage records of sales, revenue, and other important data.

Client management:

• Serve as a Project Owner for a portion of client projects: help navigate project objectives and challenges, set and track project and budget goals, and seek opportunities for relationship growth.
• Ensure a smooth onboarding of Project Managers to new projects snd serve as a support to them when solving challenges and strategizing on the project.
• Provide feedback and counsel to all management and creative staff to meet business objectives.
• Communicate effectively with internal teams to plan projects, set expectations, and create project deliverables.
• Resolve client issues to maintain and strengthen relationships and trust.
• Support the Project Management and Creative teams in gaining an in depth understanding of a client’s needs and their expectations of our company.
• Negotiate contracts and project amendments on behalf of the company.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Maintain a strong awareness of the practices of other agencies, as well as within campaigns and organizations.
• Exemplify culture, values, and principles for the broader Wide Eye team.
• Introduce new software and solutions to streamline our business processes.
• Help recruit additional account staff.
• Collaborate with the Creative Directors on evolving our company language and brand image.
• Manage client projects directly, as needed.

Experience / Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience at agencies or in creative management
• Demonstrated ability to lead and direct creative and strategic thinking for organizations and campaigns
• Outstanding writing skills
• Strong verbal communication skills, and ability to confidently present bigger conceptual ideas to executives and larger groups
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
• Proven negotiation skills and ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with clients and management
• Strong EQ and team management skills
• Proven ability to work with creatives and technicians
• Ability to perform in a fast paced and high-impact work environment
• Proven experience mentoring or managing other strategists and writers
• Highly-creative and resourceful

Bonus Points

• Background in social causes and progressive politics
• Love of visual design, technology, storytelling, and filmmaking

Annual salary: $125K-$155K plus benefits