Fashion Account Manager

Our client is seeking a seasoned, innovative Fashion Account Manager to operate as the "front door" between our agency's creative team and our partners ("clients"). This role specifically supports fashion and style-driven 360 campaigns, requiring experience collaborating with creative teams in fashion, beauty, retail, or luxury sectors. You will translate client needs, guide the creative process, recommend solutions, and work closely with project management to ensure timely campaign execution.

Candidates must have hands-on experience working on fashion, beauty, retail, or luxury campaigns, and a strong ability to partner with creative teams (art directors, designers, photographers) to develop 360 campaign work across brand, digital, social, and experiential. This is not a production-heavy role but a creative account leadership role. This role focuses on guiding and supporting creative teams, not managing production logistics. You will ensure creatives have clarity, context, and direction while maintaining alignment with client goals.

**PLEASE NOTE: This role is hybrid 3 days onsite in Playa Vista, CA**

Roles & Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a passionate and proactive knowledge of our Partner's ("client's") business, understands our Partner's products, objectives, and challenges.
• Guides 360 fashion campaign development across lookbooks, brand imagery, social content, video, retail, and seasonal storytelling.
• Translates fashion brand directives, seasonal themes, and product priorities into actionable creative briefs and feedback.
• Ensures creative work aligns with industry trends, competitive landscape, and the partner's brand identity.
• Drives accountability of Partner's business and marketing objectives to inform and drive integrated campaign solutions that generate measurable results.
• Acts as the overall day-to-day lead on integrated campaign development and production and drives campaigns to completion - on time and on budget.
• Develops and maintains consistent and thorough communication with Partners on all project status, timing, and delivery.
• Is responsible for keeping our Partners on track to ensure all ideas and concepts remain on brief and deliver against agreed KPIS and objectives.
• Oversees integrated campaign workflow, timings, and process along with the project manager to determine and drive priorities and to ensure that milestones are both set and met.
• Oversees the campaign production budget(s) and considers cost efficiencies.
• Represents in meetings and acts as agency lead when working with external agencies.
• Effectively manages up to the Sr. Account Manager and Associate Director.
• Mentors and trains the Associate Account Managers and helps to drive their success within the agency.
• Has a focus on looking for incremental opportunities within the work and finds cost-effective and creative ways to implement, along with our internal partners.
• Is capable of effectively articulating a POV (and/or presentation) to the internal team and Partners.
• Actively and effectively manages the Associate Account Manager's daily/weekly/monthly workload, helping them to drive workflow and provide mentorship.

Skills:

• Strategic and creative integrated thinker: The ability to combine business, communication, and creative strategy to drive the creation of effective creative platforms and tightly integrated campaigns. Need to be both a strategy and idea person! Strong understanding of our partners and their business builds strong relationships with internal members by demonstrating a deep understanding of the partners' business from a category perspective, as well as their internal structure, both culturally and organizationally.
• Strong and persuasive communicator: extremely persuasive presenter and writer with the ability to be simple, clear, and personally compelling, no matter the audience.
• Leader mindset: brings out the best in people, fosters ambition, enthusiasm, and team morale. Has great judgment about where to direct the team's energy.
• Action-oriented, always prepared, and follows through: unafraid to take charge, when necessary, be decisive, and drive to the outcome quickly.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience as an agency Account Supervisor or Account Manager, or similar role.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in fashion, beauty, retail, or luxury industry. Either agency-side or in-house. Must be fluent in fashion/style language and able to guide creative work accordingly.
• Experience leading 360 fashion or retail campaigns spanning brand, digital, social, video, and in-store executions.
• Agency experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in project management tools, ideally Workfront.
• Excellent understanding of advertising methods and techniques.
• Understanding of account management fundamentals, including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, and allocate resources.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $50.00/hr to $58.00/hr. Compensation is based on several factors, including but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

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