Account Executive

About IW Group

IW Group is the leading multicultural advertising and marketing agency with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Named Ad Age’s 2025 Multicultural Agency of the Year and recognized by PRWeek for Best in Multicultural Marketing, IW Group produces culture-shaping campaigns for global and national brands. IW Group drives impactful work by blending storytelling, cultural insight, and innovation to achieve measurable results. We represent multiple brands and deliver distinctive multicultural and cross-generational campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day management of multiple client accounts and integrated marketing campaigns.
• Help develop strategic recommendations, campaign plans, creative briefs, and client presentations.
• Maintain project timelines, meeting notes, status reports, budgets, and deliverables across multiple workstreams.
• Build strong relationships with clients, agency partners, vendors, and internal teams.
• Ensure projects remain on schedule, within scope, and aligned with client objectives.
• Contribute to the development of integrated marketing campaigns spanning experiential, digital, social, influencer, partnerships, content, PR, and paid media.
• Participate actively in brainstorming sessions, bringing thoughtful ideas rooted in culture, consumer insights, and creativity.
• Research emerging trends, cultural moments, competitive activity, and audience behaviors to inform campaign recommendations.
• Aid in production planning and execution for events, activations, and brand experiences.
• Partner closely with Strategy, Creative, Production, Media, PR, Social, and Operations teams to bring campaigns to life.
• Cook up internal workflows and ensure deliverables are communicated clearly across departments.
• Anticipate challenges and proactively identify solutions before they impact timelines.

What We’re Looking For

• Naturally curious with a passion for culture, creativity, marketing, and storytelling.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Collaborative mindset with confidence to contribute ideas and ask thoughtful questions.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Comfortable working across multiple disciplines and learning new skills quickly.

Education

• MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s or vocational degree from a fully accredited college or university.
• Experience: 1–2 years of professional experience in marketing, advertising, communications, public relations, events, social media, partnerships, community engagement, or a related field.
• Agency experience is preferred but not required.
• Experience supporting consumer, lifestyle, luxury, food & beverage, spirits, or hospitality brands is a plus.

Technical Skills

• Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.
• Monday.com, Asana or similar project management software.
• Canva and presentation design tools.
• AI productivity tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot).
• Social media publishing and reporting platforms.
• Slack, Zoom, and other collaboration tools.
• Google Analytics and basic marketing reporting platforms.
• Adobe Creative Cloud or Figma (preferred).

Company Culture

• Connectors: IW Group is a company founded with community at our core. We believe in building meaningful community and encourage teams to connect with causes and missions that fuel their passions.
• Foodies: You can often find our teams sharing a meal.
• Explorers: IW Group encourages teams to follow their creative hunches. Whether it be testing new tech, visiting edgy art galleries, or discovering local coffee shops, we want our teams to stay constantly curious.
• Entrepreneurs: We have a strong entrepreneurial spirit! We encourage teams to drive new initiatives, work with growing startups, and drive their own growth with the company.

Hybrid Work Model

• IW Group has adopted a hybrid work model. Managers set their own in-office schedule but team members are requested to work in-office at least three times per week.
• This role may require extended work hours (including weekends) to complete certain projects, with or without advance notice.
• This role may require work outside of the office (i.e., client events) or travel outside of the local work area (i.e., national or international client locations).

Physical Demands

• While performing the responsibilities of this role, the employee is required to talk and hear.
• The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision.