Account Director ($85k - $100k)

About The Job

Salary Range: $85k - $100k

Kanahoma, a San Diego-based performance marketing agency, is seeking an Account Director to join our small, but fast-growing marketing team. Founded in 2020 by education marketer Seth Odell, Kanahoma has quickly grown to serve over a dozen clients across both the education and nonprofit industries.

As an Account Director with Kanahoma, you will be a critical member of our Account Services team, responsible for leading strategy development, overseeing performance management, serve as senior relationship manager, and track project management initiatives on behalf of a dedicated book of agency business.

If you are a seasoned, strategic, account services professional looking to join and grow with an emerging performance marketing shop, we’d love to hear from you.

The Account Director (AD) serves as the primary liaison and main point-of-contact between Kanahoma and its partners. The AD helps drive partnership strategy and ensures projects meet partner expectations and are delivered on time and within budget. The AD leads all partner meetings/presentations and ensures alignment and a shared understanding of partnership goals and objectives.

The Account Director will be responsible for:

Build and maintain positive relationships with our partner points of contact and leadership
Lead and/or assist the internal team in pitches/presentations to partners
Create account strategies, leading projects from conception to completion
Establish and set clear expectations (goals/outcomes) with internal teams and partners
Help ensure on-time delivery of services/deliverables using Asana
Accurately represent the partner and their feedback/concerns to the internal team
Provide support and “air cover” for the internal team when representing them to partners
Navigate tough and sometimes unpleasant conversations with partners with professionalism
Know and own (working with controller) partner revenue forecast/actuals

Key Requirements

Bachelor's degree (in communications, marketing, public relations or journalism a plus)
3-5+ years in Account Services, agency and/or education experience strongly preferred
Higher education experience strongly preferred (marketing / recruitment / enrollment)
Effectively prioritize time and balance multiple projects/requests at one time
Creatively and collaboratively solve problems
Lead and mentor teammates
Communicate in a clear and concise manner both verbally and written
Effectively utilize Microsoft Office and Google Suite
Experience with project management software (especially Asana) a plus

The Specifics

Salary: $85,000 - $100,000 (based on experience)
Location: San Diego candidates strongly preferred, but it is not required.
Remote: This is a fully remote WFH position. Candidates must reside in and be eligible to work in the United States.
Benefits: 100% healthcare coverage, unlimited PTO, 401k benefit w/ 4%match, education benefits, etc.
Hardware: We’re an Apple shop

What else should you know?

We are a small (28), marketing agency with big ambitions and a high expectation of what we can achieve on behalf of our partners
We are focused on serving mission-driven organizations across the education, nonprofit, and healthcare industries
We’re looking for someone who is thoughtful, organized, and kind; someone passionate about marketing, comfortable with clients, and hungry to grow
You will be joining a team of 28 digital marketers from across the country
We’re growing, so we need someone comfortable in a dynamic, changing environment that is fast evolving

About Kanahoma

Our mission is to build a better agency for organizations building a better world.

Whether we’re building a brand or driving the bottom line, we pride ourselves on being progressive performance marketers called to serve and support mission-driven organizations across the education, nonprofit, and healthcare industries.

You can learn more about what we do at https://kanahoma.com

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