1000heads

Account Manager/ Project Manager

🇺🇸 New York City, United States, New York, United States Hybrid Marketing & Growth Mid Posted May 26, 2026
Workplace Hybrid
Seniority Mid
Language English
Posted May 26, 2026
Last verified May 27, 2026

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2 locations
United States
  • New York City, United States
  • New York, United States
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Account Manager/ Project Manager at 1000heads: New York City, United States, New York, United States; Hybrid; Mid; Marketing & Growth. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.

  • Location and workplace: New York City, United States, New York, United States, Hybrid
  • Role classification: Marketing & Growth, Mid
  • Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-27.
  • Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.

The 1000heads Account team is a proud, powerful collective of social media obsessives who are experts in managing clients relationships. You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Creative, Insights, Design, and Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work for our clients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, solution-oriented account manager with strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Playing equally significant internal and external roles, the successful candidate will join as an integral member of this high-profile team and will balance priorities cross-department to deliver high quality work. 

The ideal candidate has agency experience, with a mix of production and social marketing experience. Experience working on large accounts is preferred due to the fast-paced environment. While influencer/talent work is a plus, a strong understanding of social channels and ATL production is essential. 

Responsibilities

  • Consistently developing innovative and creative ideas and solutions for client campaigns
  • Building client relationships; listen and understand individual client requirements and consistently meeting if not exceeding their expectations
  • Developing a clear understanding of your clients’ brand(s), category and customers
  • Monitoring and understanding your clients’ markets; be aware of market issues and competitive activity
  • Keeping clients informed; ensure reports are on time and are kept in a central location so the rest of the team can locate if necessary
  • Assisting in creating project briefs; briefing in and working with members of the wider team to develop an idea, strategy or campaign tactic; presenting and selling that idea to the client
  • Manage IRL and virtual event activations 
  • Developing effective project plans and project specification documents
  • Producing accurate cost estimates, and ensuring they are signed off by the Account Director and the client before work proceeds
  • Ensuring all billing is completed on time
  • Ensuring that campaigns run to agreed client budgets and clients approve all expenditure before it happens, particularly unexpected expenditure
  • Assisting with the production of client reviews with senior clients
  • Overseeing and owning the overall quality of the final deliverables on projects that you manage
  • Ensuring your Account Director and / or Creative Director signs off all briefs and attends important project meetings
  • Maintaining a central file of essential client information
  • Managing Timelines