Spyglass is a Minneapolis-based strategic brand and marketing agency helping business leaders solve mission-critical brand and marketing challenges. We’re looking for an energetic, proactive, detail-obsessed Account Executive who thrives at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and execution.This is a hybrid role (T – Th in-office, Monday/Friday remote) for someone who brings urgency, ownership, and confidence.
What You’ll Do
Own Client Relationships and Drive Engagement Success
- Serve as day-to-day lead for a portfolio of brand strategy and creative clients
- Lead client meetings, set agendas, and map clear next steps
- Translate client objectives into tight briefs and actionable plans
- Build trust through responsiveness, clarity, and proactive problem-solving
- Anticipate needs and surface smart recommendations before a client asks
- Connect client business goals to creative outputs
- Clearly communicate – write sharp emails, run efficient meetings, prompt friendly follow up
- Catch risks early, solve them quickly, and keep everyone aligned
Manage the Projects End-to-End
- Manage scopes, timelines, budgets, and feedback with calm precision and confidence
- Stay organized – manage every detail. You love lists and proactive follow-ups.
- Coordinate strategy, creative, production, and external strategic partners
- Organize documents, assets, and workflows with a high level of detail
- Keep projects moving without being asked
- Maintain version control and streamline collaboration
- Support estimates, briefs, invoicing, resourcing, and forecasting
- Run internal resourcing and status meetings
- Partner with vendors (print, proofing, production, mailing)
- Identify inefficiencies and actively improve processes
Represent Spyglass
- Be a sharp thinker and curious about brands and people.
- Bring good humor and humility. Be a positive ambassador!
- Contribute to thought leadership, case studies, and agency storytelling
- Help evolve how the agency works – tools, processes, and standards
Skills & Experience Required
- 5+ years in account management, project management, or client services
- Agency or consulting experience
- Comfortable managing multiple clients and stakeholders simultaneously
- Strong understanding of brand strategy and creative workflows
- Confident managing budgets, scopes, timelines, and resourcing
- High-level proficiency in:
- Google Docs, Slides, Sheets
- PowerPoint, Word, Excel
- Basecamp, Harvest, or similar tools
- Outlook
- Social media (channel usage, strategy and content development)
- AI-enabled marketing
Why This Role Is Fun
- You will get to wear a lot of hats!
- You will learn from the best – founders of Spyglass, leadership team, clients
- Your ideas won’t just be heard — they’ll be expected
- You will work on building brands who are driving growth and innovation
- You will sit at the intersection of business strategy and creative
- You work with a team who cares – about delivering the best work, about each other, about showing up every day
How to Apply
Please send your resume in the email message to [email protected].
Label your subject line “Your Name, AE > Spyglass.”
In your email, respond to 2 – 3 of these questions:
- What has been a key to your success in project or account management?
- Which of your experiences is directly applicable to what you know of Spyglass?
- What’s your secret to balancing efficient project management with strategic client service?
- In what ways do you hope to grow in the next five years?
This role reports to the SVP of Client Strategy and Services. Interviews will begin there, virtually, and include additional team members in one or more additional sessions, which may include in person.
We look forward to hearing from you!
