Associate Account Executive

Founded in 2001, Purple Group is an award-winning independent advertising, marketing, and PR agency with consulting roots. We help our clients create marketing for a better world — combining strategic rigor, creative excellence, and deep cultural intelligence to build work that resonates across audiences and drives meaningful impact.

As an independent agency, we value collaboration, curiosity, entrepreneurial thinking, and genuinely good people. Our teams work closely across disciplines, giving employees broad exposure, meaningful responsibility, and the opportunity to contribute to work that matters.

The Role

We’re looking for an organized, proactive, and collaborative Associate Account Executive to join our Client Services team and support integrated advertising and marketing communications accounts.

This role is ideal for an early-career advertising agency professional with 1–2 years of experience working in an advertising or integrated marketing agency environment. You enjoy building relationships with clients and colleagues, but you also excel at the organization, coordination, and follow-through required to keep great work moving.

You’ll work across advertising, social, digital, PR, community outreach, and other initiatives, partnering closely with account leadership, strategy teams, creative teams, production partners, and agency leadership. You’ll help manage the day-to-day details that move work from client request and briefing through creative development, review, revisions, production, and final delivery.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking broad exposure, meaningful responsibility, and accelerated growth within a collaborative independent agency.

This is a client services position, not a standalone Project Manager role. Strong project-management and workflow skills are essential, but we are looking for an emerging advertising account professional who understands how work moves through an advertising agency and enjoys helping both clients and internal teams succeed.

What You’ll Do

Account Service & Client Support

• Support the day-to-day management of advertising and integrated marketing initiatives across a variety of clients and projects.
• Help prepare client-facing presentations, agendas, status reports, meeting recaps, and other communications.
• Participate in client calls and internal meetings, capturing decisions, next steps, and action items, and ensuring appropriate follow-through.
• Help translate client needs, requests, and feedback into clear direction and next steps for internal teams.
• Build strong working relationships with clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Help the team conduct research related to brands, competitors, audiences, culture, and industry trends.
• Help ensure client deliverables are accurate, polished, on-brand, and delivered on time.
• Support account leadership in anticipating client needs by actively listening, asking clarifying questions, and proactively maintaining momentum across projects.

Project Management & Workflow Coordination

• Help manage projects from kickoff and briefing through creative development, client review, revisions, approvals, production, and final delivery.
• Develop and maintain timelines, schedules, status reports, deliverables lists, and project documentation across multiple concurrent projects with guidance from the Account Director.
• Proactively track project status and flag potential timeline, scope, resource, or workflow concerns.
• Assist with routing creative work and maintaining clear review and approval processes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Help organize and communicate client and internal feedback, ensuring revisions are clearly understood and addressed.
• Support project scoping, estimate tracking, budget organization, and invoicing workflows.
• Capture project workstreams in Asana and coordinate workflow among account, strategy, creative, production, media, digital, marketing communications, and external partners.
• Ensure details are organized, and projects move efficiently from kickoff through final delivery.

What We’re Looking For

• 1- 2 years of professional experience within an advertising or integrated marketing agency; equivalent substantive advertising agency internship experience will be considered.
• Experience supporting client accounts, integrated marketing campaigns, advertising campaigns, or creative projects. Understanding of advertising agency workflow, including briefing, creative development, internal and client review, revisions, approvals, production, and delivery.
• Experience coordinating projects across channels such as digital, social, video, print, out-of-home, or other integrated media.
• Experience working directly with clients and internal creative, strategy, and cross-functional teams.
• Strong organizational instincts and exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and keep timelines moving in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Ability to anticipate needs and identify potential issues before being asked.
• Resourceful, solutions-oriented, and proactive – you think steps ahead and look for ways to keep the ball moving forward.
• Can stay cool under pressure, adapt quickly, and pivot workstreams as situations change.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Professional presence with strong follow-through and accountability.
• Collaborative mindset and willingness to jump in wherever needed.
• Strong project-management experience and an interest in the operational side of producing excellent agency work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides, Excel, and project-management/workflow platforms such as Asana, Monday, or similar tools.

Please note: Experience working within an advertising or integrated marketing agency is important to this role because the successful candidate must understand the creative development and agency workflow process. This position is not intended for candidates whose experience is primarily limited to corporate project management, operations, or other non-advertising agency environments.

Bonus Points For

• Experience working on multicultural advertising or marketing campaigns.
• Bilingual with fluency in English and Spanish.
• Pay Range: $50,000 – $70,000 plus bonus, based on experience
• Group Health Plan
• PTO
• IRA
• Anniversary holiday
• Hybrid work environment for eligible individuals