About the Role
Agency Eight is seeking a Senior Account Manager to lead a portfolio of high-priority accounts, focusing on strategy, growth, and client relationships within influencer marketing. This role involves setting direction for seeding, paid, and affiliate programs, managing client calls, pitching new business, and ensuring high team performance.
Responsibilities
- Own gifting strategy, including program approach and performance adjustments.
- Approve internal sourcing lists and all client-facing materials (outreach copy, creative briefs).
- Track gifting program goals and identify necessary pivots.
- Develop and present paid campaign strategies and recommendations to clients.
- Approve internal concepts and content for paid campaigns.
- Lead all paid outreach to creators, managers, and agents.
- Manage rate negotiations, contracting, and invoicing for paid partnerships.
- Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for senior client relationships.
- Lead client calls, including agenda setting and driving conversations.
- Synthesize performance data into monthly insights reports and strategic recommendations.
- Proactively lead and mentor the account team, focusing on performance, bandwidth, and development.
- Ensure quality and set direction across all work streams for accounts.
- Build long-term client relationships based on trust and performance.
- Identify opportunities to scale accounts through expanded scope (paid, affiliate, increased volume).
- Drive upsells and renewals across the client portfolio.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience in influencer marketing or a related field.
- Agency experience strongly preferred.
- Proven track record owning senior client relationships and driving account growth.
- Deep experience across seeding, paid, and affiliate programs.
- Strong strategic instincts with the ability to build and adapt programs.
- Proven ability to negotiate creator deals, including rates, usage rights, and exclusivity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience managing and developing junior team members.
- Comfortable with data and reporting, translating results into strategic recommendations.
- Proficiency in Google Sheets.
- Experience or willingness to learn project management tools (Asana, Notion) and influencer databases (Archive).
Skills
- Influencer marketing
- Creator marketing
- Performance seeding
- Paid partnerships
- Affiliate strategy
- Client relationship management
- Account growth
- Strategic planning
- Negotiation
- Data analysis
- Team leadership
- Mentoring
- Google Sheets
- Asana
- Notion
- Archive
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 - $110,000
About the Company
- Agency Eight is a creator marketing agency focused on performance seeding, paid partnerships, and affiliate strategy for leading CPG and beauty brands.
- We operate as an extension of our clients' teams, helping them build community, drive content, and scale creator programs in a measurable way.
