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Careers

About Verdin

Verdin is an award-winning, full service marketing agency serving multiple California counties from our base in San Luis Obispo. For 17 years, we’ve worked with a variety of clients and our future efforts are focused on partnering with business improvement districts in alignment with our mission to help build strong communities through strategy, consensus and storytelling. We are seeking individuals who are inspired by and want to be a part of our work and our culture which is guided by four core values. 

  • We care about our world. We have compassion and empathy for our local and global community, want the best for our friends, family, coworkers and clients. Relationships matter.
  • We give of our talents to make a difference. We embrace our ability to help others in big and small ways, making an impact for clients and our community.
  • We can be depended upon. We do what we say we’ll do and put a high value on having a strong work ethic.
  • We love to learn, grow and get better. The passion for our work drives our desire to look for opportunities for feedback, proactively develop our skills, and feel rewarded by our clients’ success.

Benefits

Benefits include potential quarterly profit sharing bonuses, $235 per month toward your healthcare plan, 50% contribution toward vision and dental plans, Simple IRA (with up to 3% company match), paid time off and paid sick leave, nine paid holidays (including one on or around your birthday with $50 to do something inspirational!).

We are currently hiring for

- Account Manager

Interested? Click here to submit some info so we can get to know you.

Job Description

About the Position

The Account Manager (AM) acts as the point of contact for communication between clients and agency and President on all jobs before submitted to the client. They represent Verdin’s point of view, promote and defend the agency’s recommendations.

The AM has a strong understanding of client industries, goals and agency working processes to ensure that we are serving client’s needs in the most effective way possible. The AM reports to the company Vice President of Client Services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assume responsibility for client brands
  • Oversees creative brief development
  • Oversees development of proposals for current clients as needed
  • Facilitates and presents in client meetings
  • Track hours against estimates; monitor budgets
  • Handle long term account planning
  • Coordinate research and analyze data
  • Work with Creative Director to evaluate creative against creative brief and confirm that project is on strategy
  • Work with Project Manager to initiate and track jobs
  • Work with the Project Manager to ensure that the project/program is completed on time and within budget, and meets defined scope and requirements
  • Proofread all copy/jobs before they leave the agency
  • Act as point of contact for most communication for clients and facilitate tasks appropriately 
  • Manage project communication, escalation of issues, and ensure the final product meets/exceeds clients expectations

Other Duties:

  • Track all time in Workamajig, billable and non-billable
  • Business development support when needed
  • Provide back up phone support when needed
  • Other duties as assigned

Desired Skills & Expertise

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business or related field; or equivalent in experience
  • 3-5 years’ experience in marketing
  • Understands what goes into creating and managing medium to complex marketing projects (campaigns, websites, social, video, broadcast, print)
  • Positive attitude, flexible, works well under pressure
  • Strong time management skills
  • Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with team members of various personality types; desire to enhance the work through collaboration
  • Demonstrates initiative; is proactive
  • Detail-oriented
  • Excellent computer skills
  • Motivated by continuous learning and generating successful results
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to communicate through and manage conflicts; problem solving skills

Bonus Points For

  • Agency or in-house marketing team experience
  • Experience with Workamajig or other project management software
  • Experience in business improvement district related work

Note: From time to time employees may be needed to drive materials to clients or vendors. A copy of a current driver’s license and car insurance is required upon date of hire.

We want to get to know you!

We are always looking to make connections. If you think you’d like to work with us, but don’t see an open position or one that suits you, click here to submit your info.

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