Senior Account Manager - Charter Schools Portfolio
Are you a strategic thinker and doer seeking to make a greater impact through your career? Matterlab’s core services center around how marketing and communications are direct drivers of organizational goals. Do you want to be in at the ground-level of a growing startup and play a foundational role in designing account management systems and strategies that ensure our partnerships with clients are managed effectively and efficiently to yield greater impact? Matterlab seeks a Senior Account Manager to work alongside the CEO and VP to: develop best practices for agency-wide account management, own accounts and manage them independently, and build out the account management function over time.
With respect to direct account management, this person will lead Matterlab’s active portfolio of public charter school accounts nationwide. This will require a deep knowledge of and experience within the public charter school sector.
The best candidate is: excited about building systems in a startup environment; an autonomous operator; a high-performer (high capacity and high production coupled with the ability to determine what is a priority and what capacity it will require); with experience leading teams; focused on understanding the impact of marketing and communications on organizational culture/mission/goals; knowledgeable about social sector operations and the local nonprofit landscape.
Responsibilities
Strategic Account Management (50-70%)
Lead 3-5 key accounts, which includes the need to:
Use expertise and judgment to plan for and achieve key results aligned to client goals
Collaborate effectively with internal marketing and communications teams to produce deliverables
Team Development (20-30%)
Lead account management planning, systems, processes, and implementation
Develop strategy for retaining and growing existing client base while ensuring that the account management team delivers cost-efficient, high-quality service
Build and manage a team of Account Managers at pace of overall growth of business and build bench of talent for additional/junior Account Managers
Direct the account management team to build and expand relationships with existing clients
Systems & Culture (10-20%)
Create and implement company-wide systems to ensure Matterlab teammates celebrate wins
Motivate and inspire team to adopt new processes
Develop and lead team trainings
Special Projects (10%)
Assist with hiring as needed
Assist with other special projects as needed - our business is growing and new opportunities arise constantly, some (not all) of which we choose to move on and need to deploy teammates to
Qualifications
5+ years in marketing/communications; education experience required; agency experience preferred
Proven track record of successfully leading teams to outcomes
Ability to effectively manage change and motivate people up, down, and laterally
Self-motivation and ability to work with little direction
Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work well in a collaborative remote environment
Ability to contribute to multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and manage expectations
Experience working/volunteering with nonprofit organizations strongly preferred
Passion for serving the community, with an interest in children and families
Marketing/communications experience required, whether in an agency setting or in-house at an organization with account management-like workflows
Cultural alignment to Matterlab’s ethos that everything is “figureoutable” and no challenge is too great to be solved
A strong desire and good personality fit for working in a high-accountability, high-autonomy setting
Entrepreneurial - comfortable with ambiguity; driven to succeed even when no one is looking; self-starter; always comes prepared with a well-developed point of view and recommendation when seeking support
High-performer seeking a variety of work across multiple accounts in a fast-paced environment
Self-directed problem-solver and critical thinker who has a proven track record of setting and meeting a high bar for excellence
Meticulous attention to detail
Interested in a long-term career in social impact and marketing
Preferred technical skills: Asana or other project management workflow tool
Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
Highlights
Compensation commensurate with experience
Work in our brand new Austin office on South Congress; flexible remote working
Unlimited vacation time (with requirement that you take at least 2 weeks of paid vacation)
About Matterlab
Through strategic marketing and communications, we amplify the impact of organizations transforming life outcomes for children and families.
Matterlab works to advance the missions of high quality, high potential, and highly ambitious social change organizations by employing best practices in strategy, execution, and success measurement in marketing and communications. We believe in cultivating long-term, close collaborations and partnerships with clients. As a seamless extension of our clients’ own teams, we work collaboratively and bring a full range of services to the table, including business strategy, creative development, digital marketing, messaging platforms, communications execution, and thought leadership support.
Matterlab has offices in Austin and Dallas, with clients spanning coast to coast. Our small-but-mighty team operates in an energetic startup culture focused on achieving scalable and sustainable results. Together with our clients, we impact more than 500,000 children nationwide.
Across this country, more than 15 million children—21% of all children—are currently living in poverty, and only 10% of low-income children graduate from high school ready to succeed in college. At Matterlab, we seek to work in partnership with communities to change these types of outcomes.
Core Values
MAKE IT MATTER.
We focus on what is most important—making a sustainable impact on life outcomes for children and families.
DIG DEEP.
We get close to the people closest to the work in order to understand problems and opportunities.
EXPERIMENT.
We enjoy getting unstuck and seizing the opportunities in ambiguity.
START A CONVERSATION.
We know nothing is more powerful than communication and collaboration.
GO FORWARD, ABOVE, AND BEYOND.
We are hardwired to go the extra mile for each other and our clients.
SEEK SIMPLICITY.
We find simplicity on the far side of complexity by asking bigger and better questions.