Senior Account Executive

M+C Saatchi World Services is part of the M+C Saatchi Group, a global creative solutions company headquartered in the UK, with major hubs across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. Guided by the belief that cutting-edge communications and technologies can change the world, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most complex challenges — operating at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and impact to shape narratives, influence behaviour, and deliver meaningful real-world outcomes.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior Account Executive at M+C Saatchi World Services in New York, you’ll play a central role in delivering high-impact communications campaigns focused on social change and complex global issues.

Working closely with your Account Supervisor or Account Director, VP, you’ll support the full lifecycle of integrated communications projects — from shaping briefs and presentations to overseeing production and delivery. You’ll be a trusted “safe pair of hands,” ensuring work is delivered to the highest quality, on time and within budget.

This is a role for someone confident and forward-leaning: comfortable engaging senior stakeholders, contributing to strategic discussions, and helping translate complex geopolitical and societal issues into clear, compelling communications.

Please note: Due to the nature of this work and associated government contract requirements, applicants must be U.S. citizens and eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.

What you'll do:

Own the delivery.
Oversee timelines, budgets, estimates, approvals, invoicing, and reconciliations. Manage production with minimal oversight, spotting risks, scope changes, and smarter ways of working.

Elevate the work.
Play an active role in shaping presentations and outputs. Help ensure every piece of work is on brief, insight-driven, and strategically sound.

Engage confidently with clients.
Present clearly and articulately. Lead constructive discussions around feedback, filter and debrief thoughtfully, and push back where appropriate in a clear and solutions-focused way.

Champion strategy.
Understand the broader strategic direction of your accounts and work closely with strategy and creative teams to shape briefs and outputs. Be confident discussing research, evaluation, audiences, and channel approaches.

Build strong relationships.
Develop trusted relationships with clients and cross-agency teams. Represent creative and strategy perspectives effectively, and demonstrate strong knowledge of relevant regions, sectors, and current affairs.

Contribute to agency life.
Support cross-agency collaboration, mentor more junior colleagues, and contribute positively to team culture. Take part in recruitment conversations and wider agency initiatives.

Manage up and down.
Escalate issues appropriately, act as a reliable point of contact for production and delivery, and provide day-to-day leadership so senior team members can rely on you with confidence.

ABOUT YOU

You’ll have proven experience in a commercial communications role or similar environment, and be ready to step confidently into greater ownership and client exposure.

You’re organised, articulate, strategically curious, and comfortable navigating high-profile, high-stakes projects. You take responsibility seriously — for the work, for the client relationship, and for the agency’s reputation.

You’ll bring:

• Must be a United States Citizen (required by government contract).

• Must be able and willing to obtain a U.S. Government Secret or Top-Secret security clearance immediately upon employment.

• Must be willing to submit to a rigorous federal background investigation, which includes an in-depth review of personal finances, criminal history, employment history, and drug use.

• A degree in Politics, History, International Relations, Marketing, Communications, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders

• A practical understanding of business operations and agency processes, with experience working with production

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

• A strong interest in geopolitics and global affairs

• Willingness to travel internationally and work independently

Bonus points if you have:

• Spanish language skills (working knowledge or fluency)

WHAT YOU GET

We offer a competitive salary ($85,000 - $105,000) and a benefits package designed to support your health, family life, financial wellbeing, and growth.

Family & parental support

• 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)

• Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy

• Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)

• 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents

• $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan

• $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan

Healthcare & wellbeing

• Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)

• $0 employee-cost dental and vision

• 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)

• 24/7 mental health support through Self Space

• Wellhub subscription

Financial & practical support

• 401(k) match (3% after 3 months; 4% after 1 year)

• Pre-tax commuter benefits

• 10 days’ paid military leave

• Full pay for jury duty (state/city payments declined)

• Uber/taxi home after 9:30pm

Time off & flexibility

• 23 days’ PTO (with 3 discretionary carryover days; CA/CO policies follow state mandate)

• 10 federal holidays, plus the day after Thanksgiving

• Option to swap 2 federal holidays (excluding Thanksgiving and the day after)

• Office closed between Christmas and New Year

• 10 days’ special emergency leave (including bereavement)

• 10 days’ volunteering leave (5 paid, 5 unpaid)

• Half-day for blood donation

• Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks per year (subject to approval)

Culture & development

• $300 annual cultural stimulation allowance (accrued monthly; available after 90 days)

• Weekly Thursday happy hour

• Mentorship and Buddy programmes

ABOUT M+C SAATCHI WORLD SERVICES

M+C Saatchi World Services is a specialist division of M+C Saatchi Group, the world’s largest independent communications network. Our specialists work in office hubs across six continents, grounding our global expertise in local nuance.

We offer award-winning commercial communications capabilities, which are utilized by global organizations to address the world’s most complex problems across defence, development, diplomacy, homeland and national security, law and order, health, education, and the environment.

We work with clients that want to help the hardest-to-reach, hardest-to-influence audiences. This includes a range of Western Government departments, such as DOS and USAID; partner governments, including the U.K. and Australia; and prominent IGOs/NGOs such as the U.N.

We are a comms agency that works on behaviour change projects typically focused on issues related to Security, Defence and Stabilization. Whether it’s producing critically acclaimed feature films in Africa, to TV shows in the Middle East, to pop music videos in Asia, we have a record of leveraging creativity to access communities anywhere in the world.

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