The Makespace! Team is Growing. Can You Delight?

Makespace! is looking for an Associate Account Executive.

Are you looking for a fast-paced, exciting career with a regional leader in web design and branding? Can you delight clients, manage teams, communicate effectively, and stay organized? Makespace is hiring a full-time, on-site Associate Account Executives to help execute our clients' visions and grow their businesses through thoughtful, beautiful branding and web designs.

You'll learn to manage projects and a team of graphic designers, developers, creatives, copywriters, and branding specialists, and interact with Louisville's most amazing start-up, small, and regional-sized business owners and teams.

A Makespace Associate Account Executive is the hub of the Makespace account team primarily responsible for the internal management of the agency's business for their respective account team. The AAE must:

• Develop knowledge of agency systems
• Support (in any way) more senior account managers
• Develop ownership of proposals, estimates and billing
• Own specific research and strategy projects
• Summarize meetings and next steps through conference reports
• Demonstrate mastery of project management skills in creating, monitoring and tracking projects

After your initial training period, should be able to handle the following tasks with minimal to no supervision:

• Preparing a Scope of Work
• Writing up an estimate
• Preparing monthly billing for review by AM
• Monitoring project timelines
• Using billing systems to track projects and cost date (QVA)
• Demonstrate strong business writing skills and develops the ability to write the following documents with minimal to no edits by AM/SAM or AS
• Conference Reports, Status Reports, Research Summaries, Competitive analyses

You'll also need to be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of client's business and constituencies
• Assists AM/AE in execution of tactics
• Be involved in the Creative Development Process
• Stay on top of the ongoing Production Process

Required Skillsets and Expectations

• Operates with discipline
• Well-organized
• Attention to detail
• A multi-tasker at heart
• Process driven
• Agency-smart
• Accountable
• Communicates effectively
• Strong written and oral communication
• Open and flexible internally and externally
• Reads verbal and non-verbal cues
• Thinks strategically
• Strong problem solver
• Student of the client's and Makespace's business
• Intellectual curiosity
• Critical/analytical thinker

Think you've got what it takes to help lead Louisville's best branding and web design agency for small- and mid-sized businesses? Email your resume and a salary expectation/range. No phone calls, please.