Vail Resorts

Account Manager Creative Services

Vail Resorts$88K — $95K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years in a similar marketing or agency role
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or Communications preferred
  • Creative agency experience with Account Service understanding
  • Familiarity with project management tools like Jira, Workfront, and Smartsheet
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams on strategic decisions
  • Highly organized with multitasking ability

Responsibilities

  • Establish partnerships with internal stakeholders to build trust
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned brands or lines of business
  • Manage daily relationships and communication updates with stakeholders
  • Develop briefing practices to enhance creativity and efficiency
  • Create scalable processes for project management
  • Ensure content is developed and deployed on-brand and on schedule
  • Identify optimizations and opportunities for innovative solutions

Benefits

  • Ski perks including free passes for employees and discounted lift tickets
  • Employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and shuttles
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Excellent training and professional development opportunities
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees
  • Free ski passes for dependents
  • Critical Illness and Accident plans
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

At Vail Resorts, we know the impact the outdoors can have on someone. It can re-energize, motivate, and become a place filled with deep connections. We fully recognize how lucky we are to work in the outdoor space every day in hopes of inspiring others to get outside and discover what we call-the Experience of a Lifetime. And we want your expertise as a Manager of Account Service within the Creative Services team to play a major role in making that happen.

The Manager of Account Service is a key member of Vail Resorts' in-house Creative Agency, leading strategic brand initiatives and Go-To-Market (GTM) creative development for our resorts and internal businesses. This role manages the end-to-end creative process, including intake, planning, timeline management, creative development, stakeholder communication, quality assurance, deployment, and performance analysis.

As a trusted partner to internal stakeholders, the Manager of Account Service ensures creative solutions align with business objectives while delivering an exceptional client experience. This position collaborates closely with Creative Development, Studio Production, and Asset Management teams to drive efficient workflows, world-class creative execution, and impactful business outcomes.

The successful candidate is a subject matter expert in creative best practices, GTM processes, briefing, resource management, and project execution. They bring a strong client service mindset, foster productive relationships across cross-functional teams and external partners, and are passionate about creating work that inspires people to discover the mountains.

This role is part of the Creative Services team and reports to the Director of Account Service

Job Specifications:

  • Starting Wage: $88,868.00 - $95,000.00 + annual bonus
  • Employment Type: Year Round
  • Shift Type: Full Time
  • Minimum Age: At least 18 years of age
  • Housing Availability: No


Job Responsibilities:

  • Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with stakeholders to build trust and confidence.
  • Become a subject matter expert for assigned Brands and/or LOBs to develop best-in-class creative that aligns with business objectives.
  • Manage the day-to-day relationship, communication updates, and briefing and review processes with primary stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
  • Develop best-in-class briefing practices to inspire creativity, enable efficiency, and allow for agility.
  • Develop and maintain processes that allow for scalable growth.
  • Ensure briefs have the right inputs to develop and deploy content on brand, on schedule, and with excellence.
  • Build and track project scope, resource allocation, budgets, timelines, and recaps.
  • Proactively identify future optimizations and GTM opportunities to evolve processes and find innovative solutions.
  • Other duties as assigned


Job Requirements:
  • 4-7 years of experience in a similar position in a marketing organization or agency. Bachelor's degree in related field such as Business, Marketing, or Communications preferred.
  • Prior experience working in a creative agency, with an understanding of Account Service processes, roles, and responsibilities.
  • Experience working with various project management tools, ideally with Jira, Workfront and Smartsheet.
  • Prior experience developing and reviewing brand and creative campaigns.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work with cross-functional teams to action on insights and make strategic decisions
  • Highly organized and able to multi-task complex projects and adapt to changes fluidly.
  • Experience prioritizing multiple tasks concurrently based on larger goals.
  • A brave, ambitious, and passionate leader with a high level of emotional intelligence, a commitment to leadership development, and a willingness to embrace change


The expected Total Compensation for this role is $88,868.00 - $95,000.00 + annual bonus. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.

Job Benefits
  • Ski/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons
  • MORE employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Excellent training and professional development

Full Time roles are eligible for the above, plus:
  • Health Insurance; Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours)
  • Free ski passes for dependents
  • Critical Illness and Accident plans


Vail Resorts offers a 'Hybrid' work environment for Broomfield-based roles where employees must live within 50 miles of the Broomfield office and work on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and have flexibility to work off-site on Mondays and Fridays.

Please note that the ability to work in person or off-site, and the particulars related to such work, are subject to change at any time; and, accordingly, the Company reserves the right to change its policies and/or require in-person/in-office work or off-site work at any time in its sole discretion.

About Vail Resorts

Vail Resorts is a mountain resort company that operates ski resorts and hotels in North America. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Vail Resorts' ski resorts include Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Park City, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood, Stowe, Okemo, Mount Sunapee, and Whistler Blackcomb. The company also operates hotels and other lodging properties in these locations. Vail Resorts has a market capitalization of over $10 billion and generated over $2 billion in revenue in 2020.
Learn more about Vail Resorts
Size
6,100 employees
Market Cap
$9.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$7 million
Founded
1992
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$1.5 billion
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