ROLE: Senior Account Manager Corporate Events
REPORTS TO: Account Director > Group Account Director
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA (HYBRID) or NYC, NY (REMOTE)
What is a Senior Account Manager at Salt?A Senior Account Manager for Corporate Events at Salt is a client leader, strategic integrator, and trusted steward of both relationships and results. You lead high-visibility, multidimensional programs with confidence and care, ensuring every touchpoint reflects Salt's standard of excellence and every engagement aligns with the client's goals.
You operate with a shared leadership mindset, bringing Creative, Strategy, Operations, and Production into tight alignment while navigating the unique demands of corporate events, from executive stakeholders and complex content development to technical production and live show delivery.
As the connective tissue between client vision and agency execution, you translate strategy into action, spark cross-functional collaboration, and ensure momentum through every phase of the work. You bring sharp thinking, empathy, and a calm, authoritative voice to every room you enter.
In this role, you move beyond program management into broader strategic stewardship-guiding both the client relationship and the internal team toward stronger outcomes, while helping shape how the work evolves over time.
Job Responsibilities:- Serve as a strategic client partner, building deep, trusted relationships with corporate marketing, events, communications, and executive stakeholders that foster long-term growth and alignment.
- Co-lead complex corporate event programs in partnership with Production, owning the client relationship while ensuring delivery of innovative, intentional, and on-brief work across keynotes, general sessions, SKOs, and conferences.
- Drive strategic clarity by aligning internal teams to client priorities and connecting the dots across content, creative, technical production, executive stakeholders, deliverables, and decisions.
- Lead key communications touchpoints, from stakeholder meetings and content reviews to executive presentations, recaps, and approvals, ensuring all documentation reflects professionalism, accuracy, and purpose.
- Manage project complexity with ease, tracking deliverables, content milestones, rehearsals, executive approvals, and timelines while flagging risks early and solving for them proactively.
- Be a guardian of the work, ensuring creative, content, and live event execution ladder up to the brief, reflect client goals, and meet Salt's quality standards.
- Serve as a key client-facing partner onsite, managing stakeholder expectations, navigating real-time feedback, and collaborating with Production to support successful rehearsals and live show delivery.
- Contribute to new business and organic growth, helping shape responses, proposals, and pitch narratives with strategic insight and polish.
- Coach and support more junior team members, helping build confidence, capability, and clarity within the broader account team
- Model shared leadership and collaboration by showing up as a unifier across disciplines-openly sharing information, feedback, and context.
- Maintain a presence of calm, clarity, and preparation, even when navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, or high-stakes delivery.
- Help guide program strategy and ensure workstreams remain aligned to both the brief and the broader partnership goals.
- Engage in special projects and additional tasks as assigned, providing opportunities to support departmental objectives and professional development
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:- 5+ years of relevant account management experience, preferably within an experiential or event production agency, with demonstrated experience supporting large-scale corporate events, executive keynotes, sales kickoffs (SKOs), general sessions, or conferences.
- Proven success managing corporate event client accounts, navigating multiple stakeholders, complex approval processes, content development, and interconnected creative and production workstreams with strategic fluency and operational rigor.
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to translate strategy, distill complexity, and confidently engage corporate stakeholders, executive teams, and internal production and creative partners.
- Highly organized and solutions-oriented, able to anticipate needs, manage ambiguity, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Experienced in cross-functional collaboration, with a strong understanding of corporate event development, including keynote content, show flow, creative development, technical production workflows, rehearsals, and live event delivery.
- Confident presenting and facilitating at all levels-client, internal, and cross-functional-always adding value and moving the conversation forward
- Comfortable with fast-paced environments and a shared leadership culture where partnership, ownership, and flexibility are key
