Mid Weight Account Manager, Keywords Studios
Gaming, Performance Marketing, Fixed-term Contract
Technical & creative services provider
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Technical & creative services provider
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To use the passion for games, technology, and media to create a global services platform for video games.
Role
Who you are
- Are you a seasoned AM, SAM or AD looking for a great role in an award-winning creative agency?
- Do you have a passion for video games and are excited to work on some of the most established brands in the business?
- Do you have strong creative agency experience or client-side experience?
- Are you entrepreneurial, a decision maker and confident in both prioritising and managing your own time?
- Are you experienced in managing client accounts and building great relationships?
- Can you understand and meet client’s marketing communications needs?
- Confident in networking, delivering creds pitches and selling creative work?
- Experienced in ensuring projects are kept on brief to deliver great results in line with both the clients’ needs and the needs of the business?
- This is a varied role which will require a demonstrable passion & experience within gaming, supported by a background which may include experience within sales, account management, marketing or creative agencies
- Minimum 3 years proven creative agency or performance marketing agency experience, working with big brands and managing multiple clients or key stakeholders
- Experience budgeting, scoping and supervising low to mid level projects
- Experience developing project workflows across digital, social, video, 2D and 3D
- Experience managing Creative time
- Experience with gaming or entertainment clients
- Excellent industry knowledge and a thirst for keeping that knowledge ahead of the curve
- Performance Marketing (User Acquisition) experience
- Fantastic communication skills and a passion for client satisfaction, building relationships that will weather any storms, and making decisions that are client-first
- The ability to lead proposals and presentations articulately, with incredible brand knowledge and amiability
- A strong understanding of video and design production processes
- An awareness and love for the financials and an understanding of how to positively present project scopes and proposals to the client
- As well as the knowledge and experience to interrogate budgets, you’ll have a strong grasp on budget tracking, forecasting and how that fits into the overall picture
- Enough confidence in your experience, knowledge and client relationships to overcome unforeseen challenges
- Meticulous attention to detail and ability to pick up challenging projects at any phase,
What the job involves
- Waste is searching for a Mid Weight Account Manager dedicated to the day-to-day running of the EA client account
- This role involves running accounts with a focus on Performance Marketing (User Acquisition)
- The role is to ensure client satisfaction with Waste’s activities via smooth production and project management, building client relationships, and seeking out opportunities to grow the account and deliver on the wider account plans, as set by the Account Director
- The Account Manager will be responsible for the end to end running of the account. This includes acting as the main point of contact for the client, seeking and receiving briefs, running those briefs through the studio and ensuring briefs are delivered on time, on brief and on budget
- A key part of the role is building strong relationships with the gaming client and developing a deep understanding of them, their products, and the wider industry in order to be able to best support their needs
- This should help the Account Manager seek out opportunities for new projects where Waste can assist the client in achieving their objectives
- The role sits within the Client Service team, though works closely with the Delivery (Production) team
- This is a fixed-term contract, to start ASAP and end January 31st 2026
- Acting as the day-to-day point of contact for client comms
- Ensuring the client is up to date with the status of all projects
- Attending all client status meetings / calls
- Attending all client briefing meetings / calls
- Day-to-day account management
- Ensuring you have a deep understanding of the client’s business and their games
- Attending client stand-up
- Attending account reconciliation meetings
- Attending internal account meetings and work check-ins
- Producing SOWs
- Producing Project Timelines
- Producing client cost estimates with oversight from the Account Director and Project Director
- Work alongside Creative and Production teams to ensure projects are produced to a high standard, delivered on time and within agreed budget
- Arrange briefings, plan, scope and quote mid-level projects
- Assign operators, lead reviews, track costs and manage project progress
- Project reconciliation and project wash ups
- Monitoring progress against revenue and profitability targets and reporting monthly
- Identify growth opportunities and feed them into client plans with the AD
- Escalating potential high-risk or damaging situations to the AD
- Acting as the point of contact for all new briefs and the early stages of projects where necessary - as agreed with the AD
- Writing creative briefs for mid-scale projects when delegated by the AD and low scale projects
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Keywords Studios is an international technical service provider to the global video games industry and beyond. The company works as an external development partner for its users, enabling leading content creators and publishers to leverage Keywords' expertise and capacity across the lifecycle of interactive content. In so doing the company enables its clients who are operating in complex and fast-moving environments to remain lean and agile, and to focus on creating and monetising the most engaging experiences.
The company has over 70 studios in 26 countries across the globe. Providing integrated art production, engineering, audio services, testing, localization, and player support services in more than 50 languages and 16 game platforms.
With a strong market position, Keywords provides services to nearly all of the prominent gaming companies, including T2, EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix. Keywords had also been on an acquisition spree, with its total acquisition count sitting at 60 before it was acquired by private equity firm EQT in 2024.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- WFH Opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Bonus Schemes
- And More (Varies by Location)
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme
- Tech & Bike Schemes
Company HQ
Carmanhall And Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Bertrand Bodson
(CEO, not founder)Current Non-Executive Director at Tesco and Wolters Kluwer. Co-Founder & former CEO of Bragster.com (Acquired by Guinness World Records). Previous Chief Digital & CMO at Sainsbury's, and Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents.
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