Account Executive

About Blazon Agency

Blazon is a progressive agency that partners with ambitious brands to create, launch, and expand distinctive products. The agency specializes in strategy, branding, launching, growth, PR, content, and campaigns, placing strong emphasis on innovation, consumer products, and forward-thinking concepts.

Role Overview

We are seeking an organised, ambitious Account Executive to collaborate closely with the Managing Director in managing agency operations. This is an excellent opportunity for early-career professionals to gain comprehensive exposure to agency life, including sales, social media, client relations, brand building, content creation, operations, proposals, events, and support for the founder.

This position involves genuine responsibilities from the outset and offers rapid learning opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Agency Founder and leadership with day-to-day priorities, scheduling, follow-ups, and coordination.
• Facilitate communication and strategy alignment between the Founder, leadership, and agency teams.
• Participate in internal and client meetings, document action points, and ensure progress on next steps.
• Prepare notes, briefs, documents, and manage follow-up communications.
• Assist in sales and new business development by writing proposals, creating strategies, managing the sales pipeline, drafting contracts, and responding to inbound inquiries.
• Maintain organisation of files, systems, calendars, tasks, and workflows.
• Manage client communications across Slack and other platforms, tracking requests, deadlines, and outstanding actions.
• Provide clear and concise reports on key client updates and help ensure smooth, organised delivery by the team.
• Attend client calls and translate discussions into actionable steps.
• Support sales pipeline management, outreach, lead tracking, proposal and contract drafting, and research on prospects and sectors.
• Manage and contribute to the agency’s presence on social media channels such as Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, and Reddit.
• Assist with the founder’s personal brand content coordination, writing, and publication.
• Help secure PR opportunities, podcast features, and external coverage through outbound pitching.
• Support crafting brand messaging and polished written content for multiple formats.
• Contribute to client copywriting and messaging to translate strategies and campaigns into clear written materials.
• Conduct research on markets, competitors, and audience positioning to assist client brand-building efforts.
• Provide detailed input on client-facing documents and presentations and help coordinate campaign elements.
• Assist with light financial modelling, forecasting, commercial administration, and agency event planning and delivery.
• Improve internal systems and enhance agency efficiency using AI tools such as Claude and other platforms.
• Maintain structure and organisation in fast-paced projects.

Candidate Profile

• Highly organised and naturally proactive with strong attention to detail.
• Outgoing and confident in calls, meetings, conferences, events, and social media video content.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Reliable, calm under pressure, and capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Curious about branding, campaigns, media, sales, and scaling agency operations.
• Enthusiastic to learn, take ownership, and develop rapidly.
• Comfortable working closely with a founder and engaging in diverse business areas.

Skills and Experience Required

• More than one year of experience in an agency, startup, marketing, operations, account support, coordinator, or related roles.
• Strong writing skills with confidence in preparing professional communications.
• Proficient organisational skills managing calendars, documents, notes, and tasks.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace and platforms like Slack, Asana, Canva, Figma, and Notion.
• An interest in utilizing AI tools to enhance productivity.
• A genuine passion for technology, brands, culture, media, and agency growth dynamics.

What You Will Gain

• Direct experience working alongside the founder in a growing agency environment.
• Hands-on involvement across operations, sales, client service, branding, and content creation.
• Substantial responsibility from the beginning of employment.
• Exposure to a broad variety of impactful agency tasks supporting rapid professional growth.
• Opportunity for advancement as the agency expands.