Vice President Account Management
- Location: New York City
- Location: Base salary $120k-$160k with 30% OTE bonus
- Date Posted: 18th August 2025
In the words of one of our senior clients recently…
“Market Research has changed more in the past 3 years, than in the previous 40”.
Who we are and why we exist.
System1 is a The Creative Effectiveness Platform. Our target customers are the world’s largest advertisers. These businesses understand that creativity is the most powerful tool for growth within their control. System1 helps them make confident creative decisions that lead to transformational business results.
What we do
System1 predicts and improves marketing effectiveness. Our advertising and idea tests measure emotion to give our customers the most accurate predictions of the business impact of creativity. We ‘predict’ (provide research results) and ‘improve’ (provide insight and consultancy on those results) on arguably three of the most critical marketing questions for our customers: advertising effectiveness, innovation effectiveness and brand effectiveness. We aspire to do these three things better than anyone else at a value that makes System1 our customers’ choice.
Becoming part of our team
- AIM Listed, and with 10 Global Offices and over 150 employees, System1 is a fast-changing business. With exceptional IP, technological advantage and a world-class team we are very well positioned for rapid growth. Central to this is our people. We need to hire the right people, into the right roles, at the right time.
- Are you up for being a part of the commercial team to promote System1, our thought leadership, partnership activity, product launches, and promotional activity?
- Are you excited by working with leading edge IP and products that can make a huge impact on our customers’ businesses?
- Do you relish the role of being the disruptor in a category and rise to the challenge of stretching goals?
About The Role
We are looking for a detail-oriented and ambitious person to join the commercial team as Vice President Account Management, where you will lead the day-to-day management and expansion efforts across a book of top tier customers within the US, which is our fastest-growing market and top priority globally. You will do this through leveraging our market leading product range, our thought leadership, partnerships with media and creative agencies, and various fame building activities. The ultimate goal of this role is to not only maintain relationships and annual spend, but to actively expand our partnerships across teams, business units, markets, etc.
What will you be doing?
- Responsible for maintaining and expanding strategic accounts in the US.
- Proactively engage new teams, new business units, and constantly be positioning new, impactful solutions.
- Know your accounts top to bottom, including detailed account mapping.
- Identify how we can leverage the annual fame building calendar of thought leadership and events to grow awareness, education, and ultimately revenue.
- Executing research programs, building and delivering proposals and SOW’s.
You need to be this kind of person:
- Exceptional relationship building skills at all levels including peer to peer relationships globally.
- Persuasive selling skills, pitching, developing proposals and closing deals.
- A ‘make it happen’ mindset, driving results and taking ownership of the collective success in the US.
- A balance of the ability to be hands on while being part of a bigger global team.
- Entrepreneurial approach and ability.
You need to have the following:
- Hustle, a high motor, and eager to unlock productivity and support your team
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactive with a problem-solving mindset
- Attention to detail while retaining a sense of the broader picture are essential
- A high degree of professionalism, taking great pride in your work
- Determined and resourceful, able to adapt to a fast-paced environment
- Dynamic, able to work with multiple teams in multiple time zones and locations
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health Insurance / Medical Insurance / Dental Insurance
- 401K Plan
- Flexible working arrangements (hybrid)
- Educational reimbursement opportunities
- Unlimited opportunities to interact with some of the leading thinkers in advertising and marketing fields
- A Recognition Scheme to say thank you!
- Regular socials, including summer and winter parties.
- Financial Health checks
- Wellbeing resources, including “de-clutter afternoons” for your personal and professional needs.
We welcome applicants from all diverse communities and encourage our candidates to ask us about reasonable adjustments that we may be able to make to support through our recruitment process and while in post.