Overview
Account Lead Jobs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Wedge
Title: Account Lead
Company: Wedge
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Company
Wedge is an independent, strategically-backed design studio focused on building distinctive, enduring brands people love. We working with Fortune 500 companies and founder-led challengers to evolve, invent, and level up. We build holistic systems and brand platforms known for striking mass success at the intersection of ownability, authenticity, and desire, for the long-run. The team specializes in brand strategy, visual identity systems, packaging, campaigns, and visual communications, partnering with progressive companies of all sizes and sectors that value quality adn seek to bring soul to life. Wedge is dedicated to crafting clear strategic narratives and unique visual signatures that create strong and memorable connections between brands and the people they live for. Joining Wedge means collaborating with a multi-disciplinary, creative, strategy-led, and optimistic team that cares deeply about craft, real-world impact, and is obsessed with what we do. Where no two challenges are the same, we constantly strive to push the envelope of world-class brand distinction.
Select Clients include: Cocolab, Brami, Google, Equip, Matty Matheson, Canada Dry, SONOS, Keurig Dr. Pepper, etc.
www.wedge.work
Role Description
The Account Lead is a full-time, on-site role based in Montreal (or remote for a great fit!) responsible for running key client relationships and ensuring successful delivery of complex brand and design projects across systems and campaigns. In this role, the Account Lead manages day-to-day client communication, gathers and translates client needs into clear briefs, and orchestrates internal teams across strategy, design, and production. The Account Lead tracks project timelines, budgets, and scopes, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to keep work on track and aligned with client goals. This position also involves day-to-day operations, preparing and presenting scopes of work, supporting business development with existing and new clients, and fostering long-term partnerships grounded in trust, quality, and measurable impact.
Qualifications
- Strong Analytical Skills to interpret client needs and support strategic decision-making.
- Excellent Communication abilities, including clear written and verbal communication, presentation skills, and collaborative teamwork.
- Finance-related skills to manage budgets, understand project profitability, and support accurate forecasting and reporting.
- Client Service capabilities to provide responsive, solution-oriented support that maintains both the quality of the work and positive, long-term client relationships that go beyond “traditional A = B service” to “trusted advisor”.
- Account Management experience in a creative, agency, or consultancy environment, including managing multiple projects and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience working with brand, marketing, or design teams, ideally within a creative agency setting.
- Ability to work and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, industrious environment.
- Relevant post-secondary education in business, communications, marketing, design management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive compensation based on experience
- Comprehensive health plan
- 3 Weeks PTO to start
- Summer Fridays
- Hybrid working model based in Montreal, with a team across Montreal, Toronto, New York, Paris, Berlin and Bogota
- Remote Work perks and flexibility
