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# Account Director at Swayable

- **Company:** Swayable
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/swayable/jobs/5194210007

## Job description

Location: This role is hybrid in-office 3x a week out of our Williamsburg, Brooklyn office or SF office!

Swayable is a fast-growing AI and automated data science platform that measures public opinion, and the impact of messages and advertising content on it. We are a 50-person team backed by top technology and social impact investors, including Y Combinator. Founded in 2018 by physics PhDs, it is led by the former Executive Director for Digital Strategy at the New York Times. Clients include major consumer-facing brands (JP Morgan Chase, Airbnb, Paramount Pictures), technology companies (Anthropic, Meta, Amazon), academic researchers (MIT, Yale, Stanford) and mission-aligned civic advocacy campaigns (e.g. on climate, human rights and elections). Check our our values & culture deck to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4zjchwzs

Joining Swayable means being on a team whose work changes the course of history. The technology we develop is at the leading edge of transforming some of the world’s most important campaign organizations and enterprises: combatting disinformation, protecting democracy, and supporting the sustainable growth of consumer-facing brands.

About The Role:

Swayable is looking for a high-performing Director for our emerging Account Management team to lead relationship development, retention, growth, and expansion for our existing roster of clients. In this role, you will partner with Sales, Client Success, and Revenue Operations to help uncover opportunities and marshal the right resources to meet them.

What You’ll Do:

- Build strong relationships with our enterprise and strategic clients, including in person, ensuring the profitability and growth of existing client accounts
- Identify and develop ways to support your clients by bringing the best of Swayable's products and pushing our product development as needed
- Help win pitches by demonstrating how to solve the client’s problems with your brand background and Swayable’s platform
- Ensure client satisfaction, added value, and continued usage
- Maintain a detailed awareness of relevant market trends affecting accounts, and developments in the wider marketing and advertising industry
- Collaborate closely with the sales team on expansion opportunities within your client portfolio
- Negotiate contracts and fees with marketing and consumer insight stakeholders

Who You Are:

- 8+ years of experience, ideally at an agency or market research company, in senior client-facing roles
- Experience building trusted relationships with executive marketing leaders, including CMOs and other senior budget holders, and translating complex research into clear, strategic guidance
- Proven experience leading commercial conversations and negotiating rates, contracts, and service agreements
- Significant experience developing and winning pitches and leading complex projects at enterprise clients
- Comfortable operating in the grey, with a willingness to wear multiple hats and cut through ambiguity in whatever way helps achieve the necessary outcomes

Benefits:

- 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Plans - no employee contribution required
- Generous PTO
- Equity Options
- 401k plan, FSA
- Ongoing professional development investments
- Compensation: $140-185K, dependent on experience

Swayable is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to promote an organizational environment that values diversity and fosters growth. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other basis prohibited by law. The team especially encourages applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

## About Swayable

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swayable provides a causal AI platform that measures how effectively media content changes opinions, using randomized controlled trials to prove advertising and messaging impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (with offices in San Francisco, CA, USA)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: James Slezak (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Technology / Marketing Analytics / Causal AI for Campaigns
- **Target customers**: B2B — major brands, advertising agencies, foundations, and political campaigns
- **Mission**: To dramatically increase the impact of the stories clients tell on the world’s most important issues, operating as a public benefit corporation dedicated to effective truth-telling.

## Products & Services
- **Creative Pre-Testing Platform**: A cloud-based SaaS platform that runs automated experiments with real human respondents to measure the impact of video, image, and concept content on brand perception, purchase intent, and opinion.
- **Brand Tracking**: Tracks consumer opinion and brand equities over time with customized segmentation for granular audience insights.
- **Research Surveys**: Real-time pulse surveys on consumer sentiment and brand perception.
- **Message & Tagline Testing**: Tests language and messaging to find the strongest performing copy.
- **Campaign Comparison**: Enables side-by-side testing of creative routes to quickly identify winning content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch graduate; team size ~30 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (primary partner: Gustaf Alstromer); clients include New Balance and other major brands, agencies, and foundations
- **Growth Signals**: Currently hiring across multiple departments (data science, engineering, sales, product, client success); expanding enterprise sales with dedicated Sales Director roles; growing AI/ML engineering team

## Competitive Advantages
- **Causal AI methodology**: Uses rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on tens of thousands of verified human respondents, providing stronger evidence than correlational methods.
- **Speed**: Delivers brand lift results in 24 hours.
- **Privacy-first design**: Exceeds GDPR and CCPA standards; built with informed user consent as a core feature.
- **Public Benefit Corporation status**: Mission-driven focus on combating disinformation, protecting democracy, and supporting sustainable brand growth.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling enterprise adoption of systematic creative testing across organizations.
- Deepening AI-native capabilities to model and understand audiences over time.
- Expanding partnerships with brands and agencies to integrate lift measurement into all stages of campaign development.
- Continuing to hire senior AI/ML talent to advance scientific computing and causal inference capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on technology that changes opinions on the world’s most important issues; team’s work is described as "changing the course of history."
- **Culture**: Public Benefit Corporation and equal opportunity employer; actively encourages women and members of underrepresented groups to apply.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Offers remote (US-based) roles alongside offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, DC.
- **Diverse team**: Proud of a diverse team doing cutting-edge work at the intersection of data science, engineering, and social impact.
- **Leadership**: CEO James Slezak brings a unique background — PhD in experimental physics from Cornell, former Executive Director of Digital Strategy at The New York Times, and experience at McKinsey and Purpose.com.

## Sources
1. [swayable.com](https://www.swayable.com/)
2. [swayable.com/about](https://www.swayable.com/about/)
3. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/swayable)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swayable)

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