Account Director

1 Month ago • 5-10 Years • $120,000 PA - $140,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Account Director, you expertly manage and grow client relationships. You will lead integrated, full-funnel campaigns, provide strategic direction, foster client relationships, and manage financials. You will also develop organic growth, deliver metrics, ensure accurate Statements of Work, foster relationships across teams, mentor and coach team members, and define best practices. This role requires leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver successful digital campaigns and programs, with overall profitability and client satisfaction as key goals.
Must have:
  • 5-10 years of Account Management experience in agencies.
  • Experience leading large-scale productions.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to multitask across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Experience managing digital projects in tech or B2B.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit with limited information/direction.
  • Experience working with complex projects and clients.
  • Solid understanding of user-centric digital product design.
  • Competency managing complex teams and client relations.
  • Solid experience formulating account plans and strategies.
  • Ability to react quickly, assess, and implement solutions.
  • Advanced negotiation, communication, and writing skills.
  • Proven leadership skills to motivate distributed teams.
  • Patience to work with others using tact and good judgment.
Perks:
  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, and sick days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Extensive winter holiday office closures
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Job Details

As an Account Director, you expertly manage and grow client relationships. Clients describe you as an expert and trusted advisor—and you use engaging leadership to develop those senior level client relationships. Overall profitability of the business and client satisfaction is on your shoulders—but you have that covered. Most importantly, you’re a leader to internal, multidisciplinary teams who can motivate a team to deliver successful integrated, digital-first campaigns and programs.


You will:

  • Lead integrated, full-funnel campaigns from inception through to final execution and trafficking.
  • Provide strategic direction for clients while overseeing flawless execution of project work.
  • Foster relationships with clients to ensure the effective delivery of projects.
  • Lead internal teams and client teams.
  • Manage financials for the client and lead internal financial reporting/forecasting.
  • Develop and deliver organic growth within accounts.
  • Deliver metrics on the quality of the relationship and the product provided to accounts.
  • Ensure all Statements of Work are drafted, documented, accurate, and implemented.
  • Foster relationships across the multi-disciplinary teams within the agency and across our agency partners.
  • Mentor and coach team members while motivating and leading overall project teams.
  • Define and implement best practices at the business unit level.
  • Contribute to overall development of the Client Services department.

You have:

  • 5-10 years of Account Management experience in agencies with a strong focus on digital/performance-based work.
  • Experience leading large-scale productions.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, often interacting with senior-level clients.
  • Ability to multitask across multiple concurrent projects with a high volume of deliverables within each work stream.
  • Experience managing digital projects on behalf of clients in the technology or B2B sectors.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable moving forward with limited information/direction
  • Experience working with complex project and complex clients, delivering annual services revenues in excess of $5MM.
  • A solid understanding of user-centric digital product design.
  • Competency managing complex teams and matrixed client relations.
  • Solid experience formulating and driving long-term strategic account plans, strategies, and roadmaps.
  • Ability to react quickly, assess, and implement solutions.
  • Advanced negotiation, communication, writing, and organization skills with an outstanding attention to detail.
  • Proven leadership skills to motivate distributed teams, and ability to dive into solutioning where needed.
  • Patience to work with others using tact and good judgement.
  • Must be able to deal with others using tact and always exhibiting good judgment.

What We Offer:

  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, and sick days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Extensive winter holiday office closures
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

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