Account Director

Company description

Welcome to the LePub network: São Paulo, Milan, Rome, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Singapore, Johannesburg. Where brands meet culture.

Our DNA? Data, creativity and tech.

Overview

LePub NY is looking for a proven Account Leader to join their growing team. This critical account role is a key client partner leading a variety of workstreams and will work collaboratively with partners in strategy, creative, project management, production, and regional leaders on exciting, breakthrough work.

Responsibilities

• Team player with ability to get results & create momentum through teamwork with internal teams, external teams, and global agency partners, providing business and consumer insight, to help deliver seamless, breakthrough, on-strategy, and on-time work.
• Act as a primary day-to-day client contact across several large-scale projects, managing the client relationships daily
• Lead teams through centralized research, qualification, creative, production for a variety of projects
• Anticipate project and/or client needs to always be one step ahead daily of what needs to be accomplished.
• Inspire Agency and Client confidence and seek opportunities to advance the client relationship and build agency business

Qualifications

SKILLS:

• This person must be highly adaptable and feel comfortable switching gears whether that’s jumping into a new client relationship or toggling across different projects and workstreams.
• Superb written and verbal presentation skills - a clear communicator with the ability to motivate and guide others
• Proactive and strategic problem solver.
• A problem solver that is solutions oriented and gets excited by big problems and tackling new challenges that don’t have a clear proven path
• Enthusiastic collaborator who enjoys working with other people and has the drive to make things happen in partnership with others.
• Given the startup nature of our agency, this person must have the ability to toggle between altitudes and jump in on responsibilities typically managed by an AE/AS while also in other instances stretching beyond role and punching above their weight.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of account management experience
• Hands on integrated production experience across channels
• Account team leader/senior client advisor
• Project management expert
• Experience in a supervisory role
• Ability to manage multiple major client relationships with multiple workstreams
• Ability to manage a complex, fluid business.
• Superb written and verbal presentation skills - a clear communicator with the ability to motivate and guide others
• Proactive, solution-oriented, strategic problem solver
• Enthusiastic collaborator who enjoys working with other people and has the drive to make things happen in partnership with others.
• Proven experience with integrated production and ability to lead productions independently

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/15/2025.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.