Account Director

USA (Remote)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own client leadership and cross-functional orchestration for large accounts, focusing on strategy, governance, and process efficiency across IAT and creative teams.

  • Strategic client stewardship: manage executive relationships and align stakeholders across agency and client teams.
  • Operations and delivery: oversee timelines, asset builds, approvals, and budgets to sustain quality and on-time delivery.
  • Team leadership and governance: mentor account teams, partner with PMs, and drive performance metrics and risk management.

Job Description

Own client leadership and cross-functional orchestration for large accounts, focusing on strategy, governance, and process efficiency across IAT and creative teams.

  • Lead strategic client relationships (day to day & senior levels), positioning the team as a true business partner
  • Navigate complex feedback loops and stakeholder management with confidence and diplomacy
  • Drive alignment across clients, internal teams, and partner agencies within the integrated agency team (IAT)
  • Build key relationships with internal discipline leads as well as lead, mentor, and support account team members across levels
  • Foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented team culture
  • Encourage strategic thinking, accountability, and strong client stewardship across the business
  • Lead full Program team to sustain success and further drive efficiency and quality
  • Collaborate with creative, strategy, and production teams to deliver integrated solutions
  • Manage high-volume workflows across multiple concurrent projects and asset builds
  • Drive efficiencies across timelines, briefing processes, feedback management, and resource allocation
  • Monitor account health including scopes, utilization, burn management, SLAs, and delivery KPIs
  • Identify operational risks early and proactively develop solutions
  • Partner closely with project management to ensure teams are set up for success
  • Contribute to financial forecasting and internal revenue management activities
  • Work with an internal cross-functional team to ensure deliverables are produced on time, on budget, and to client’s specifications
  • Lead creative process from briefing to execution across multiple client deliverables, including digital advertising/marketing programs.
  • Partner with clients on creative briefs to communicate project requirements for strategy, creative, and copywriting teams.
  • Create and update all project timelines, manage spreadsheets, creative folders and other shared documents across platforms.
  • Manage all processes required to obtain a range of client approvals
  • Maintain excellent written and verbal communication with all parties.
  • Lead strategic client relationships (day to day & senior levels), positioning the team as a true business partner
  • Navigate complex feedback loops and stakeholder management with confidence and diplomacy
  • Watch for scope changes and health indicators to keep programs on track
  • Ensure alignment with legal/compliance where required
  • Develop strong client stewardship and measurable outcomes
  • Lead creative process from briefing to execution across multiple client deliverables, including digital advertising/marketing programs.
  • Partner with clients on creative briefs to communicate project requirements for strategy, creative, and copywriting teams.
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Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. It delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Founded in 1985
London, England, GB
6.9K employees (2,903 in marketing)
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