Responsibilities

• In this role, the Account Director will manage the day-to-day on their accounts, partnering with creative, strategy, and production leads to successfully run the business.
• You have a strong relationship with the day-to-day clients and are fiscally responsible for efficiently running their business.
• The Account Director reports to the Account Lead and brings them in for key internal and client meetings.
• Command the room in internal and external meetings
• Be decisive in ambiguous situations and critical moments
• Be masterful in engaging in healthy debates both internally and externally to ensure you are doing what's right for the business or what's right for the agency
• Keep the team engaged, happy, and motivated through the most challenging tasks
• Change any conversation from negative to positive
• Be passionate about every project so it trickles through to the entire team
• Set the business vision for the account and manage agency operations and finance to deliver those goals

Requirements

• The Business Director is a client partner, agile and accountable, with 8-14+ years of experience.
• You have a broad understanding of client business problems and objectives, not just the projects within the agency.
• You contribute to the quality and effectiveness of strategy and champion creative excellence.
• You are a champion of the TBWA business goals, and you can connect the dots between culture, content, and context to seek out new growth opportunities.
• As you develop in this role, the Business Director will master the skills that will prepare you for a Business Lead role – command of the business, command of the room, mastery of debate, and motivation of the army.
• You have a strong relationship with the day-to-day clients and are fiscally responsible for efficiently running their business.
• Location: Given the nature of client team, we are only considering candidates that currently live in or wish to relocate to New York City.

Preferred

• A seasoned Account Director, someone who has operated at this level in the social space.
• Ideally, coming from an agency that specializes in social or has led a social offering at an agency.
• Someone who naturally thinks in social platforms, knows what best-in-class social work looks like, has developed social strategies, and led clients through them.
• Someone up for the operational challenge of better establishing social at the agency and working through some challenges.
• Is excited about working on a fast-paced client and is excited about the category.
• Eager to grow a discipline and capable of scaling the social offering.
• Someone willing to stretch up and down, no task is too big or small.
• They are collaborative and can connect dots across the discipline and partner closely with the Account Director leading the brand.

Benefits

• health/vision/dental insurance
• 401(k)
• stock purchase
• vacation
• sick and personal days
• disability, life, travel insurance plans
• retirement plans
• Please don't let our posted ranges keep you from exploring this or any other exciting opportunities within TBWA.