Director of Growth & Client Services

Southfield, MI (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive client growth and agency leadership in a senior Client Services role focused on growing existing accounts and winning new business.

  • Own end-to-end client relationships — expand scope and revenue across accounts.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in agency account management with proven growth of existing accounts and new business wins.
  • Standout: Leadership to mentor a Client Services team and drive cross-functional delivery.

Job Description

Drive client growth and agency leadership in a senior Client Services role focused on growing existing accounts and winning new business.

  • Own end-to-end client relationships — expand scope and revenue across accounts.
  • Lead new business development — oversee pipeline, pitches, and close new accounts.
  • Serve as the senior client advocate within the agency, ensuring on-time, on-budget, high-quality work.
  • Lead, mentor, and coach the Client Services team — set clear expectations and provide regular feedback.
  • Oversee scoping, estimating, and billing across active accounts with profitability discipline.
  • Partner with creative, strategy, and technology leads on technical projects and scoping conversations.
  • Proactively identify risks to client satisfaction, project delivery, or budget and mitigate early.
  • Drive continuous improvement in how the Client Services team scopes, delivers, and reports on work.
  • Lead client-facing and internal meetings with clarity and efficiency.
  • Contribute to agency-level strategic planning and operations.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of account management, business development, and team leadership experience in an agency environment
  • Demonstrated track record of growing existing accounts through trusted client partnerships and strategic account expansion
  • Demonstrated track record of winning new business — lead generation, pipeline development, pitching, and closing — in a B2B context
  • Experience scoping, estimating, and leading technical projects — particularly websites and digital platforms — with enough subject matter knowledge to keep teams and budgets on track
  • AI fluency in practice, not theory. You actively use AI tools in your daily work — research, writing, analysis, proposal development, client insight — and you can coach a team to do the same
  • Genuine commitment to team development — you like coaching, you give real feedback, and you take pride in watching people on your team grow
  • Strong strategic thinking paired with operational discipline — able to see the big picture while staying on top of the details
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with clients and with internal teams
  • Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset — you see problems coming and address them early
  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field preferred