Senior Vice President, Group Account Director

Boston, MA (On-site)

$180K/yr – $287K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Leads strategic client engagements, drives cross-functional programs, and grows senior relationships while owning client financials and developing the team.

  • Owns strategy, forecasts, budgets, and contracts for key accounts
  • Develops and mentors teams and expands senior-level partnerships

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You’ll develop high-level strategic plans, effectively utilize cross functional teams, and influence senior clients through your deep knowledge of the web and ability to pinpoint the smartest, most powerful strategies to solve client problems.
  • Eloquently articulating our views on digital business philosophies, keeping clients up to date on industry context
  • Actively establishing and growing senior-level client relationships based on trust, and leveraging these relationships in the development of business growth
  • Developing cutting-edge, insight-driven integrated marketing programs, leveraging expertise across media
  • Demonstrating strong corporate citizenship through involvement in company events, learning forums, and other activities, serving as a member of the Digitas Boston Senior Leadership Team and Digitas Global Network
  • Maintaining a strong understanding of changes in the client’s industry and how customer needs are adapting, and developing relevant case studies on client businesses
  • Deliver strategic client presentations and providing recommendations that are concise, insightful, and on point
  • Connecting to broader agency intellectual capital and bringing best practices to client engagements
  • Owning client financials – including forecasts, budgets, and investments – and facilitating all legal contracts
  • Developing team members through training and identifying areas for growth – you’ll demonstrate openness to hiring non-traditional talent and build a team bench by actively recruiting a best-in-class workforce

Requirements

  • A demonstrated powerful passion for marketing and proven success in bringing the best work to life
  • Four years of college education, an MBA degree, and 15+ years of experience, including a strong, established history of interactive experience and client leadership in integrated marketing or a digital scope
  • A refined understanding of how marketing, creative, planning, media, technology, and analytics integrate
  • Superior analytical skills, strategic thinking, communication, and presentation skills
  • Extensive marketing knowledge across media, including Mobile and Social
  • An impressive, demonstrated ability to effectively grow existing client relationships
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Benefits

  • medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, flexible time off
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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
67.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.7%
Direct
42.7%
Referral
6.8%
Social
6.2%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
673 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
33

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