Vice President Account Director

Atlanta, GA (On-site)

$121K/yr – $166K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

A dynamic marketing leadership role focuses on managing client relationships, high-level strategy, and developing brands with strong storytelling. The position requires extensive experience in integrated marketing, leadership, budgeting, and familiarity with AI tools. Benefits emphasize robust, inclusive programs, while responsibilities highlight client stewardship, financial ownership, and team development.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Day to day, your role will include:
  • You’ll manage client relationships, partner with senior leadership on high-level strategy, and use their deep web knowledge to ensure strategic deliverables. Day to day, your role includes:
  • Eloquently articulating our views on digital business philosophies, keeping clients up to date on industry context
  • Selling new project ideas that align with client goals, both customer and brand
  • Maintaining a strong understanding of changes in the client’s industry and how customer needs are adapting
  • Continually inspiring clients with strong storytelling skills – you’re engaging, thoughtful, and compelling
  • Partnering with clients and capability partners to build active brands
  • Owning the financials for clients, including forecasts, budgets, and investments – ensuring that key financial responsibilities are mutually understood and agreed upon
  • Developing team members by coaching, training, and identifying areas for growth – you’ll offer direct and consistent feedback and encourage your team to learn from mistakes
  • Willingness to travel as needed – you’re open to new places, new faces, and new ideas

Requirements

  • Four years of college education, MBA degree, and 10 to 12 years of experience (ideally at a creative agency), including four years of leadership experience in integrated marketing and client relationship management with a digital scope
  • Superior analytical skills and strategic thinking – you’re strong on both IQ and EQ, as adept at reading data as you are at reading clients
  • Superb communication and presentation skills – you’re articulate, straightforward, engaging, and effective
  • Effective time-management, impeccable organization, and the flexibility to adapt quickly to changes
  • Proven project management and performance management skills – you’re known for your ability to coach and develop talent, inspire and drive change, and bring varied groups together to collaborate effectively
  • Demonstrated budget management and resource planning experience
  • 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

  • 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.
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Digitas North America

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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)
30

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