Account Director (Client Partner)

Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own client leadership and integrated campaign execution for automotive brands, translating business challenges into strategic, culturally relevant solutions while driving cross‑disciplinary collaboration and expanding existing relationships.

  • Lead client strategy and senior-day contact to shape integrated marketing solutions
  • Oversee multi-discipline campaigns from brief to measurement across strategy, creative, media, social, and production
  • Identify and drive opportunities for account growth and resource alignment

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Client Leadership & Strategy
  • Build and maintain trusted client relationships, serving as a strategic partner and senior day-to-day point of contact.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the client’s business, brand, audiences, competitive landscape, and marketing objectives.
  • Translate business challenges and cultural insights into clear strategic recommendations and integrated marketing solutions.
  • Anticipate client needs and proactively identify opportunities that strengthen the client’s business and agency partnership.
  • Provide clear, confident counsel and navigate complex client conversations, feedback, and changing priorities.
  • Lead client meetings, presentations, campaign reviews, and strategic discussions.
  • Build strong working relationships with external agency partners and stakeholders.
  • Integrated Campaign Leadership
  • Lead integrated campaigns from briefing and strategy through creative development, production, launch, and measurement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 7+ years of account management or client services experience within an advertising, integrated marketing, digital, or communications agency.
  • Automotive account experience required, with demonstrated experience supporting integrated automotive marketing initiatives.
  • Experience managing senior client relationships and complex, high-profile accounts.
  • Experience leading integrated campaigns across multiple disciplines, including strategy, creative, media, social, production, digital, and/or experiential.
  • Experience working within a multi-agency or integrated agency environment.
  • Demonstrated experience managing budgets, scopes of work, timelines, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Experience contributing to organic account growth and identifying opportunities within existing client relationships.
  • Experience developing multicultural or culturally driven marketing initiatives strongly preferred.
  • Luxury automotive or premium/luxury brand experience preferred.

Preferred

  • Luxury automotive or premium consumer brand experience.
  • Experience developing campaigns for multicultural audiences.
  • Experience working with national brands and complex integrated agency teams.
  • Understanding of automotive consumer behavior and the broader automotive marketing landscape.
  • Experience across brand campaigns, product launches, experiential activations, social and digital programs, partnerships, and culturally relevant initiatives.
  • Strong interest in automotive, luxury, culture, technology, and evolving consumer behaviors.
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IW Group Inc

Founded in 1990, IW Group, Inc. is a marketing and communications firm that specializes in reaching the growing multicultural market in the United States. The agency prides itself in the ability to provide timely strategic counsel and deliver quality results for the corporations and organizations it represents. With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, IW Group’s capabilities include advertising, public relations, corporate and community relations, events marketing, partnership marketing programs, market research, interactive, social media and cultural awareness training.

Founded in 1990
Los Angeles, California, USA
162 employees (45 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$100K/yr – $130K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
28 (17% of company)
Median Tenure
3.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.8%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.1%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~163
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Account Director (Client Partner)

IW Group Inc · Dallas, TX · Hybrid