Account Director (Client Partner)

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level7+ years expSalaried Ft

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and manage strategic client partnerships within the automotive marketing space, guiding multi-discipline campaigns from briefing to measurement while coordinating across strategy, creative, media, and production to deliver cohesive, culturally relevant work and drive account growth.

  • Own day-to-day client relationships and serve as a trusted strategic partner
  • Lead integrated campaigns and cross-functional teams toward measurable outcomes
  • Identify opportunities to expand relationships and capabilities with clients

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Lead integrated campaigns from briefing and strategy through creative development, production, launch, and measurement.
  • Partner closely with strategy, creative, media, social, production, experiential, and other disciplines to deliver cohesive work.
  • Champion culturally relevant ideas and ensure audience and cultural insights are meaningfully reflected in the work.

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. · Los Angeles, CA · On-site