Account Director, Commerce

Brooklyn Park, MN (On-site)

$115K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital shelf client engagements, guiding strategy, content optimization, and cross-functional delivery across brands and retailers; drive scope, governance, and growth opportunities while balancing quality, speed, and profitability.

  • Own day-to-day client relationships and deliverables across digital shelf programs.
  • Lead multi-disciplinary teams and workstreams from brief to final delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary day-to-day client lead for digital shelf content and creative engagements.
  • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across eCommerce, Brand, Marketing, Sales, Shopper Marketing, and Content teams.
  • Consult with clients on retailer content challenges and opportunities, translating business priorities into clear recommendations and action plans.
  • Guide client conversations on PDP content, search and discoverability, conversion-focused creative, content governance, and scalable ways of working.
  • Lead status meetings, planning discussions, project reviews, and presentations with clarity and confidence.
  • Anticipate client needs, resolve ambiguity, surface risks, and align stakeholders on decisions and next steps.
  • Lead the development of scopes of work for digital shelf strategy, content optimization, creative production, and ongoing content programs.
  • Translate client requests into clearly defined deliverables, assumptions, revision parameters, timelines, resourcing plans, and pricing.
  • Partner with Strategy, Creative, Production, Program Management, Operations and Photography Studio teams to validate the approach and ensure scopes are achievable and profitable.
  • Manage scope boundaries and change requests, clearly communicating impacts to cost, timing, resources, and contracts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in account management, client services, consulting, or agency environments, with direct responsibility for commerce content or digital shelf programs.
  • Demonstrated digital shelf knowledge, including experience with retailer PDP content, product content optimization, search and discoverability, and retailer content requirements.
  • Experience leading or partnering closely with copy, design, creative production, photography studios, program management, and operations teams.
  • Proven ability to consult with clients, shape recommendations, and translate complex needs into clear plans and decisions.
  • Hands-on experience developing and managing scopes of work, estimates, budgets, timelines, assumptions, revisions, resource plans, and change requests.
  • Experience serving as the primary client contact for large or complex accounts and coordinating multiple workstreams.
  • Strong commercial acumen, communication, presentation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple brands, retailers, deliverables, and priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills.

Preferred

  • Experience with digital shelf content for major retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, or other retailer platforms.
  • Familiarity with retailer content formats and workflows, including titles, bullets, descriptions, enhanced content, image carousels, brand stores, content syndication, and content governance.
  • Experience within CPG, retail, commerce, or an agency supporting scaled retailer content programs.

Benefits

  • Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection, short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.
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Equator Design

2.7 Glassdoor

Equator, a division of Marks and part of the Propelis Group, is a global packaging design agency, delivering strategy to shelf without compromise. We create powerful brands that get noticed and chosen.

Founded in 1997
Manchester, England, GBR
302 employees (143 in marketing)
38% recommend to a friend
37% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$115K/yr – $125K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
2.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.9%
Direct
27.2%
Referral
32.1%
Social
9.6%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~302
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Account Director, Commerce

Equator Design · Brooklyn Park, MN · On-site