Account Director

El Segundo, CA (On-site)

$97K/yr – $149K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own client leadership and cross‑functional program delivery for a senior integrated agency role.

  • Lead primary client relationships and ensure cross-functional alignment across internal and external teams.
  • Must-have: 8+ years of agency experience (integrated or multidisciplinary).
  • Standout: Opportunity to grow account scope and deepen integration across capabilities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary client lead within an global integrated agency team, ensuring clear alignment across all internal teams and external agencies
  • Provide regular client business updates to internal teams, translating client priorities into coordinated, cross‑disciplinary action
  • Partner with finance and program management on monthly burn reporting, forecasting, and resource utilization across integrated teams
  • Ensure clarity of project scope, deliverables, and timelines, maintaining alignment across teams throughout the lifecycle of work
  • Collaborate with Strategy and Comms Planning to shape and finalize briefs that reflect integrated thinking and shared objectives
  • Lead integrated agency team relationships, fostering collaboration, accountability, and consistent communication across functions
  • Review and manage monthly hours and staffing plans with clients, ensuring clarity and alignment with integrated scopes of work
  • Partner with senior leadership and program management on project fee scoping, estimating, and resourcing within an integrated model
  • Proactively find opportunities for account growth, expanded scope, and deeper integration of agency capabilities
  • Mentor and lead Account Supervisors, reinforcing integrated thinking, client leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration

Requirements

  • 8+ years of agency experience, ideally within an integrated or multidisciplinary agency model
  • 2–3 years of direct people management experience

Nicer To Have

  • Experience within an integrated or multidisciplinary agency model
  • Strong strategic marketing and integrated‑agency perspective, with experience aligning multiple teams around shared goals
  • Proven ability to lead and influence cross‑functional teams, without direct ownership of creative or production execution

Benefits

  • 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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Fallon

On the day Fallon opened its doors without a single client, it did so under the headline, “A new advertising agency for companies that would rather outsmart the competition than outspend them.”More than 40 years later, and this mantra is unwavering. We are a creatively-led agency who pinned our public reputation on our commitment to smarts.Smart brands create something of value in the world: entertainment value, social value, and belief value. Smart brands are additive to peoples’ lives and to culture. They help build ideas in the world, and they leave something behind.For the work: http://www.fallon.com/

Founded in 1981
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
327 employees (113 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.6%
Direct
57%
Referral
7.2%
Social
9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~327

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
51 (16% of company)