Account Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

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Job Summary

Own and grow client relationships, lead strategy across digital channels, and mentor teams to deliver integrated campaigns.

  • Lead senior client partnerships and growth opportunities
  • Oversee cross-functional delivery and day-to-day client communications

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and grow client relationships, becoming a trusted partner to key decision makers and helping them achieve their business objectives
  • Support and elevate client performance conversations, including business reviews and campaign wrap-ups, by empowering your team to lead day-to-day while stepping in to drive high-level strategy across digital channels
  • Guide the creative and media planning process, ensuring integrated strategies align with client goals
  • Identify and drive client growth opportunities through upselling, cross-selling opportunities, and long-term planning
  • Build and mentor high-performing teams, providing ongoing feedback, overseeing daily client comms, QA of key deliverables, and media execution
  • Serve as a senior point of contact for clients and internal teams, providing visible leadership and handling escalations as needed
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams (Search & Social, Programmatic, Data & Analytics, Creative, Research, Finance) to ensure all work ladders up to a unified vision
  • Contribute to agency operations that may cover SOWs, renegotiating contracts, team resourcing, and financial health of your accounts

Requirements

  • 8+ years’ experience in digital media, preferably in an agency setting
  • Deep knowledge of performance platforms (Google, Meta, TikTok, Programmatic, etc.) and a solid understanding of full-funnel planning
  • Proven success managing large, multi-channel accounts and cross-functional teams
  • Hands-on experience with new client onboarding and building from the ground up (process, client deliverables, etc.)
  • Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills, with experience liaising with clients at senior level
  • Demonstrable experience growing revenues and effectively managing budgets/client profitability
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills with strong attention to detail
  • Familiarity with mobile performance campaigns and MMPs is a plus
  • An eye for good creative and how it connects to performance media

Preferred

  • BONUS: you’re tuned into trends and cultural moments and can translate those into brand opportunities

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package, including 20 vacation days and 401k match
  • Summer Fridays: we aim to stop working at 3:00pm on Fridays from Memorial Day to Labor Day
  • Holiday Break: 11 annual bank holidays, plus Christmas to New Year’s Eve
  • Flexible working and WFH opportunities: Two days per week in the NY office required
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M+C Saatchi Group

M+C Saatchi Group is a global creative solutions company and the world’s largest independent creative network. We connect specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands, solve the most complex business and societal challenges, and create and curate Cultural Power for our clients.

Founded in 1995
London, England, GBR
1.3K employees (474 in marketing)