Account Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

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

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and grow client relationships while leading multi-channel strategy, mentoring teams, and driving growth through upsells and long-term planning.

  • Own client relationships and lead strategy across digital channels
  • Drive growth through upselling and long-term planning

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

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
  • All candidates must have the ability to work in the US; we are unable to sponsor any work visas for this role
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M+C Saatchi Performance

We are a Global digital media agency specializing in taking a human approach to connecting brands with people across all channels. We work at the frontiers of media, marketing, and technology to maximize marketing ROI for our clients. Our approach involves meticulous media planning and buying across digital channels leveraging the reach of retail & commerce media, paid search & social, programmatic, influencer marketing, streaming platforms, creative, App Store Optimization & more. Our goal is to deliver profitable, cost-effective, measurable results for our clients by taking the time to understand their business, their objectives, and their audiences. Our innovative media strategies are underpinned by cutting-edge data, analytics, and tech, combined with compelling creative and informed media buying to deliver business growth for our clients. We have a Global team of specialists who carefully manage campaign effectiveness thanks to a relentless focus on optimizing channels, content, format, and placements. We were founded in 2006 as a mobile agency. Now, we specialize in offering digital growth to brands operating in the modern landscape, where everything is measurable and accountable across digital touchpoints at all times.

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
442 employees (221 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
26.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.9%
Direct
41.3%
Referral
11.4%
Social
4.5%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~449

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
206 (47% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3