Account Director

Mission, KS (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and grow a portfolio of client relationships by shaping high impact, data driven marketing strategies and leading cross‑functional teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

  • Strategic leadership: manage executive relationships and present integrated plans tied to business goals.
  • Campaign optimization: translate performance data into actionable recommendations and drive test-and-learn improvements across media and analytics.
  • Growth and governance: oversee profitability, budgets, and opportunity expansion while mentoring the account team and supporting new business pitches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior strategic lead for a portfolio of client accounts, building trusted relationships with executive stakeholders and key decision-makers.
  • Develop and present integrated marketing and media strategies that align with client business goals and drive measurable results.
  • Translate complex performance data, analytics, and media insights into clear recommendations and actionable business strategies.
  • Lead collaboration across media, analytics, ad operations, and digital teams to ensure successful campaign execution.
  • Champion a “test and learn” mindset, encouraging innovation, experimentation and optimization across campaigns.
  • Guide clients through emerging media opportunities, platform innovations, and evolving marketing technologies.
  • Mentor and develop account team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
  • Manage account profitability, forecasting, budgets, scopes of work, and overall financial health.
  • Identify opportunities to expand client partnerships and contribute to agency growth.
  • Support agency new business efforts through strategic planning, presentations, and pitch participation.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in advertising, marketing, media, or agency client services.
  • Proven success managing complex client relationships and executive-level stakeholders.
  • Deep understanding of performance marketing across paid search, paid social, display, video, streaming, and programmatic media.
  • Strong knowledge of analytics, attribution, measurement frameworks, and performance optimization.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and developing high-performing talent.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
  • Strong business acumen with experience managing budgets, forecasts, and account profitability.
  • Ability to prioritize multiple initiatives and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strategic mindset with a passion for solving problems and driving growth.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business, Communications, or a related field.

Preferred

  • Experience in gaming, entertainment, hospitality, or destination marketing.
  • Familiarity with platforms such as The Trade Desk, DV360, Tealium, AudienceStream, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, or similar technologies.
  • Experience working across media, creative, analytics, web, CRM, content, and AI-enabled marketing solutions.

Benefits

  • Walz Tetrick offers an office culture like no other.
  • CEO Charlie Tetrick values his employees and creates a uniquely positive and supportive culture.
  • We work and play as a family.
  • Our current work hours are “in office” Monday through Thursday with an option to “work from anywhere” on Friday.
  • We’re proud of our strong benefits package that includes a 401(k) with an employer match, long-term disability and dental insurance.
  • We offer excellent health insurance, and the agency pays 90 percent of the employees’ premiums with an option to add a spouse and family.
  • We have a generous paid time off policy that includes days to volunteer at a charity of your choice.
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Walz Tetrick Advertising

4.5 Glassdoor

At Walz Tetrick Advertising, we have a saying: Why outspend the competition when you can outsmart them? That’s the mission of every member of our team. To uncover illuminating insights and develop customized, game-changing, data-driven campaigns that make our clients look bigger and feel more local. Strategies that deliver bottom-line results and a roadmap for future success. In our fast-paced industry, we know the importance of staying nimble. And we’re also built to think ahead. So as we push forward, we illuminate the opportunities beyond what others thought possible. We lead our clients, so they can lead their competition. And their industries. Every day we go out of our way to outplan, outwork, outwit and outperform so we can deliver better outcomes for our clients. Are you ready to outsmart your competition? Would you like to become a member of our team? Let’s talk.

Founded in 1967
Mission, Kansas, USA
129 employees (82 in marketing)
83% recommend to a friend
93% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.9%
Direct
43.5%
Referral
5.6%
Social
22.5%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~129

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
64 (50% of company)