Account Director

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive client services and production execution for a global production group, coordinating briefs, timelines, and cross-functional delivery.

  • Own production oversight from brief to delivery across shoots and workflows.
  • Must-have: 4–7 years in client services, incl. 3+ in a creative agency.
  • Standout: AI tools adoption and cross-regional consistency when delivering content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to clients on production strategy and execution, ensuring all outputs are aligned with brand guidelines, creative direction, quality standards and efficient execution
  • Lead alignment between clients and agency partners on production briefs, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and handoffs to project teams
  • Maintain a deep understanding of WPP Production's capabilities and how to apply them
  • Oversee primary productions from brief through to delivery, with a hands-on understanding of shoots and production workflows start to finish
  • Coordinate with global offices, serving as a steward of consistent ways of working across regions
  • Ensure compliance with contractual terms, commercial arrangements and SLAs
  • Manage account financials, including SOWs, fees, profitability, and utilization, while consistently delivering against client requirements
  • Collaborate cross-functionally across Operations, Finance, Production, and subject matter experts to drive cohesive, high-quality outcomes
  • Navigate competing priorities and escalations with clarity and confidence
  • Identify organic growth opportunities within existing accounts and contribute to new business

Requirements

  • 4–7 years of Client Services experience, including a minimum of 3 years within a creative agency environment
  • Exceptional client relationship skills with the ability to present confidently, influence multiple stakeholders, and engage effectively at the senior and executive level
  • Deep production fluency and a strong understanding of how to deliver work across today's fragmented media landscape
  • Strong communication and problem-solving abilities, with sound judgment and decisiveness in fast-moving environments
  • Solid negotiation skills and commercial acumen
  • Comfortable using project management tools to keep information, data, and work on track
  • Proactive, highly motivated, and detail-oriented with a genuine passion for the work, the team, and the business

Preferred

  • Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred, as a portion of creative is in Spanish and English
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WPP Production

Content Production for the Future of Marketing. WPP Production is the world's largest content production company. We unite global production capabilities and creative producers into a single, seamlessly integrated platform. Leveraging Generative AI, virtual production, and our High Velocity Content Studio, we deliver unparalleled innovation, speed, and scale with a singular vision at our core - to transform content creation for clients that redefine the future of marketing.

London, England, GBR
297 employees (94 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~297

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
41 (14% of company)
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8.5 years
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