Group Account Director

Who we are:

Founded in 1978, GS&F is an award-winning, fully integrated marketing and communications agency. GS&F delivers proven results for clients by bringing experienced marketing, creative, interactive, media, public relations, and production specialists together under one roof. A fiercely independent agency, GS&F takes an audience-first approach to uncover each client’s most dramatic business potential. We expose the truth and create meaningful experiences around it through strategic, integrated communications.

Most importantly, GS&F is a fully employee-owned company. As a team member, you become an owner in the company.

Who we are looking for:

We’re looking for a Group Account Director to join our growing Account Management team and help lead strategic client partnerships across the agency. This role is responsible for creating and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships between GS&F and our clients while guiding the overall strategic direction, growth, and success of assigned accounts.

As a senior leader within the agency, the Group Account Director serves as a trusted advisor to executive-level clients and as a strategic leader for internal agency teams. This individual brings a deep understanding of integrated marketing communications, strong business acumen, and the ability to navigate complex challenges while driving impactful solutions.

This is an ideal opportunity for a highly experienced marketer and agency leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys building meaningful client relationships, and is passionate about leading teams toward exceptional work and long-term client success.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with executive and c-suite client partners
• Lead the strategic direction and growth of assigned client accounts across integrated marketing initiatives
• Serve as the senior client management lead and primary point of accountability for agency-client partnerships
• Guide internal cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, strategic, and high-quality work
• Provide leadership and direction across integrated campaigns including digital, interactive, paid, earned, and creative initiatives
• Navigate complex business challenges and identify actionable solutions that support client objectives
• Lead strategic planning discussions, client presentations, and high-level business recommendations
• Oversee account financials, scopes, budgets, and profitability to ensure healthy, successful agency relationships
• Foster alignment and collaboration across agency departments while ensuring teams remain focused and accountable
• Lead, mentor, and develop account management team members while fostering collaboration, accountability, and overall team performance across the agency
• Lead through ambiguity and obstacles with confidence, ownership, and strategic perspective

What We're Looking For:

• Typically 10+ years of experience in advertising, communications, or marketing, with prior agency experience required
• Experience supporting clients in automotive, restaurant/QSR, building products, and/or CPG categories is strongly preferred
• Deep integrated marketing experience across digital, interactive, earned media, paid media, and creative execution
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong executive-level client relationships
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills with experience managing highly complex business challenges
• Experience leading large-scale client accounts and cross-functional agency teams
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing account profitability, budgets, and scopes of work
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Ability to lead with confidence, accountability, and a solutions-oriented mindset
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, collaborative agency environment while managing multiple priorities simultaneously

Additional information:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

There is power in celebrating who we are. GS&F is committed to embracing and welcoming past, current and future employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status and other characteristics that make our employees unique. After all, diversity feeds the best friendships because what makes you, you…makes us, us.

Because of this commitment and our commitment to improve, we have set important DE&I milestones and goals for our agency. To that end, you may be asked a question about your gender, ethnicity, disability or veteran status as you submit your online application. Rest assured we don’t have the ability to track your responses to these questions back to you and it’s never considered as part of your candidacy for a position at GS&F. If we say we want to improve, we simply want to know we are actually improving.

Location:

Given the nature of Account Management and the client assigned to this position being located in Nashville, we are only considering candidates that currently live in or wish to relocate to Nashville in the near future (first 90 days of employment).

As a full-time member of the GS&F team, we offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, vision coverage
• 401K match
• ESOP Ownership
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Generous PTO
• Professional development opportunities and growth-oriented tools
• Generous parental leave