Group Director, Client Partnership - Media + Growth - Remote US (West Coast)

San Diego, CA (Remote)

$150K/yr – $195K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own senior client relationships and drive commercial growth across a portfolio of high-growth accounts while acting as a strategic partner to shape investment and scalable growth systems.

  • Lead end-to-end growth from testing to full-funnel scale
  • Align media performance with broader business outcomes and value

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own senior client relationships and overall commercial success across a portfolio of high-growth accounts.
  • Serve as a strategic business partner, helping clients decide where and how to invest rather than simply managing an agreed scope.
  • Lead clients from early testing and market learning through scaled acquisition and full-funnel growth.
  • Partner with media, creative, strategy, data and technology leaders to build integrated growth systems.
  • Ensure measurement and learning agendas are built into the work from the beginning.
  • Connect media performance to broader business outcomes, including customer acquisition, retention, revenue and lifetime value.
  • Identify and shape organic growth opportunities before they become formal briefs.
  • Lead commercial planning including scopes, staffing models, forecasting, profitability and account investment decisions.
  • Create clarity across fast-moving multidisciplinary teams and ensure DEPT® feels like one integrated partner to the client.
  • Contribute actively to new business, especially opportunities involving growth, emerging technology and consumer transformation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant agency, consultancy, startup or client-side experience.
  • Significant experience leading large or strategically important client relationships.
  • Demonstrated success growing early-stage or rapidly scaling businesses through media and marketing.
  • Strong understanding of performance marketing, measurement, experimentation and full-funnel growth.
  • Experience working across meaningful media budgets and scaling investment based on demonstrated signal.
  • Proven commercial ownership including scoping, negotiation, forecasting and account growth.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation and executive storytelling skills.
  • A track record of building trust quickly in complex, high-pressure environments.
  • Meaningful contribution to organic growth and/or new business.
  • The ability to understand specialist disciplines deeply enough to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and connect them around a business problem.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401k plan, plus matching
  • PTO
  • Paid Company Holidays
  • Parental Leave
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DEPT®

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DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI. Certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

Founded in 2016
Amsterdam, North Holland, NLD
4.5K employees (1,449 in marketing)
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$150K/yr – $195K/yr

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