Senior Account Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 12 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead client relationships and cross-functional account teams to deliver strategic, high-quality social-first work, with oversight of account development, project management, commercial stewardship, and new business growth.

  • Own senior client relationships and strategy alignment
  • Drive cross-functional teams and delivery excellence
  • Lead pitches, proposals, and growth initiatives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Account Leadership: Working with teams to develop the appropriate strategy and output for each client and ensuring account decisions are guided by it. Setting up teams effectively to support your pursuit of a higher standard of work. Inspiring your account teams to produce Born Social’s best work in all areas of delivery.
  • Account development: Owning Senior client relationship development building and effectively identifying and communicating the value of Born Social's work. Create, communicate and deliver effective account plans that include client insight, communication and reporting to facilitate growth. Leading any pitches, proposals and scoping for additional work. Educating clients on Born’s development and thought leadership content, along with industry updates.
  • Project Management: Communication about mid and long-term business and marketing plans with stakeholders beyond our immediate Points of Contact and any appointed agencies. Organising key calls, meetings (team & independent) and Quarterly Reviews. Recognising and resolving delivery or client issues or lack of results. Working alongside Senior Account Managers to review ways of working to ensure delivery feels positive for both clients and teams.
  • Commercial Management: Ensuring accurate delivery of scope of work (deliverables and time) using time tracking, ensuring deliverables are of high quality and all deadlines are met. Recognising and resolving any scope or resourcing issues and leading on new resourcing requests as well as reporting on commercial performance monthly
  • New business & growth: contributing to the winning new business through pitches and proposals, leading on the strategic direction. Developing Born Social’s industry profile in the US through talks and presentations, blogs, webinars, etc.

Requirements

  • You've got experience working on integrated work that spans both media and creative with a social-first lens
  • Ideally, you've worked on non-profits brands before and have an understanding of the category
  • You have 5+ years experience in a Client Services role in an agency setting
  • You're looking to own and drive the quality of the output on an account and have a good understanding of social first delivery (strategy, creative, media and management)
  • You have a good understanding of the principles of good project management and Client Services and have helped to develop this in others
  • You've got experience in the commercial running of account work
  • You've got a proven track record of retaining, developing and ultimately growing accounts
  • You're passionate about improving client experience and love the relationship development needed to do this

Benefits

  • 💎 20 days vacation a year + 12 public holidays
  • 💎 Full Paid Medical Insurance (including dental and vision)
  • 💎 Annual performance bonus
  • 💎 401k matching plan
  • 💎 Gym Membership contributions
  • 💎 Free fruit, breakfast cereals, snacks, soft drinks and tea & coffee
  • 💎 Free home office chair and screen
  • 💎 Quarterly team offsites / Regular socials
  • 💎 Free Citibike membership
  • 💎 Recruitment referrals bonus
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Born Social

We build social-first brands, globally.

Founded in 2012
London, England, GBR
196 employees (97 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$140K/yr – $150K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (32% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
1.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.9%
Direct
50.5%
Referral
7.6%
Social
8.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~196

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