Account Director

As an Account Director at SS+K(part of M&C Saatchi Group), you will take on a pivotal role, serving as the primary business lead for assigned clients. In this multifaceted position, you will have the opportunity to drive the growth and development of large-scale businesses, leveraging your industry expertise to cultivate strong senior-level client relationships. You will lead integrated teams, oversee operations, and ensure seamless collaboration with cross-functional partners. As a key agency leader, you will embody our mission, coach junior staff, and provide strategic guidance to both internal teams and clients. Your exceptional communication skills, resourcefulness, and ability to thrive in a dynamic environment will contribute to the continued success of our clients and our agency as a whole.

What you'll do:

The Account Director serves as the business lead for assigned client(s) and, as such, is a leader within the agency. You are expected to:

• Lead healthy agency business and integrated teams with minimal oversight from a group account director or executive leadership
  • Demonstrate ownership of large-scale businesses and opportunities, including senior-level client relationships.
  • Serve as the integrated team lead across agency partnerships on a client’s business
  • Successfully develop and oversee SOW, staffing plans, MSAs, and contracts and manage agency delivery and P&L on an ongoing basis
  • Proactively find opportunities to grow billings and evolve agency operations and offerings.

• As an agency leader:
  • Reinforce the agency’s mission with every conversation and in decisions and actions, internally and externally.
  • Serve as a model for team leadership - positive, prepared, proactive, thorough, and fair - with a willingness to do whatever is needed.
  • Provide coaching and assist in the training and development of junior staff

•  Develop relationships with senior clients rooted in trust and confidence, so you’re the first person they call (both for good and bad news); focus on building trusting relationships and an appetite for bold ideas.
• Develop and nurture deep partnerships with strategy and creative leads to ensure successful long-term brand stewardship and thought leadership, all in service of the best possible output.
• Ensure the account team and other disciplines maintain a deep, ongoing understanding of the roles of various media channels in an integrated communications plan.
• Partner with project management and production on the execution and delivery of work, managing workflow, deliverables, and internal and client input to meet creative, timing, and budget expectations.
• Identify and spearhead opportunities to improve our operations and process to improve the work, agency culture, and profitability, applying learning from one piece of business to others
• Travel may be required

What you'll bring: 

• Previous experience leading a significant piece of business, ideally within an agency environment.
• Supervisory and team leadership skills.
• Experience leading the creation and execution of both integrated campaigns and strategic outputs; previous workings with highly matrixed clients toward world-class output is ideal.
• Strong communication skills (written and oral) and excellent presentation abilities, capable of commanding a room.

What you're great at:

• Being a great listener, able to turn information into action, and who listens for both what is said and unsaid
• Organization and are detail-oriented; you find satisfaction in a buttoned-up and well-run operation
• Self-starting and multi-tasking; you can handle the pressure of several assignments at once and can both lead and contribute at the same time
• Being curious, resourceful, and inquisitive
• Microsoft Office, Google Apps, and Keynote

What you'll get:

We value our teams and are committed to their success! We offer a competitive salary, a
comprehensive employer subsidized benefits package which includes group medical, dental and vision coverage, Health Savings Account, 401k retirement plan with annual company match, gym reimbursement, commuter benefits and cellular phone allowance, generous paid time off and employee volunteer day to encourage social responsibility giving time to the non-profit, community service or charity of your choice. Salary is dependent on experience but ranges from: $150,000 – $200,000. All candidates must have the ability to work in the US; we are unable to sponsor any work visas for this role.

SS+K is an Equal Opportunity Employer and shall treat all applicants for employment equally based upon job-related qualifications and without regard to race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristic protected by law.

ABOUT SS+K
SS+K was founded 31 years ago by Shepardson, Stern and Kaminsky as a full service marketing & communications agency that combines the rigor of political strategy and the power of creativity. It was the youth agency of record for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns and has been involved in numerous brand transformation efforts for the likes of Delta Airlines, Paramount, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Mount Sinai Health System, Pfizer and Iceland Tourism, as well as purpose-driven efforts for clients such as JPMorganChase, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michelle Obama Let’s
Move campaign, Planned Parenthood, and No Kid Hungry. SS+K is M&C Saatchi Group’s flagship creative agency in the U.S. A global marketing & communications network, M&C Saatchi has 6 regional hubs and offices in 23 countries.

ABOUT M&C SAATCHI GROUP

M&C Saatchi Group is a creative solutions company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data, technology, and culture, to help clients navigate, create, and lead meaningful change. The Group operates across five core divisions: Connected Creativity; Passion Marketing; Global & Social Issues; Brand, Experience & Innovation; and Performance Media. Headquartered in London, operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, US, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia. M&C Saatchi Group’s two principles, Diversity of Thought and Brutal Simplicity of Thought, guide how they build teams and solve problems.

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