Account Director, Social

TBWA\Chiat\Day•New York, NY

About The Position

In this role, the Account Director will manage the day-to-day on their accounts, partnering with creative, strategy, and production leads to successfully run the business. You have a strong relationship with the day-to-day clients and are fiscally responsible for efficiently running their business. The Account Director reports to the Account Lead and brings them in for key internal and client meetings.

Requirements

A seasoned Account Director, someone who has operated at this level in the social space.
Ideally, coming from an agency that specializes in social or has led a social offering at an agency.
Someone who naturally thinks in social platforms, knows what best-in-class social work looks like, has developed social strategies, and led clients through them.
Someone up for the operational challenge of better establishing social at the agency and working through some challenges.
Is excited about working on a fast-paced client and is excited about the category.
Eager to grow a discipline and capable of scaling the social offering.
Someone willing to stretch up and down, no task is too big or small.
They are collaborative and can connect dots across the discipline and partner closely with the Account Director leading the brand.
Command of the business
Mastery of debate
Motivator of the army
Fiscal responsibility

Responsibilities

Identify client business needs and solutions
Have a strong POV on briefs
Be able to defend strategic points to clients, creative, and strategy
Command the room in internal and external meetings
Be decisive in ambiguous situations and critical moments
Be masterful in engaging in healthy debates both internally and externally to ensure you are doing what's right for the business or what's right for the agency
Keep the team engaged, happy, and motivated through the most challenging tasks
Change any conversation from negative to positive
Be passionate about every project so it trickles through to the entire team
Set the business vision for the account and manage agency operations and finance to deliver those goals
Understand what it takes to deliver organic growth and proactively look for opportunities
Lead the development of SOWs and staffing plans, working closely with finance partners internally and externally