Account Director
As an Account Director, you expertly manage and grow client relationships. Clients describe you as an expert and trusted advisor—and you use engaging leadership to develop those senior level client relationships. Overall profitability of the business and client satisfaction is on your shoulders—but you have that covered. Most importantly, you’re a leader to internal, multidisciplinary teams who can motivate a team to deliver successful web-based campaigns and programs.
You will:
- Provide strategic direction for clients.
- Foster relationships with clients to ensure the effective delivery of projects.
- Lead internal teams and client teams.
- Manage finances of account revenue and profitability.
- Develop and deliver organic growth within accounts.
- Deliver metrics on the quality of the relationship and the product provided to accounts.
- Ensure all Statements Of Work are drafted, documented, accurate, and implemented.
- Foster relationships with other Account Directors, Account Team members, and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Mentor and coach team members while motivating and leading overall project teams.
- Define and implement best practices at the business unit level.
- Contribute to overall development of the Client Services department.
You have:
- 5-10 years of Account Management experience in agencies within digital marketing, user experience and/or product design.
- Experience managing digital product applications within financial services or Pharma sector.
- Experience working with complex project and complex clients, delivering annual services revenues in excess of $5MM each.
- A solid understanding of user-centric digital product design.
- Competency managing complex teams up to 20 people and client relations.
- Solid experience formulating and driving long-term strategic account plans, strategies, and roadmaps.
- Ability to react quickly, assess, and implement solutions.
- Advanced negotiation, communication, writing, and organization skills with an outstanding attention to detail.
- The leadership skills to motivate distributed teams.
- Patience to work with others using tact and good judgement.
- Must be able to deal with others using tact and always exhibiting good judgment.
What we offer:
- Global maternity and parental leave
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, and personal/sick days
- Access to online services for families and new parents
- Early Dismissal Friday's (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
- Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.
We continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.Salary Range$130,000—$165,000 USDCritical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.
We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our candidate pools.
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