Account Director
Job Description
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About the Role
We are looking for an Account Director to join our high energy team for one of our large tech clients. As an Account Director, you will partner closely with the team’s senior leadership, client marketing partners, and internal marketing teams to support creative marketing initiatives. The ideal candidate is a go-getter who jumps on new opportunities, gets nerdy about what they do, and works quickly and flexibly to get the job done.
Responsibilities
Partner with clients to develop the overall program approach and timeline. Drive overall project management to ensure deliverables are produced on time, on budget, and to clients’ specifications.Manage day-to-day communications with the client and project teams.Partner with the client leads on writing creative briefs to communicate project requirements for design and copywriting teams; act as point of contact for execution and guide the creative team to deliver creative that maps to overall strategy.Project manage creative execution across all key program areas and marketing channels, including emails, in-app banners, digital billboards, video, social, presentation decks, website, digital flyers, etc.Lead creative exploration exercises to produce templates, test new creative formats, and promote new product experiences.Liaise with regional teams on global scaled campaigns, run projects requiring localization of creative assets, and help traffic final assets.Create, update, and maintain project documentation and provide regular updates to client and team members.Build and maintain key relationships with client teams and internal discipline leads.
Qualifications
- 7+ years experience in a fast paced client side or agency marketing team with an understanding of the fundamentals of marketing practices and principles
- Experience managing clients, ideally experience working with high-tech clients.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, run with ambiguity, and thrive with challenges
- Must be a self-starter who can operate in a constantly evolving team environment
- Excellent written communication skills with an extreme attention to detail
- Seasoned at managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
- A knack for unraveling complex problems and processes in an easy to understand way
- High energy and go getter attitude; comfortable working autonomously
- Must have excellent problem solving and analysis skills with presentation development skills
- Experience in project management with substantial cross-functional interaction and a demonstrated ability to work successfully in a virtual global environment
- Experience in developing detailed project proposals and estimates, and tracking utilization against project budgets
- Skilled communicator with strong written and verbal communication skills in English, including both professional and casual style of communication
- Proficient in Google docs, slides, sheets or equivalent (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- BA/BS degree
Applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged. We are open to the possibility that a great candidate for this job may not precisely meet all of the criteria mentioned below; if you believe you’re the right person for this job and can persuasively make that case, we encourage you to apply.
Not a must, but a plus:
- Tech experience
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What We Offer
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
