Account Director
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About the Role
An Account Director (Sponsorships) are business leaders who can be a valued advisor and partner to clients and agency teams, and to support the larger teams in creating data-driven, award-winning work. They identify and champion great creative work and understand the importance of flawless delivery. They are an open and willing resource to team members in assessing ideas and directions, and providing guidance to push further, pushing creative and strategy to deliver better work.
All Account roles are inherently leadership roles - responsible for inspiring great creative through confident decision-making, positive collaboration, quick problem-solving, and effective communication. You will build relationships with Director and VP-level clients, championing the Monks vision and positioning a sound strategy for organic revenue growth, developing scopes of work and managing resources.
With a focus primarily on social strategy related to corporate partnership and sponsorships, you will help the clients puzzle piece their efforts and find ways for everything to contribute to their greater brand ambitions cultural salience. You will coach and inspire the growth and development of agency staff by providing consistent feedback, training and growth opportunities. Once comfortable, you will also join senior leadership to scale learning and growth throughout the agency.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively consult on creative ideas and executions
- Deliver effective storytelling against sponsorship and talent partnerships
- Inspire larger creative strategies that can create further business outcomes
- Identify how the outcomes we are driving by our work can scale to other parts of the business
- Understand and champion agile production that can flex efficiently with market needs
- Manage a scope of work and create organic growth to expand our relationship
About You
The essentials:
- 8- 10+ years of agency experience required
- Comfortability with regular travel (up to 4-5 days per month)
- Strong people skills - good at building relationships, comfortable conversationalist, with a presence that compels others to pay attention
- Diplomatic and empathetic leadership
- Experience in social media, fluency in media and KPIs
Not a must, but a plus:
- An effective communicator, strong writer and strong presenter
- Ability to balance the best interests of Monks and our clients and their businesses
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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What We Offer
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
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.
