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About the Role

As an Account Director, you will be the key liaison between clients and internal teams, guiding projects with clarity and vision. You will build deep, trusting relationships with senior client stakeholders, serving as a strategic advisor and influencing business and marketing decisions. Your role will oversee projects from start to finish, nurturing a culture of collaboration and ensuring bold ideas thrive. This is a fixed-term position from September 2026 to October 2027.

Responsibilities

Understand, analyze, and immerse yourself in client mandates aligned with their business objectives.
Efficiently communicate mandate requirements to creative and strategy teams.
Identify business opportunities within clients' portfolios and create strategies to realize them.
Champion high-quality creative work, ensuring strategic soundness, creative appeal, and alignment with client objectives.
Demonstrate a desire to innovate, challenge the status quo, and push project limits.
Manage and optimize 360˚ multidisciplinary projects by identifying the right internal and external partners.
Act as the financial steward for assigned accounts, managing budgets, forecasts, profitability, resource allocation, and scope.
Contribute to clients' profitability.
Manage conflicts, provoke discussions, and make difficult decisions.
Manage, train, and guide the development of your team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
8+ years of agency experience.
Leadership skills: experienced thought leader capable of organizing, motivating, and improving creative thinking and output.
Business savvy: ability to lead accounts with a clear understanding of client business goals and agency operations.
Strategic thinker: ability to apply critical and analytical skills to shape creative work and elevate ideas.
Growth mindset: ability to leverage relationships to identify business growth opportunities.
Entrepreneurial and invested: thrives in environments requiring versatility, enjoys building from the ground up, understands business management, and is willing to engage directly with the team.
Relationship builder: skilled in developing and maintaining relationships with internal teams, senior clients, and agency partners.
Coach + Mentor: ability to pass on experience through generous and patient mentorship.
Cultural player: positive, collaborative, and contagious spirit integral to agency culture.
Experience working with US-based clients (nice to have).

Location

Montreal
Toronto
New York
London
Los Angeles
Seattle

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years of agency experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Salary/Compensations

$100,000-120,000 CAD annually

About the Company

Sid Lee is a multidisciplinary creative collective striving to make a difference and celebrate culture with bold ideas.
Its 400 professionals work as one team from offices in Montreal, Toronto, New York, London, Los Angeles and Seattle.
Their mission is to create what matters through brand building, brand expression and brand experience.
Its creative community also includes Yard, Digital Kitchen, BIMM and Haigo.
Alongside progressive clients, Sid Lee draws on its rich collection of disciplines, from design to data and experiential communication and technology to advertising and architecture, empowering its clients to outperform their competitors, earn the trust of their customers and increase their influence on culture.
Sid Lee is a member of kyu, a collective of top-tier global creative companies established by Hakuhodo DY Holdings.
Sid Lee also imagined C2 Montréal, one of the largest creative-business conferences in the world.

Equal Opportunity

Proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Sid Lee is committed to creating a diverse work environment.
All qualified applicants are considered without regard to citizenship, ethnicity, race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age or veteran status.
We encourage women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible and ethnic minorities to apply for our job opportunities.
Additionally, accommodation measures can be made available for persons with disabilities upon request at any stage of the pre-selection and selection process.