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About the Role
As an Account Director at Sid Lee, you will be the key liaison between clients and internal teams, guiding projects with clarity and vision. You will lead the partnership with a new client in the sports entertainment industry, steering initiatives across multiple markets and touchpoints. This role is instrumental in overseeing projects from start to finish, while continually looking for opportunities to grow and strengthen the account. A genuine passion for sports and understanding of the sports entertainment landscape is essential.
Responsibilities
- Own and develop senior-level client relationships, contributing strategic value.
- Lead and oversee the development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns.
- Anticipate and address marketing needs with expert knowledge of the client's business.
- Grow existing business and participate in new business pitches.
- Foster a positive and collaborative team environment.
- Manage and drive multiple accounts/workstreams, maintaining a deep understanding of status and developments.
- Manage and optimize top-line growth and oversee profitability across the account.
- Ensure quality control in all phases, ensuring flawless execution and delivery.
- Lead account review process and regularly engage leadership on progress.
- Demonstrate a desire to innovate, change the course of things, challenge the status quo, and push the limits.
- Manage conflicts, provoke discussions, and make difficult decisions.
- Be a career manager for your team: outline expectations, career paths and growth opportunities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Passion for sports and a strong understanding of the sports entertainment ecosystem.
- Experience working with clients in fast-paced, high-profile environments is considered an asset.
- Leadership skills: experienced thought leader who can organize, motivate and improve creative thinking and output.
- Business savvy: understand clients' business and how to run an agency business.
- Strategic thinker: can think strategically and apply critical and analytical skills.
- Growth mindset: can leverage relationships in identifying opportunities to grow the business portfolio.
- Entrepreneurial and invested: thrive in smaller environments requiring multiple hats and love building from the ground up.
- Relationship builder: know how to develop and maintain relationships with internal teams, senior clients, and agency partners.
- Coach + Mentor: able to pass on experience through generous and patient mentorship.
- Cultural player: positive, collaborative, and contagious spirit integral to creating agency spirit.
- Fluent in English, both oral and written.
Skills
- Strategic thinking
- Leadership
- Business acumen
- Relationship building
- Mentorship
- Sports marketing
- Client relationship management
- Integrated marketing campaign development
- Team collaboration
- Conflict management
- Financial oversight
- Quality control
- Innovation
Location
- New York
- Paris
- London
- San Francisco
- Montreal
- Toronto
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Senior level
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $160,000 annually
About the Company
- Sid Lee is a multidisciplinary creative collective striving to make a difference and celebrating culture with bold ideas.
- Over 300 artisans work as one team from offices in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Paris, London, and San Francisco.
- They strive to break the ordinary through brand building, brand expression and brand experience.
- Its creative community also includes Yard, Digital Kitchen, Sid Lee Sport, Sid Lee Architecture, and Haigo.
- Alongside daring clients, Sid Lee draws on its rich collection of disciplines: from craft to culture and innovation, empowering its clients to outperform their competitors, earn the trust of their customers, and increase their influence.
- 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
- Sid Lee is strongly committed to hiring a diverse staff and believe all experiences and perspectives bring value to our clients.
- Sid Lee does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnic origin, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.