About the Role
The Director, Marketing Campaign and Account Management serves as the strategic account lead for assigned business areas and the senior relationship lead between AEGM Marketing and key internal business partners. This role ensures stakeholder priorities are clearly understood, appropriately prioritized, and translated into marketing strategies, actionable briefs, coordinated execution plans, and measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a marketing relationship lead for AEGM brands, internal business line priorities, and priority projects.
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and internal stakeholders, positioning Marketing as a proactive strategic partner that reduces friction and helps advance business outcomes.
- Develop a strong understanding of stakeholder goals, audience needs, revenue drivers, timelines, risks, decision-making dynamics, and expectations of Marketing.
- Translate brand, campaign, and business priorities into clear marketing needs, support recommendations, briefs, success measures, and aligned next steps.
- Lead strategic intake and prioritization discussions to clarify objectives, surface tradeoffs, and align Marketing resources to the highest-value opportunities.
- Identify opportunities for Marketing to create greater business impact through audience development, merchandising, lifecycle, paid, earned, and cross-platform support.
- Partner with Operations and Project Management to ensure approved priorities are routed into the appropriate workflows, timelines, and delivery paths.
- Lead intake and prioritization conversations for supported business areas, ensuring requests are clearly defined, strategically assessed, and aligned to business impact, available resources, timing, and marketing priorities.
- Ensure stakeholder needs are translated into clear briefs, scopes, success measures, decision points, and recommended paths forward for cross-functional marketing teams.
- Partner with Operations to ensure intake, prioritization, workflow, and reporting processes are consistent, scalable, and visible across teams.
- Use post-campaign recaps, stakeholder feedback, and recurring request patterns to identify trends, opportunities, pain points, and process improvements.
- Manage expectation-setting with stakeholders, including tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, and recommended approaches when resources, priorities, or timelines are constrained.
- Lead the development of business-facing marketing plans that connect brand, campaign, and internal business priorities to the appropriate marketing channels, resources, and support teams.
- Coordinate with Growth Marketing, Brand, Digital, Product, Analytics, Finance, Creative, Operations, and other teams to ensure plans are strategically aligned, actionable, and appropriately supported.
- Guide stakeholders and cross-functional teams through key planning moments, including brief development, stakeholder reviews, launch readiness discussions, post-launch recaps, and optimization opportunities.
- Ensure stakeholder-facing deliverables, recommendations, and updates are clear, timely, and connected to the business objective.
- Maintain alignment between business priorities and Marketing’s ability to support them, escalating tradeoffs, risks, or resource constraints as needed.
- Create clear brand, campaign, and business priority narratives, executive updates, recaps, and recommendations that connect marketing activity to stakeholder needs, audience opportunities, business priorities, and next steps.
- Partner with Analytics, Finance, Growth Marketing, and Operations to surface relevant performance indicators, stakeholder trends, risks, and opportunity areas.
- Use data, stakeholder feedback, and market context to identify patterns across brands, campaigns, and business areas that can inform stronger planning, prioritization, and resource discussions.
- Maintain visibility into stakeholder satisfaction, upcoming needs, recurring pain points, and emerging business opportunities.
- Lead and develop account management talent, fostering a culture of strategic thinking, accountability, proactive communication, inclusion, and business partnership.
- Define service standards, communication expectations, escalation paths, and account management best practices that create a consistent stakeholder experience.
- Partner with Operations to onboard new stakeholders, team members, or business areas into Marketing’s ways of working, including how requests are submitted, prioritized, briefed, tracked, and reviewed.
- Stay current on media, entertainment, streaming, digital marketing, stakeholder management, and marketing planning best practices, translating relevant insights into practical improvements for AEGM.
Requirements
- 7-10 years of experience in account management, partnership marketing, client services, integrated marketing, marketing strategy, media / entertainment, streaming, digital marketing, or a related function.
- 2 or more years of People management experience, with a track record of developing talent, setting service standards, and building an inclusive, accountable, high-performing team culture.
- Proven ability to partner across Marketing, Operations, Brand, Digital, Product, Analytics, Finance, Creative, Technology, and business leadership teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to develop executive-ready narratives, recommendations, status updates, and performance recaps.
- Strong understanding of integrated marketing functions, which may include growth marketing, lifecycle, paid media, brand, digital, creative, partnership marketing, audience development, or content merchandising.
- Experience leading intake, brief development, account planning, stakeholder communications, launch readiness, recaps, and ongoing account health management.
- Strong strategic judgment and business orientation, with the ability to identify opportunities, clarify trade-offs, prioritize work, and connect marketing activity to business outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholder relationships, translating business needs into marketing plans, and aligning cross-functional teams around shared priorities.
Skills
- Account management
- Partnership marketing
- Client services
- Integrated marketing
- Marketing strategy
- Media
- Entertainment
- Streaming
- Digital marketing
- People management
- Talent development
- Service standards
- Inclusive culture
- Accountable culture
- High-performing team culture
- Communication
- Presentation
- Executive-ready narratives
- Recommendations
- Status updates
- Performance recaps
- Growth marketing
- Lifecycle marketing
- Paid media
- Brand marketing
- Digital marketing
- Creative marketing
- Partnership marketing
- Audience development
- Content merchandising
- Intake management
- Brief development
- Account planning
- Stakeholder communications
- Launch readiness
- Recaps
- Account health management
- Strategic judgment
- Business orientation
- Opportunity identification
- Trade-off clarification
- Work prioritization
- Business outcome connection
- Senior stakeholder relationship management
- Business needs translation
- Marketing plan development
- Cross-functional team alignment
- Media knowledge
- Entertainment knowledge
- Streaming knowledge
- FAST
- AVOD
- SVOD
- DTO
- DTC
- Digital publishing knowledge
- Multiplatform distribution knowledge
Location
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Stamford, CT
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Full-time in office
Experience Level
- 7-10 years of experience
- 2+ years of People management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $136,752 - $160,000
- Annual Incentive Target: 17.50%
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
About the Company
- A+E Global Media operates on a flexible model that allows for remote, hybrid or full time in office work (in certain locales).
- A+E Global Media is a global media and entertainment company that values diversity, representation, flexibility, and kindness.
- Forbes named us one of America’s Best Midsize Employers.
- Newsweek included us in their lists of America’s Most Loved Workplaces for 2021 and 2022, and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2023.
- Inc. recognized A+E Global Media as one of the Best Workplaces of 2025.
- A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
Equal Opportunity
- A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.
- The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.
