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About the Role

The Associate Account Director is a leadership role responsible for driving client relationships, leading social strategy, and overseeing the execution of impactful work. This person serves as a trusted partner to clients, a leader to internal teams, and a key contributor to agency growth.

Responsibilities

• Stays informed and shares industry and cultural trends and technological advances.
• Brings thought leadership to consult on complex issues and identify innovative solutions.
• Navigates the social ecosystem to make recommendations leveraging paid, owned, and earned opportunities.
• Ensures best practices are applied across disciplines.
• Ensures strategic alignment across all channels and teams for an integrated approach.
• Provides high-level strategic counsel to clients and prospects.
• Reinforces understanding of client's business and uncovers motivations/needs.
• Leads the development and execution of influencer strategy work.
• Oversees the activation of influencer and talent partnerships ensuring timeliness, quality, and effectiveness.
• Owns and is accountable for assigned lines of business and relationships with clients and agency teams.
• Develops critical relationships with talent agencies, managers, and talent.
• Identifies unique and innovative models for influencer partnerships, including tools and technology.
• Encourages a positive, professional environment supporting clients, management, talent, teammates, and the work.
• Sets a standard of excellence through coaching and mentorship to develop strong internal teams.
• Spots challenges and knows when to involve agency leadership, offering solutions.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of social media and influencer marketing, including competitors and emerging trends.
• Builds strong relationships with senior clients, handling difficult conversations while ensuring account health.
• Identifies opportunities and grows billings within assigned lines of business, delivering break-through work.
• Ensures successful financial operations across assigned lines of business adhering to the Scope of Work.
• Inspires new products, services, and business approaches.
• Strategically identifies and persuasively sells incremental solutions/capabilities for organic growth.
• Responsible for account/project profitability.
• Assists new business pitches.
• Demonstrates strong supervisory, delegation, and escalation judgment skills.
• Keeps teams performing at their peak.
• Provides input for team members’ performance reviews and conducts performance reviews for direct reports.
• Provides ongoing, real-time performance feedback for team growth.
• Ensures team members have the training and support needed to achieve development goals.

Requirements

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of best-in-class social media and influencer marketing, including competitors and emerging trends that may inform the work.
• Build strong relationships with senior clients, having the ability to have tough conversations, while ensuring the health of the account is strong.
• Demonstrate strong supervisory, delegation, and escalation judgement skills.

Skills

• Social strategy
• Influencer marketing
• Talent management
• Client relationship management
• Team leadership
• Business development
• Financial operations
• Performance management
• Strategic planning
• Content creation
• Social media marketing
• Paid, owned, and earned media strategies
• AI tools

Location

• New York
• Los Angeles

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Associate

Salary/Compensations

• $179,999.04 - $219,999.04

About the Company

• Blue Hour Studios is a social-first agency that makes brands magnetic through work that gets shared, remixed, and talked about.
• We create at the intersection of culture, content, creators, and commerce to help brands turn distinct cultural relevance into demand.
• Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles and backed by Horizon Media, we connect creativity and media to drive real business impact.
• At Horizon and Blue Hour Studios, we understand the value that different perspectives can bring to our clients and culture, so we strive for an environment where our employees feel welcomed, safe and empowered.
• We value you and believe that your authentic voice and unique perspective allows us to create a more rewarding culture, and experience, together.
• We hire talented people, challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow.

Equal Opportunity

• Horizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
• We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.