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About the Role
The Account Director will serve as the key senior day-to-day point of contact for clients and internal teams, building trusting professional relationships and driving integrated strategic initiatives. This role involves influencing creative work, devising strategies for client growth, and overseeing account administration and direct reports.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the key senior day-to-day point of contact for client and internal team, building trusting, professional relationships.
- Maintain proactive, consistent communication with GAD and/or MD on account status.
- Manage and execute fully integrated campaigns with a balance between digital/interactive/social marketing and traditional above the line.
- Influence, drive, and sell integrated strategic initiatives.
- Influence the development of high-quality creative work by sharing knowledge of the client’s business/brand/category and demonstrating strong creative judgment.
- Cultivate strong relationships and partner effectively with all internal agency functions.
- Devise short and long-term strategies and opportunities for client growth with creative partners.
- Lead annual planning processes, SOW, and resource allocations.
- Oversee account administration, fiscal acumen, and process management; troubleshoot day-to-day account issues.
- Own communication between agency, client, and partner agencies to ensure seamless collaboration.
- Manage direct reports' professional development and performance reviews.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in an advertising creative agency.
- Proven track record of building trusting, professional relationships internally, with clients, and partners.
- Proven experience managing and executing fully integrated campaigns with a balance between digital/interactive/social marketing focus and traditional above the line.
- Ability to influence, drive, and sell integrated strategic initiatives.
- Ability to cultivate strong relationships and partner effectively with all internal agency functions.
- Ability to work under pressure and rally team to meet deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment.
- Independently takes initiative with thorough follow-up ability.
- Incredibly well organized, collaborative, receptive to change, and laser focused on detail.
- Willingness to work after hours and travel overnight for meetings, shoots, and/or post sessions as required.
Skills
- Relationship building
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Creative thinking
- Digital marketing
- Interactive marketing
- Social marketing
- Traditional advertising
- Broadcast production
- Organization
- Collaboration
- Attention to detail
Location
- Brooklyn, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In office 3 days/week
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 to $170,000 USD
About the Company
- Z.A.K. New York is a full-service creative agency launched in NYC in summer 2022, bringing an independent and irreverent spirit.
- Z.A.K. has existed in Toronto since 2008 and Vancouver since 2022.
- The agency has a start-up vibe with a team possessing years of collective experience building best-class brands at top NY agencies.
- The agency is backed and supported by a 170-person office in Canada.
- The structure is intentionally flat with hands-on leadership.
- Employees have the opportunity to shape the company's DNA, including work processes and output.
- The company culture emphasizes curiosity and caring for the work, clients, and colleagues.
- All team members are expected to be strategic, creative, and entrepreneurially minded.
Equal Opportunity
- Zulu Alpha Kilo is an equal opportunity employer.
- Prohibits discrimination based on age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial and local laws.
- Committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace.
- Offers accommodation during the interviewing process upon request.