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About the Role

As an Account Director, you will manage and nurture client relationships, oversee the development and execution of advertising campaigns, and drive the overall growth and success of the agency. You will lead a team of account managers and collaborate closely with creative, strategy, and production departments to ensure the delivery of exceptional advertising solutions. This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and exceptional communication skills to ensure Grey continues to champion team efforts in making Famously Effective work for clients.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their business goals, needs, and challenges.
Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, providing strategic guidance and expert advice on advertising and marketing initiatives.
Develop a deep understanding of clients' industries, competitors, and target audience to provide effective and relevant solutions.
Help clients weigh options, evaluate trade-offs and make decisions.
Own workstreams, report to the VP or SVP to build a project path from the ground up, and work closely with agency partners, including Creative, Strategy/Planning, Project Management, Talent, and Finance.
Manage strategic creative development, production, and post-production of advertising communications, including film (broadcast and online), print, and social.
Develop accurate budgets and timelines and manage budget in partnership with Project Management and Finance.
Support Senior Account Leadership by continuously reviewing financial performance at the top and bottom line.
Successfully forecast against a project pipeline and guide investment decisions toward healthy agency profitability.
Closely manage and track the agency SOW with clients and identify opportunities for incremental scope.
Oversee content shoots (including attending pre-production meetings and shoots).
Supervise post-production processing (including process review, rough cuts, etc).
Work on digital and social initiatives (website builds, upkeep, social media, landing pages, and microsites).
Manage integrated relationships among partner companies.
Build strong business cases in support of Grey’s ideas and solutions.
Negotiate reasonable deadlines and deliverables with clients.
Contribute to the quality and effectiveness of the creative brief.
Lead junior Account team members, provide cross-disciplinary leadership by being prepared, proactive, thorough, fair, and balanced.
Communicate and manage expectations clearly.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of your client’s market landscape, including competition, with a perspective and POV on trends that bring innovative thinking and ensure forward-looking work.
Lead qualitative and quantitative market research from stimuli creation to pull-through of learnings to optimize tactics.
Foster a collaborative and positive team environment, encouraging innovation, professional growth, and knowledge sharing.
Conduct regular team meetings, set goals, and facilitate professional development opportunities.
Identify opportunities for business growth.

Requirements

Passionate interest in the client’s business while you always look for ways to get upstream within the organization.
High creative output standards, expecting the full team to be passionate, focused, and committed to making Famously Effective work for clients.
6+ years in a related environment (marketing, agency, product, etc).
Experience in full 360 integrated work, including TV, content, digital, social, and OOH.
Experience in developing and leading work in omni-channel format.
Experience in partnering with clients and strategy team in shaping, leading the prep for, and implementing insights from market-research projects.
Experience in building strong client relationships that result in excellent work and drive organic growth.
Experience in effective account housekeeping (timelines and budget development and management).
Proven track record of supervising and developing junior Account talent.
Oncology launch experience preferred.

Skills

Leadership
Strategic thinking
Communication
Creative development
Budget management
Timeline management
Production process understanding
Market research
Team leadership
Client relationship management

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

6+ years

Salary/Compensations

$75,000—$180,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

About the Company

Grey’s mission is to create Famously Effective ideas that move people, businesses, and the world forward, harnessing the power of creativity to solve business challenges and drive growth for some of the world’s most influential brands and companies, including Procter & Gamble, Volvo, Haleon, Circle K, and The Coca-Cola Company.
Grey was recognized as a 2025 Fast Company World Changing Ideas winner and earned 26 Lions at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, contributing to Ogilvy’s Network of the Year honors.
Newsweek also named Grey a Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace in 2024 and one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women and Professional Services in 2025.
Grey is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.

Equal Opportunity

GREY is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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