Account Director
The Working Assembly is a creative-led agency specializing in brand design, campaign development, and production. Our clients range from emerging startups to Fortune 100 companies — as a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work across a range of projects and industries.
We are currently expanding our Brand Management team and are seeking a full-time Account Director to join our team. At The Working Assembly, members of the Brand Management team are responsible for managing projects, driving timelines, and cultivating strong working relationships across the internal and client teams alike.
As an Account Director, you will be responsible for leading key pieces of business, and holistically managing your own projects from start to finish. The ideal candidate has experience working with cross-functional agency teams through the advertising, creative development, and production processes — and has an appetite to further their experience managing brand design projects.
At The Working Assembly, we look for an entrepreneurial spirit and flexibility to step up beyond a specific job title to help keep the process moving.
Key Characteristics
- 8-10 years of experience within an advertising, design, or marketing agency
- Previous experience in healthcare/pharma and/or beauty is a plus
- Demonstrate confidence, authority, and solid decision-making as the agency’s leadership voice
- Foster a healthy, open work environment that balances personal and creative growth
- Ability to build and manage strong relationships with senior clients
- Experience managing, mentoring, and growing teams internally
- Able to both sustain current business and grow current client business
Key Responsibilities
Client Partnership
- Experience managing multiple complex client relationships at one time
- Develop and monitor scopes and burn reports to ensure appropriate team burn rate and agency profitability
Team Collaboration
- Communicate proactively with management on project workflows, and provide strategic point of view on any issues
- Ability to creatively problem solve to fix any potential issues
- Work with Strategy to transform knowledge of client business objectives, internal and competitive opportunities, and consumer insights into actionable marketing communications strategies and tactics
- Provide oversight of agency resourcing to ensure projects are running as efficiently as possible
Agency Development
- Takes on formal oversight roles of Senior Account Manager, Account Managers, Associate Account Managers, and interns, contributing to their growth and development
- Contribute to hiring and growth of brand team
- Support in scope writing and new business development
Growth Opportunities
- Serve as an oversight role to guide key business streams, overseeing Senior Account Managers and Account Managers who lead day to day communications
- Recognize and seize opportunities to contribute to agency new business efforts/RFPs
- Lead creation of proposals for new work for new and existing clients
- Continuing to foster relationships with senior clients
- Contribute to the growth of TWA’s business, with both new and existing clients
- Develop and improve upon internal processes, contributing to smoother running of agency operations
Perks of the position:
- Comprehensive company-paid health benefits with options available at no cost to the employee - including fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, including a OneMedical membership
- Employer-paid life insurance with the opportunity to purchase additional coverage
- Participation in our 401k retirement plan with employer-matching contributions
- Ability to set aside pre-tax dollars toward commuter benefits, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, and Dep-care FSA
- 20+ company-wide vacation days and 10+ flex vacation days
- Company meals, gatherings and events
- Free Citi-bike membership
Salary Range $100,000-$150,000 depending on level of experience
The Working Assembly is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, culture, ethnicity, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, appearance, opinions, beliefs, and more.
Applicants located in the NYC area are preferred for in-person team collaboration.
Does this sound like a good fit? We’d love to meet you! Send us a resume and some work samples to work@theworkingassembly.com with the job title you’re interested in in the subject line.
