Senior Account Director
Job Overview
You are an inspiring leader that brings passion and care to everything you do. You’re a partner, entrepreneur, and a driver of growth for your clients' businesses. You have experience with large-complex campaigns and are comfortable being hands-on.
Your focus is on enhancing your client's business and brand through compelling creator marketing solutions for clients and prospective clients. You ensure the smooth running of accounts and leads and are keen to empower a motivated team to deliver high levels of client service and strategic, creative, and reporting excellence.
You are recognised as the overall relationship lead by the client.
Responsibilities
Business Management
Understanding and championing the agency through an understanding of client marketing and the business.
Responsible for campaign planning and scoping alongside the Account Directors and in collaboration with all agency teams and partners.
Experience with RFPs and pitches
Identifies organic growth opportunities and leads growth plans. Builds out a pipeline of secured work.
Allocates resources creatively, balancing client needs with profitability and scope.
Relationship Leadership
Ensures the agency operates on a solid foundation by building strong senior client relationships through business and marketing acumen.
Possesses a deep understanding of clients' business issues, marketing, industry, competitors, and brands uses these insights to help clients to articulate their needs, and the agency to propose groundbreaking solutions.
Easily builds rapport and trust with clients
Communicates firmly, is credible and instills trust with executive clients.
A senior stakeholder on key cross-agency or IAT meetings and/or issues.
Resolves conflict easily and quickly, reducing organisation and interpersonal issues.
A positive mindset to the team, work, and clients
Skills & Attributes
Multiple years in a Director Level Role
Significant experience in professional client relationship management
Demonstration of ensuring Account Management 101 at all touchpoints: Excellent attention to detail, high client satisfaction, process implementation, financial management
Experience giving clear direction to strategy & creative on briefs and projects
Effective team planning, management, and pastoral capabilities
About Billion Dollar Boy
Billion Dollar Boy (BDB) is a global creator agency, using industry-leading tech solutions to deliver integrated, creator-led advertising and end-to-end campaign management. Founded in 2014, Billion Dollar Boy was among the first global influencer agencies and now has offices in London, New York and New Orleans.
Since its inception, BDB has partnered with some of the world’s leading brands - including Heineken, King, Nintendo, PepsiCo and L’Oréal - connecting them with more than 10,000 vetted content creators.
BDB client campaigns have been awarded at the Cannes Lions, Influencer Marketing Awards, Webby Awards, Shortys, The Drum Awards and Adweek.
Our Culture
Our mission is to redefine advertising by reflecting culture through the voices of creators, where creativity is democratized, and technology is the driving force behind impact. We champion equity and inclusion, and believe that diversity sparks creativity, problem-solving, and well-being. Along with fostering these values, BDB is committed to being the most innovative creator marketing agency in the world through initiatives like FiveTwoNine and Muse.
Our Values
We believe one of the biggest issues advertising agencies face is reputational. Our vision is to change that by setting a new standard of advertising with a greater social purpose, where creativity is democratised, and technology drives efficiency and effectiveness.
Billion Dollar Boy has identified industry problems and potential solutions, leading to a set of Future Behaviours that should be adopted by every agency to positively change advertising as a whole:
Be Fair, Be Transparent - treat everyone fairly, ensure recognition
Intentional Inclusivity - Actively listen, value diverse perspectives
Champion Curiosity - Be curious, embrace feedback, explore new ideas
Own it - Take accountability, be adaptable, lead by example
Work for Tomorrow - Make decisions that contribute to a better future for BDB
Kindness Over Ego - Lead with empathy, humility, and honesty
All other call-outs!
Equal Opportunities
We encourage employees to be open and confident and appreciate that every member of the team makes a vital difference.
Billion Dollar Boy embraces equality, diversity and inclusion and will seek to promote these benefits in all of our business activities.
When recruiting new employees or when affording our current employees with opportunities for promotion, it means that we will:
Recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background and make best use of their talents;
Not discriminate unlawfully against any person;
Select the best person for the job in terms of qualifications and abilities.
This sets out our approach to equal opportunities and the avoidance of discrimination at work.
A part of what we offer at BDB is a considerate suite of competitive benefits, which will be discussed with you throughout the interview process
Our Perks
20 days annual leave
x1 additional day of annual leave per year of service up to a max. of 5
x5 days additional annual leave granted each third year of service – to be taken in that year
3 additional days between Christmas and New year*
2x Charity days
Cycle to work scheme
Discounted Tech Scheme
Flexible working – We offer our employees the opportunity to work ad hoc from a remote location if it makes their lives easier and simpler.
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- Locations
- New York
- Remote status
- Hybrid
New York
Workplace & Culture
With offices in London, New York and New Orleans, we merge British sensibility with a New York pace. As our global team of 100+ continues to grow, we remain committed to adapting our strategies to keep pace with the speed of social communication as it continues to transform the marketing landscape. We promote friendship and communication within our Billion Dollar Boy global community.
We encourage employees to be open and confident and appreciate that every member of the team makes a vital difference. Outside working hours we enjoy regular socials, team lunches and team building.
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About Billion Dollar Boy
Advertising for the Influencer Age
Billion Dollar Boy is a global influencer marketing agency offering data & insight, strategy, creative, production, paid media and campaign management. We use proprietary software to deliver highly effective & efficient, social first influencer marketing campaigns at scale.
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