Account Director

We are looking for an Account Director who is passionate about expanding the ways people experience brands has a specific eye for the details and skillfully communicates with various stakeholders. They manage all client relationships and associated requests autonomously and work closely with all other teams to ensure deadlines are met and creative work gets out the door in a consistent and timely manner.

This person must have a strong ability to manage a crossfunctional team and multiple work streams simultaneously. Projects will vary in scale and scope and require ability to deftly manage multiple subworkstreams. Account Directors oversee the fluidity and efficiency of projects but should be prepared to get their hands dirty in all stages of the process acting as a utility player to provide support to the team.

The ideal candidate is a gogetter with high expectations for themselves. Theyre also looking for ways to make operations more efficient opportunities to improve the model or framework they are working with and the knowhow to get the best of their teams time. This is a role for someone who is great at relationship building being proactive who has a businesssense and is curious about how media can be creative.

Most importantly we are looking for someone who is ready to become a Spoon to give a try anything and enjoy the people they are working with.

This role works out of our LA office on Tuesdays.

Responsibilities

• Serve as steward of the brand while always having an eye on pushing for the best creative work
• Act as daytoday lead Client point of contact and representative of the agency helping with presenting estimates SOWs project status and deliverables
• Serve as lead to the internal crossfunctional team driving all projects forward in an organized and efficient way
• Manage client expectations and anticipate client needs for shortterm and longterm projects
• Develop and manage staffing plan to ensure appropriate resource allocation and utilization as well as budget development and approval
• Facilitate reviewing creative and strategic briefs with an eye toward Clients business goals
• Lead all internalclient & internal agency team meetings
• In partnership with Senior Account Manager and Project Manager manage and monitor project lifecycles by managing day to day workflow timelines and milestones; working with team to help drive scheduled deliverables relay revision requests record progress and help tackle obstacles as they arise
• Establish clear integration checkpoints to facilitate collaboration between the internal departments involved in the creative development process
• Advocate for internal cross functional teams (strategy creative production) to maintain integrity of the work while staying on schedule and on budget
• Oversee Senior Account Manager management of all client billing alongside Giant Spoon billing team
• Oversee Senior Account Manager with internal asset management talent usage and asset trafficking in partnership with the Production team
• Maintain an ongoing knowledge of ongoing competitive advertising and category trends and keep the larger team in the know

Requirements

• 8 years of clientfacing account and project management experience in creative fastpaced businesses
• 4 years of experience in an account management role in an advertising agency
• Strong analytic and strategic abilities
• Effective written verbal and visual communicator
• Proven ability to craft internal and external presentations and present in an engaging way
• Excellent interpersonal skills that encourage crosscoastal team collaboration and foster trust with clients and teammates
• Strong ability to effectively prioritize tasks and be resourceful flexible and quick to adapt in a fastpaced environment
• Acute attention to detail
• Digitally connected passionate about technology and innovation with an insatiable curiosity for how it applies to our industry
• Familiarity with Google Suite Slack and Microsoft Office.

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $125000 $165000. Salary is determined based on a wide range of factors including relevant experience knowledge skills job duties and geographic location. For this role we also offer programs such as medical/dental/vision insurance 401(k) matching paid time off and various other benefits and perks.

Giant Spoon is an agency that strives to build an inclusive workplace dynamically rooted in our differences. What makes you you is your greatest asset here. No matter your race ethnicity religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity age protected veteran status disabled status genetic information or other protected categoryfeel comfortable (and excited) to bring your full self and make smart impactful work.

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