Account Director

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia APAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time --- PEOPLE.

The PITCH

Our amazing client partnership team is looking forward to collaborating with a people first Account Director to lead multiple exciting accounts in our growing APAC market. This is a contract role with a possibility of conversion based in Sydney and with a reporting role to the Business Director.

Heres your first brief --

• Big thinker yet hands-on in execution.
• Natural entrepreneurial spirit and love for social media.
• Overall leader who runs the day to day keeping the wheels moving and your client and team motivated.
• Gatekeeper of the brand equity and quality control of work prior to it leaving the building.
• Manages overall clients business ensuring that we are delivering for the clients business everyday.
• Navigate a portfolio of brands within a larger conglomerate or business group and be deeply informed on the clients business including all campaign performance any competitive as well as product cycle
• Deep and more proactive understanding of the clients business outside of our campaigns or the marketing context.
• Proactively identify needs of the client and business to sell-through incremental campaign opportunities to clients that help them achieve the most efficient returns & results on their overall marketing dollars while delivering best in class work that help grow client business
• Strong foundational and working knowledge of creative and media across major digital and social channels. Well versed in common marketing and media principles with a strong understanding of the social media platforms and their ecosystems.

Your Experience

• 6 years of relevant work experience in the media or advertising field including an account management experience in the Australia advertising landscape.
• Competencies:
• Business strategy digital asset management digital media planning and buying.
• Proficiency in written verbal and presentation skills.
• Strategic sales planning pipeline management relationship building digital market knowledge negotiation skills presentation skills analytical skills.
• People management
• Worked with teams in complex multi-geography multi-cultural environments.

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think lab and not agency. We get excited about solving business problems not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. Were willing to break rules try new things and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. Its fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew work with big brands excites you as it does us. We cant wait to meet you.