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Account Director, Experiential Marketing
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27 October 2026 (19 hours ago)
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24 January 2027
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Job Summary
Brand Experience/Cheil USA
Title: Account Director Experiential Marketing
Location: Plano Texas
Schedule: Hybrid with a minimum of two days in-office per week and regular on-site collaboration
Travel: Approximately 30% domestic travel
Reports to: Head of Brand Experience
Title: Account Director Experiential Marketing
Location: Plano Texas
Schedule: Hybrid with a minimum of two days in-office per week and regular on-site collaboration
Travel: Approximately 30% domestic travel
Reports to: Head of Brand Experience
About Us
We are Built to Connect.
At Cheil Worldwide we create connected experiences that move people with work thats bold enough to stand out clear enough to be understood and enduring enough to be remembered. Born from technology and built from one of the worlds largest tech ecosystems we move with innovation not after it.
Our approach integrates experiential with data-driven creatively led marketing grounded in cultural relevance and built to grow brands.
Cheil USA serves as the lead agency for Samsung. And while Samsung remains a key partner our work extends across a growing portfolio of globally recognized brands. Powered by a team of 200 creative problem-solvers we thrive on pushing boundaries and redefining how brands engage with people.
We are looking for people who chase the Never Been Done Before. Curious thinkers. Driven doers.
About the Role
Great brand experiences dont just capture attention. They create connections people remember. As Account Director Experiential Marketing youll be the senior client leader for Samsungs experiential business shaping how one of the worlds most recognized technology brands connects with consumers through ambitious culturally relevant experiences.
Youll lead key client relationships set the strategic direction for your accounts and bring together creative strategy production and operations teams to turn bold ideas into finished experiences. Youll also lead and develop a client-facing team and stay ahead of your clients launch calendar bringing proactive ideas to the table before formal requests arrive.
This role suits someone with equal parts strategic perspective commercial acumen and operational understanding who can inspire client confidence navigate complexity and move ideas into execution.
What Youll Do
- Lead client relationships. Serve as the senior day-to-day contact for your accounts turning early or incomplete requests into clear briefs with defined objectives audience scope timing budget and KPIs.
- Shape the work. Challenge requests when budget timing or production realities dont fit the ask and bring realistic alternatives to the conversation.
- Plan ahead. Maintain a 3- to 6-month view of product launch cycles retail and sales periods sponsorships and cultural moments and bring proactive integrated marketing and experiential proposals to the client.
- Own account financials. Manage estimates scopes of work purchase orders budgets margin and fee performance and keep a clear pipeline and resource forecast.
- Connect creative and production. Bring production and operations into conversations early to validate feasibility cost drivers and lead times including fabrication venues permitting staffing logistics installation and onsite operations.
- Coordinate across departments. Get the right people involved at the right time with clear ownership and realistic timelines and resolve ownership gaps when responsibilities overlap.
- Lead the team. Set standards for briefs budgets status reporting and client communication and coach team members in client service commercial thinking and cross-functional collaboration.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 10 years of experience in experiential marketing event production brand activation or a related field with significant client-facing leadership experience.
- Proven experience leading major experiential accounts including product launches events exhibitions retail activations or integrated programs.
- Experience leading and developing client-facing teams and direct reports.
- Strong command of project budgets estimates SOWs POs fee structures and agency commercial processes.
- Experience developing and presenting client proposals with strong PowerPoint and Excel skills.
- Strong negotiation problem-solving and decision-making skills including the ability to work with incomplete information and compressed timelines.
- Ability to work hybrid in Plano Texas with regular on-site collaboration and approximately 30% domestic travel.
Nice to Have
- Experience with major consumer or technology brands.
- Working knowledge of experiential production including fabrication venues permitting and onsite operations.
- Familiarity with large-scale client procurement processes such as competitive bidding and purchasing systems.
- Background in agency experiential or brand activation environments.
What Success Looks Like
- Clients receive fast informed and proactive experiential support.
- Your teams receive clear briefs strong cross-functional alignment and realistic expectations.
- Cheil is trusted to anticipate advise challenge and deliver.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Cheil USA drives brand growth through creative strategy, digital innovation, and experiential solutions that create connected experiences that matter.
