Account Director

is hiring an Account Director to serve as the agencys primary presence on a major automotive dealership account. This person moves fast builds trust from the corporate level down to the store and ensures creative work actually lands where it matters. This role sits within an inter-agency team supporting a high-volume account and reports directly to the agency President.

The work spans both strategy and execution. This person shapes creative strategy and then drives it through to delivery; translating business direction into market-specific plans codifying briefs directing the internal creative team and partnering with dealership marketing directors and GMs to keep cluster and store-level workstreams moving and making sure the field always has what it needs. They build their own decks run their own projects communicate clearly handle volume and solve problems at the speed retail demands without passing the chaos on to the team.

The right candidate earns trust by showing up prepared responding fast and delivering on what they promise. Marketing directors and GMs should come to see them not as an agency contact but as a retail partner who understands their business.

• Execute campaign strategy at the market and store level translating brand direction into localized actionable plans
• Own market-level and store-level workstreams end-to-end: scoping briefing timelines creative review and deliverybuilding your own client-ready decks and running the work directly in the teams PM tools
• Coordinate across creative production and media to keep retail campaigns moving and moving fast
• Build quick-turn materials localized assets and market-specific adaptations without heavy upstream support
• Manage a broad concurrent portfoliocluster campaigns grand openings partner sponsorships and field activationsdividing the book with the Senior Account Director while keeping everything on time on quality and nothing slipping through the cracks
• Partner with the Creative Director to shape and codify the brief then help steer the internal creative team toward strong on-strategy worksetting direction proactively

• Serve as the day-to-day resource for field account leads the person they call when they need answers assets or air cover
• Arm field reps with the narratives talking points and materials they need to win GM buy-in
• Jump on calls respond quickly and solve problems at the speed the field moves
• Understand the challenges and opportunities across the dealership network well enough to translate them into actionable creative requests

• Own and grow relationships with marketing directors and priority GMs across assigned markets
• Earn trust through preparation responsiveness and follow-through not just status updates
• Become the kind of partner they call before a problem becomes a problem
• Work to create client evangelists: contacts who actively advocate for the agencys work because theyve experienced its value firsthand

• Creative strategy is proactive and sharp. The Creative Team receives clear well-grounded strategic direction that makes the work better
• Creative performance improves measurably over time because strategy media and creative are aligned and iterating together
• Field reps feel armed and supported. They have the narratives materials and creative confidence to win over GMs
• Priority marketing directors and GMs see the agency as a genuine strategic partner not a production vendor
• Projects across the portfolio are well-managed on time and delivered with strategic intent not just operational competence
• Client presentations land because they tell a story that connects creative to business outcomes
• The internal team feels grounded - client-side chaos gets absorbed and translated into clear direction not relayed as noise

• 8 years of experience in an advertising marketing or agency environment with a strong track record in account management retail marketing or field-level client support
• Hands-on retail automotive experience (Tier 2 / Tier 3 dealer or franchise networks) including fluency with store-level performance datacan read it and turn it into creative and media direction. This is non-negotiable not a nice-to-have
• Genuinely self-sufficient and hands-on - manages a high volume of concurrent projects with operational discipline and consistent delivery builds their own client-ready decks and owns the details directly (comfortable running their own work in a PM tool)
• Strong relationship instincts specifically with clients who are operationally focused market-driven and skeptical of agencies that move slowly
• Comfortable moving fast without sacrificing quality; knows when to escalate and when to just solve the problem
• Confident communicator who can build and deliver client-facing materials without heavy oversight
• Ability to translate campaign direction into market-specific execution plans and hold the line on quality without heavy oversight
• Creative-strategic range: can codify a brief direct an internal creative team and present the work confidently in creative reviewsnot just manage the client relationship
• Steady under pressure: absorbs an unpredictable high-volume client and brings order to the internal team rather than passing the churn along
• Fully remote with availability to work core Pacific (or at least Mountain) hours

Strong Differentiators

• Background supporting distributed Tier 3 auto dealer networks
• Experience working within inter-agency or holding company team structures
• Familiarity with market-level or co-op marketing models

This role is built for someone who pairs creative conviction with hands-on execution earns trust through preparation and presence stays calm when the client doesnt and understands that great agency work starts with knowing what the client actually needs and having the strategic range to deliver it.

Benefits

Benefits including healthcare 401K vacation/PTO policy to be shared in greater detail during the interview process.

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