Account Director

September 7, 2024

🏄 California – Remote

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Grizzly

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Grizzly is an independent creative agency that partners with forward-thinking brands to challenge convention and create cultural impact. Established in 2013, Grizzly works with clients worldwide from its bases in San Diego, Atlanta, and Mexico City. The agency is known for its innovative and adventurous approach to brand strategy and storytelling, as exemplified in its collaborations with entities like Google and Alila Hotels. Grizzly seeks to push the boundaries of traditional branding by adopting strategies like Business to People (B2P) communication and embracing the latest trends, such as the integration of AI.

Strategy • Design • Technology • Marketing • Advertising

11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Grizzly is looking for an Account Director with 8+ years of agency experience to work on a fast-moving and rapidly growing portfolio of accounts. • Reporting to the COO, the Account Director will be expected to build and nurture relationships with senior level client leadership. • This person is excellent in building strong, trusting and lasting relationships. • This person is an expert on the client business, providing a strong vision, perspective and direction aimed at solving our client’s largest business challenges. • The individual is viewed as an agency expert, and is continually advancing agency reputation through thought leadership and relationships. • They will oversee multiple creative projects and internal/external partner relationships simultaneously. • The Account Director will demonstrate strong leadership, collaboration, and communication while working closely across multiple cross-functional agency teams, proactively solving against creative and logistical challenges. • The Account Director is a confidante and senior counselor for clients, driving strategic relationship building at all levels of organizations.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in hands-on account management and executive level relationship building, must have agency experience. • Most comfortable when client facing and engaging multiple groups within the client’s organization when leading coordination for larger projects. • Interest in and aptitude for creative business and marketing solutions. • Strong selling and negotiation skills. • A deep understanding of the creative project process and the ability to monitor progress for timely execution. • Ability to establish interpersonal, lasting relationships with clients that transcend our scope of work. • Comprehensive knowledge of clients’ business, goals and objectives. • Ability to lead and win complex new business pitches. • Excellent judgment with the ability to proactively identify issues and/or obstacles and effectively create solutions. • Proven leadership skills and the ability to champion project team morale. • Superior ability to work in a collaborative manner, both with internal teams and clients. • Ability to make sound decisions, think strategically, problem solve, multi-task while remaining hyper-focused on the details. • Must possess good organization, meeting management, time management, and excellent written and verbal skills. • Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. • Excellent presentation skills that encompass clear, compelling communications.; excellent presentation creation skills - copy/design. • Ability to manage multiple business initiatives in an entrepreneurial environment. • Ability to operate with significant autonomy and discretion. • Expert knowledge of all functional agency departments, capabilities and service areas. • Deep understanding of a wide range of industries, markets and brands, and what it takes to stand out and service them.