Account Director

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🐸 Why Join Our Team?

When joining Leap Group, you're joining a team that is passionate, innovative, and connected. Some words our teammates use to describe our culture are welcoming, collaborative, flexible, and dog-friendly (warning: your interview may be accompanied by a wagging tail).

Benefits

We give our team the ability to make an impact with clients, while expanding their experience and depth of knowledge in the process. We like to show our appreciation for everything our teammates do by offering supportive and inclusive benefits that allow them to thrive. This includes things like:

• 🩺 Health, dental, vision, and ancillary benefits
• 🐣 Paid maternity and paternity leave
• 🌞 Unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays
• 🌻 Autonomy and flexibility
• 🧠 Company-paid access to coaching and therapy
• 💸 401k plan with match and 1:1 access to investment advisor
• 📚 Professional development opportunities
• 💻 Remote-hybrid flexibility

🌈 Diverse and Inclusive Marketing Comes from Diverse and Inclusive Teams

We recognize our teammates are our greatest assets in helping our clients market less and matter more. Diverse backgrounds, opinions and perspectives on our team allow us to expand our own perspectives and, in the process, create solutions that are innovative, creative, and strategic. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and welcome your unique voice during the interview.

🎧 Accommodation Requests

Leap Group complies with the ADA and ADAAA. If you need reasonable accommodation to apply, interview, or do the job, please include your accommodation request in the corresponding application question.

🌍 Where is This Role?

Leap Group serves clients nationally and internationally, with a footprint in the Midwest and offices in Louisville, KY;
Cincinnati, OH;
Indianapolis, IN;
Chicago, IL. Roles are typically open to remote candidates located and authorized to work in the U.S., with strong preference for candidates near the physical footprint for in-person collaboration. Onsite time and periodic travel for client meetings, collab sessions, production work, pitches, and team gatherings are expected. Our hybrid work model is core to how we deliver impact.

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💎 Who is the Account Director?

The Account Director is seen by clients as an equal peer and collaborative partner that provides insight, inspiration and counsel on their business and marketing goals. As a trusted advisor, you are the person senior clients want alongside them when making decisions and developing marketing plans. You work in tandem with a small team of more junior account managers to successfully cater to a portfolio of clients.

Broad Responsibilities Include

• Overseeing account portfolio and strategy, offering insights and counsel to primarily senior-level client contacts. Involved in high-touch/strategic initiatives, influencing key decisions.
• Ensuring strategic success in project outcomes through account management, client relationship management, and collaboration with internal strategists to guide agency-wide initiatives. Enforce adherence to timelines and ensure client alignment on scope, deliverables, and budget.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate subject matter expertise into strategic initiatives and client solutions, fostering a positive and productive work environment.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to more junior account teammates regarding shared accounts.
• Utilizing knowledge of digital marketing offerings, agency services, and industry trends to ensure high-quality output and help establish KPIs and strategies for success.
• Understanding client dynamics, navigating internal dynamics, and shaping business movement through the agency.
• Developing expertise in clients’ industries to inform long-term account strategy.
• Driving the agency’s organic account growth strategy and executing growth plans for all clients.
• Driving thought leadership within the account management team and the agency as a whole.

📚 What Do You Need?

• 8+ years of agency account management…