Account Director

The role

You will lead and grow strategic client partnerships for ambitious brands. You will work with creative, production, and technology teams to manage and deliver integrated brand programs.

What you will do

• Provide strategic and tactical leadership while building trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
• Service more than one account at a time.
• Champion client business objectives while ensuring creative excellence and execution.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to identify opportunities for deepening partnerships.
• Partner with Creative, Production, and Technology teams to develop integrated solutions.
• Partner with Production and Creative leads to shape scopes of work and educate clients.
• Ensure pod financial health by partnering on budgets, staffing, forecasting, and resource planning.
• Co-lead project briefing with Creative Directors.
• Collaborate with Executive Leadership on account planning and organic growth.
• Support new business through outreach and pitch material development.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Account Management or Client Services within a leading experiential, creative, integrated, or innovation agency.
• Proven experience leading integrated brand programs from strategy through execution for enterprise-level clients.
• Track record of building trusted client relationships for long-term partnerships.
• Deep understanding of complex client organizations and navigating multiple stakeholders.
• Experience managing large-scale budgets, multi-disciplinary teams, and complex workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong commercial instincts with experience supporting proposals, statements of work, and strategic account planning.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to lead executive-level conversations.
• Collaborative leadership style.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without current or future employer sponsorship requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience working with Nike or within the broader Nike ecosystem
• Experience working with leading technology, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, or consumer brands

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without current or future employer sponsorship requirements.
• Unable to support employment arrangements that require E-Verify participation, including STEM OPT extensions.
• Not offering employment visa sponsorship for this role.
• Please include resume (or LinkedIn profile), and portfolio via URL or PDF, if applicable.

About the company

Hovercraft is a remote-first company, working primarily on Pacific and Mountain time.