Lead Thinker

Thinkerbell; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thinkerbell is seeking an amazing Lead Thinker (Account Director/Senior Account Director) to join our Melbourne team. You will drive brand-led ideas from insight to execution and build strong client partnerships to grow business.

You’ll lead projects, mentor junior thinkers, and collaborate with the Core Tinker to deliver high-quality work. We welcome flexible arrangements and a dynamic agency culture.

Qualifications

• Background in advertising, media agency, or brand strategy.
• Strong problem solving, punctual, and business minded.
• Able to drive business results and build client trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand strategy and creative ideas across client work.
• Manage projects, timelines, and measurement mapping.
• Mentor junior Thinkers and collaborate with the Core Tinker.

Skills

Brand strategy

Project management

Client relationships

Financial forecasting

Job description

Thinkerbell is looking for an amazing Lead Thinker (Account Director/Senior Account Director) to join our team of Thinkers and Tinkers in Melbourne.

HOW YOU’LL CREATE MEASURED MAGIC

What the hell is a Thinker?

We’re glad you asked. A Thinker is a strategy-account-servicey type of person who often comes from a background of adland, or media agency, or brand strategy, or earned, or from the coffee shop down the road, but is really really smart. They ask a lot of questions and listen very carefully for the answers. They’re problem solvers and punctual, and know how to drive business results. They can manage processes and are business minded and they know how to get shit done.

THE TASK AT HAND

As a Lead Thinker, you are the key driver of a range of ambitious and innovative projects for our clients, focusing on brand-led ideas that push the boundaries of strategy and creativity, from insight to execution. You are an innovator and influencer, building strong relationships with existing and potential clients, driving business growth through sound strategic and creative solutions with strong financial acumen. An emerging leader with the agency, you are an invaluable team member mentoring and up‑skilling more junior Thinkers and are not afraid to have an opinion.

You’ll have 3 big things to do:

1. BRAND AND CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

You’ll lead your squad in the development of brand strategy and creative ideas that build our client’s brands and help change behaviours. You’ll work closely with your Core Tinker, having a key voice throughout the ideation process and ensuring everything is executed to the highest standard with cross functional collaboration at the core. You take ownership of driving the work and help up‑skill more junior Thinkers whilst continuing to ask questions and building on your knowledge base.

2.PROJECT LEADERSHIP

You have excellent project management skills and know our Measured Mapping process like the back of your hand. You are an experienced problem solver and know how to keep a job on track when things inevitably don’t go to plan. You proactively keep your squads, stakeholders and leadership updated and understand the importance of accurate and timely record keeping and financial forecasting and management.

3.INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATION

You know your client’s business inside out and understand the challenges they face, the industry context and what makes them tick. You lead our squads to function as an extension of their team, and are tight with your Core Tinker. You know when to challenge and push the boundaries when required to help our clients find exceptional creative solutions that build their businesses and grow our relationship.

AND THIS IS WHAT LIFE AT THINKERBELL LOOKS LIKE

Thinkerbell represents the coming together of scientific enquiry and hard core creativity – or as we like to call it, ‘Measured Magic’. We are an agency of Thinkers and Tinkers and have extensive experience in the worlds of media (paid, owned, earned, and shared), research, strategy, and creative execution. We have helped some of Australia’s best known and most loved brands find their inner magic.

We promise to push you out of your comfort zone, and nurture your inherent brilliant qualities at the same time. The Institute of Measured Magic is our training and development program where we keep brains sticky with internal and external tailored training throughout the year. We also develop personal Measured Magic Indicators (MMIs are our version of KPIs) to ensure everyone is growing in their role and beyond.

Whether you are a parent to little humans, the caregiver to your elder folk, or you simply do your best work over 4 days rather than 5 days- we are all ears and we are open to Full Time, Part Time or any ideas that lie in between.

We kick off every week with Measured Mondays, our all agency, super‑wip and finish every Friday at 4pm with Magic Hour, where we get creative and weird together.

On top of your regular leave, everyone also gets a Mind Expansion Project per year, up to 5 consecutive days of extra leave per year for you to expand your mind and explore something new (that is something you wouldn’t normally do and something you’ve never done before), and then share back your experience with the agency. Pretty interesting eh? What would you do?