Freelance Social Account Director

Sphere Digital Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphere Digital Recruitment is seeking a freelance Social Account Director to lead a client’s day-to-day delivery, owning flagship campaigns across social-first and integrated channels. You’ll manage multi-market teams and oversee budgets, timelines and stakeholder expectations.

In this role you will serve as the senior client lead, working autonomously on a freelance basis with hybrid London-based arrangements, and you’ll need strong sports and football experience to deliver integrated campaigns

Qualifications

• Senior-level client service experience in a creative, social, or integrated agency.
• Sports experience is essential, with football experience highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day client relationship for a dedicated project.
• Own campaign planning and coordinate creative, strategy, production, and wider agency teams.
• Manage timelines, budgets, scopes and senior client expectations across markets.

Skills

Account management

Client relationship

Campaign planning

Stakeholder management

Job description

A freelance Social Account Director is needed to support a client’s freelance bench ahead of major sports and football projects. The role will work across integrated and social-first campaigns for large global brands, taking significant ownership of client relationships and day-to-day project delivery.

Key responsibilities include serving as the senior day-to-day client lead for a dedicated project, owning campaign planning, and coordinating creative, strategy, production, and wider agency teams. The role will manage projects from briefing and pre-production through delivery, oversee integrated deliverables (including TVC, social content, and campaign toolkits), and manage timelines, budgets, scopes, and senior client expectations while ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple stakeholders and markets.

The role typically requires Account Director-level client service experience within a creative, social, or integrated agency environment. Sports experience is essential, with football experience highly desirable, along with experience delivering integrated campaigns across either social-first or traditional channels and the ability to operate autonomously as the sole day-to-day client lead. Hybrid working in London is expected, typically with time in the office and some flexibility, and projects may begin soon with rates set on a freelance basis.