Creative Director jobs in United States

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Hours: Full-time

Duration: 9 months with potential to extend

We are looking for an Account Director to work with our client.

Summary

An Account Director is responsible for leading the end-to-end process of planning and implementing advertising and communications campaigns. They collaborate with marketing, creative, production, strategy, finance, and external partners at each stage of a project, ensuring each team contributes effectively from brief to delivery.

• Strong campaign management skills, experienced in managing multiple projects end-to-end
• Ability to understand the strategic purpose of a project and its contribution to brand growth
• Experience with through-the-line communications, managing integrated 360 campaigns across multiple media formats
• Manage all deliverables typical of an integrated advertising and communications campaign
• Strong relationship-building skills—trust, collaboration, knowledge, and motivating team members
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confident in presenting to stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally
• Financial acumen and rigor in managing the account daily
• Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams with varying seniority levels; pan-market experience is beneficial.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Write status reports and verify work against briefs
• Agree on the brief with marketing to ensure clarity for the agency and involved stakeholders
• Organize internal briefing sessions, including working with strategy to develop briefs for internal teams
• Partner with Creative Directors and Executive Producers to enable successful delivery of world-class creative
• Coordinate with resource and production teams to organize resources, project plans, and budgets to deliver the brief
• Manage client communications regarding project progress, issue resolution, contact reports, status meetings, and expectation management
• Lead client presentations for creative stages of projects, gather feedback, and summarize next steps
• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion
• Maintain an overview of project progression, working with Production and Creative teams to ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery meeting the original brief
• Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business as needed, and facilitate resolution involving relevant stakeholders
• Ensure financial rigor across your business vertical, supporting Senior Account Director in preparing monthly burn reports, tracking retainer, overseeing daily production budgets, and assessing new briefs for feasibility
• Work with marketing to plan ahead on projects, keeping updated on project timelines, priorities, delays, and issues, and communicating these to internal stakeholders
• Lead relationships with media agencies and third parties (production companies and studios) to ensure effective collaboration