Account Director

RP3 Agency; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

RP3 Agency is seeking an Account Director to lead complex client businesses with strategic clarity, operational rigor, and creative ambition. You will oversee account health across strategy, execution, financial performance, and team leadership, bringing focus and accountability to client relationships and internal teams.

The role emphasizes building trusted partnerships, driving organic growth, and delivering bold, high-quality work that moves brands forward.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic advisor to client leadership teams
• Develop a deep understanding of client businesses, competitive landscape, customer behavior, and market dynamics
• Translate business challenges into clear strategic direction and actionable opportunities
• Identify and drive organic growth opportunities across accounts
• Lead high-impact client conversations with confidence, clarity, and sound judgment
• Anticipate risks, surface challenges early, and guide teams toward solutions
• Build alignment and trust across client and agency stakeholders
• Ensure the agency consistently delivers high-quality work and strong client partnership
• Partner with Strategy, Creative, Media, and Production teams to shape integrated marketing solutions
• Guide the development of campaigns and initiatives from brief through execution
• Champion work that is strategically grounded, creatively ambitious, and built to perform
• Push teams toward stronger thinking, sharper insights, and more impactful ideas
• Ensure work aligns with client objectives, brand standards, and business goals
• Help teams prioritize effectively and maintain momentum across complex initiatives
• Oversee the financial health of assigned accounts, including forecasting, scoping, staffing, and revenue management
• Partner with Account Leadership and Finance to manage profitability and resource planning
• Ensure scopes of work, budgets, timelines, and staffing plans support both client success and agency sustainability
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, delivery, or scope-related risks
• Lead cross-functional teams with clarity, accountability, and a solutions-oriented mindset
• Establish strong working processes that improve collaboration, communication, and efficiency
• Balance multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard for both the work and the team experience
• Lead, mentor, and develop Account Leadership team members
• Provide clear direction, actionable feedback, and ongoing coaching
• Help teams navigate ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and solve problems proactively
• Foster strong collaboration across departments and disciplines
• Contribute to a culture of accountability, curiosity, inclusion, and continuous improvement
• Support staffing decisions, team development, and long-term growth planning within the department

Job description

RP3 is an independent creative agency built to make work that breaks through and performs. Born under pressure and shaped by real-world accountability, we believe wildly original ideas aren’t decoration—they’re how brands grow.

We partner with ambitious organizations across financial services, travel & hospitality, higher education, nonprofits, and beyond to turn clarity, creativity, and performance into real business momentum. There’s no ROI in boring.

The Role

We’re looking for an Account Director who can lead complex client businesses with strategic clarity, operational rigor, and creative ambition.

This role is responsible for driving client growth, leading integrated teams, and ensuring the agency delivers bold, effective work that performs. Account Directors serve as senior client partners, internal business leaders, and champions of work that moves brands forward.

You’ll oversee account health across strategy, execution, financial performance, and team leadership—bringing focus, momentum, and accountability to both client relationships and internal teams.

What You’ll Do

You build trusted partnerships and help clients navigate what’s next.

• Serve as a senior strategic advisor to client leadership teams
• Develop a deep understanding of client businesses, competitive landscape, customer behavior, and market dynamics
• Translate business challenges into clear strategic direction and actionable opportunities
• Identify and drive organic growth opportunities across accounts
• Lead high-impact client conversations with confidence, clarity, and sound judgment
• Anticipate risks, surface challenges early, and guide teams toward solutions
• Build alignment and trust across client and agency stakeholders
• Ensure the agency consistently delivers high-quality work and strong client partnership

Creative & Strategic Development

You help teams produce smarter, bolder, more effective work.

• Partner with Strategy, Creative, Media, and Production teams to shape integrated marketing solutions
• Guide the development of campaigns and initiatives from brief through execution
• Champion work that is strategically grounded, creatively ambitious, and built to perform
• Push teams toward stronger thinking, sharper insights, and more impactful ideas
• Ensure work aligns with client objectives, brand standards, and business goals
• Help teams prioritize effectively and maintain momentum across complex initiatives

Business & Operational Leadership

You lead the business behind the work.

• Oversee the financial health of assigned accounts, including forecasting, scoping, staffing, and revenue management
• Partner with Account Leadership and Finance to manage profitability and resource planning
• Ensure scopes of work, budgets, timelines, and staffing plans support both client success and agency sustainability
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, delivery, or scope-related risks
• Lead cross-functional teams with clarity, accountability, and a solutions-oriented mindset
• Establish strong working processes that improve collaboration, communication, and efficiency
• Balance multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard for both the work and the team experience

You create clarity, accountability, and growth for the people around you.

• Lead, mentor, and develop Account Leadership team members
• Provide clear direction, actionable feedback, and ongoing coaching
• Help teams navigate ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and solve problems proactively
• Foster strong collaboration across departments and disciplines
• Contribute to a culture of accountability, curiosity, inclusion, and continuous improvement
• Support staffing decisions, team development, and long-term growth planning within the department