Group Account Director

Horizon Media; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizon Media is seeking an Associate Account Director for Blue Hour Studios, a leadership role guiding the account team, shaping social strategy, and ensuring impactful work delivery. The role emphasizes strong client partnership, team leadership, and contribution to agency growth from New York.

You will oversee influencer initiatives, manage senior client relationships, and align strategies across channels to maximize business impact, with a focus on growth, profitability, and operational

Responsibilities

• Oversee activation of all influencer and talent partnerships ensuring timeliness, quality and effectiveness.
• Command complete ownership and accountability for assigned lines of business and relationships with clients and agency team at all levels.
• Develop strong relationships with talent agencies, managers and up-and-coming talent.
• Identify unique models to navigate influencer partnerships; assess tools and technology (including partners & AI) to elevate and speed up work.
• Encourage a positive, professional environment that supports clients, management, talent, teammates and the work.
• Set a standard of excellence through coaching and mentorship that develops strong, motivated internal teams.
• Spot challenges early and involve agency leadership to troubleshoot and resolve.

Job description

Location: New York, New York

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description

Blue Hour Studios is a social-first agency that makes brands magnetic through work that gets shared, remixed, and talked about. We create at the intersection of culture, content, creators, and commerce to help brands turn distinct cultural relevance into demand.

Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles and backed by Horizon Media, we connect creativity and media to drivereal businessimpact.

The Associate Account Director is a leadership role on the account team, responsible for driving client relationships, leading social strategy, and overseeing the execution of impactful work. This person is a trusted partner to our clients, a leader to our internal teams, and a key contributor to the growth of our agency.

At Horizon and Blue Hour Studios, we understand the value that different perspectives can bring to our clients and culture, so we strive for an environment where our employees feel welcomed,safeand empowered. We value you and believe that your authentic voice and unique perspectiveallowsus to create a more rewarding culture, and experience, together. We hire talented people, challengethemand give them every opportunity to grow.

Strategic Planning & Thought Leadership

• Stays informed and shares industry and cultural trends and technological advances that may help inform the work.

• Bring thought leadership to consult on complex issues andidentifyinnovative solutions

• Ability to navigate the complexity of the social ecosystem to make recommendations on an ongoing basis for our clients that leverage paid,ownedand earned opportunities

• Ensures best practices are applied across disciplines

• Ensuresstrategic alignment across all channels and teams for a fully integrated approach

• Provide high level strategic counsel to all clients and prospects

• Reinforce understanding of client's business and uncovering of motivations/needs

• Leads the development and execution of influencer strategy work

Account& TalentManagement

• Overseesthe activation of all influencer and talent partnerships ensuring timeliness,qualityand effectiveness

• Command complete ownership and accountability for assigned lines of business and relationships with clients and agency team at all levels.

• Develops critical relationship with talent agencies, talent managers and up and coming talent

• Identifiesunique and innovative models to navigate influencer partnerships; additionally,identifiestools and technology (including partners & AI) that will elevate andexpeditethe work

• Encourage a positive, professional environment that supports the clients, management,talent,teammatesandthe work.

• Sets a standard of excellence through coaching and mentorship that develops strong, motivated internal teams.

• Spot challenges in the distance and know when to bring in agency leadership and offer solutions to help them troubleshoot.

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of best-in-class social media and influencer marketing, including competitors and emerging trends that may inform the work.

• Build strong relationships with senior clients, having the ability to have tough conversations, while ensuring the health of the account is strong.

Business Growth

• Identifyopportunities and grow billings within assigned lines of business, and seek opportunities to deliverbreak-throughwork that’s on-brand and on strategy

• Ensure successful financial operations across assigned lines of business adhering to the Scope of Work.

• Inspire new products, newservicesand new ways of doing business

• Provide thought leadership toultimately inspirenew products, newservicesand new ways of doing business

• Ability to strategicallyidentifyand persuasively sell in incremental solutions/capabilities to drive organic growth

• Responsible for account/project profitability

• Assistnew business pitches, as appropriate

Team Management & Supervision

• Demonstrate strong supervisory, delegation, andescalationjudgement skills.

• Keep teams performing at their peak

• Provide input for team members' performancereviews,coaching to maximize success. Conduct performance review for direct reports.

• Provide ongoing, real-time, performance feedback to ensure continued team growth

• Ensure team members have training and support needed to achieve development goals

Salary Range: $3,461.54 - $4,230.77 a week. A successful applicant’s actual weekly or hourly rate may vary based upon, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training,licensure/certifications, and equity.

Base Pay

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

Horizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.