Group Director, Core Growth & AI Strategy

Power Digital Marketing; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Power Digital Marketing is seeking a Group Director, Core to lead client relationships and revenue across a portfolio of founder-led, small business clients. You will own executive relationships, drive retention and expansion, and steer a scalable, AI-enabled operating model.

You will mentor Account Directors, set go-to-market strategy, shape division-level analytics, and partner with Sales to sharpen positioning.

Responsibilities

• Own net revenue retention and expansion MRR for the division; treat expansion as the primary commercial lever of the role and own the division's monthly service expansion target
• Personally own executive relationships across the top 10-20% of the portfolio by MRR — direct relationship, not delegated
• Run quarterly, relationship-focused executive check-ins with top-tier accounts and 1x1 check-ins with every priority account
• Maintain an accurate, self-owned retention forecast on a weekly basis — accountable for the accuracy of the division's retention data
• Track vertical-specific signal such as founder engagement and responsiveness, service package utilization, and time-to-first-win on foundational packages
• Diagnose risk early and install fixes, not just responses; lead or co-lead quarterly plans for the top 10% of the portfolio
• Partner with Account Directors to build value-based, consultative business cases — expansion should drive value, not be sold
• Identify and lead common Core expansion paths, including upsell from foundational packages into additional service lines
• Work with Account Directors to keep the Salesforce pipeline current and accurate — stages, forecast, and next steps updated weekly
• Serve as the frontline for product and vertical innovation, feeding client signal into Power Circuit
• Build and evolve vertical-relevant reporting frameworks for Core, including metrics such as time-to-first-win, founder engagement/response rate, and package-level utilization
• Play a key leadership role in final-round pitches for prospective clients where support is needed
• Bring vertical point of view and executive credibility to new business
• Partner with Sales to sharpen positioning, collateral, and win rate for the division's go-to-market
• Directly manage Account Directors and oversee the pod that supports them
• Coach every direct report to operate as an AI-Native Growth Director, not a task manager — faster diagnosis, more client-facing time, less manual reporting
• Evaluate the team on Pulse sentiment, health scores, and expansion weekly — not just activity
• Raise the floor on AI adoption — no one on the team operates the old way
• Own hiring, staffing, capacity, and career pathing for the division; facilitate DAPs and career progression conversations
• Practice radical candor; deliver timely, actionable feedback that accelerates careers
• Identify and develop key talent for future Sr. Account Director & Group Director roles
• Lead training on vertical-specific and AI-native tools, processes, and strategies
• Vibe-codes prototypes to automate repeatable tasks, surface better insights, and test hypotheses quickly
• Designs AI workflows for the team — builds the system, not just uses the tools; models AI-forward behavior
• Runs Omega and Iris across the full portfolio and acts on the patterns they surface
• Decides which AI tools and workflows get adopted, when, and how across the division
• Owns division-level AI quality tradeoffs — where AI accelerates output, and where it must never touch client-facing work unreviewed
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Job description

Power Digital Marketing is seeking a Group Director, Core to lead client relationships and revenue across a portfolio of founder-led, small business clients. You will own executive relationships, drive retention and expansion, and steer a scalable, AI-enabled operating model.

You will mentor Account Directors, set go-to-market strategy, shape division-level analytics, and partner with Sales to sharpen positioning.