Senior Group Account Director – Digital Growth Leader

AKQA; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

AKQA, part of WPP, seeks a Group Account Director based in Seattle to lead a key client relationship and drive growth for digital product engagements. The role requires senior client leadership, a strategic advisory mindset, and deep product delivery expertise to translate client needs into ambitious, measurable work.

You will guide multidisciplinary teams across creative, strategy, product, and technology, ensuring profitability and long-term partnership health in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Significant senior client leadership experience within an agency environment.
• Deep digital product and services experience with designing and delivering sophisticated digital products.
• Proven growth mindset with ability to deepen client relationships and uncover opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the most senior day-to-day client leadership voice on the account, owning health, growth and profitability.
• Lead digital product and services engagements, guiding conception, design, and delivery of complex digital products.
• Drive organic growth by anticipating client needs and translating them into opportunities.
• Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior client stakeholders with credibility to guide and align.
• Provide cross-functional direction to multidisciplinary teams focusing on priorities.
• Partner with creative, strategy, product and technology leaders to ensure client ambition and user needs are met.
• Oversee commercial management including scoping, forecasting, resourcing and margin performance.
• Mentor and develop the account team, fostering collaboration and growth.

Skills

Senior client leadership

Digital product leadership

Growth mindset

Strategic advising

Cross-functional leadership

Forecasting and profitability

Relationship building

Team mentorship

Job description

AKQA, part of WPP, seeks a Group Account Director based in Seattle to lead a key client relationship and drive growth for digital product engagements. The role requires senior client leadership, a strategic advisory mindset, and deep product delivery expertise to translate client needs into ambitious, measurable work.

You will guide multidisciplinary teams across creative, strategy, product, and technology, ensuring profitability and long-term partnership health in a fast-moving environment.