Strategic Growth Director, Key Accounts

Darwill; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwill is seeking a Client Growth Director to drive revenue growth within existing client accounts by identifying and closing strategic expansion opportunities. The role blends growth strategy with trusted advisory capabilities to improve local-market performance for multi-location organizations.

Ideal candidates combine consultative sales skills with digital performance marketing expertise across channels, franchises, and private equity-backed platforms.

Qualifications

• 7–12 years of experience in digital marketing, growth strategy, client services, or consultative account management.
• Proven success growing revenue within existing client relationships.
• Deep understanding of local performance marketing (paid search, local SEO, paid social, programmatic).
• Experience with multi-location, franchise, or distributed operating models.
• Ability to present growth strategies to executive stakeholders.
• Familiarity with CRM, CDPs, and marketing technology ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute account growth strategies across assigned client portfolios.
• Own upsell and cross-sell revenue targets and present growth proposals.
• Build trusted relationships with C-suite and marketing leaders.
• Coordinate with Sales, Marketing, Data, Analytics, and Delivery teams to support expansion.
• Demonstrate ROI through performance reporting and attribution analysis.

Skills

Digital marketing

Growth strategy

Consultative selling

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

CRM platforms

CDPs

Identity resolution

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Google Ads

Local SEO

Google Business Profile

Programmatic

GA/Analytics

Job description

Darwill is seeking a Client Growth Director to drive revenue growth within existing client accounts by identifying and closing strategic expansion opportunities. The role blends growth strategy with trusted advisory capabilities to improve local-market performance for multi-location organizations.

Ideal candidates combine consultative sales skills with digital performance marketing expertise across channels, franchises, and private equity-backed platforms.