Director, Client Leadership

  • Full-time

Company Description

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise. Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. We do it daily for notable brands.

Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu international’s global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu Creative.

Job Description

Dentsu Creative is looking for a seasoned Social Account Director to partner with an exciting entertainment brand. You’ll help evolve social presence and build on their existing community, stoke fandom, and attract new audiences.

We’re looking for team members who are passionate about film and TV, and are eager to apply their passion to best-in-class creative work. It’s also critical that teammates are versed in understanding the always-changing social landscape and are equipped to quickly to activate against new platforms, trends, and behaviors. Successful candidates are self-starters, collaborative, and genuinely excited about pop culture and entertainment.

This role will report to our VP of Client Leadership. A successful candidate will have mastered high volume organic social accounts. They’ll champion strategically and creatively sharp work, be a true partner to clients, show a passion for the brand and category, and easily navigate a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. They’ll have deep social community and platform expertise, demonstrate passion for all things entertainment (TV, movies, celebrity and pop culture. They’ll jump into managing social content franchises with flexibility and willingness to move quickly.

  • Act as a primary day-to-day client contact across several large-scale social-first (but not social-only) projects
  • Manage the client relationships daily and oversee 2 Account Supervisors
  • Lead teams through strategic development, creative ideation, production, and flawless execution with in-house production teams
  • Anticipate project and/or client needs to always be one step ahead daily of what needs to be accomplished
  • Lead and oversee all account operations as it relates to the business of the agency
  • Identify client issues and work with our agency partners to provide solutions
  • Provide honest and valuable counsel to agency team
  • Collaborate with agency partners as an IAT leader
  • Create applicable development plans for direct reports
  • Inspire agency and client confidence and seek opportunities to advance the client relationship
  • Fuel agency culture and progress

Qualifications

  • Experience in social and entertainment verticals
  • Account team leader/senior client advisor
  • 8 years minimum of integrated agency account management experience

Perks:

  • Great compensation package
  • Comprehensive healthcare plans
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Flexible time-off
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave

Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000-$152,375/year. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

Joining Our Community Built On Creative Generosity

We aspire to be the most integrated network in the world for a lot of reasons. A big one is to make sure people always have your back. We don’t want talent to be islands at Dentsu Creative. We want this to be the place where you can do the work of your life while having a life. This means, offering an inclusive culture that embraces individual ways of working—a culture that values compensating employees for their contributions in a multitude of ways. For everything we ask of our people to do right by our clients and creative standards, we commit to giving back equally in investing in your unique career aspirations and learning & development needs. Seeing and celebrating our people is where we find joy. When you are a part of our creative network, you get an all-access pass to our global playground. There’s a purposeful, flexible infrastructure for you to jump toward initiatives that excite you in partnership with specialists in entertainment, experience, data, earned attention and more. Your voice and

unique lived experience are beyond valued. We want you to be loud, raise your hand and leave your imprint on how we continue building our creative culture while shaping what the very future of creativity can be. So, why not choose your own adventure? Let us be your springboard.

Four Signature Strengths Unite Us:

  • Boundless Creativity: We run toward the future, forever asking: What’s next? Our imagination has no limit. Our clients seek us out because we believe there is no problem we cannot solve with the power of modern creativity.
  • Intelligent Scale: Flowing the right talent around the right brief in the right moment, wherever it sits in the world. We scale our unique ideas with precision, using intelligent technology to make personal connections with millions around the world.
  • Obsessive Craft: Elevating the soul of our work with an obsessive focus on craft, nurturing the next-gen craft skills needed to soar in a modern world.
  • Radical Collaboration: Charting new territory through the power of radical collaboration. We seamlessly connect Creativity, Media and CXM to imagine new solutions at the intersection of craft, data, culture and innovation.

Click here to see how these strengths reflect our Japanese heritage. Learn more about how we ground our ambitions in the global Eight Ways.

About dentsu 
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying. 

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