VM | Account Director

VaynerX VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now. Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, the modern-day parent company i s home to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Tamara Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers. ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies. In a Nutshell: You are a leader who runs the business, keeping the wheels moving and your clients and teams motivated. Integrated strategic and organizational thinking and execution rests with you. You can harness the efforts of internal and IAT teams to deliver on big brand goals. You are the gatekeeper of brand equity and quality control of work prior to it leaving the building. What You'd Do Client Management: • Act as the overall manager of a client's business, ensuring that we are delivering for the client’s business everyday; Ensure that all client initiatives run on time and on budget • Strengthen and own client & partner agency relationships (and all other stakeholders) and ensure the rest of the team maps well to the client set • Deliver Radical Candor to strengthen and grow client relations, operational excellence. We are looking for a leader with the comms skills, empathy and courage to deliver all feedback (both the positive and the tough) in a clear, direct and motivating manner, with an action-oriented approach to navigating through challenges and improving our work together. • Manage and attend relevant internal meetings (e.g: creative reviews, account management status meetings, IAT meetings etc) • Be able to leverage brand knowledge to inspire the team and contribute ideas that can transform the business. • Be able to effectively lead and shape client presentations and confidently present, as required Team Management • Understand your role as a leader on the team. Always approachable and empathetic, you are seen as a role model to their direct reports in terms of maturity, self awareness and professionalism. • Educate, inspire, motivate, and mentor account teams (along with strategy, media and creative etc…) in our commitment to providing best-in-class marketing communications, while contributing to the career growth of your team members. • Supervise creative development for the account - you help lead and shape the creative work based on the client’s business objectives and brief to the agency. Specifically ongoing campaign as well as new campaign exploratories. • Manages up to VP on all things having to do with client and team. Business Strategy: • Practitioner of the space. You live and breathe marketing for the world we live in. You regularly read business reports and platform updates and provide a pov to the client as relevant • You eat, breathe, and sleep insights into today’s digital & mobile consumer, to develop brand-specific strategies that, ultimately, help them sell shit • Strong foundational and working knowledge of creative and media across major digital and social channels. Must be well versed in common marketing & media principles with a strong understanding of the social media platforms and their ecosystems. • Oversees larger campaign productions (e.g complex video or multiple channel campaig