Account Director

Company Description

Sia Experience is the marketing and creative pillar of Sia. We thrive at the intersection of strategy, consulting, and marketing communications. Our end-to-end solutions blend category-leading design, technology, and strategic insight to craft transformative experiences and connectivity. Our agency x consulting model is big enough to deliver, and small enough to be nimble. 

Sia Experience sits within Sia, a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We’re optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes.

To see the types of projects we support, check out our website www.siaxperience.com

Why Join The Sia Village?

Excellence | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Teamwork | Care & Support | Employee Wellbeing

These are the six core values that guide all our actions. As an expression of our values, our Sia Village concept describes our commitment to fostering a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is the key, not only to innovation, but to the growth and development of our people.

Your journey at Sia Experience will be enriched by a(n):  

• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Career advocacy program that supports achieving professional development goals through guidance, and real-time feedback
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with an ever-growing list of global affinity initiatives

Job Description

As Account Director, you successfully manage accounts, curate relationships and contribute to the overall coordination of cross-functional teams to ensure we are meeting the client goals. The right candidate will be responsible for assessing client business needs, providing strategic stewardship to the clients, aligning the internal team on business objectives, and ultimately meeting & exceeding client expectations.

You are a big thinker, incredibly organized, and enjoy building relationships. You love and understand the entire digital ecosystem across all advertising - paid, earned, owned, social, mobile, user experience, web development, analytics, etc.

What Success Looks Like:

• You demonstrate keen strategic planning/oversight of project plans and engagement structure. You align the project plans and engagement structure with the agency’s financial goals including:
  • Aggregating profitability (i.e. you have a deep understanding of how to structure the engagement in a strategic way to meet client goals.)
  • Ensuring the work quality is delivered at the highest level, which sets us up to grow the account, but you are also cognizant of financial and timing parameters and leverage creative ways to get us where we need to be.
  • Structuring the plan/resourcing strategy to maximize impact on ongoing monthly financial goals related to our revenue targets and breakeven. You are agile in thinking about assumptions we can make, things we can pull up and keeping us on track to hit these goals ongoing.
  • Holding the production team accountable to the accuracy of the numbers they're reporting in context to 1) your views on the account and how/why/when we should be investing and 2) reality of what's in our systems related to the plans you know about (i.e. trust your gut)
• You are effectively developing client proposals, executing SOW’s and translating client requests into actionable briefs.
• Business growth is achieved because you are proactively seeking opportunities to add value, extend campaigns, recommend new projects, and build relationships.

Qualifications

• At least 7-10 years of digital agency experience in managing relationships required
• Solid understanding of account and project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, and run team meetings
• Proven track record in prioritizing a heavy workload
• Able to meet deadlines with accuracy and minimum supervision
• Superb written and communications skills
• Comfortable and confident acting as a product owner
• Professional, friendly demeanor with extremely strong organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to solve problems with keen instincts and organizational experience
• Positive, professional team-player
• Proven knowledge of the digital ecosystem across the entire advertising landscape (paid, earned, owned media, social, mobile, user experience, web development, analytics, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree required

Additional Information

Compensation & Benefits 

Compensation is determined by years of experience and proven previous success in this role, level of expertise in the skills needed to perform this role at the highest level and cost of living in your area of residency. Salary Range: $150,000-$175,000/year

• Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Healthcare coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance policies
• Generous time off 
• Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents regardless of gender 
• Building Healthy Families Program
• 9 Company Holidays 1 Floating Holiday 
• 401(k) Plan - 4% matching on day 1
• College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan
• Monthly cell phone stipend 
• Commuter Benefits 
• Gym Reimbursement through firm medical plan

Our Commitment To Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia's DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 93/100 for 2023)
• LGBTQ
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

Hybrid Workplace Guidelines

Sia maintains its hybrid workplace arrangements and provides a flexible workplace environment that is driven by client and business/market needs. At this time, in-person requirements are issued by departments (Business Unit/Business Line) and vary by office location. Consultants are expected to have the ability to be flexible with work location depending on business needs and live within a reasonable distance to the office.

Work Authorization & Sponsorship 

At this time, Sia does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status). 

Sia is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.