Senior Account Director
Location
AUSTIN
Type
Full Time
McGarrah Jessee seeks an experienced and entrepreneurial account director who has practiced and learned with the best and the brightest. We’re looking for someone who is hungry to take their superior relationship development and marketing skills to the next level of responsibility and leadership. The ideal candidate will have climbed the ranks at a reputable creative agency — specifically, a place that has built a revered culture around developing big ideas while also building their clients’ business. Experience across all facets of online and offline consumer marketing is a must, as is significant and sustained experience working on an integrated account where not only collaboration, but shared leadership with owners of paid, earned and owned channels, was a part of your daily responsibilities.
Succeeding at this position will require: being a natural leader of other account people (we call them integrators), autonomy, polished management skills, organizational vision, collaboration, tactical excellence, nervy strategic thinking and the desire and ability to get your hands dirty when needed and lead by example. Opportunities abound with this growing and stable high-profile QSR account.
Responsibilities:
- Be a student, and then a master, of our client's business, culture and brand voice
- Build the agency’s unique brand of respect, trust, partnership and contribution through your own intrinsic style
- Nurture and protect an environment for business-building creative
- Lead large-scale strategic efforts with senior clients
- Lead an account team of wickedly smart and motivated people
- Build close relationships and collaborate with leaders of creative, brand strategy, engagement planning and production
- Be someone who can own a room and present anything compellingly and with confidence
- Have good ideas and the ability to persuasively sell them, along with the good ideas of others
- Maintain accountability for all work from conception through production
- Manage priorities across multiple diverse initiatives
- Drive workflow across multiple teams, projects and clients, enabling productive collaboration
- Own the P&L and understand how actions and decisions impact our client’s budget and our agency’s profitability
- Ensure brand cohesion and connectivity across the entire engagement plan
- Identify long-term opportunities and ensure the agency is positioned to capitalize where our skills are appropriate and beneficial
- Cultivate honest and respectful relationships with a number of agency partners and vendors
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree a must, MBA a bonus
- 12-15 years of mostly agency experience
- Be a genuinely good person who first looks to common sense when evaluating decisions
- A solid understanding of traditional and nontraditional advertising, marketing principles, emerging digital/social media properties and technologies, and qualitative and quantitative research principles
- A knack for dedicating oneself to details while maintaining global operational vision
Please do not call. All submissions will be reviewed. Thank you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
McGarrah Jessee
McGarrah Jessee is an independent brand development agency in Austin, Texas. We partner deeply with uniquely great clients to solve big problems, push creative boundaries and shape all parts of the brand. The result: unusual levels of brand fandom, award-winning work and an employee and client tenure rate that runs counter to the industry.
McGarrah Jessee believes in the power of a workplace that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion. And we believe our culture is more inviting and creative and our work more productive and truthful when we are welcoming to all.
McGarrah Jessee is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. Eligible McGarrah Jessee employees can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12-month period per the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). McGarrah Jessee complies with the Employee Polygraph Protection Act. If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process, please email accommodations@mc-j.com or call (512) 225-2258. If you’d like, please note the pronouns you use (she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc.) in your application.