Account Director
SimpsonScarborough
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Serve as the client’s senior partner, shaping scopes, clarifying goals, leading presentations, and building enduring relationships that anticipate needs and drive growth
- Provide insight and direction across projects, ensuring deliverables reflect client goals and broader strategy
- Lead goal setting and proposal development to expand client engagements
- Align cross-functional teams (research, strategy, creative, digital, media) around client goals and project outcomes
- Act as a trusted escalation point, resolving challenges quickly and diplomatically
- Navigate complex campus environments, align diverse stakeholders, and keep momentum toward shared institutional outcomes
- Deliver compelling presentations that simplify complexity, inspire confidence, and facilitate decision-making across executive and working groups
- Proactively identify opportunities for client growth and contribute to agency-wide revenue goals
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years in client-facing account management roles within an agency environment
- Familiarity with higher ed marketing/communications/advancement preferred
- Skilled at presenting to senior leaders, facilitating discussions, and writing clearly and persuasively
- Ability to handle challenges under pressure, bringing calm, clarity, and quick decision-making
- Experience defining clear goals, creating accountability, and motivating teams to deliver
- Proven ability to translate big-picture strategies into focused, coordinated actions
- Ability to interpret financial, performance, and market data to inform decision-making and drive profitability
- Strong knowledge of brand strategy, market research, content, digital marketing, and campaign execution
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent practical experience will be treated equally
Benefits
- nationwide health coverage
- dental
- vision
- employer paid life insurance & short-term disability
- flexible time off (FTO)
- additional voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, identity and legal protection, hospital indemnity, additional life coverage, critical illness and accident insurance, paid parental leave
- a 401(k) with employer contribution after waiting period
- flexible work model including annual stipend for remote working and professional development
- two (2) weeklong agency-wide refresh weeks (summer and winter office closures)
- a day off for your birthday
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
account managementgoal settingproposal developmentbrand strategymarket researchdigital marketingcampaign executionfinancial analysisperformance analysisdata interpretation
Soft skills
client relationship managementpresentation skillsfacilitationclear writingdecision-makingproblem-solvingteam motivationstrategic thinkingcalm under pressurecross-functional collaboration