Account Director

Company description

A global creative constellation built for what’s next—uniting the human vision of the Leo Burnett network with the innovation of Publicis Worldwide.

Leo is HI × AI: Human Insight, Human Ideas, Human Impact—supercharged by the data and technology to move faster, go further, and deliver everywhere.

Leo brings together 15,000+ people across 90 countries, combining global scale with creative firepower to drive outsized impact for brands.

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to play an important role leading popular brands and products. This critical account role is a key client partner leading a variety of workstreams and will work collaboratively with partners in strategy, creative, project management, production, and executive leaders. The client is the third largest bank in America.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to manage complex, fluid businesses.
• Superb written and verbal presentation skills - a clear communicator with the ability to motivate and guide others.
• Proactive, solution-oriented, strategic thinker.
• Enthusiastic collaborator who enjoys working with other people and has the drive to make things happen in partnership with others.

Responsibilities

• Team player with ability to drive results & create momentum through teamwork with internal teams, external teams, and agency partners, providing business and consumer insight, to help deliver seamless, breakthrough, on-strategy, and on-time work.
• Act as a primary day-to-day client contact across several large-scale projects, managing the client relationships daily
• Lead teams through centralized research, qualification, creative, production and global reapplication for a variety of projects.
• Anticipate project and/or client needs to always be one step ahead daily of what needs to be accomplished.
• Inspire Agency and Client confidence and seek opportunities to advance the client relationship and build agency business

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience of managing programs
• Account team leader/senior client advisor
• Project management expert
• Experience in a supervisory role
• Ability to manage multiple major client relationships with multiple workstreams

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $155,961.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/16/2026.