Gravity Global

Global brand-to-demand marketing agency

Account Director

Account ManagementPosted on Nov 9

Full-timeHouston, TX, USANo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in advertising or media-centric agencies, including experience leading fast-paced, delivery-intensive accounts.
A strong paid media background.
Demonstrated ability to operate in high-pressure, high-expectation client environments.
Strategic judgment and media fluency, including the ability to pressure-test plans and sharpen points of view without personally authoring all strategy.
Strong prioritization, decision-making, and organizational skills.
Experience owning account profit and loss, forecasting, and profitability.
Bias toward action and comfort working with imperfect inputs.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end account leadership across strategic alignment, planning, delivery, financial management, and client experience.
Serve as the senior day-to-day client partner, bringing consultative thinking and business judgment to every engagement.
Act as the strategic integrator across disciplines, ensuring campaigns and programs answer the client’s business ask with a coherent, client-aligned point of view.
Partner with media and strategy specialists to translate client objectives into cohesive programs that balance ambition, feasibility, and speed.
Ensure recommendations consistently articulate the rationale behind them, particularly in fast-moving or ambiguous situations.
Lead cross-functional pod teams while personally stepping into delivery where needed to maintain quality and pace.
Drive media-centric programs from brief through execution.
Make fast, informed decisions to unblock teams, manage tradeoffs, and meet aggressive service-level agreements.
Own account financials, including forecasting, scope control, profitability, and revenue health.
Identify, frame, and help convert organic growth opportunities grounded in client needs and performance realities.
Lead and develop a small, cross-functional pod team.
Provide clear direction, prioritization, and decision frameworks.
Coach team members on strategic thinking, delivery discipline, and client judgment.
Support team growth, performance, and retention in a demanding environment.

🌍 Join Our Global Team

Gravity Global is the world’s most awarded marketing consultancy specialising in brands operating in complex markets. Led by strategy, innovation, technology, data, and creativity, we create brand-and-demand marketing programmes that drive transformational growth for our clients.

With 14 wholly owned offices across the US, Europe and APAC, and our Global Talent Hubs in emerging markets, you can build a truly global career in a rapidly scaling organisation that’s shaping the future of marketing.

At Gravity Global, we believe our people are our greatest strength. We’re a collective of creative thinkers, strategic storytellers, and data-driven innovators united by one mission – to deliver exceptional work that makes an impact. We’re growing fast – across continents and disciplines – and we’re looking for passionate individuals who want to make a difference: for our clients, our teams, and the world around us.

About the role

This Account Director role supports a portfolio of mainly B2B clients including real estate, healthcare, aviation, etc.

The role carries full P&L responsibility within a pod structure, including revenue growth, scope discipline, and margin performance. The Account Director is accountable for delivery excellence, commercial health, people development, and client satisfaction—balancing day-to-day execution with longer-term account growth and strategic progression.

This is a hands-on leadership role with a strong consultative and business-facing dimension. Success requires comfort with ambiguity, speed, and personal accountability. The Account Director stays close to the work and ensures momentum even when systems and resourcing are imperfect.

Own end-to-end account leadership across strategic alignment, planning, delivery, financial management, and client experience.
Serve as the senior day-to-day client partner, bringing consultative thinking and business judgment to every engagement.
Act as the strategic integrator across disciplines—ensuring all campaigns and programs clearly answer the client’s business ask with a coherent, client-aligned point of view.
Partner with media and strategy specialists to translate client objectives into cohesive programs that balance ambition, feasibility, and speed.
Ensure recommendations consistently articulate the “why,” not just the “what,” particularly in fast-moving or ambiguous situations.
Lead cross-functional pod teams while personally stepping into delivery where needed to maintain quality and pace.
Drive media-centric programs from brief through execution.
Make fast, informed decisions to unblock teams, manage tradeoffs, and meet aggressive SLAs.
Own account financials including forecasting, scope control, profitability, and revenue health.
Identify, frame, and help convert organic growth opportunities grounded in client needs and performance realities.

OPERATING REALITY

Tight deadlines and frequent deliverables are the norm.
Teams are lean; leaders are expected to operate close to the work.
Agency processes are evolving and require adaptability.
Clients expect responsiveness, clarity, and strategic judgment.
Strategy must be evident in execution—not just in presentations.

PEOPLE & POD LEADERSHIP

Lead and develop a small, cross-functional pod team.
Provide clear direction, prioritization, and decision frameworks.
Coach team members on strategic thinking, delivery discipline, and client judgment.
Support team growth, performance, and retention in a demanding environment.

10+ years in advertising or media-centric agencies, with experience leading fast-paced, delivery-intensive accounts.
Strong paid media background.
Demonstrated ability to operate in high-pressure, high-expectation client environments.
Strategic judgment and media fluency—able to pressure-test plans and sharpen POVs without personally authoring all strategy.
Strong prioritization, decision-making, and organizational skills.
Experience owning account P&L, forecasting, and profitability.
Bias toward action and comfort working with imperfect inputs.

About the Company

Gravity Global

Global brand-to-demand marketing agency

Gravity Global is a global brand-to-demand marketing agency that helps brands attract attention and convert that attention into growth. It serves both B2B and B2C clients by building campaigns that push brands upward through earned attention, aiming to generate demand and drive measurable growth. The company differentiates itself with a worldwide footprint and a cohesive, non-siloed global team structure—offices around the world operate as one agency with an independent spirit. Its goal is to help brands stand out, gain notice, and achieve scalable growth by turning attention into demand.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2018

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