Associate Account Director

Who We Are:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse. 

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.  Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work. 

Who we are looking for:  

We’re seeking a creatively motivated and nimble Associate Account Director to lead the day-to-day management of key initiatives for a large iconic technology brand. These clients are launching a confidential new challenger brand in a competitive tech landscape. It’s an exciting opportunity forge true partnership with clients who are eager to evolve their business.  

As an Associate Account Director you will be the day-to-day lead for key areas of this business, and responsible for ensuring the agency is fully prepared to meet all the client’s marketing needs.  You’ll have a pulse on the client work and the team, continuously finding ways to elevate the quality of our deliverables. You’ll be eager to bring people together while nurturing your team and play a key role in identifying new ways to make our work with our team and clients more seamless.   

What you’ll do:   

• Client | Be the go-to lead for a group of key clients on a daily-basis to ultimately become a true client partner: understand the client, their business, the automotive industry, and their competition and what customers are looking for in the best-in-class digital experiences. Help guide them efficiently and effectively. Be indispensable by reliably answering every request quickly and thoroughly and proactively over-delivering at every opportunity.  
• Team | Inspire and motivate a cohesive team across departments, disciplines, and offices, forging partnerships between various teams and departments.   
• Process | Lead and flawlessly execute agency projects from earliest concept stage to deployment and retrospectives. Partner with planning team to analyze existing business and consumer data and translate into impactful messaging and new opportunities. Nurture the relationship between the client and the agency by listening to the clients and developing trust and respect. 

Who you are:  

• A builder | Entrepreneurial attitude coupled with a strong business acumen. Ability and appetite to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas. A self-starter. 
• Open and collaborative | You must be a champion of team environments that are comfortable and encouraging, especially when working across disciplines. 
• An experimenter | Embrace the unknown and be ready to break process. You’ll be excited by opportunities to explore new ideas rather than rely on existing paradigms, and you view technology as a tool that can drive this creativity. 
• Optimistic and resilient | Dig in and figure out how to work around problems. Takes care of self and team.  
• Ego-less | We all wear the hats that need wearing, it’s the mentality that makes the team successful.