Freelance Account Director, Business Leadership

ABOUT US – MOMENTUM WORLDWIDE 
Momentum is an agency of doers. We make the industry’s most disruptive, entertaining, shareable, unforgettable experiences for our clients and their fans. We do it by bringing people closer to what they love, in original and unexpected ways. Whether it’s a physical activation, a virtual experience, or a piece of unique branded content, it’s all part of what we call the Total Brand Experience — ideas that solve business challenges, through best-in-class Consulting, Strategy, Analytics, Experience Design, and Production. 

We want you to help brands do amazing, unprecedented, wild things, creating experiences that people never forget.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM MOMENTUM

At Momentum, we expect our employees to embody our values!
Our Core Values of Be One, Do Great Work, Have Fun, Give Back and Grow empower an environment where we challenge ourselves professionally and encourage each other personally.

At Momentum, we make our differences matter!
Who we are matters.  We choose to hire diverse voices from all walks of life.  We choose to make our culture one where everyone can be their authentic self and speak in their voice. We choose to give each other permission to get things wrong, so we can learn to make them right.  We choose to celebrate the bravery of our peers and we choose to be collectively responsible.

At Momentum, we make our actions matter!
Making it matter means always choosing the sustainable option. It means designing waste out from the start.  It means working with the right materials. Sourcing locally, innovating off-the-shelf solutions and reusing and repurposing. It means powering smarter. Traveling less. And only working with vendors who do the same. Make it matter means becoming the first experiential agency in the world to receive 2 ISO certifications.

At Momentum, we make our people matter!
We choose to make your workplace part of your wellbeing. We choose a hybrid work model. We choose no meeting Fridays. We choose to let ourselves take as much Time Well Taken (vacation) as we need. We choose education programs that help our people develop professionally and personally. We choose tuition reimbursement. We choose to match your 401K. We choose to make your financial wellbeing our priority. We choose to make our people’s lives matter.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a dynamic, strategic and creatively-focused Account Director to lead a diverse portfolio of culturally-relevant brands with one of our leading clients. You are a problem solver, storyteller, and dedicated to forging long-term client relationships with an uncanny ability to juggle lots of things at once. The ideal candidate is comfortable leading integrated campaigns at a high-level but also cares deeply about getting the complex details right. You are the one everyone else wants to work with and for.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL DO (RESPONSIBILITIES)

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:  

• You will be the day-to-day lead across the portfolio with a focus on the Tequila and Vodka brands
• Manage a team of Account Managers and Account Executives while fostering an environment of mutual respect and partnership, strategic thinking, appropriate risk taking, open lines of communication, on-going performance feedback, professional development, and adherence to agency policy. You will be reporting to the VP on the account
• Create a team environment that facilitates mutual respect and partnership across functions; quality thinking; appropriate risk taking; strong internal communications; regular performance feedback and adherence to agency policy
• Manage day-to-day client contact, relationship & client expectations, and troubleshooting conflicts as they arise
• Serve as main agency contact for all brand and strategy needs both internally and externally
• Guide the team in identifying opportunities, strategic thinking, and subsequent development of integrated marketing programs across brand portfolios
• Demonstrate passion for the best creative product. Manage full creative development process for adaption of all necessary creative elements through production
• Serve as brand steward reviewing all creative work before it is presented to brand teams, checking for accuracy against brief. Reviews all proofs with creative team, studio, and procurement production vendor, monitoring closely for consistency and accuracy.
• Oversee planning process including:
• Liaising frequently with brand team and IAT to confirm cross-communication of any issues/details to ensure consistency across brand
• Helping author and de