Social Account Director

eight&four

$90K — $120K *
Miami, FL 33186In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Agency experience at an Account Director level or equivalent
  • Social & content background
  • Proven experience managing large or complex accounts in a leading role
  • Excellent project management capabilities with focus on best-practice delivery
  • Confident and consultative approach with senior clients
  • Strong collaborator interfacing with internal specialists and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the key client contact on a large retained social account, fostering strong relationships and driving excellence
  • Lead and present strategic and creative decisions as a consultant to clients
  • Act as a guardian for innovative content while collaborating with creative teams
  • Oversee end-to-end delivery of large accounts and complex projects, demonstrating agility and leadership
  • Ensure account health, quality control, and growth while acting as the client escalation point
  • Collaborate on proposals and pitches, connecting various business disciplines
  • Take ownership of commercial targets and motivate the core team to achieve these

Benefits

  • Recognized in Campaign Magazine's Best Places to Work for 7 years
  • Hybrid working model with 2 days in-office per week
  • Annual team mini-break in Europe
  • Culture that is open, engaged, and inspirational
Full Job Description
We are now entering an exciting new chapter as we expand into Miami, Florida, opening our newest office and growing our presence in the US. This marks a significant milestone in our journey and reflects both our continued momentum and our long-term global ambition. It's a hugely exciting time to join us, and we're looking for a Social Account Director who will play a leading role in social & content delivery across complex accounts within the agency and support the growth or our Miami based office.

This is a pivotal role and it sits within the Social Partner team, based in London, which is responsible for delivering high-quality, innovative social content for our clients; through collaborating with our Creative, Production, Performance and Strategy teams. All team members act as key client contacts and responsible for the running of projects, with a key role in ensuring we produce successful and exciting content across platforms.

As a Social Account Director, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of complex social content projects, implementing clear processes through collaborating with key functions and seniors across the business, and ensuring we deliver on new business, strategies and significant projects for our clients. You will drive growth, innovation and quality output in your own work and in the teams you work with, and provide a high level of social consultancy and senior client support. You must have excellent project management experience and ability to juggle multiple projects.

Requirements

Must-Haves
  • Agency experience at an Account Director level or equivalent
  • Social & content background
  • Proven experience managing large or complex accounts in a leading role
  • Excellent project management capabilities and an eye for best-practice delivery
  • Confident and consultative approach with senior clients
  • Strong collaborator able to interface with a variety of internal specialists, and external stakeholders

Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience with both B2B and B2C clients
  • Influencer experience
  • Experience with global clients


Your Responsibilities

As an Social Account Director, you are responsible for the following:

Client Relations
  • Key client contact on a large retained social account with the ability to develop strong relationships, handle difficult situations with senior clients and drive excellence in our output
  • Also client & stakeholder liaison across complex projects and campaigns

Social and content
  • Ability to lead and present on strategic and creative thinking and come across as a consultant
  • Act as a guardian and catalyst for best in class innovative content, working hand in hand with creatives
  • Key strategic content lead, constantly evaluating success of strategy and opportunities for evolution

Account Delivery and growth
  • End-to-end delivery of large accounts and complex projects, overcoming obstacles, demonstrating agility, and leading with clarity from a client and internal perspective
  • Lead on effective collaboration within your accounts
  • Oversight of large teams and accounts to ensure account health, quality control, and proactivity - including acting as the client escalation point where necessary - as well as commercials account growth

Opportunities
  • Collaborate with other seniors across the business on proposals, pitches, etc - acting as a connector between various disciplines (e.g. performance, creative, etc)
  • Take ownership of commercial targets (working with Growth team member on your accounts) and motivate core team to help deliver against them

Benefits

  • Named in Campaign Magazine's Best Places to Work 7 years running
  • Hybrid working - 2 day in the office per week
  • Annual Team Mini break in Europe
  • Culture: Open, Engaged & Inspirational

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