Account Director; FTC Maternity cover

To grow sustainable client relationships, accounts and fee.

To direct client relationships and surpass annual client targets.

As an Account Director at Taxi Studio, you’ll lead and grow your client accounts, building long-term partnerships, steering fee growth, and unlocking creative and strategic opportunities. You’ll be accountable for delivering against your client development plans, ensuring commercial performance, and expanding Taxi Studio’s value and influence. With your insight and direction, clients will view you as a proactive, high-value partner — while always working in accordance with our Code of Conduct

You’ll direct key client relationships while establishing best practice ways of working, providing strategic counsel and challenging expectations to unlock growth. As a high-value partner, you’ll elevate conversations beyond the brief, showcasing the full breadth of Taxi Studio’s capabilities. By identifying opportunities, leveraging referrals, and driving account development, you’ll create and maintain quarterly plans that demonstrate measurable impact.

You’ll advise on project direction, guiding cross-team alignment with brand, creative, and sustainability goals. You’ll oversee prioritisation, manage escalations, and take accountability for commercial oversight, profitability, and accurate financial forecasting. You’ll ensure resourcing aligns with commercial and client priorities, collaborating with the Resource Manager to balance workloads and resolve challenges that may impact delivery.

You’ll be accountable for delivering against your fee targets and ensuring profitability across your accounts. You’ll own the commercial viability of proposals, ensuring scopes, estimates, and financial forecasts are accurate, efficient, and sustainable.

You’ll sign off on brief alignment and ensure compliance with delivery/production standards before client release. You’ll work with the Design Team leads and the Project Director to ensure all projects are completed with excellence and meet ours and our clients’ standards.

You’ll lead by example, offering clear, on-the-job guidance while helping team members sharpen their thinking, communication, and performance. You’ll delegate to empower, not offload, and you may line-manage one or more colleagues, supporting their career progression and general wellbeing.

Taxi Studio’s three founders founded three values; they’ve since become the bedrock of our culture.

So, on joining us, you’ll be asked to embrace (and sign) our Code of Conduct:

• Live Fearless:
  We’ll encourage you to embrace the extraordinary, think bigger, seek to improve, step into the unknown, back yourself, and be true to yourself.
• Form Real Relationships:
  We’ll expect you to do the right thing, treat others with respect, champion your colleagues, seek to assist not obstruct, give constructive feedback, and be kind
  to yourself.
• Play Fair:
  We’ll need you to always seek first to understand, collaborate without ego, bring the joy, say ‘no’ when you need to, take responsibility for your actions, and be aware of your impact.

You’ll be remunerated and rewarded based on your contribution to the business, and you’ll benefit from an array of benefits, too, including:

Health Cashback Plan/Private Healthcare, Enhanced Pension Contributions, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity, Life Assurance Plan, Hybrid Working and Flexible Working Hours, plus a Paid Volunteering Day — so you can do some good, on us.

And while it’s not a benefit, we operate a fair salary policy, which is reviewed every year and rigorously benchmarked against…