Account Director

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization.

In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit

Who we are looking for:

We're seeking a motivated and nimble Account Director to lead the day-to-day management for an iconic brand. These clients are committed to evolving their digital experiences to meet the ever-changing automotive marketing landscape. It's an exciting opportunity forge true partnership with clients who are eager to evolve their business.

As an Account Director you will be the day-to-day lead for this business, and responsible for ensuring the agency is fully prepared to meet all the client's marketing, digital experience and communication 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 the 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.

What you'll need:

* A minimum of 8 years of account management experience at a…