Account Director - Senior Strategist

The Account Director is first and foremost a creative strategist – someone who understands how to take client objectives and KPIs and translate them into creative marketing solutions. From strategy and concepting to development and production, you will be working directly with the Founders of the company as we ideate, pitch and sell programs to new and existing clients.

The position requires an effective leader who will help bring our programs to life by managing a highly-skilled and experienced in-house production and design department, and communicating daily with clients and their partners.

The position calls for a resourceful candidate who excels in client management, communication and organizational skills, creative problem solving and an exceptional attention to detail.

As account lead, you manage mission critical documents such as the account timelines and presentation decks.

You are also responsible for every assigned member of the project account team, with all members reporting into you. You must work well under pressure, have great people skills, assist with scheduling of key team members, and draft summaries and meeting notes to report back to the Founders.

Additionally, we seek candidates who are culturally savvy in tune with the worlds of art, design, fashion, music and travel. A background in luxury, media, hospitality and non-profit sectors are considered an asset.

This role also plays a part in growing The Gathery’s business. In addition to leading creative strategy and account management, you will help identify and cultivate new client relationships — someone naturally relationship-driven, comfortable in executive-level conversations, and confident opening the right doors for the agency. Experience selling branding, creative, experiential, or design services, or a background in agency business development or partnerships, is a strong asset.

The role is Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 6:00pm, with early mornings and/or late evenings as the business requires. You must be willing to work a flexible schedule – the deadline and our clients always comes first!

This is a full-time, salaried position with a base salary range of 100k-130k, commensurate with experience.

The Gathery is a creative, casual business environment with a small team of highly proficient and award-wining innovators.

• Ideation of innovative, informed ideas with a strong editorial POV
• Developing and presenting Conceptual Decks, Trend Reports, Toolkits and other communication documents that provide creative guidance for new and existing opportunities and initiatives for our clients
• This is to include distilling the client brief for our team, leading effective brainstorms, ideation of concepts, research into client or project landscape, and kicking off programs formally
• Assign and liaise with the founders and art department to generate imagery and mood boards Developing presentations
• Oversee content liaison with photographers and videographers, leading walkthroughs pre-program or pre-event to ensure adequate capture for our client’s and internal Gathery purposes

• Issuing contracts and ensuring they are executed in a timely manner (before project work begins)
• Overseeing junior account team members on invoicing and payments with Gathery Finance and ensure the timely payment of invoices
• Ownership of all mission critical documents throughout pitches and program productions including:
  Activation Decks, Timelines (event timelines are managed by Producers) and Budgets
• Working with production team to generate timelines and activation deck updates
• Enabling internal WIP touch bases with Co-Founders or Creative leads with ample time for feedback and edits prior to client presentations
• Oversee…