Account Director

Job-:
Marketing

Location:

Toronto, ON, Canada;
Seattle, WA, United States;
Vancouver, BC, Canada Workplace:
Remote

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Minimum Salary: 90000.00

Maximum Salary: 115000.00

Qualifications Required Experience
10+ years of account leadership or client service experience within an experiential marketing, event marketing, sponsorship/activation, or integrated marketing agency.

Demonstrated success leading complex experiential portfolios that may include conferences, trade shows, sponsor ships, activations, tours, hospitality, employee experiences, and hybrid programs.

Demonstrated experience serving as a senior client partner across complex stakeholder organizations, including presenting recommendations, navigating ambiguity, influencing senior decision-makers, and remaining closely connected to teams through high-pressure planning and event delivery.

Proven experience leading and developing account teams, including managers and senior managers, while directing cross-functional teams across Strategy, Creative, Production, Operations, Project Management, Finance, Analytics, and field execution.

Strong commercial experience across portfolio budgeting, forecasting, scopes of work, staffing plans, retainers, change management, reconciliation, profitability, and resource efficiency.

Experience identifying and converting organic growth opportunities, contributing to new business, and expanding integrated agency services.

Deep understanding of live-event planning and production, staffing, vendor management, logistics, risk management, onsite execution, and post-program measurement.

Experience working across both B2B and B2C programs required. Who Will Thrive in This Role You think beyond individual projects and understand how client relationships, team structure, delivery models, and financial performance connect across a portfolio.

You can operate confidently with senior clients and agency leaders while staying approachable, practical, and connected to the team doing the work.

You bring a clear point of view, make decisions with incomplete information, and know when to escalate, align, or act.

You balance strategic leadership with executional fluency and can quickly diagnose what is needed to move a program forward.

You are commercially minded and comfortable protecting scope, margin, and team capacity without weakening client trust.

You develop people, create clarity, and hold teams accountable while fostering an environment where people can do their best work.

You are collaborative and low-ego. You understand that seniority does not remove you from the work, and you step in when the team or client needs you.

Preferred Qualifications Agency-side experiential marketing leadership experience.

Experience overseeing national or multi-market programs, proprietary conferences, trade shows, sponsor ships, tours, festivals, hospitality, or large-scale event portfolios.

Experience leading integrated campaigns across experiential, digital, social, content, communications, and measurement. You act with confidence as the client liaison working closely with our internal teams to ensure the client voice is represented during planning.

Experience supporting large enterprise clients and complex matrixed stakeholder organizations.

Experience partnering with field teams, staffing agencies, production vendors, venues, and partner agencies.

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Important Note This is an experiential marketing leadership role. Successful candidates will combine senior account and portfolio leadership with meaningful hands-on experience delivering live events, activations, conferences, sponsor ships, trade shows, hospitality…