Account Director

About AC Automated Creative’s mission is to help brands turn their Impressions into Intelligence. AC has built a proprietary creative effectiveness ad tech platform that can make and optimise ad creative using live data and insight.

AC is six years old, in that time we have helped brands such as Mars, Brown Forman, Bose, Lipton, McDonald's, tonies,, Haleon, Formula 1 and Suntory Global Spirits, innovate their digital advertising. 

AC are looking for an Account Director to lead tier one accounts and run campaigns with world-famous brands. We're reinventing work as much as we are marketing, and are looking for someone entrepreneurial who wants to explore strategy, client management, technology, and data.

Experience working at an agency running day-to-day operations for a big account or portfolio and leading senior relationships is essential. You will be the central contact point for the client and be supported by a team of Client Leads and execs. Direct line management experience is required.

The role is a hybrid, with areas covering project management, data, strategy and creativity. 

You will have ownership with your team of a portfolio of clients, ensuring they are utilising our technology and supporting them to deliver their advertising campaigns and goals. We sit between a creative agency and a media agency, so we often work with multiple teams to deliver a holistic campaign; The ideal candidate has an agency background with particular experience in paid social and media and insights reporting, but is keen to work in a more creative space. You should have a good understanding of Meta Ads Manager and other social platforms. It is essential to have an understanding of how digital advertising bidding algorithms work and to have an interest in the power of data.

Be the central leader of the Client Account, ensuring each local market Client Lead is working on time and as expected
Manage the day-to-day relationship with clients to make sure they stay invested
Leading client data health-checks and communicating results, optimisations, efficiencies and further capabilities
Managing the resource required to keep projects running efficiently, including briefing or managing copywriters or designers or ensuring the Client Lead team are
Keeping on top of blockers or timeline changes, and being aware of the implications of timeline delays on a project
Not being a ‘yes’ man, being a client consultant with AC’s needs and recommendations coming first
Add strategic value to the clients’ long term growth to grow and retain the portfolio
Stay ahead of industry changes and knowledge to keep us at the forefront of innovating digital advertising

You enjoy building relationships with clients and have a proven track record of this
You have experience handling a large, multi-market or multi-brand complex client
You have experience growing a commercial relationship
You have experience using DV360 and/or Facebook/Snap/TikTok Ads Manager
Both right and left-brained, highly organised and excited by data but has an interest in making on-brand and beautiful creative too
Detail-oriented as we often work with large numbers of ad creative, multiple clients and large data sets, an eye for numbers and precision is key
You will be joining 30 full-time employees in the UK, LATAM and Canada
The Toronto team are currently relatively remote, but do one day a week on Thursdays when all available in a Adelaide Co-Working space

Target-based incentive structure in place for team performance
~30 Days annual holiday, not including Public Holidays and Christmas Closure
~ Remote and flexible working opportunities 
~Private Health Insurance
~ Company pension 
~ Regular socials and potential annual European trip (The team has done two London trips and one to Antwerp in the past two years)

...We believe in working hard, but not being overworked. At Automated Creative, we are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. 

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