Account Director

Laundry Service is a full-service marketing agency building relationships between people and brands. We help brands craft a meaningful role in culture across lifestyle, sports, music, technology and entertainment spaces. Our team delivers on strategy, creative, production, media buying and influencer management completely in-house. Laundry Service is a Wasserman company – learn more at www.247laundryservice.com.

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music, entertainment and culture, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman's presence spans 27 countries and more than 66 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.  

Laundry Service seeks an Account Director to guide the social footprints of one of its top clients. This is the perfect role for a leader that is inherently, naturally, gloriously social, both online and off. Everyone wants your input, opinion and approval. People trust you. You feel in your bones what’s on-brand for your clients, and you efficiently, effortlessly direct a team to deliver the right stuff, every time.

You will deepen the client relationship and grow their business in a meaningful way. Your day-to-day work will be strategic in nature, developing initiatives and providing creative, practical solutions to client issues. You will devise engagement strategies, approve content and manage scopes, deliverables and campaigns to ensure that all parties stay true to the strategic vision and voice across channels 24/7, 365. If you’re a natural at managing and participating in large IATs and ensuring your team’s ideas are ahead, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities include:

• Managing, maintaining, and growing the relationship with the client and key stakeholders
• Direct and have a positive impact on projects, teams and clients by providing direction and a direction and vision to follow
• Maintaining a superior relationship with all departments in the agency and understands the strategic goals of the account and contributes to their communication to the agency team
• Management and mentorship of junior staff members, including one Social Media Manager and one Account Coordinator
• Communicating with senior leadership about account status while proactively finding solutions to issues that may arise.

Requirements

• 6+ years’ experience in digital/social account management
• Experience implementing social media, digital and integrated marketing campaigns
• Natural leadership abilities
• Excellent communication skills: persuasive, strategic, proactive, diplomatic
• Experience managing and mentoring large teams
• A demonstrated passion for and superb understanding of the social media landscape
• A deep understanding of relevant social ad operations and optimization
• Uncanny attention to detail
• Rockstar presentation skills
• Commitment to excellence — working nonstandard hours when necessary, anticipating issues and communicating with diplomacy, identifying emerging platforms and trends to drive innovation

Benefits

Base salary range: $110-150K plus bonus potential.

Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc. The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each hire.