An Account Director role within DEPT®'s Creative & Media services. You are the commercial engine and primary sparring partner for one of the largest Tech client verticals. You bridge the gap between complex Paid Media strategies and the client's ambitious growth goals, ensuring the partnership feels less like a vendor and more like an extension of their own leadership team. Your mission is to support driving revenue into a 20% growth success story.
Responsibilities
- ▹Client leadership: act as the primary business partner for the client, building trust-based relationships at the senior level.
- ▹Growth ownership: drive a 20% YoY growth target by identifying commercial opportunities in Paid Media, Social Organic, LLM and Influencer strategy.
- ▹Matrix orchestration: lead the "Trio" (Account, Program, Strategy), serving as the final decision-maker to ensure delivery matches client expectations.
- ▹Strategic sparring: challenge the client and internal teams with "Growth Invention" ideas, moving beyond execution to strategic impact.
- ▹Commercial governance: own the P&L, SOWs and profitability for the Business Group.
Requirements
- ▹A deep, must-have understanding of integrated Paid Media (Social, Programmatic, Search).
- ▹Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream accounts in a global agency or consultancy environment.
- ▹A confident, outgoing and positive personality.
- ▹A natural people person who builds chemistry instantly.
- ▹Challenger mindset: not afraid to have sensitive conversations or reset expectations when budgets or timings shift.
- ▹Social fluency: experience or strong exposure to Social Organic and Influencer ecosystems.
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Location-specific benefits.
- ▹A reputation for doing good: DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021, named a Great Place To Work since 2022 in the Netherlands, and named 'Agency of the Year' at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
- ▹Awesome clients – big, small, local or global – with successes celebrated together.
About the company
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world's most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, its 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. The company is 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay and OpenAI. It has been a certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021. This role is part of the Creative & Media services.