Job Specifications
ABOUT VAYNERX
VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.
ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA
VaynerMedia is a contemporary global creative and media agency with an expertise in driving relevance for clients and delivering impactful business results. The independently-owned company was founded in 2009 by Gary Vaynerchuk, and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Sydney. VaynerMedia has been recognized for its work at Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards and The Webby Awards. It is part of the VaynerX family of companies.
In a Nutshell:
You are overall a leader who runs the business, keeping the wheels moving and your client and team motivated. You are the gatekeeper of the brand equity and quality control of work prior to it leaving the building. BIG thinking and execution rests with you. Be the bigger person in every situation, even if the other person is wrong.
Responsibilities / Expectations
Client Management: You are the "voice" of the client
Act as the overall management of a client's business, ensuring that we are delivering for the client's business everyday
Strengthen and own client (SBM/BM) & partner agency relationships (and all other stakeholders) and ensure the rest of the team maps well to the client set
Ensure that all client initiatives run on time and on budget
Navigate a portfolio of brands within a larger conglomerate or business group, and be deeply informed on the client's business, including all campaign performance, any competitive, as well as product cycle
Deeper and more proactive understanding of client's business outside of our campaigns or the marketing context.
Be able to leverage brand knowledge to inspire the team and contribute ideas that can transform the business.
Be able to effectively lead and shape client presentations and confidently present, as required
Team Management
Understand your role as a leader on the team. Always approachable and empathetic, you are seen as a role model to their direct reports in terms of maturity, self awareness and professionalism.
Educate, inspire, motivate, and mentor account teams (along with strategy, media and creative etc…) in VaynerMedia's commitment to providing best-in-class marketing communications, while contributing to the career growth of your team members.
The Account Director is the person to whom the account supervisor and account executives look for support, guidance, and counsel. Responsibilities: Overall growth and development of their team.
Supervise creative development for the account - you help lead and shape the creative work based on the client's business objectives and brief to the agency. Specifically ongoing campaign as well as new campaign exploratories. Also other creative projects/initiative as presented
Manages up to VP/SVP on all things having to do with client and team
Responsible for assignments centered around operational and internal initiatives, as provided by the Leadership team
Radical Candor: Ability to deliver all feedback (both the positive and the tough) in a clear, direct and motivating manner
Attendance and leadership role at relevant Client meetings/IAT/Presentations
Manage and attend relevant internal meetings (e.g: creative reviews, account management status meetings, etc)
Attend live-action content shoots:
Ensure relevant documentation for pre-production meetings, shoots are in place prior to production
Supervise post production process incl. review rough cuts, influencer approvals, Smart, experiential etc.
Ensure all internal and external legal approvals are in place and is accurately reflected in the deliverables
Business Growth
Proactively identify needs of the client and business to sell-through incremental campaign opportunities to clients, that help them achieve the most efficient returns & results on their overall marketing dollars, while delivering best in class work that help grow client business
Has proven ability to sell in new business and strategically grow portfolio, building relationships wider (if not higher). This includes helping sell creative ideas that are on strategy.
Ambitious, driven and strives to deliver the best work on behalf of VaynerMedia, not just his/her particular state.
Drive long term project planning in conjunction with VP
Business Strategy: Practitioner of the space. You live and breathe marketing for the world we live in.
You regularly read business reports and platform updates and provide a pov to the client as relevant
Eat, breathe, and sleep today's digital & mobile consumer, to develop brand-specific strategies that, ultimately, help them sell shit
Strong foundational and working knowledge of creative and media across major digital and social channels. Mu
About the Company
VaynerMedia is a contemporary global creative and media agency with an expertise in driving relevance for clients and delivering impactful business results. The independently-owned company was founded in 2009 by Gary Vaynerchuk, and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Sydney. VaynerMedia has been recognized for its work at Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards and The Webby Awards. It is part of the VaynerX family of companies.
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