Account Director, Senior Account Director

🕒 June 26

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $125k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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SourceCode Communications

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

B2B • Marketing • Media

SourceCode Communications is a public relations and communications services agency that focuses on integrating human insight with data to build and engage audiences. With over 25 years in the industry, they partner with brands at various stages of growth, from Series A to IPO, providing customized solutions in marketing, communications, technology marketing, corporate communications, and more. Their approach emphasizes understanding client needs, impactful messaging, and innovation in digital strategy, media relations, and events.

📋 Description

• **What You’ll Do** • - **Client Strategy & Counsel:** Serve as a trusted lead across high-profile accounts, providing high-level strategic direction to senior client executives. Develop long-term PR plans aligned with client business objectives and confidently navigate difficult conversations or productive client pushback when necessary. • - **Crisis & Narrative Excellence: **Act as a trusted source during client crises by conducting risk assessments and drafting proactive communications. Interview executives to build robust thought leadership platforms and translate complex technical innovations into media-friendly narratives. • - **Portfolio Management & Business Operations:** Take accountability for account health, revenue forecasting, and resource allocation to optimize team utilization and minimize over/under-service. Oversee client contracts, KPIs, and monthly/annual scopes of work. • - **Media & Integrated Strategy:** Build sophisticated, long-term media and engagement strategies spanning media, analyst, and social landscapes. Maintain absolute editorial quality control across the portfolio and leverage a strong network of established relationships across Tier-1 national business and trade media. • - **Organic Growth: **Proactively identify expansion opportunities within your current roster to drive organic business development and maintain high client retention rates. • - **Team Leadership & Talent Development: **Directly manage, coach, and inspire team members, establishing clear professional goals and delivering targeted training to upskill junior and mid-level practitioners. • - **Innovation & Agency Leadership (SAD Level):** Lead teams in adopting emerging PR technologies and alternative communication channels, while expanding leadership footprints into global PR management.

🎯 Requirements

• **What You’ll Have** • **For the Account Director Level:** • - **Experience:** 7+ years of progressive PR and marketing experience, with significant experience in a corporate communications or digitally minded PR client leadership role. • - **Account Mastery:** At least two years of experience explicitly operating as the strategic account lead for multiple complex clients. • - **Tech Literacy: **Deep experience working within the Enterprise Tech sector, with the ability to seamlessly translate technical capabilities to a broad audience. • - **Media Network:** A proven track record of securing Tier-1 national business and industry trade opportunities. • **For the Senior Account Director Level:** • - **Experience:** 10-12+ years of progressive agency and/or in-house communications marketing experience, with extensive experience leading teams and managing high-profile accounts. Global account management experience navigating international media landscapes is highly preferred. • - **Strategic Autonomy: **Proven capability to take loose executive direction and independently build meaningful, multi-layered strategies and plans for clients. • - **Commercial Acumen:** Strong, advanced understanding of agency operations, budget management, resource allocation, and team utilization constraints. • - **Advanced Management: **Comfortably lead difficult staff conversations, troubleshoot team challenges alongside HR, and confidently develop and execute Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) when necessary.

🏖️ Benefits

• **What We Offer ** • - Robust benefits program • - Unlimited vacation with PTO minimums • - Unlimited sick leave • - 401k with company match • - Monthly mental health stipend, 2 ‘NOPE’ days/year, and quarterly wellness challenges • - Profit-sharing program • - Workplace flexibility • - Professional learning and development • - 6-month paid parental leave • - Transit benefits • - Paid volunteer and professional development days