- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Management
- Seniority
- Director
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
Description
Company Description
About Team One:
Team One is Publicis Groupe’s fully integrated media, digital, and communications agency built to help premium brands thrive in a rapidly evolving world. We’re known as the ‘architects of aspiration’ helping luxury brands reach modern affluents and next-gen consumers through culturally fluent strategies and experiences, unmatched access, and the agility to move at the speed of culture.
We’re a team of 400+ creators, doers, and difference-makers across six North American offices—Los Angeles (our HQ), Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boise. Together, we’re proud partners to iconic brands, including Lexus and the Lexus Dealer Association, Marriott International, The Ritz-Carlton, Barclays, The RealReal, HKS Architects, Metabo HPT, KB Home, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Moėt Hennessy, Citi., and Cathay Pacific Airlines.
We take pride in our industry-shaping creativity, connection, and exceptional culture that have been recognized with honors like Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators and Ad Age’s Best Places to Work.
Overview
About this Position
We are seeking a Management Director to serve as the senior agency leader and Integrated Account Team (IAT) lead for an esteemed financial services company undergoing significant brand and business transformation. This role will oversee a complex, highly visible account focused on bringing multiple lines of business together under a unified brand platform while helping our client simplify its marketing ecosystem and evolve beyond traditional communications. The ideal candidate brings a blend of business strategy, client leadership, and integrated marketing expertise, with the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments, drive organizational alignment, and serve as a trusted advisor to senior client leadership across Consumer Banking, Wealth Management, and Commercial/Investment Banking.
Responsibilities
What You'll Do
- Lead the agency's Integrated Account Team (IAT) for our financial services client and serve as the primary senior client partner.
- Manage a multi-million dollar business and identify opportunities for continued account growth and expanded agency scope.
- Build strong executive relationships across a highly matrixed client organization and establish the agency as a trusted long-term partner.
- Align stakeholders across multiple business units, including Consumer Banking, Wealth Management, and Commercial/Investment Banking.
- Translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable brand, marketing, and business strategies.
- Partner closely with Strategy, Research, Analytics, and other cross-functional disciplines to develop integrated solutions.
- Lead agency efforts as the client activates its newly established brand platform and develops integrated campaigns.
- Oversee campaign development, research, concepting, and major brand design initiatives.
- Drive internal and client-side sell-in of strategic recommendations, creative work, and business initiatives.
- Champion growth of the account's B2B marketing capabilities while continuing to strengthen consumer and private wealth communications.
- Coordinate resources across account, strategy, creative, media, analytics, and production teams.
- Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team while influencing a broader team of approximately 35 members.
- Travel regularly to meet with client stakeholders across the Northeast, with frequent interaction with Boston-based teams.
Qualifications
What You Bring
- Group Account Director level plus, or equivalent, from an agency setting
- Proven experience leading large, complex client orgs
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead high-level business discussions.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and organizational navigation skills.
- Ability to build alignment across competing priorities and diverse groups of decision-makers.
- Financial services, banking, fintech, insurance, or consulting experience required.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect brand strategy to broader business objectives.
- Experience leading transformation initiatives, organizational change, or large-scale integrated marketing programs.
- Track record of developing and selling integrated marketing, brand, and business solutions.
- Experience managing teams and fostering collaborative, high-performing cultures.
- Relationship-oriented leadership style that balances empathy with accountability.
- Ambition to grow into broader agency leadership while helping shape a multi-year client transformation.
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading integrated brand and marketing engagements for enterprise-level clients.
- Experience working within highly matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholder groups.
- B2B marketing experience strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting brand transformation or modernization initiatives preferred.
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.