Account Director - Freelance

*This is a freelance position, starting at 20 hours/wk and flexing up, from June - November

*Compensation range for this role is $110-135/hr, commensurate with experience

Who you are

As an Account Director, you are the connective tissue between strategic vision and flawless delivery. You lead accounts and programs with confidence, hold client relationships with care, and build the kind of internal team culture where people do their best work. You are ready to lead, not just manage, and you bring the commercial awareness, creative partnership, and operational discipline to back it up.

You will work across a portfolio of B2B clients that spans industries from large-scale conferences and trade show activations to executive events, content programs, and integrated experiences. On some accounts you will be the senior lead; on others you will work alongside a Senior Account Director, owning defined workstreams and client relationships with real autonomy. In both contexts, the expectation is the same: you elevate the work, develop the team, and grow the business.

You are someone who has outgrown the role of brilliant executor and is ready to be the person others look to for direction. You bring your own point of view to a client conversation. You notice when something is off before it becomes a problem. You invest in the people around you because you understand that the work only gets better when the team does.

You are commercially aware without being transactional, creatively fluent without overstepping, and operationally strong without letting process become the point. You understand that the AD level is where the work starts to feel like leadership and you are ready for what that means.

This is the role where you transition from excellent executor to genuine account leader. You are ready for that step, and you understand what it asks of you.

What You'll Be Doing

Great Work

• Lead day-to-day account management across a portfolio of B2B clients, owning the client relationship, program delivery, and agency output to a consistently high standard

• Translate client briefs and business objectives into executable plans working across creative, strategy, and production teams to ensure the work is both ambitious and achievable

• Build and maintain account operating rhythms: clear communication cadences, well-run status meetings, proactive risk management, and documentation that keeps every stakeholder aligned

• Serve as a credible, confident creative and strategic partner to your clients, not just managing expectations, but actively shaping them

• Oversee the full program lifecycle from brief to post-event, maintaining quality and momentum across every phase

• On accounts where a Senior Account Director leads, take genuine ownership of defined workstreams and junior client relationships operating with the autonomy and accountability of a lead, not a support

Growing the Business

• Identify and pursue organic growth opportunities within your accounts building the kind of trusted relationships where clients bring you their next challenge before they brief anyone else

• Manage account financials with rigour: budgets, scope, profitability, and the commercial conversations that keep projects healthy and margins protected

• Develop a working knowledge of each client's business landscape, competitive environment, and internal stakeholder dynamics and use that knowledge to add value beyond the brief

• Contribute to new business pitches as a senior voice, bringing account intelligence, p