Godfrey Dadich Partners

Godfrey Dadich Partners

Account Director (Engagement Lead)

San Francisco, CA · Director

Sponsorship not specified$118k-$135kDetected 22 days ago
HubSpotVideo ProductionLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • This is a hybrid role (in-office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) in San Francisco.
  • Organizations need to know who they are, what they stand for, and what they're here to do.
  • They need to communicate their ideas and ideals in clear and compelling ways.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple complex client engagements, with a primary focus on a major enterprise technology account.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior clients across a matrixed organization, including multiple business units, teams, stakeholder groups, and decision-makers.
  • Manage client expectations through shifting priorities, evolving scopes, high-stakes feedback, and complex decision-making.
  • Partner with the Engagement Director and GDP leadership to identify opportunities to expand, deepen, or evolve existing client relationships.
  • Identify organic growth opportunities across business units, teams, and workstreams, connecting client needs to GDP's capabilities in strategy, design, journalism, content, campaigns, and brand storytelling.
  • Lead or support scoping, pricing, proposal development, and senior client conversations for extensions, renewals, and new opportunities within existing accounts.
  • Partner closely with Strategy, Design, Editorial, Production, Growth, Operations, and Finance leads to ensure teams have the clarity, context, and support needed to do excellent work.
  • Use Float and other internal tools to inform staffing decisions, anticipate capacity constraints, and support resourcing conversations.
  • Lead engagement teams with clarity, accountability, and calm, especially through complexity or change.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop more junior Engagement Team members, providing direction, feedback, and growth opportunities.

Requirements

  • BA or equivalent experience required.
  • Strong understanding of how strategy, design, content, brand, campaigns, and communications work together to solve business challenges
  • experience working with journalists, strategists, copywriters, video production teams, and graphic designers is an asset.
  • Experience identifying organic growth opportunities and supporting scoping, pricing, proposals, renewals, or expansions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity, influence senior stakeholders, and shape client-ready communications.
  • Maintain a strong understanding of clients' industries, organizations, priorities, and pressures to strengthen the impact of GDP's work.
  • 10+ years preferred for Senior Engagement Lead candidates.
  • Significant experience managing senior client relationships within complex B2B, enterprise technology, or matrixed multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Proven ability to lead complex client engagements across multiple workstreams, teams, or business units.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage engagement health, including budgets, scope, staffing, timelines, resourcing, and trade-offs.
  • Experience mentoring, managing, or developing junior team members.
  • Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating across multiple accounts, workstreams, and priorities in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  • Comfortable working across modern agency tools and client-facing platforms, including Float, HubSpot, Google Suite, Keynote, Google Slides, and Figma.
  • The rise of AI. Turbulent financial markets. An erosion of trust. We are living in deeply complex times, and our creative marketing agency is purpose-built for this moment. Organizations need to know who they are, what they stand for, and what they're here to do. They need to communicate their ideas and ideals in clear and compelling ways. That's where GDP comes in. Our team of journalists, strategists, and designers helps brands turn complexity into clarity. Because the best ideas fail if no one understands them.

Nice to have

  • 8-12+ years of relevant experience in an agency, creative consultancy, professional services firm, or client-side marketing, brand, or communications organization

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is $118,000 - $135,000.

Benefits

  • The right candidate will be comfortable managing senior client relationships, partnering with internal discipline leads, maintaining engagement health and economics, and mentoring more junior Engagement Team members.
  • Use HubSpot and internal account planning tools to support visibility into client activity, growth opportunities, and relationship health.
  • Manage engagement health across budgets, burn, scope, staffing, timelines, resourcing, utilization, and margin.

Company info

  • GDP is a creative marketing agency that combines the best of strategy, design, and journalism to help brands clarify complexity, and we're looking for an Account Director (Engagement Lead) to join our team.
  • We're looking for a strong client partner and engagement leader who can help steward some of GDP's most important client relationships.
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