Associate Director, Account Management

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Agency: Omnicom Media
Ref#: 11750-SL
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Type: Full time
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Agency:

Omnicom Media

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:

Associate Director, Account Management

Role Overview

The Associate Director, Account Management is a senior creative leadership role responsible for bringing creator-led ideas to life across influencer and social platforms. This role partners closely with the Creative Director to translate brand strategy into social-first, culturally fluent creator content, ensuring creative quality and consistency from concept through execution.

The Associate Director is both a hands-on creative leader and a team mentor, guiding

day-to-day creative development while collaborating cross-functionally with Creator Activation, Strategy, Account, and Production teams. This role plays a critical part in maintaining Creo’s creative standards across always-on and tentpole influencer programs.

Core Responsibilities

Creative Development & Execution

Lead day-to-day creative development for influencer and creator led campaigns, from brief through delivery.

Translate creative direction and brand priorities into:

Creator briefs

Content concepts

Platform native executions

Ensure creative output is:

Social first

Culturally relevant

Platform appropriate

Oversee creative quality across concepts, content drafts, revisions, and final deliverables.

Creator-Led Storytelling

Partner with Creator Activation to ensure creative ideas are executable within creator constraints and timelines.

Support creator briefing sessions by:

Clarifying creative intent

Providing examples and inspiration

Guiding tone, narrative, and format

Review creator content to ensure alignment with creative vision, brand guidelines, and platform best practices prior to launch.

Collaboration & Cross Functional Partnership

Work closely with:

Creative Director on vision and direction

Creator Activation on creative development, execution and delivery

Account and Strategy teams on alignment to client objectives

Collaborate with production partners to bring ideas to life efficiently and at scale.

Participate in internal and client facing reviews, clearly articulating creative rationale and recommendations.

Creative Standards & Consistency

Help uphold Creo’s creative standards across influencer content.

Ensure influencer work ladders into broader brand platforms and maintains consistency across channels.

Support the development of creative examples, best practices, and case study materials as needed.

Qualifications

6–8+ years of experience in creative roles within social or influencer environments.

Strong understanding of:

Influencer and creator ecosystems

Social platforms and content formats

Cultural trends and audience behavior

Proven experience developing creative ideas for social-first AND creator-led campaigns.

Ability to balance creative ambition with executional realities.

Strong communication and presentation skills, with comfort presenting and pitching work internally and to clients to achieve buy-in.

Collaborative mindset and comfort working in a highly integrated, fast-moving environment.



Illinois, New York: $70,000.00-$125,000.00

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.


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