Account Director

Cubaka is a fullservice social media agency. We were independent for a decade before being acquired by Londonlisted comms group Next15 in 2022.

Next15 Communications group is a UK PLC with a global footprint across 50 offices in 15 countries. Now Cubaka is set for a period of expansion both in London and New York driven in part by growth in our B2B accounts such as Dow Hager and Axa.

On the B2C side we produce awardwinning work for brands such as Mattel Toys Virgin Linda McCartney Foods The British Heart Foundation and Toyota amongst others.

Our team is a friendly mix of Strategists Creatives Account Managers Media Planners and Buyers all with one goal: creating work that wins peoples time on social media in the most exciting ways possible.

Role overview

Were looking for our next expert Account Director based in New York. This role is important to the development of our North American B2B specialist social media practice. You will be reporting to Lauren Sams our Group Account Director.

As an Account Directorat Cubaka you will:

• Already at Senior Account Manager or Account Director level: with agency experience capable of making a real impact in an already wellestablished team.
• An experienced Manager: Previous experience in line managing a client services team and supporting the development of more junior colleagues.
• An Initiative Taker: You have an inventive mindset to work enjoy managing and overseeing your projects finding solutions to challenges when they crop up and pulling in the right people to create the best result.
• Client Service Pro: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and be their goto person that they trust implicitly to develop their projects.
• Team & Time Allocation Pro: Manage the delivery of social media projects and content plans from start to finish working with colleagues from across the business to deliver on time on budget and to client expectations.
• A stickler for budget tracking and growing accounts: The sexy part of any client servicing role I think youll agree. Youll have great commercial awareness to spot opportunities to increase revenue and growth within your portfolio of clients. Youll be proficient in pulling together a scope of work presenting budget proposals and keeping track of the accounts finances as the work rolls out. Essentially youll be the gatekeeper and will oversee all financial management and time forecasting for your clients.
• Social Media knowledge: fluent in social and digital marketing. You know your Instagram Stories from your TikTok trending sounds can rattle off examples of social best practices and have a point of view on the latest campaigns.
• A Persuader: Influence our decisions and senior business leaders within the company using analysis insight and strategy according to commercial goals.
• Trendspotter: Monitor trends and advancements in the industry and client industry markets seek advantages and points of difference to spot new business opportunities and effectively appraise creative output.

As an Account Directorat Cubaka you will bring:

• 5 Years experience in a clientfacing agency role managing social and digital campaigns for wellknown brands.
• An understanding of best practice client servicing from building relationships to client management expectation setting communication and correspondence.
• Experience managing timelines estimates budgets and invoices.
• Passion for and knowledge of all things social and digital marketing.
• Experience managing influencer projects.
• Experience in helping create and deliver multichannel strategies for clients that encompass alwayson content and communications.
• Experience and confidence in content strategy creation.
• Experience in managing stakeholder relationships.
• Clear passion for digital technology and the use of strategy to guide successful campaigns from start to finish.

And in return Cubaka offers:

• Generous Holidays
  
• Monthly and Annual Bonus
  
• 401K
  
• Medical Cover
  
• Health Savings Account
  
• Vision Plan
  
• Dental Plan
  
• Life & Accidental Death Insurance
  
• Disability Insurance
  
• Flexible Spending Account

Why Us

Cubaka and Brandwidth recognise that managing diversity is a continuous process of improvement and not a oneoff initiative. Therefore we develop and review our diversity strategy on an annual basis to support the achievement of business goals including ways of addressing the diverse needs of our clients.

Cubaka and Brandwidth take pride in keeping up to date with employment law and best practices when promoting equal opportunities and ensuring a diverse workforce.