Group Director, Client Partnership – Media, Growth

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Manage senior client relationships and ensure overall commercial success for a portfolio of rapidly growing accounts.

• Act as a strategic business partner, assisting clients in determining where and how to allocate their investments.

• Guide clients from initial testing and market exploration to scaled acquisition and comprehensive growth across the funnel.

• Collaborate with media, creative, strategy, data, and technology leaders to develop integrated growth systems.

• Ensure that measurement and learning agendas are incorporated into the projects from the outset.

• Link media performance to customer acquisition, retention, revenue, and lifetime value.

• Spot and influence organic growth opportunities before they evolve into formal briefs.

• Oversee commercial planning, covering scopes, staffing models, forecasting, profitability, and account investment decisions.

• Provide clarity among fast-paced multidisciplinary teams and establish DEPT® as a cohesive client partner.

• Contribute to new business initiatives that involve growth, emerging technologies, and consumer transformation.

• Mentor Client Partners and Directors to enhance DEPT®’s standards for contemporary client leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant experience in agency, consultancy, startup, or client-side roles.

• Extensive experience in managing large or strategically significant client relationships.

• Proven track record of growing early-stage or rapidly scaling businesses through media and marketing strategies.

• Strong grasp of performance marketing, measurement, experimentation, and comprehensive growth strategies.

• Experience managing substantial media budgets and scaling investments based on proven insights.

• Demonstrated commercial leadership, including scoping, negotiation, forecasting, and account growth.

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and executive storytelling abilities.

• History of building trust rapidly in complex, high-pressure situations.

• Meaningful contributions to organic growth and/or new business development.

• Capacity to understand specialized disciplines sufficiently to ask pertinent questions, challenge assumptions, and connect them to business challenges.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. (DEPT® participates in E-Verify).

🏝️ Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• 401k plan with matching contributions.

• Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Paid Company Holidays.

• Parental Leave.

• Equal opportunity employer with inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and workplace practices.

• Reasonable accommodations provided throughout the recruitment process and during employment.

• B Corp-certified, purpose-driven work environment.