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# Strategic Account Director **Zerotrillion | Advertising, Brand & Creative Strategy** ### We're looking for someone who thinks they're the smartest person they know. And there's a decent chance they're right. We're looking for an exceptionally sharp, intellectually curious, strategically minded individual who believes they can walk into almost any room, understand the problem faster than anyone else, and leave everyone thinking differently. Someone with strong opinions, stronger instincts, and the intelligence to know when they're wrong. Someone who doesn't just understand brands and businesses but has an almost obsessive desire to figure out what makes them tick, what makes them successful, and what could make them extraordinary. At Zerotrillion, we're not looking for someone to manage client relationships. We're looking for someone to **lead them.** ### The Role As a Strategic Account Director, you'll sit at the intersection of business strategy, brand thinking, creativity, and commercial opportunity. You'll be the person clients turn to when they need an answer, a perspective, a challenge, or an idea they haven't considered. You'll need to understand their businesses as well as they do, sometimes better. You'll need to recognize opportunities before they become briefs, anticipate problems before they become emergencies, and know how to turn intelligent thinking into exceptional creative work. You'll work closely with strategists, creatives, producers, and leadership to ensure we're not simply delivering what clients ask for, but helping them achieve what they actually need. This isn't a position for someone who wants to pass feedback between a client and a creative team. It's a position for someone who wants to have a meaningful influence on the businesses and brands we work with. ### What You'll Do - **Think bigger than the brief.** Interrogate assumptions, challenge conventional thinking, and uncover the real business problem behind every assignment. - **Become indispensable to clients.** Build relationships with senior decision-makers based on intelligence, trust, candor, and consistently valuable perspectives. - **Lead with strategic conviction.** Develop compelling points of view on brands, businesses, culture, consumers, and the markets in which they operate. - **Make the work better.** Be an active intellectual and creative partner to our teams, helping sharpen strategy, elevate ideas, and protect the integrity of the work. - **See what others don't.** Identify emerging opportunities, cultural shifts, competitive threats, and untapped potential that can create meaningful commercial advantage. - **Drive growth.** Recognize opportunities to expand relationships, develop new business, and turn exceptional work into long-term partnerships. - **Own the outcome.** Take accountability for the strategic, creative, commercial, and operational success of the accounts you lead. - **Raise the standard.** Bring an uncompromising level of intelligence, ambition, and attention to everything you touch. ### Who You Are **You're exceptionally intelligent.** Not only in the academic sense. You're quick, perceptive, analytical, creative, and capable of making connections other people miss. **You have a point of view.** You don't wait for someone else to tell you what to think. You form opinions, defend them intelligently, and aren't afraid to challenge people more senior than you. **You're commercially adept.** You understand that creativity is a powerful business tool. You can read a balance sheet, understand a business model, spot a growth opportunity, and connect brand decisions to commercial outcomes. **You're intellectually restless.** You read things you don't have to. You learn about industries you don't work in. You're interested in economics, technology, psychology, culture, design, politics, and whatever else might help you understand how the world works. **You're persuasive.** You can take a complex thought, simplify it, and make it feel so obvious that everyone wonders why they hadn't thought of it themselves. **You're creatively ambitious.** You have exceptional taste, strong instincts, and a genuine appreciation for great advertising, design, and storytelling. Mediocre work bothers you. **You're comfortable with confrontation.** You can challenge a client, disagree with a creative director, or question the thinking of the CEO without making it personal. You're interested in the best answer, not the easiest agreement. **You're confident, not fragile.** You might think you're the smartest person in the room, but you're delighted when someone proves you wrong. You care more about being right collectively than receiving credit individually. ### What We're Looking For - Significant experience in advertising, brand strategy, creative agencies, or strategic consulting, ideally with experience leading major client relationships. - A demonstrable ability to think strategically and translate business challenges into compelling creative opportunities. - Experience advising senior clients and navigating complex stakeholder relationships. - A sophisticated understanding of the relationship between brand building, marketing, creativity, and commercial performance. - An ability to move effortlessly between the big picture and the smallest details. - Exceptional communication, presentation, and persuasion skills. - A track record of making businesses, relationships, and creative work better. We're less interested in where you've worked, what your last title was, or how many years you've spent in the industry than we are in how your brain works. ### Why Zerotrillion? Because we believe the best agencies are built by people who are independently brilliant and collectively formidable. We believe strategy should provoke, creativity should matter, and account leadership should be far more than project management dressed up in a nice suit. We want people who can hold their own with the most ambitious clients, inspire the most talented creatives, and challenge the people running the agency. People with the ambition to make a mark, the confidence to do things differently, and the intelligence to back it up. **If you've spent your career feeling like you could do your boss's job better than they can, we'd like to meet you.**

Core Responsibilities

Lead strategic client relationships and advise senior decision-makers, identifying business challenges, market opportunities, and risks before they become briefs or urgent issues. Partner with strategy, creative, production, and leadership teams to improve the work and own the strategic, creative, commercial, and operational success and growth of accounts.

Requirements

Significant experience in advertising, brand strategy, creative agencies, or strategic consulting is sought, ideally including leadership of major client relationships and experience advising senior stakeholders. Candidates should demonstrate strong strategic and commercial judgment, the ability to turn business challenges into creative opportunities, and exceptional communication, presentation, and persuasion skills.