Account Director
Position Summary
We’re looking for an Account Director who can lead complex client businesses with strategic clarity, operational rigor, and creative ambition.
This role is responsible for driving client growth, leading integrated teams, and ensuring the agency delivers bold, effective work that performs. Account Directors serve as senior client partners, internal business leaders, and champions of work that moves brands forward.
You’ll oversee account health across strategy, execution, financial performance, and team leadership—bringing focus, momentum, and accountability to both client relationships and internal teams.
Key Responsibilities
Client Leadership & Growth
You build trusted partnerships and help clients navigate what’s next.
- Serve as a senior strategic advisor to client leadership teams
- Develop a deep understanding of client businesses, competitive landscape, customer behavior, and market dynamics
- Translate business challenges into clear strategic direction and actionable opportunities
- Identify and drive organic growth opportunities across accounts
- Lead high-impact client conversations with confidence, clarity, and sound judgment
- Anticipate risks, surface challenges early, and guide teams toward solutions
- Build alignment and trust across client and agency stakeholders
- Ensure the agency consistently delivers high-quality work and strong client partnership
Creative & Strategic Development
You help teams produce smarter, bolder, more effective work.
- Partner with Strategy, Creative, Media, and Production teams to shape integrated marketing solutions
- Guide the development of campaigns and initiatives from brief through execution
- Champion work that is strategically grounded, creatively ambitious, and built to perform
- Push teams toward stronger thinking, sharper insights, and more impactful ideas
- Ensure work aligns with client objectives, brand standards, and business goals
- Help teams prioritize effectively and maintain momentum across complex initiatives
Business & Operational Leadership
You lead the business behind the work.
- Oversee the financial health of assigned accounts, including forecasting, scoping, staffing, and revenue management
- Partner with Account Leadership and Finance to manage profitability and resource planning
- Ensure scopes of work, budgets, timelines, and staffing plans support both client success and agency sustainability
- Proactively identify and resolve operational, delivery, or scope-related risks
- Lead cross-functional teams with clarity, accountability, and a solutions-oriented mindset
- Establish strong working processes that improve collaboration, communication, and efficiency
- Balance multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard for both the work and the team experience
Team Leadership & Development
You create clarity, accountability, and growth for the people around you.
- Lead, mentor, and develop Account Leadership team members
- Provide clear direction, actionable feedback, and ongoing coaching
- Help teams navigate ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and solve problems proactively
- Foster strong collaboration across departments and disciplines
- Contribute to a culture of accountability, curiosity, inclusion, and continuous improvement
- Support staffing decisions, team development, and long-term growth planning within the department
Who You Are
- A strong client partner who builds trust and pushes for better outcomes
- A strategic thinker who can translate business challenges into clear, compelling direction
- A collaborator who works seamlessly across teams and disciplines
- Someone who brings both structure and flexibility to the work
- Naturally curious, proactive, and solutions-oriented
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and expectations are high
- Committed to high standards—for the work, the team, and yourself
Qualifications
- 8–10+ years of account management experience in an agency
- Experience leading complex, integrated marketing initiatives across channels
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills
- Proven ability to grow client relationships and identify new opportunities
- Deep understanding of the creative development process and integrated campaign execution
- Experience managing account financials, forecasting, staffing, and scopes of work
- Confidence leading senior-level client conversations and presentations
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to align and motivate cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- A collaborative mindset and a high standard for the work
- Curiosity, initiative, sound judgment, and a solutions-oriented approach
Benefits & Perks
Here's what we offer:
- Hybrid flexibility - RP3 is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, so if you are DMV-based, that is definitely a bonus — but not a barrier. If you can get here by train, plane, or automobile, you are in the running. We want the right person, wherever they are.
- A culture built on curiosity, kindness, accountability, and wildly original thinking
- Company-paid health, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
- Employee-paid dental and vision plans
- 401(k) with immediate employer match
- Inclusive, world-class family leave policy
- Generous PTO - including Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Personal Time, and Karma Days
- Summer Fridays - we shut down at 2 PM every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
- Voluntary benefits including commuter benefits and pet insurance
Salary Range: 100,000 - 125,000 Annual DOE
We believe in paying people fairly and transparently. Final compensation will reflect individual experience, qualifications, and internal equity considerations
Equal Employment Opportunity
RP3 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the clients and communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Different perspectives make better work.
Open positions
Associate Creative Director - Copy
At RP3, we believe wildly original ideas are the most powerful force in marketing.
The Associate Creative Director, Copy is responsible for inspiring, shaping, and championing those ideas through storytelling, conceptual development, and creative leadership. This role transforms business challenges into breakthrough creative solutions that drive results, earn attention, and build brands.
This role sits at the intersection of strategic thinking, creative leadership, and exceptional storytelling. The ideal candidate is an accomplished writer and conceptual thinker who can develop campaign-defining ideas, inspire teams to push beyond expected solutions, and help clients embrace bold, effective creative work.
The Associate Creative Director, Copy serves as a creative catalyst across the agency—helping define campaign narratives, elevate creative thinking, mentor emerging talent, and ensure every idea reflects RP3’s commitment to wildly original work and measurable impact.
What Success Looks Like
- Consistently leads teams toward breakthrough creative solutions rooted in strategy and insight.
- Develops ideas and storytelling platforms that drive business results while strengthening RP3’s creative reputation.
- Elevates the quality of creative thinking across multiple accounts and teams.
- Creates an environment where strong ideas become exceptional ideas.
- Earns the trust of clients as a strategic and creative partner.
- Mentors and develops the next generation of writers, thinkers, and creative leaders.
- Successfully balances creative ambition with business objectives.
- Leverages AI and emerging creative technologies to improve efficiency, inspire innovation, and accelerate creative development.
- Contributes to work that has the potential to earn recognition from clients, consumers, and the creative industry.
Creative Director (Copy)
At RP3, we believe wildly original ideas are the most powerful force in marketing.
The Creative Director is responsible for making those ideas the standard—not the exception.
With a copywriter’s instinct for language, voice, and story, this leader develops breakthrough ideas that solve business challenges, build brands, earn attention, and drive measurable results. They lead multidisciplinary teams while remaining a maker. They are able to shape the line, script, manifesto, narrative, or presentation that unlocks the work.
The ideal candidate is an exceptional conceptual thinker, hands-on creative leader, mentor, and business partner. They know how to turn strategy, audience insight, and culture into ideas people care about—and how to help teams carry those ideas through every channel with craft and consistency.
As a steward of RP3’s creative culture, the Creative Director combines high standards with generous leadership. They build client trust, develop talent, contribute to agency growth, and use AI and emerging tools deliberately to expand possibilities without outsourcing taste, judgment, or accountability.
Associate Creative Director Art
At RP3, we believe wildly original ideas are the most powerful force in marketing.
The Associate Creative Director, Art is responsible for turning strategy, audience insight, and culture into original visual ideas that earn attention, build brands, and drive measurable results.
This role sits at the intersection of conceptual leadership, art direction, design, and hands-on making. The ideal candidate can lead teams and client conversations while still shaping the visual world, building a convincing comp, and improving the work through specific creative direction.
The Associate Creative Director, Art is a creative catalyst across the agency—partnering closely with copy, strategy, account leadership, media, and production; mentoring talent; and using AI and emerging tools deliberately to expand exploration without replacing taste, craft, or accountability.
Is your brand ready to roar?roar?
Want start a project, share an idea, or just say hello? Drop us a line. The cheetah may bite, but we don’t.
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