Account Director, Strategist - Financial Services

Location: New York with five days per week in-office, or fully remote while working Eastern Standard Time (EST) hours

Salary: $178,000–$223,000 fixed annual salary, plus annual bonus, employee equity plan grant, and comprehensive benefits.

Company

Beast Industries is a media and entertainment company operating across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and other business initiatives under the hirify.global brand.

What you will do

• Develop pre-sale deliverables for financial-services integrations, including concept documents, pitch decks, KPI mapping, and measurement architecture.
• Translate client business objectives into hirify.global content concepts across Main Channel, Shorts, and Beast Games formats.
• Manage content marketing calendars and map brand KPIs such as awareness, purchase consideration, app downloads, and account openings to relevant assets.
• Collaborate with creative, product, growth marketing, legal, and compliance stakeholders to ensure concepts are feasible and include required financial disclosures and claims.
• Lead the concept-to-close process from the initial client conversation through signed IO, then provide a comprehensive handoff to Activation.
• Incorporate post-activation learnings into future strategy and proposals.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience combining integrated marketing strategy with financial-services account leadership.
• Direct experience packaging integrated campaigns with a top-tier YouTuber, streaming platform, or premium content publisher.
• Experience marketing co-branded financial products, licensed products, or merchandise.
• Working knowledge of financial marketing regulations and experience partnering with legal and compliance teams.
• Experience building sophisticated KPI-mapping and measurement frameworks.
• Ability to assess production feasibility and contribute meaningfully to both client planning and creative development.

Nice to have

• Consulting experience, including MBB experience focused on financial services.
• Corporate development experience for financial-services clients at a media firm.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with content reaching millions of viewers across digital platforms.
• Medical, dental, vision, and company-paid life insurance.
• Company contributions to Health Savings Accounts and a 401(k) plan with Safe Harbor matching.
• Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays.
• Company-provided technology package and relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days.