Group Account Director (AI)

TL;DR

Group Account Director (AI): Leading the strategic, creative, and commercial performance of a portfolio of client accounts, overseeing studio delivery and senior stakeholder relationships with an accent on client partnership, profitability, and AI-enabled marketing operations. Focus on managing multi-team delivery, driving account growth, embedding responsible AI governance, and resolving complex commercial and creative challenges.

Location: Hybrid role based in London, United Kingdom, with attendance at client offices two to three days per week and regular in-office presence.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and runs bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for global brands as part of The Brandtech Group.

What you will do

• Lead senior relationships across a portfolio of two to three clients and translate business objectives into strategic creative solutions.
• Oversee two onshore and offshore studio teams, ensuring delivery against briefs, timelines, SLAs, and quality standards.
• Present strategic and creative work to senior client and internal stakeholders, including client SLT.
• Own account financial performance, including P&L, forecasting, budgets, profitability, fee negotiations, and late-payment management.
• Drive portfolio growth and identify new business opportunities through client relationships and Brandtech Group capabilities.
• Lead and develop junior team members while embedding AI innovation, quality standards, governance, and responsible AI practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading senior client relationships in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary agency or in-house environment.
• Strong commercial acumen, including account P&L ownership, profitability management, fee negotiations, financial reporting, and growth delivery.
• Experience leading and developing studio or agency teams and managing complex, multi-team operations.
• Strong understanding of creative excellence, digital and performance marketing, paid media channels, LinkedIn, and PPC.
• Experience managing TUPE-sensitive transitions and organisational change.
• Strategic experience with generative AI tools, AI quality standards, governance, and responsible AI use in marketing and creative production.

Nice to have

• Formal qualifications relevant to account leadership, marketing, business, or a related discipline.
• Experience with hirify.global and IIG Group capabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with regular in-office and client-office collaboration.
• Values-led environment focused on ambition, imagination, inclusion, learning, and results.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and an inclusive, anti-racist workplace.
• Sustainability targets and emissions-reduction initiatives embedded across the project lifecycle.