Account Director

San Francisco

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

We are looking for an Account Director to join our outstanding Account Management department in our San Francisco office.

We expect that, as an Account Director, you will no longer be managing projects but will be leading accounts or large pieces of accounts. Your job is more than helping make the trains run well and on time. It’s now about helping others make sure this happens. And, more importantly, it’s about guiding the process and decisions on where to lay new track. It’s a role that requires equal parts quality control and leadership.
 

For us, a great Account Director does the following:

1) Clearly defines the client’s business problem and gets people in the agency excited to work on it.

2) Provides their own point of view that is considerate of both the client’s and agency’s viewpoints but not necessarily beholden to either one of them.

3) Serves the needs of the individuals on their team and on the account.

Although you are the most senior person managing a team of people, this is not permission to act above the other people working on the account (especially the Account Managers). Instead, you need to work to serve their needs individual by individual. This means making time for them—even treating their time as more important than your own. This can’t be emphasized enough. The directors whom people like working with the most seem to be the ones who are most generous and open with their time.

4) Constantly set (and if necessary, change) the conditions on the account to allow people to do their best work. 

 

Qualifications:

You must have prior advertising-agency experience and have worked as an Account Director for 2–3 years. 

You have managed complex projects.

You know how to manage a team of people.

You have experience with all facets of production, including managing a large broadcast shoot.

 

Regarding compensation, the range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as a full-time employee of Goodby Silverstein & Partners in the United States. Salaries will vary on the basis of various factors, including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

$145,000–$165,000

At GS&P, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require accommodation, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition team by email at jobs@gspsf.com, and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. 

If you would like a chance to join an award-winning team, work with some of the best creative minds in the country and help a client get to remarkable work, we look forward to hearing from you.

If you are interested in applying, please click the link below.

 

Thank you.

 

Account Manager

San Francisco

We currently have an Account Manager opening that is based out of our San Francisco office. This is a hybrid role. The person we hire will be able to come into our San Francisco office three days a week. 

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of four years of full-service advertising-agency experience.
 

The Account Manager we hire will:

Proactively lead the development process from ideas through execution

Write and present clearly and persuasively

Champion great creative work 

Be a well-liked, trusted and empathetic partner to clients

Have the experience to handle client meetings and productions independently

Negotiate high-pressure situations in a positive, calm, objective, professional way

Take accountability to navigate and communicate timelines and deliverables

Stay positive and know how to keep people motivated

Qualifications:

You must have prior advertising-agency experience, having worked in account management or project management with a client contact.

You have experience with production across a variety of platforms.

This is a chance to join an award-winning team and work with some of the best creative minds in the country.
 

Regarding compensation, the range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as a full-time employee of Goodby Silverstein & Partners in the United States. Salaries will vary on the basis of various factors, including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

$80,000–$105,000

At GS&P, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require accommodation, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition team by email at jobs@gspsf.com, and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. 

If you are interested in applying, please click the link below.

Thank you.

 

 

Career Office Hours

San Francisco

Career Office hours—for “Noncreative”* candidates

Trying to get a job in advertising? Maybe we can help. Questions about your résumé? Ask us. Wondering about your LinkedIn profile? We have a point of view. Bored by your cover letter? We can help. Concerned about interviewing? Let us give you some advice.

We are Leslie Bee and Dynasty Williams. Together we support talent recruitment at GS&P for most of the noncreative roles. We created these office hours as a way to help you get answers to your career questions.

Please join us for our next office-hours session on Tuesday, October 22, from 11:00 a.m. to noon (PST). 

This session is geared toward those who are just starting out. If you are currently a college student or a recent college graduate, and/or you are trying to break into advertising, we hope you will reach out. (If you are a junior creative, these sessions really aren’t geared toward you. We are sorry.)

To join, please click the “Apply” button below and submit 2–3 questions you’d like us to try to answer during the session. Typically, we send the meeting invite a day or two before the session. (Don’t worry if you don’t hear from us until right before the session—we will get back to you.)

At GS&P, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive application process. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to attendees who may require provisions to participate in this session. Should you require accommodation, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition team by email at jobs@gspsf.com, and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. 

We look forward to helping you.

Leslie Bee and Dynasty Williams

 

*We use this term to refer to roles not typically found in the Creative department (Admin/HR/Finance, Account Management, Strategy). Everyone at the agency is creative. :)