Account Director

About the Role

The Account Director is the Client Partner’s strategic and operational right hand, responsible for owning senior client relationships, driving business impact, and ensuring high-quality delivery across a multi-market account. This role is a blend of strategist, operator and people leader. This role could be based in Jakarta, Bangkok or Malaysia.

Responsibilities

• Lead senior client relationships and act as a trusted strategic partner, translating ambiguous business problems into clear strategy frameworks and narratives.
• Lead full-funnel thinking across branding and performance; manage trade-offs between short-term efficiency and long-term brand building and encourage hypothesis-led experimentation.
• Drive operational excellence across complex multi-market programmes by setting structure, timelines and quality control of regional decks, frameworks and narratives.
• Align multiple stakeholders across markets, functions and partners and proactively shape agendas and address issues before they escalate.
• Coach and develop Senior Managers, Planners and cross-functional leads; act as a culture carrier and raise delivery standards while protecting team health and morale.
• Stay ahead of shifts across media, martech, measurement and creative, bringing external POVs, case studies and benchmarks into client conversations.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in a media agency, with SEA market exposure.
• Experience working with large regional clients and senior stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge across core digital channels (search, social, programmatic), with depth in at least two and strategic fluency across the full mix.
• Comfortable navigating industry research and insight platforms (e.g. WARC, Sensor Tower, SimilarWeb, GWI).
• Confident communicator with a calm senior presence; commercially grounded and delivery oriented.

Benefits

• Deep exposure to digital marketing and in-depth knowledge across search and social advertising.
• Experience working on regional projects and digital advertising campaigns for large, global brands.
• Work within a vibrant agency team and gain broader insight into the M+C Saatchi Group.

Additional Information

M+C Saatchi Performance is committed to creating an inclusive culture and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require reasonable adjustments during recruitment, please let us know. All employee information is kept confidential in accordance with GDPR.