Senior Account Director
On-siteTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Job Summary
Lead client relationships and growth as the single senior leader accountable for the region and primary owner of all account and production business across Japan. Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, driving transformational solutions, assessing feasibility, and delivering against monthly and annual targets while ensuring work exceeds expectations. Operate in a central capacity to align regional production strategy with the global core, surface local market needs, and bring new global thinking back to the team. Support and lead the regional production function, holding final accountability for budgets, estimates, and delivery, while mentoring staff and shaping scalable processes. Fluently communicate in Japanese and English to represent the business in pitches and manage high-volume, interdisciplinary work.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years managing business accounts in digital advertising and content production
- 5+ years in a senior leadership role
- Fluent in Japanese and English at the highest professional level
- Extensive experience writing proposals and proposing solutions from both commercial and technical perspectives
- Proven experience owning budgets, margins, and revenue targets
- Track record leading client relationships and growing accounts at a senior level
- Experience mentoring and developing teams
- Strong knowledge of production delivery and scoping across creative disciplines
- Familiarity with AI and automation tools in a production context
- Strategic thinker and confident presenter, comfortable with ambiguity and building process from scratch
- Excellent organization and communication skills, calm and effective under tight, changing deadlines
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