About this Account Director role at AKQA

AKQA · Onsite · Sydney, Australia

At AKQA (part of WPP), our Client Service team manages every facet of our client relationships, ensuring all our collaborations deliver the best possible outcomes for our valued partners. As an Account Director, you’ll cultivate and manage senior client relationships, acting as a trusted adviser, strategic partner, and agency leader.

In this role, you’ll transform our clients’ businesses by identifying and creating opportunities that add value across their digital ecosystem. You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams across strategy, creative, technology, and production to deliver meaningful, high-impact work that drives measurable business outcomes and is recognised both internally and externally.

At AKQA, you’ll be part of an inclusive and innovative culture, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. You'll have opportunities to learn and grow within a multidisciplinary team of strategists, creatives, technologists and experience designers, with ongoing personal and professional development. Our hybrid studio model supports collaboration, flexibility, and craft.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Identify and cultivate new business opportunities through strong senior client relationships.
Be accountable for revenue and forecast management across accounts, ensuring reporting is completed accurately.
Monitor, maintain, and drive a strong pipeline of client growth.
Encourage a fearless, entrepreneurial approach to solving problems and unlocking opportunities.
Work collaboratively across disciplines to provide clients with relevant insights, industry trends, and best practice.
Drive and inspire a high-performing, professional, and passionate team.
Mentor and coach junior team members, fostering growth and development across the wider team.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Strong strategic and commercial acumen with a thorough understanding of business growth drivers.
Demonstrable experience in a similar senior agency role, with the ability to show measurable impact across clients, projects, or teams.
Experience within the CX space across web development, ideally managing or leading complex projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and risk management skills.
Proven ability to identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities effectively.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong stakeholder management capability.
Sharp attention to detail and a drive for excellence.
A collaborative ‘one team’ mindset that enables clients and agency partners to work cohesively and successfully.

We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

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About AKQA

CORE VALUES

Our founding values guide our work and the philosophy of our firm:

Innovation – pioneering ideas combined with the application of technology, to achieve lasting improvements in performance for our clients.

Service – outstanding service to our clients and colleagues, so we retain exceptional people and create trust-based relationships with clients.

Quality – adhere to the highest professional standards and superior quality.

Thought – recommending the best solutions through the most rigorous thinking process.

TEAMWORK

AKQA provides the highest quality ideas and innovation services to clients around the world. Our consistent track-record of results achieved for clients have set our firm apart. Through our focus on our core values, thought-leadership, rigorous delivery, and industry initiatives, AKQA is today one of the world’s most influential companies. Our goal is to become a high-performance environment where the most talented people flourish. With our perfectionist approach, people join AKQA for the opportunity to do the best work of their careers.

We create digital products, services and immersive experiences that are useful, usable, delightful and enjoyed by millions. We employ a rapid ideation and prototyping process that focuses on getting pilots into market quickly, helping clients make a sustained impact, increase their relevance and expand their connection. By embracing a pioneering approach that continues to lead and define the industry, we deliver cohesive blueprints that fulfil audience needs and surpass business goals.

LONG-TERM COMMITMENT

AKQA is committed to helping our team develop into the best possible practitioners and to providing them with an unparalleled foundation for their career. We help develop well-rounded professionals acquire leadership skills more quickly than at other organisations. Our employees benefit from the trusted long-term nature of our client relationships as well as the cultural alignment between the client and our own organisation, creating an optimum environment to deliver the work without any compromises.

ORGANISED TO SUCCEED

The core motivation at AKQA is product excellence. Although we are part of WPP, AKQA operates as an independent firm. Organically grown, our team works as a single firm, without geographic division. This means we can bring the best resources from our network to provide solutions for our clients.

In addition to our own Future Lions initiative, we have formed partnerships with many of the world’s leading universities so we can hire their best graduates. We combine youth and energy with maturity and experience to form a community that has a unique diversity of knowledge and exceptional professional judgement.

DEVELOPMENT

In addition to on-the-job training, AKQA offers a menu of training through the AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development. This comprehensive curriculum of formal training is designed to equip our team with the substantive creative, engineering, business acumen, communications, management and analytical skills required to have professionally rewarding careers. AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development courses are taught by leaders in their fields including AKQA’s own senior team and respected external experts.

To maintain the continuous focus on our core values, and provide a clear career path for our team, all of our Managing Directors and Executive Partners are promoted from within AKQA.

All AKQA employees and clients are invited to participate in the AKQA Insight and AKQA Tech.Insight thought leadership programmes. These comprise a series of informative lectures and Q&A sessions with authors, artists, athletes, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who are recognised leaders in their respective disciplines.

DIVERSITY

We believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. We provide our employees with the canvas, tools and confidence to help them advance their careers in a way that best suits them.

SUSTAINABILITY

At AKQA we believe everything a company does should be about taking the responsibility to be respectful towards the community and the environment. We consider community and pro-bono work to be an important commitment of our employees. We encourage our team to devote their skills to a broad range of pro-bono and community activities, working with myriad charitable and not-for-profit organisations. AKQA is part of WPP’s Sustainability initiatives. WPP is ranked no. 49 in an annual round-up of the World’s Greenest Companies.