Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Account Director (H/F)
Location: Paris, France (Office presence expected at minimum 2 days per week)
Please submit your CV in English
THE ROLE
As Account Director, you'll lead the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the studio, reporting to the Business Director. You'll be accountable for the quality, consistency, and financial performance of the account, managing a team of Project Managers, Creatives, and Social Strategists while acting as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders across Europe.
This is a role for someone who moves comfortably between the big picture and the detail: shaping a long-term client relationship on one side, and keeping a complex, fast-moving creative operation running smoothly on the other.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead, develop, and motivate a multidisciplinary team including Project Managers, Creatives, and Social Strategists, with direct line management responsibility for five reports
- Serve as the primary client contact, building senior-level relationships grounded in trust, transparency, and proactive strategic thinking
- Develop a thorough understanding of the client's brand portfolio, marketing objectives, and audiences - translating insight into clear creative direction
- Oversee the full creative process from brief to delivery: briefing, development, presentation, production, and distribution across social, video, POS, OOH/DOOH, and web
- Identify, plan, and manage the internal and external resources needed to deliver briefs on time and to brief
- Manage the financial health of the account, including budget forecasting, cost management, profitability tracking, and invoicing
- Identify opportunities to expand the scope, tools, and services of the studio and develop compelling proposals to grow the relationship
- Drive continuous process improvement, identifying and implementing efficiencies without compromising creative quality
- Bring relevant industry trends, platform developments, and content best practice to the team and client on an ongoing basis
- Build a studio culture that is collaborative, creatively ambitious, and oriented around delivering exceptional work
Budget and Financial Management
- Oversee the studio's annual content budget and report financial performance against forecast
- Present budget updates and account financials to client and OLIVER stakeholders
- Accountable for the commercial health of the studio, including cost control, profitability, and invoicing accuracy
WHAT YOU BRING
- A track record of leading content creation at a strategic level within an international environment, with strong grounding in social media content
- Proficiency in English & French is required as we are a global business
- Proven experience managing and developing multidisciplinary teams, including direct line management
- Confidence building and maintaining senior-level client relationships based on trust, strategic partnership, and deep brand understanding
- Strong project management capability, able to plan, prioritise, and manage complex, multi-market workloads under pressure
- End-to-end content expertise: from concepting and production through to distribution, performance, and iteration
- Comfort with financial tracking, budget management, and commercial performance reporting
- Clear and credible presentation skills, with the confidence to lead senior client conversations
- Experience in, or strong working knowledge of, the FMCG sector is an advantage
Gen AI and Agentic Thinking
- Confident, strategic use of Gen AI tools to enhance studio output, efficiency, and creative quality
- Ability to set quality standards and governance for AI-assisted work at studio or account level
- Agentic approach to complex business and creative challenges — systematic, solution-oriented, and able to lead a team through ambiguity
- Drives AI literacy and responsible adoption across the team; brings critical judgment to the evaluation of AI outputs
Formal qualifications are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience gained through work, study, volunteering, or self-directed learning counts equally.
Req ID: 18494
Our values shape everything we do:
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
Be always learning and listening to understand
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations
OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
Skills Required
- Fluent English and French
- Track record of leading content creation at strategic level within an international environment, strong grounding in social media content
- Proven experience managing and developing multidisciplinary teams, including direct line management (five direct reports)
- Experience overseeing full creative process from brief to delivery across social, video, POS, OOH/DOOH, and web
- Strong project management capability to plan, prioritise, and manage complex multi-market workloads under pressure
- Comfort with financial tracking, budget management, forecasting, profitability tracking, and invoicing
- End-to-end content expertise: concepting, production, distribution, performance, and iteration
- Confident, strategic use of Generative AI tools and ability to set quality standards and governance for AI-assisted work
- Clear and credible presentation skills with confidence to lead senior client conversations
- Experience in the FMCG sector
OLIVER Agency Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about OLIVER Agency and has not been reviewed or approved by OLIVER Agency.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays are strong elements, with time off frequently highlighted as a standout part of the package. UK materials also describe generous annual leave that increases with service alongside additional personal days.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests U.S. employees can access a 401(k), and at least one account notes an immediate match. UK materials indicate a formal pension arrangement within the parent group.
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Affordable Benefits — Feedback suggests U.S. medical coverage is paired with employer-funded HSA/HRA or flex contributions that help offset high deductibles. These subsidies can meaningfully reduce out-of-pocket costs for some employees.
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What We Do
Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 200 clients in 46 countries and counting. Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients’ money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever’s U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), adidas’ off-shore hub and PepsiCo’s global digital team.
