Account Director (Creative Production)

📍Collingwood, Melbourne

💰Up to $100-120k + Super (annualised), pending experience alignment.

💁🏼 Open to SAM or AD level candidates

📆 Immediate start, fixed-term contract through to June.

💻 Hybrid work

🫶🏼 Industry-leading perks & benefits

At Keep Left, we believe attention isn't bought. It's earned through stories that connect with culture, communities and conversation.

We help brands earn their place in the world through smart strategy, creative storytelling and communications people genuinely care about.

We're looking for a Senior Account Manager or Account Director to join us on a fixed-term contract through to the end of June 2027, with a sole focus on managing a complex key automotive client across the integrated Hardie Grant Media network.

This is a role with real focus. You'll be the central point of contact for our client's creative brand projects, leading them from brief through to final delivery. You'll partner with strategy, creative, content and production specialists across the network, keeping projects moving, clients confident and the work to a standard we're proud of.

If you're the kind of account lead who's already thinking about the shoot while the script is still in review, this one's for you.

THE EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You've built a strong account management career in an agency environment and you know creative production inside out (this is an absolute must):

You'll bring:

• A strong account management background, ideally at Senior Account Manager or Account Director level in a creative, integrated or advertising agency
• Proven experience managing the end-to-end production of creative, across pre-production, production and post-production
• A strong production management approach, with confidence managing timelines, schedules, budgets, suppliers, approvals and version control
• The ability to work two steps ahead across the production process, anticipating issues and getting ahead of them before they reach the client
• Confidence leading client relationships, managing expectations and providing well-considered counsel to senior stakeholders
• Experience writing clear, accurate briefs and translating between clients and specialist teams across strategy, creative, content and production
• Strong commercial acumen, including scoping, quoting, tracking project budgets and flagging scope creep early
• Experience in the automotive category is highly regarded

THE QUALITIES WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You're organised, calm under pressure and always a step ahead. You thrive in fast-moving production environments, spot risks early and take ownership of solving them.

You build trust quickly with clients and colleagues, communicate clearly when things change, and care enough about the craft to sweat the detail from pre-production through to final delivery.

You're comfortable stepping into a focused, high-impact contract role, getting across the detail quickly and hitting the ground running.

WHY KEEP LEFT?

Keep Left is an award-winning PR & communications agency, combining the creativity of an independent agency with the scale and expertise of the Hardie Grant Media network.

• The creativity, pace and autonomy of an indie agency
• The scale, reach, and expertise of a national network
• Collaboration with specialists across digital, content, media, influencer and production
• Non-linear career pathways across the Hardie Grant Media network
• A hybrid, flexible approach to working and extensive employee perks

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

✨ Flexible work options: hybrid working and flexible hours

✨ Bonus leave days to recharge

✨ Purchased leave program available to all staff

✨ Additional menstrual & menopausal leave to support wellbeing

✨ Extensive Learning & Development programs to support career growth

✨ Free counselling services for both professional and personal matters

✨ Socially-conscious policies, including volunteer leave, blood donation leave, fertility treatment leave and gender transition leave, supported by our active Diversity & Inclusion, ESG committees and our newly minted BCorp status!

✨ 3 months of paid parental leave (on top of statutory leave) for primary and secondary carers

✨ Discounts on books from our publishing arm

BE YOURSELF, WE LIKE YOU THAT WAY

At Keep Left, authenticity is at the heart of everything we do. We know that diverse and inclusive teams have a positive impact on our culture and our business. We celebrate multiple approaches, points of view and backgrounds. We work hard to build a culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the ability of everyone to be their full authentic selves at work.

At any point in the application process, please feel safe to let us know of any accommodations that will make it more accessible for you. We encourage you to share your pronouns and anything else you would like us to know that will make this an enjoyable experience.

READY TO APPLY?

Sound like you? Send us your CV and cover letter. As this is a fixed-term role, we'll be reviewing applications as they come in, so we'd love to hear from you soon.