Account Director

Role: Account Director – Entertainment (Film & TV)

Department: SOCIAL TEAM (UK)

Reporting to: Senior Account Director

Location: USA remote

About Us

We are a SOCIAL FIRST CREATIVE agency specialising in entertainment, delivering impactful campaigns across film and TV.. We connect audiences to content through culturally relevant, insight-led work across social, digital and experiential platforms.

Our work spans global releases, streaming launches, and always-on content strategies bringing stories to life in ways that resonate with modern audiences.

We’re looking for an Account Director to join our industry-leading Entertainment team, working across some of the most exciting campaigns in film and television.

You’ll play a key role at the heart of the agency, leading work for major studios including Amazon Prime Video, StudioCanal, Paramount Pictures and Paramount+, delivering culturally relevant, social-first campaigns that connect audiences to the content they love.

If you’re passionate about entertainment, social media, and creating campaigns that cut through in a fast-moving digital landscape, blending creativity, strategic thinking and a proactive, can-do attitude — we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the day-to-day management of key entertainment client accounts with confidence and ownership
• Deliver integrated, social-first campaigns spanning content, influencer, partnerships and digital activations
• Act as the central hub across projects, ensuring campaigns run smoothly from concept through to delivery
• Build strong relationships with clients and studios leading all communications
• Collaborate closely with internal teams including Events, Creative, Production, Social and PR teams to deliver standout work
• Lead on Pitch decks with the team and drive the best for every client
• Ensure campaigns are delivered on time, on budget, and to a high standard

What You’ll Bring

Can-Do Attitude

• Proactive, solutions-focused and always thinking ahead
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Entertainment & Campaign Delivery

• Experience delivering integrated campaigns, within entertainment and streaming sectors
• Understanding of how to bring campaigns to life across social and through events
• Ability to interpret briefs and translate them into clear, compelling campaign ideas to pitch

Events Experience

• Strong understanding of events and experiential and how to amplify them through content moments
• Knows how to turn vision into reality across markets

Social & Digital Expertise

• Strong understanding of social platforms and digital ecosystems
• A sharp eye for content, trends and what drives engagement
• Awareness of emerging technologies and how they shape audience behaviour

Client Leadership

• Confident leading client relationships and conversations
• Ability to present ideas clearly and influence decision-making
• Strong stakeholder management across multiple projects

Team Management

• Experience supporting and managing cross teams
• Collaborative, approachable and contributes to a positive team culture

Budgets & Delivery

• Experience managing campaign budgets and timelines
• Ability to oversee reporting and ensure high-quality output

What You’ll Get

• Competitive salary
• 23 days annual leave
• Private healthcare
• 401k
• A strong commitment to Diversity & Inclusion, with mentoring and development opportunities
• The chance to work on some of the most exciting entertainment campaigns in the industry

Ready to join Team Substance?

Please send your cover letter and CV to

jobs@substanceglobal.com

Our recruitment process seeks to eliminate aspects of unconscious bias. For this reason, all CVs received will have names and other personal identifiable information removed, so that those reviewing applications will do so on the basis of skill sets and aptitude alone. Selected candidates will next be appraised - either by set tasks or interview(s), or both - based on scoring criteria against the role’s required competencies.

We are an inclusive, people first company and are always looking at ways to best support our people. Please let us know should you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.