Strategic Account Director, Media Buying

The Strategic Account Director is the senior relationship and strategy owner for one to two of 829’s most important enterprise advertisers — high-value clients running 6- to 7-figure monthly media budgets across CTV, OLV, display, native, audio, and emerging digital channels. The role sits within 829’s Enterprise Media Buying practice and serves as the executive-level point of contact for client leadership, including CMOs, VPs of Marketing, and senior media decision-makers.

This is a true player/coach role. You are accountable for the relationship, the strategy, and the commercial outcomes — and equally accountable for the day-to-day quality of the work. Early in the role you will operate with a deliberately lean, integrated team supporting a single high-value account. As the practice and your portfolio scale, dedicated resources scale alongside it — but the standard does not change. This role owns net revenue retention, and the long-term trajectory of every account on its desk.

The Strategic Account Director is part executive sponsor, part strategic advisor, and part commercial owner — the person clients trust to translate media performance into business outcomes, and the person 829 trusts to grow these relationships into multi-year, performance-accountable partnerships.

What You'll Do

Executive Client Leadership

• Serve as the senior strategic lead and executive point of contact for one to two high-value enterprise clients
• Build and sustain trusted partnerships with C-suite, VP-level, and senior marketing leadership at the client organization
• Lead executive-level conversations including QBRs, annual planning, business reviews, strategic planning sessions, and renewal discussions
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex client, operational, or strategic concerns
• Connect media performance — across CTV, OLV, display, native, audio, and emerging channels — to client business objectives, marketing organi