# Sr. Business Director **Company**: Translation **Location**: Brooklyn, NY **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $150,000 - $180,000 **Category**: Marketing **Industry**: Advertising **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/unitedmasterstranslation/jobs/8791370002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8bc1e791-78e ## Description We are looking for a Sr. Business Director to join Translation and lead one of our most visible and consequential client partnerships. The Sr. Business Director is a senior client and business leader responsible for the success, growth, and health of a significant, complex account. As a Business Director, you will serve as a strategic leader and trusted client partner, deeply invested in understanding your clients' business challenges and uncovering opportunities to solve them through innovative, culturally attuned creative solutions. ## Responsibilities - Own the overall health, performance, growth, and senior client relationships for a flagship national account. - Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to Director-level stakeholders, shaping agendas, influencing decisions, and constructively challenging clients with a clear point of view. - Translate complex business, consumer, category, and cultural dynamics into clear strategic direction and stronger creative work. - Lead integrated teams across Business Leadership, Strategy, Context, Creative, Program Management, Production, Analytics, and Partner Agencies, creating clarity around objectives, priorities, roles, and decisions. - Ensure work meets Translation's standards for strategic rigor, creative ambition, cultural excellence, and client readiness before presentation. - Develop and drive the organic growth strategy, identifying and converting opportunities across stakeholders, business units, audiences, and workstreams. - Co-own account financial health with Program Management, including revenue, profitability, staffing, forecasting, scope performance, and investment recommendations. - Anticipate relationship, delivery, and commercial risks, intervening before they affect the client partnership, the quality of the work, team health, or profitability. - Lead, coach, and develop Business Supervisors through clear expectations, ongoing feedback, performance reviews, and meaningful development opportunities. - Contribute to agency leadership through new business, recruiting, shaping departmental standards, cross-functional improvements, and the development of future Business Leadership talent. ## Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Exceptional business judgment and the ability to connect marketing decisions to broader client goals, organizational dynamics, and commercial outcomes. - Executive presence and communication skills, including the ability to read complex rooms, tailor counsel to different stakeholders, and navigate sensitive issues with discretion. - Strong strategic fluency and the ability to turn ambiguity into clear, actionable direction without prescribing the creative solution. - Commercial acumen across scopes, staffing models, forecasting, profitability, and investment decisions. - Ability to lead and inspire multidisciplinary teams, resolve tension constructively, and create accountability without relying solely on hierarchy. - A growth mindset, with the curiosity and proactivity to identify unmet client needs and translate them into meaningful opportunities. - Cultural fluency and a strong understanding of how contemporary culture, audiences, and communities influence brands and business. - Sound prioritization and decision-making skills in a high-volume, fast-moving, and highly visible client environment. - A coaching orientation and the ability to raise the performance, confidence, and judgment of other leaders. - Ability to balance client needs, creative ambition, executional feasibility, team sustainability, and financial health. ## Minimum Qualifications - 10+ years of experience leading integrated client relationships within a creative, marketing, or communications agency, including demonstrated success operating at the Business Director or equivalent level. - Proven experience owning senior client relationships, complex integrated campaigns, organic growth, account economics, and cross-functional team leadership for a major consumer brand. - Demonstrated experience coaching and developing account leadership talent while independently navigating high-stakes client and business decisions. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience leading a large, complex, or matrixed national account across multiple stakeholders and workstreams. - Experience in QSR, retail, CPG, telecom, financial services, sports, entertainment, or another high-velocity consumer category. - Experience working within/leading an integrated agency team or multi-agency ecosystem. - Experience leading culturally specific or multicultural marketing while connecting the work to a broader brand and business strategy. - Track record of identifying and converting organic growth opportunities. - Experience leading scope development, staffing recommendations, forecasting, and profitability management. - Experience supporting new business pitches, agency initiatives, recruiting, or talent development. ## Skills ### Required - business judgment - strategic fluency - commercial acumen - leadership - communication skills - cultural fluency - prioritization - decision-making - coaching ### Nice to have - QSR - retail - CPG - telecom - financial services - sports - entertainment - multicultural marketing - organic growth - scope development - staffing recommendations - forecasting - profitability management --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/unitedmasterstranslation/jobs/8791370002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)