Column Five is a B2B-focused strategic-led creative agency that helps ambitious brands find and tell their best stories to drive real results.
We’re looking to hire a Part-Time Account Director (~20 hours weekly) who is able to sell to and grow existing client accounts. Healthy, trusting client relationships + sound strategic guidance are the ingredients to winning meaningful work that will keep our clients successful, our teams fulfilled, and our agency financially healthy.
Our Account Directors are responsible for selling and supporting our work by establishing and growing our engagements with existing clients. This is done through being curious about the client’s brand and business strategy, and positioning our team as trusted experts who can help refine the strategy over time and execute the right work to achieve our clients’ goals. By digging deeper to understand what each client truly wants and needs, our Account Directors can effectively collaborate with our cross-functional teams to determine recommended solutions and pricing for the work.
This position reports to our Director of Client Services who oversees our Accounts team.
At Column Five, you’ll work with a vibrant team of people in a fast-paced environment built on collaboration, camaraderie, freedom, and flexibility. Each day you’ll find surprising challenges that stretch your skills and expand your creativity. As a distributed team, we value responsibility and autonomy, so we’ve designed our tools and processes to help you do your best work. Most importantly, you’ll get the chance to grow with talented people who make you feel loved, respected, and welcomed. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, we can make work a place of belonging and a source of fulfillment and joy—together. (Find out more about our core values.)

REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCOUNT DIRECTORS AT COLUMN FIVE

• Humility to listen, grow, and learn. You are a culture-add to our mighty, medium sized agency.
• At least 4 years in a creative agency role in account management with a track record of sales due to your excellent relationship-building skills, likely based on trust and positive results.
• Skills in consultative selling.
• Charisma and ability to reach our clients hearts and minds through a zoom call at 9 am.
• Working style that is focused around genuine care and respect for the creative team responsible for executing the work and a solid track record of working collaboratively across disciplines to succeed on complex client strategy-led creative work.
• Curious and capable of asking smart questions to determine larger opportunities and deeper challenges that a client is facing.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Strong preference for experience with B2B brand and/or content strategy, creative content campaigns and results-based retainer engagements.
• This is not a marketer role; you will be selling and growing in a consultative capacity and are measured by your sales growth and client experience results throughout the life cycle of our clients; if you don’t like nor don’t have experience selling and growing accounts, this is not the right position for you.
• Live in the USA

The right candidate will have:

• Agency accounts experience (4+ years in Account Management or Account Director role)
• Preferred exposure to B2B, SaaS, content marketing, brand/content strategy, and creative campaigns.
• A strong track record of building client relationships and driving renewals or upsells.
• A knack for balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution—from writing contracts and managing budgets to pitching fresh ideas that move clients forward.

We’re especially interested in someone who is:

• Knowledgable and interested in client industries, which cover crypto, AI, vibecoding, cloud infrastructure, and confident engaging with stakeholders in these spaces.
• Fluent in finance and complex stakeholder relationships — able to value-sell to enterprise clients where big budgets require trust and patience to unlock.
• Strategic yet scrappy—able to test new formats, move quickly on opportunities, and adapt to varying client budgets.

Please refer the Job description for details