Account Director – Culture Communications

Employment Information
Type
Full Time
Industry
PR
Job status
LIVE, deadline 1st May
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LIVE, deadline 15th May
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LIVE, deadline 5th May
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LIVE, deadline 26th April
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LIVE, deadline 10th April
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LIVE, deadline 30th April
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LIVE, deadline 30th April
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LIVE, deadline 20th May
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 20th May
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 5th May
Level
Any
Updated
07 Apr-2025
Salary
£48K - £54K
Location
Job Description

Account Director – Culture Communications Agency

Do you want to work on campaigns that don’t just talk about culture but actively shape it? Are you deeply embedded in the worlds of music, fashion, art, and brand communications? Do you thrive when leading teams, building client relationships, and delivering work that makes a tangible impact?

If that sounds like you, read on.

This agency operates at the intersection of underground and mainstream culture, connecting brands with the scenes, subcultures, and opinion leaders shaping the future. Their work spans PR, experiential, content, and partnerships—helping brands achieve meaningful engagement and build long-term cultural equity. From global brands to grassroots projects, every campaign is crafted with authenticity, integrity, and an understanding of how to drive real impact.

Now, they’re looking for an Account Director to join their team.

The Role

As Account Director, you will take the lead on high-profile client accounts spanning culture, music, entertainment, and brand activations. You’ll be responsible for delivering best-in-class work, ensuring seamless execution of campaigns, and identifying strategic opportunities to grow client relationships. This role requires someone who is as comfortable in a boardroom as they are at a festival, equally adept at managing client expectations and leading dynamic, creative projects.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Leading client relationships – acting as the main point of contact, providing strategic counsel, and ensuring the agency consistently delivers outstanding results.
  • Driving campaign strategy and execution – translating brand objectives into innovative campaigns that engage audiences through culture, partnerships, and storytelling.
  • Building and developing teams – coaching and supporting junior team members, ensuring they grow and thrive within the agency.
  • Managing project delivery – overseeing timelines, budgets, and KPIs to ensure seamless execution.
  • Pitching and winning new business – developing compelling proposals and securing new opportunities for the agency.
  • Bringing a deep knowledge of cultural trends – keeping a finger on the pulse of emerging movements, key figures, and cultural conversations.

The Ideal Candidate:

  • A confident and strategic client lead – with a proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and deliver work that meets and exceeds expectations.
  • Culturally fluent – well-versed in media, entertainment, brand partnerships, and the broader cultural landscape.
  • A natural leader – able to inspire, guide, and support a team to deliver their best work.
  • Organised and process-driven – with a sharp eye for detail and a commitment to excellence.
  • A creative thinker – always looking for new angles, opportunities, and ways to make work stand out.
  • Commercially astute – able to identify opportunities for business growth and navigate the commercial realities of agency life.

Why Join?

This is an agency that doesn’t just dip into culture – it’s part of it. They believe in the power of culture to create change and are passionate about work that makes a real difference. The team is collaborative, ambitious, and committed to pushing boundaries. They’re also serious about creating an inclusive environment where diverse voices and perspectives are not just welcomed but essential to success.

If you want to lead work that genuinely moves the needle in culture, this is the role for you.

Sound like your next move? Get in touch.

We aim to respond to as many applicants as possible, but if you don’t hear back within a week, unfortunately, you haven’t been successful this time.

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Darain Faraz

Darain’s aversion to confined spaces took root during a fateful screening of ‘Buried,’ a film that immerses its audience in the gripping horror of a man awakening to find himself entombed alive. This intense fear of tight space has left an indelible mark on him. Beyond his mild-claustrophobic tendencies, Darain is also Co-founder of People Like Us, and former Director of Marketing at jobs behemoth LinkedIn internationally. Before his decade+ at LinkedIn, he resided in Australia where he ran comms for WWF’s Earth Hour, and MySpace (remember them?). He’s a regular on Marketing Week + PR Week top 100, has won a raft of industry recognition including the coveted Cannes Lions. But he’s more than his titles and his accolades, he’s a die-hard Kylie Minogue fan too. He has three lively kids and lives in Fiji (yup, you read that right). He also likes to take his shirt off at regular intervals (check out his ‘gram… or better still – don’t).

Mike Levaggi

What could be scarier than being stuck in a toilet cubicle with a wasp nest? Not much for our founder Mike (maybe having his face on a website) but definitely not making our industry fairer. He’s a northerner with Irish and Italian roots. In his 15 years in PR, he’s been a Senior Director of Assembly, head of consumer comms at Snap and a tech & gaming lead at Hope&Glory PR, winning over 50 industry awards. He’s also a former recruiter, the founder of the One Percent diversity initiative and co-founder of the PR Week Pay Gap Project. He’s been called a lot of things, but he’d call himself a problem solver. 

Sheeraz Gulsher

Sheeraz has both a fear and deep fascination of life after death. To face it, he’s taking solace by learning about the origin of world religions and reading the (not so) comforting words of many philosophers. Bit deep, but he’ll be fine, we promise.

Beyond his flirting with existential crises, Sheeraz is co-founder of People Like Us, the award winning non-profit that celebrates and supports professionals from underrepresented backgrounds in journalism, PR and the creative industries. Sheeraz is also an award winning PR professional with over a decade of experience both in-house at Snapchat and Sky, and at agencies including Hope&Glory and PrettyGreen. Sheeraz is a passionate campaigner for equal pay for ethnically diverse working professionals in the UK. He will often mention the one time someone said his celebrity lookalike is Riz Ahmed but in actual fact, he looks more like Bruno Fernandes (minus the sass). Top geezer all round.

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