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Associate Director of Client Partnerships

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on building and managing strong client partnerships at AiDigital. You will serve as a strategic advisor, ensuring alignment between client objectives and internal teams while driving account growth and retention.

Qualifications

  • Experience in client relationship management and strategic advisory roles.
  • Strong understanding of digital marketing and business objectives.
  • Ability to navigate complex client challenges and internal brand politics.
  • Experience in managing strategic relationship matters and stakeholder challenges.
  • Proven track record in driving account growth and client retention.

Responsibilities

  • Build strong connections with client-side Directors, VPs, and other key decision-makers.
  • Act as a trusted business partner to assigned clients, providing guidance on digital marketing opportunities.
  • Partner alongside Client Partnership Directors and VP to drive the day-to-day execution of strategic account growth plans.
  • Collaborate directly with the Elevate TAM to ensure platform demonstrations and technical setups are seamlessly offloaded.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Executive Presence
  • Diplomacy
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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AI Digital

  • Marketing & Advertising Agencies
  • 501–1,000
AI Digital is an AI-native media consultancy helping agencies and brands navigate today’s fragmented media ecosystem. We combine hands-on expertise with AI transformation—through leadership strategy workshops, practical trainings, custom builds, and ongoing innovation-as-a-service—to drive outcome-focused media performance. We meet clients where they are and help them move fast, whether they’re navigating fragmented platforms, breaking free from walled gardens, or operationalizing AI for real-world results. No bias. No black boxes. Just performance. Why Clients Choose AI Digital - AI-enhanced planning and forecasting in under 30 seconds - Custom KPI engine + proprietary metrics like the Impact Score and Accountability Score - 99.9% premium supply access, no DSP bias - Real-time optimization powered by machine learning and expert oversight - Dedicated consulting to future-proof your AI readiness We don’t just promise AI transformation - we deliver it. We don’t replace expertise, we amplify it.

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Job description

Client Relationship Management

  • Senior Stakeholder Connective Tissue: Build strong connections with client-side Directors, VPs, and other key decision-makers, understand their priorities, and help them achieve their business goals.

  • C-Suite Mentorship: Shadow Client Partnership Directors and VP during senior executive engagements, co-leading C-suite pitches and QBRs to build executive presence and diplomacy skillset.   

  • Navigating Complexity: Professionally address complex client challenges and navigate internal brand politics with growing autonomy.

  • Insulating Execution: Manage strategic relationship matters and help resolve stakeholder challenges, enabling Client Service and execution teams to remain focused on campaign delivery and performance.

Strategic Advisory & Value Realization

  • Strategic Advisory: Act as a trusted business partner to assigned clients, providing guidance on digital marketing opportunities and aligning AiDigital's capabilities with their broader business objectives.

  • Value Realization Focus: Proactively identify opportunities to strengthen client partnerships, demonstrate the business impact of AiDigital's solutions, and support long-term client retention and growth.

  • Business Outcome Mapping: Ensure AiDigital deliverables are directly mapped to the client's unique business KPIs (e.g., customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, market expansion).  

Operational Alignment & Strategic Integration

  • Growth Planning: Partner alongside Client Partnership Directors and VP to drive the day-to-day execution of strategic account growth plans, focusing on multi-year retention, roadmap expansion, and scaling the brand's digital impact under senior leadership guidance.   

  • Bridging the Gap: Serve as the partnership linchpin connecting clients' broader business objectives with internal Strategy and Client Service teams, ensuring shared priorities and alignment between client expectations and execution.

  • Technical Handoff: Collaborate directly with the Elevate TAM to ensure platform demonstrations, software provisioning, and technical tracking setups are seamlessly offloaded, fully preserving strategic bandwidth across Client Partnerships and Client Service.  

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