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ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

Who the hell is this job for?

Studio Something. That’s who.

Studio Something began life as a modest moon shot by Ian Greenhill and Jordan Laird, at the time we were working as juniors in an ad agency in Scotland. We were working on a lot of side projects to keep ourselves amused and excited. The majority of this was writing and directing, and occasionally appearing in, music videos and short films.

We decided to take a punt on starting something, that ‘something’ was Studio Something, you can read a wee bit more about the history here,

(don’t look at our site right now, brand new spanker is on the conveyor belt of production and will be live asap)

Since that day we have worked for clients such as Universal Music, Red Bull, Tennent’s Lager, SkyScanner, The Scottish Government and Innis & Gunn amongst many others. We’ve also helped a small mental health charity go viral, sent a teacake to space and dumped a billion people.

Where are we now? We have grown now to have a staff of 5, with a small financial backroom staff. We work with a number of clients on both a retained and project basis we’ve also begun working with one of the world’s biggest brands but can’t say too much about them yet. Shhhhh!

We have moved from our wee tapas restaurant that we turned into an agency to a four floor manse, with a bell tower at the top. Four floors? Yup. One floor to do serious meetings. One floor to house Welbot - What is Welbot?. One for the most interesting freelancers, students and folks in town. Then of course one for us. And maybe you?

We are looking for an ambitious, driven individual with a few years in ‘the biz’ who can work alongside us full time on a permanent basis to take the company to where we want to go, and where is that?

We want to go to space, win an Oscar and change the world for the better.

Our ambition is to make Studio Something one of the world’s most famous and successful creative studios. We intend to do this by unequivocally prizing creativity, working with humility, wide-eyed wonder, integrity, fun and without industry waffle.

With the mission -

‘Make Something People Genuinely Like’

Five, incredibly simple, words, that we want to guide our company -

‘Make’ — we want to be a company that knows not just how to conceive of ideas but also how to ‘make’ them, to see them through, understand why things work, why they fail. We too often saw, in agencies, that they did the ‘thinking’ and then when the client ‘bought it’ they hired in someone else to ‘make it’. It’s not to say we’ll never hire specialists but as a principle we want to know that we can make what we sell. If it all goes to shit and we end up back in the old tapas restaurant with two desks and no clients, we need to know we can make what we sell.

‘Something’ — For us ‘something’ means ‘ideas’, we don’t want to limit anyone in our company to what they can think up or conceive of, the guy who came up with snowboarding, while watching people ski, just thought ‘what if you took one of those skis away?’ and he invented a sport. We want our company to able to come up with world-changing ideas, maybe even a sport. But we also don’t want to discredit the smaller things, the ‘toolkits we create for charities’, the tweets that help our clients tell their story. Something can be big. Something can be small, but something HAS to be an idea.

‘People’ — this is important to us, ‘people’ to us are our mates who couldn’t tell you the first thing about advertising but ‘love Paddy Power’, it’s our Mum who hasn’t heard about ‘content’ but will ask ‘did you see that Carpool Karaoke?’ it’s the taxi driver who asks you what you do and responds ‘like those hilarious Irn-Bru ads?’ when you say advertising. We didn’t go to art school, our best pals aren’t ‘ad folk’. We have to talk to our pals about real stuff so we want to make stuff for people like them and people like us. People. Not ‘audiences’, ‘tribes’ or ‘markets’. People.

‘Genuinely Like’ — To us this goes to the taxi driver, it’s easy to get numbers that tell you people ‘liked’ your work, but there’s another point, when people genuinely like it, not because it was punted into their feed but because it connected with them and they couldn’t help but be touched by it. It’s when that taxi driver says ‘see that Binder thing on the telly, some dafties made the opposite of Tinder’, it’s not an ad it’s something people genuinely like. You can tell when your work goes past ‘likes’ and into actually being liked. That’s what we are striving for.

SO…

We believe that the person who takes this role has the opportunity to help mould a company in what they believe is the right way to do business.

We are of the opinion that the right person will be able to see this not as an opportunity to join a company but build one.

Ready to start something?

We are looking for an ‘Account Director’, which we think translates as,the following -

But what will I do?

For legal reasons, we’ve got a list of the ‘fancy words’ below to describe what we expect you to do but we thought it was worth trying to put into our own words what we think these responsibilities actually mean -

Designated Driver

In our eyes, it’s a steady hand on the wheel, a responsible adult to remind us to eat our greens and answer client’s briefs on time, to have one eye on the parking meter while the kids are on the water slide. We don’t need a stick in the mud but we probably occasionally need a stick to the head. You’ll also know when it’s time to get on the water slide yourself!

Juggler

We see the link between the agency and the client a bit like that. We will do our best creatively to ensure that the work we produce never gives you any need to take an ear full from the other team and we’ll ensure we always hire clients that wouldn’t ever think it appropriate to treat you with disdain. We do see the importance though of having that middle ground, it allows the client to get some things off their chest and quietly say ‘push those idiots please’ and it allows us to focus a bit more on the water slide.

Cheerleader

We’re all busy and of course talking about the company can drop down the list of priorities but we have seen that the more people we tell about the company and stand right behind what we believe in the more the right people come along for the ride. We want someone who can walk into any room in the country and sell what Studio Something stands for, it would also be quite handy if you’re welcome in a few inboxes to say ‘you should see the new team I am working with’

Fire Starter

We are in charge. All of us, there’s no teachers, no parents. Except you a ‘weeeeee bit’. But, It’s all our thing. We can quite literally do whatever we want, all of us. We want someone who has ideas, plans, dreams, a bit of vision for what a company should look like, how it should act, how it should treat its staff. We are all making this up as we go along so we want someone who is right up for making up something great. Go on a journey with us and be the next great ingredient in an exciting tasty cake of opportunity.

Fancy version of responsibilities

• Work with clients at a senior level on a day-to-day basis, on budgets, timings, deliverables, expectations.
• Work with our Production Manager on the execution and delivery of projects.
• Drive to grow the business and grow our relationships with new and existing clients. An entrepreneurial eye that might spot an opportunity we’ve all missed
• Working with the creative team to provide the utmost level of client service
• Work with creative directors on company positioning and strategy
• Foster new business
• Guide and mentor the less experienced members of the team
• Identify processes that help the business and the client.

The Skilllllzzzzzz that we think will help you do this -

• Passionate, driven, humble and full of wonder.
• Unparalleled ability to be able to sell great work.
• A proactive anticipator, a healthy deal of ‘guys what if this happens?’ might go a long way.
• A ‘will do’ attitude we are a small growing business so we expect everyone to know their way around changing a toilet roll or taking the odd bin out, and on the plus side it will make a great anecdote for you when we are HUGE.
• Leadership — a drive to help lead the company across all areas.
• Ability to work with senior clients in a friendly, humble but firm way.
• Attention to detail. Mistakes make us all look like bozos; when you inevitably find the mistake in this job description, tell us
• Manage stress well and keep process flowing like wine.
• Positivity, we need pink radiators not blue ones. We foster a positive work environment and have seen the benefit of people who can walk into a room and heat it up. Let’s get toasty.
• A confident approach to talking about creativity and championing ‘great work’ and understanding of creative processes and techniques
• Clear written and verbal communication
• A proactive nature, don’t assume and always make sure.
• Significant experience in professional client relationship management, take time to understand their business and know what battles to pick.
• A background in advertising, design, marketing, TV, entertainment or creative services would be a right good bonus, but hey we’ll listen to all comers.
• The ability to plan and strategise at a senior level.
• $$$ — money on ya mind. Strong financial skills, budgeting, negotiating and discussing fees. Money matters.
• The best postman ever. Ability to make clear when something will be delivered, what to expect and and then help us over deliver.
• Taking the slack. Effective team management capabilities, and also being able to use ‘slack’
• Presentation skillz
• A real good sense of humour.

Benefits

We will offer a competitive salary, company pension, 28 days holiday as well as a creative work environment with a positive and collaborative atmosphere. We also offer some nice things, including, but not limited to;

• We pay for your Netflix, obviously.
• We pay your phone bill, up to a reasonable amount, don’t stream Netflix on holiday or anything?
• All the coffee you can drink
• You get to work in a castle
• Loads of ‘cool’ magazines and books and stuff to nourish your brain
• Nice pens and pencils
• A swish Apple Macintosh laptop

Interested, email us at iwantthatjob@studiosomething.co and hit us up with a CV or whatever you think best encapsulates what it is you do/offer

Studio Something is a creative agency on a mission, a mission to create one of the best companies in the world, by making things people genuinely like. This is a year of learning for us, If you would like to tell us why we are wrong, how we can improve, what we are doing right or if you too want to go on this mission. emailus. tweet us. Get on our mailing list. Whatever, just say hello.