Senior Business Director

UnitedMasters | Translation · Brooklyn, NY

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $150,000 – $180,000
  • Posted 2026-11-04
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

Who We Are

We are an award-winning independent creative solutions company that aspires to be the most culturally-influential company in the world. We help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges. As a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling, we are united by a passion to grow brands in ways that advertising alone can never do.

We are an entrepreneurial business – not a traditional “ad agency.” That means we value resourcefulness and tenacity just as much as we value creativity and intelligence. We’re unapologetically ambitious!

We are looking for a Senior Business Director to join Translation!

The Senior Business Director is a senior client and business leader responsible for the success, growth, and health of a significant, complex account. This person has already demonstrated success at the Business Director level and brings greater executive influence, commercial judgment, and organizational leadership. They will serve as a strategic advisor to senior clients, lead integrated teams, and remain close to the work while actively shaping and pushing clients forward in culture.

What You'll Do

• 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, entertainmen

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