Account Director

Company Description

Heartbeat is a full-service agency for healthcare Challenger Brands. Challengers are playing a high-stakes game—they must battle behemoth market leaders, upend ingrained treatment habits, or transform a “me-too” product into “yes-please.”

 

The agency is known for serving up distinctive strategies and differentiating approaches, ensuring clients’ market positions are uniquely owned. Heartbeat designs their organization around a 100% integration model, housing media, strategy, med comms, creative, technology, and even point of care/population health under the same roof for the tightest, most integrated campaigns possible. They price work based on outcomes, not outputs. Their innovative model delivers not only alignment, but powerful orchestration, greater efficiency, and maximum impact for every dollar spent—all the necessary elements for Challengers to triumph.

 

That’s the philosophy, here’s the creds: 250+ employees between NYC & LA; 6 agency leaders with decades of tenure; a pile of awards from the likes of the Mannys, MM&M Awards, OMMAs, and Clios; an industry-leading commitment to diversity and inclusion (with a Med Ad News D&I Champion nod to match); and a President who dared to be quoted as saying, “We celebrate people who stand up and say, ‘You know what? This is dumb.' Damn straight.

Overview

How you’ll grow with us:

Account Director is where you’ll start, but we’re always planning for where you’ll go. Our Account Directors are all expected to hone skills that will help build on their careers. Those skills include:

 

• Providing leadership and guidance to your clients while being engaged and passionate about delivering outstanding creative ideas.
• Becoming an expert in our clients’ business and serve as the clear voice of the client within our company.  
• Ensuring that our clients are being well served, while simultaneously advancing our positioning and growing our client relationships.

Responsibilities

How you’ll strengthen the team:Our team is looking for someone who can provide leadership and guidance to clients while being engaged and passionate about delivering outstanding creative ideas. Beyond that, here’s how you’ll make your mark:

•    Excellent written and oral communication skills•    Ability to give persuasive presentations that establish personal credibility•    Ability to manage multiple client contacts and maintain strong inter-agency relationships•    Ability to demonstrate exceptional team management skills•    Ability to learn quickly and handle multiple tasks•    Relentless attention to detail•    Technical concept understanding (web development, application development, databases)

Qualifications

What you’re bringing with you:Across 7+ years of experience, you know what it takes to slay Client Services. These are the core skills you’ve totally nailed:

•    Interactive marketing •    The ability to rapidly grasp client marketing objectives•    The ability to rapidly grasp technical concepts•    The ability to manage Accounts with many moving parts•    Client management relationship skills•    The ability to manage and grow marquee accounts•    A knowledge of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries (HCP and DTC)

 

 

Hell yes, I want to do all of that. But tell me more about Heartbeat…

Heartbeat is a healthcare marketing & creative agency, headquartered in NYC and powered by ~300 smart people all over the US. In the past four years, we’ve been named a 4-time “Best Place to Work” by AdAge and MM+M and a “Diversity & Inclusion Champion” by MedAdNews.

 

We care about three big things:

 

1. Empowering Challenger BrandsWe work with marketers who have big mountains to climb and the ambition to make it happen. As their sherpa and sidekicks, we must relentlessly deliver on our core values: insightful, inventive, and courageous.

 

2. Being the Best Place You’ll Ever Work

This isn’t all pool tables and Bagel Fridays — it’s about giving you the support to do and be your best. Examples include the ability to work wherever (forever), unlimited PTO, and self-care stipends. We also love to let loose, whether through selfie scavenger hunts or bouts of companywide bingo that would shock even the rowdiest retirement communities.

 

3. Fostering a Diverse & Caring Community

We’re the most diverse agency in healthcare, by design. No matter your story, you’ll find representation and amplification — through our affinity groups, cultural celebrations, and unwavering support no matter what society throws at us. We’re proud to say that you can be anything you want at Heartbeat (as long as it’s not an a**hole).

 

There’s a reason 1/3 of Heartbeaters have been here for 4+ years and we have a 90% retention rate. We hope you’ll experience it for yourself.

 

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

 

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

 

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com.

 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

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Compensation Range: USD $121,315.00 - USD $194,220.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/15/2026.