Account Director, New Business

Account Director, New Business

New York, New York, United States

Opportunity

Brunswick Foundry is the strategic, creative, and data-driven engine of Brunswick Group, built to help clients navigate high-stakes issues and achieve high-impact outcomes.

We harness the best of Brunswick by uniting deep subject-matter expertise with insight, creative, and digital capabilities all underpinned by AI. Through this integrated approach, we develop bold, audience-driven campaigns and compelling pitches informed by sharp strategy, rigorous validation, and seamless execution from problem definition to final presentation.

The Foundry New Business team activates this process transforming opportunities into standout pitches through smart insights, strong creative development, and high-impact storytelling that showcases the firm's very best work.

As the New Business Account Director, you will sit at the center of Foundry's new business efforts, helping turn early opportunities into sharp briefs, powerful concepts, and polished proposals. You will collaborate closely with strategists, researchers, creatives, and the advisory team to ensure every pitch is insight-led, creatively inspiring, and operationally tight.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping Brunswick's most important opportunities, directly influencing the clients we win and the work we create. Every pitch is different, every challenge is high-stakes, and every outcome has real impact. In this role, your energy, insight, and creativity will help define the future of Brunswick Foundry and the firm.

About the Role

• Intake & Coordination
  • Support intake of new business opportunities and help draft initial briefs
  • Assist in assembling and coordinating pitch teams
  • Develop tailored workback plans, manage timelines, and coordinate deliverables across disciplines
  • Ensure required internal processes are completed
• Insight & Strategy Development
  • Support development of the pitch hypotheses and win strategy
  • Contribute to the campaign strategy and activation plan development
• Creative Development & Validation
  • Coordinate the development of campaign concepts, mockups, and illustrative examples
  • Organize internal ideation sessions and creative workshops
  • Support creation of research stimuli and AI-driven testing
• Pitch Development & Delivery
  • Help develop and design pitch materials including decks, case studies, bios, and executional examples
  • Coordinate rehearsals and ensure teams are fully prepared for live delivery
  • Support fee submissions, logistics, and internal review cycles
• Follow-Through
  • Support post-pitch steps including thank-yous, documentation uploads, and feedback collection
  • Document and maintain best-in-class materials to enable teams to start from a strong foundation and learn quickly
  • Help manage post-mortems and the Foundry new business library
• Project Management
  • Function as the day-to-day project lead on select clients when needed
  • Help oversee campaign development, manage workflows, and ensure smooth coordination across Foundry and Brunswick advisory teams

What We're Looking For

At Brunswick, we seek smart and curious individuals dedicated to learning and growth. We value potential, strong work ethic, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. For this role, we are looking for a strategic, creative, and highly organized problem solver who thrives in collaborative environments and is energized by work that spans insight, strategy, and storytelling. You bring hustle, high energy, and a genuine love of the deal. More specifically:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • You are naturally curious about audiences, issues, and trends
  • You think creatively and analytically, and can contribute to idea generation
  • You have strong attention to detail across research, writing, and presentations
  • You build strong relationships and work well across teams and time zones
  • You are driven by results and enjoy variety—no two pitches are alike
  • You are persistent, resilient, and confident
• Ideal Candidate
  • 4-7+ years of experience in supporting new business efforts in a professional services or agency environment
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Excellent writing and communication skills
  • Comfortable helping to manage creative concept development
  • Have worked on fully integrated campaigns across paid, earned, owned media
  • Able to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously
  • Extremely proficient with PowerPoint

Why Join Us

Whether you are joining a client facing team, a core services team, or starting out on your professional career journey, joining Brunswick unlocks a range of exceptional employee benefits to support your financial future, health and wellness, family and community and continuous professional development.

The successful applicant will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits package:

Base Pay: The annual base compensation range for this role is $95,000 - $120,000. The base pay offered will be determined by factors including experience, skills, training, office location, certifications, and education.

Bonus Eligibility: Annual discretionary bonus contingent upon individual and firm-wide performance.

Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance. Disability insurance. Employee assistance program. Flexible spending account. Health savings account. Life insurance. Commuter Benefits. Generous Paid Time Off: 25 vacation days and 10 days sick leave, as well as 11 paid company holidays. Firm-sponsored 401(k) Plan with 3% automatic company contribution of base and bonus with an additional 1.5% profit share– immediate vesting. Career training and development opportunities. Employee discounts.

Office Policy: At Brunswick, our work is a craft that thrives in teaching environments – whether in our offices or on-site with clients – through real-time observation, collaboration, human connection, clear guidance and by challenging one another to keep getting better. Our policy is that our team members are in person – either in the office or on-site with clients – at least four days each week.

The firm will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants or employees, as defined by applicable law. In addition to the application, the process may include virtual and in-person interviews, as well as an assessment, which may be timed. To request an accommodation during our application and hiring process, email View email address on click.appcast.io.

About Brunswick

Brunswick is a global advisory firm. We help companies tackle high-stakes issues, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and deliver high-impact outcomes.

Our clients value our ability to anticipate, shape, and respond to the key players and forces in the financial and investment arena, regulatory and geopolitical universe, NGO community, workforce and beyond. They rely on us for deep experience, fresh perspectives and original thinking. So, in Brunswick you will find an exceptional range of experience and talent with a rich mix of backgrounds. From the beginning, we have prioritized attracting, developing, and retaining the best professionals in the industry, united by a culture of inclusivity, excellence, and intellectual curiosity.

Founded in 1987 in London, the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. We operate as a "one-firm firm" with no individual profit centers. This allows us to assemble fully integrated, bespoke teams for each client, able to draw on the full resources of Brunswick anywhere in the world.

Brunswick is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. Please read our Global Privacy Notice to understand how your data is managed.