AV Account Director

About the Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Hearts & Science as an AV Account Director, leading the video and audio output across a diverse portfolio of flagship clients including GoCompare, TK Maxx, Tropicana and Hargreaves Lansdown. Reporting into the Head of AV, you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of innovative AV campaigns across YouTube, CTV, Broadcast Video and Digital Audio platforms, ensuring best-in-class planning, activation and optimisation.

Working closely with planning teams, media partners and the wider programmatic department, you will help shape strategic, data-led solutions that balance brand building and performance objectives, driving measurable impact for clients. The role requires strong collaboration across AV, Client and Connections Planning teams, ensuring integrated AV thinking is embedded across campaigns from briefing through to delivery and post-campaign learning.

As a people leader, you will play a key role in coaching and developing a team of Executives and Managers, fostering a high-performance culture while maintaining exceptional standards in campaign delivery, operational excellence and innovation. You will also contribute to the ongoing evolution of the agency’s AV product, identifying opportunities to test new formats, measurement approaches and partnerships that keep Hearts & Science at the forefront of the evolving AV landscape.

With access to ongoing training, product innovation and cross-team collaboration, this role offers significant scope to shape the future of AV at Hearts & Science while further developing your own career within a fast-growing, future-focused agency.

About You

To thrive in this role, you'll be a confident and proactive AV media professional with at least five years’ experience in AV media. You’ll bring a strong understanding of the AV ecosystem, including marketplace insight, TV planning expertise, data-led targeting, and be able to translate audience insight into effective AV solutions. A natural collaborator and problem-solver, you’ll have a keen eye for detail, be confident presenting to stakeholders, and comfortable managing multiple projects at pace. Just as importantly, you'll be passionate about developing talent, with experience mentoring or managing others. Your curiosity for technology, desire to innovate, and ability to spot opportunities for growth will be key to your success—both for your clients and your own development within the team.

About the Agency:

Part of Omnicom Media Group (OMG UK), Hearts & Science are one of the fastest growing agencies in the market. Built in the digital age with agility at our core, our DNA is different from your average media agency. Our people bring to life our values of challenging conventions, celebrating difference, collaboration and positivity.

The core of our difference is rooted in our culture, something we invest significant time and energy into nurturing to ensure our people remain happy and fulfilled.

A central pillar of creating an agency Fit for the Future is making decisions that benefit our people, our agency, our partners and our clients both today and tomorrow. In media terms this means total transparency, over-and-above data governance, ethical media practices and thinking both long and short. This extends into our approach to learning & development, our diverse staff population, and social calendar.

Flexible Working

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

Be Your Best

We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG

At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.

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