--- title: 'Account Director at Kettle' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/account-director-kettle-remote-cvbk7dnt8587' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Account Director at Kettle - **Company:** Kettle - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kettle/jobs/8642721002 ## Job description Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. As an Account Director, your job is centered around communication, strategy, and relationships. Your team members look to you for clarity, organization and leadership, and your clients look to you for partnership, creativity, and understanding. At Kettle, you will be a central force in the work, agency growth, and team connection. While this role is mostly remote, candidates must be a commutable distance to our New York City office. Candidates should have: - Experience managing multiple, digitally focused, projects at a time for clients, while maintaining a high level of support for each relationship - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including scope writing for active clients, creation of presentation deck narratives and slides, and persuasive and nuanced email communications - An innate curiosity and perspective about design and technology, and their impact on business - The ability to travel to client locations on a semi-regular basis to build relationships and participate in key meetings and events We’d like to know that you can: - Build, maintain, and strengthen relationships within client organizations, demonstrating understanding and curiosity for their business and the digital marketing landscape to instill trust and strive for growth - Build trust with internal teams from kick off to delivery, acting as the center of the wheel by guiding the narrative of project progress for key stakeholders - Manage up and across: You know when to take on a problem yourself to be helpful to the team or escalate for support - Take ownership of all deliverables, delegating when appropriate, and jumping in when needed The target range of compensation for this role is $140-170k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location. ## About Kettle ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kettle is a digital creative agency that brings technology and creativity together to solve its clients’ toughest challenges, designing products with soul and crafting stories with new technology. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Code & Theory in January 2021) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available from sources - **Founders**: Olivier Peyre (Founder & Creative Chair) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Advertising Services / Digital Creative Agency - **Target customers**: B2B enterprise clients; works with the world’s most ambitious brands - **Mission or purpose statement**: “We design products with soul. And craft stories with new technology. To reinvent how brands meet people online.” ## Products & Services - **Digital Product Design & Development**: Full-service product design (web, mobile, apps) using modern tech stacks (React, Figma, Docker, etc.) - **Content & Social Strategy**: Content-forward experiences, social campaigns, and brand storytelling - **Creative & Brand Experience**: Brand identity, motion design, and cultural moments that “meet people where they are” ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Code & Theory in 2021 for an undisclosed amount) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at **$25M–$50M** (LinkedIn data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Part of **Stagwell Group** (parent of Code & Theory); clients include **Apple, Nike, T-Mobile, American Express, Glossier, Discover, NBC Universal, The Trevor Project** - **Growth Signals**: - 41% revenue growth (per Adweek, 2025) - Named **No. 3 in Ad Age Best Places to Work 2026** - Headcount grew **17.4% YoY** (+45 employees, now 225) - Appointed first **Chief Creative Officer (Camille Imbert)** and **Chief People Officer (Jess Mireau)**, forming an all-women C-suite ## Competitive Advantages - **Trusted by iconic brands** (Apple, Nike, T-Mobile) with long-standing client relationships - **Outcome-focused, user-centered approach** that bridges technology and creativity - **Strong design and engineering talent** – 32% of employees in Design, 19% in Product - **Remote-first culture** with offices in New York, Austin, and Oregon; operates in 9 countries - **All-women C-suite** and commitment to diversity and belonging ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling the agency’s digital offerings and expanding its content and social capabilities - Deepening partnerships with existing clients (T-Mobile, Nike) while attracting new enterprise accounts - Investing in creative leadership (CCO, CPO) to drive innovation and employee experience ## Why Work Here - **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first with in-office options in New York, Austin, and Oregon; many roles are listed as fully remote (US-based) - **Culture**: Described as “curious, ambitious, always pushing for better,” with a strong emphasis on belonging and inclusion. Rated **3.6/5** on LinkedIn (62 reviews; compensation 3.8, culture 3.6). - **Benefits**: Competitive pay, bonus opportunities, monthly digital stipend, generous 401(k) matching, comprehensive healthcare coverage - **Engineering & Design Culture**: Heavy use of modern tools (React, Figma, Docker, Jira) and opportunities for senior talent (31% senior-level roles). Open positions include Product Design Director, Copy Intern, Design Intern, and more. ## Sources 1. [Kettle Website](https://wearekettle.com/) 2. [Kettle Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kettle) 3. [Built In – Kettle Careers](https://builtin.com/company/kettle-wearekettlecom) 4. [LinkedIn – Kettle Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kettle) 5. 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