Remote Vacancy.

Marketing agency Sence is looking for an Executive Director.

SENCE is more than just a marketing agency. They handle strategy, branding, SMM, performance, influence, and production (clients include Askona, Prada, BMW, Vacheron Constantin, Yandex Eats, Tele2, and others), but they stand out with their approach: marketing is not “creativity for creativity’s sake” nor is it based on infobusiness logic. They build solutions on analytics, research, and common sense to ensure they work in numbers and deliver business results.

The team needs an executive director who will act as a “second line” manager and bring together the work of three key blocks into a single mechanism: marketing / sales / project execution. The role's purpose is simple: to ensure clarity within the team about who is responsible for what, that projects are completed on time and with high quality, and that plans are met not through heroism, but through a system.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing three blocks (marketing / sales / execution): goals → plan → execution → control
• Overseeing the full project cycle through managers: from handover by sales to final delivery to the client (deadlines, quality, communication, stage control)
• Restructuring production through contractors (key focus):
  • Work rules and “how tasks are assigned”
  • Quality and deadline control
  • Acceptance criteria
  • A clear system for execution control (to avoid final surprises)
• Planning and controlling the workload of the team/contractors: who does what, when, with what deadlines, where are the bottlenecks
• OKR and plan-vs-actual: ensuring tasks and metrics are not just “in someone’s head” but in a system and under regular control
• Operational cleanliness: controlling payments/contracts in conjunction with the finance director and lawyer (to ensure numbers and documents align)

What's important (must-have):

• Management experience in an agency model (marketing is ideal, but agency specifics are more important)
• Readiness to manage a system where a significant portion of production is through contractors, not just in-house
• Solid understanding of marketing principles (to speak the same language with the team and clients)
• Pace + transparent communication (significant client interaction, calls;)
• Readiness to step in during a period where the team is simultaneously undergoing restructuring and modernization

Conditions:

• Remote, 5/2, 10:00–19:00 Moscow time
• Employment: Civil Law Contract (GPH), first contract for one month (trial period), then prolongation
• Compensation: Fixed + KPI and % of net profit (negotiable individually. minimum 200,000 RUB)