Account Director/Manager

We are hiring one person for this role. The title depends on you. If you have run a team and owned senior client relationships, this is a Director role. If you are strong but earlier in that arc, it is a Manager role with a clear path.

Aposto is an independent media company. We publish newsletters, a website, a mobile app, and a print paper, and we run events. Our editorial philosophy is simple: gürültüden uzaklaş. Stay away from the noise. Everything we make is built on the idea that people want less, chosen better.

We are looking for someone to lead our account team: the people who take what sales sells and turn it into work brands want to renew.

The role

You lead account management at Aposto. That means two things at once.

The first is running the team. Our account executives report to you. You set how the function works, who owns which client, how briefs move through the building, and what good looks like. You are responsible for their development, not just their output.

The second is the part that makes this job different from account management elsewhere. We do not sell a rate card. The best work we do is invented for one brand, in one vertical, in a format that did not exist before the brief landed. You are expected to be in that invention, not downstream of it. If a bank comes to us, you should be the person who knows that the answer is a six-week series in Pareto rather than four banner placements, and who can describe it well enough that the client sees it before it exists.

You sit between sales, editorial, and production. Sales opens the door. You make sure what happens after the door opens is good enough that the client comes back.

What you'll own

• The account team: hiring, structure, workload distribution, and the standard of the work leaving the building
• Client relationships from the moment a deal closes: onboarding, briefs, feedback, escalation, renewal conversations
• Creative concept development with editorial and production, across Gündem, Pareto, Apéro, Duende, Quando, Angst, Soli
• The campaign calendar. Everything that runs, when it runs, who is making it, and what happens when a client moves a date three days before launch
• Long-term programmes: annual retainers, multi-vertical partnerships, and event sponsorships that need to be planned in quarters rather than weeks
• Close partnership with the sales team. You are in pitch rooms, you help shape proposals, and you are honest about what we can actually deliver well
• Post-campaign reporting and the case for the next campaign. A renewal is won during the first project, not after it
• The internal process itself. If briefs are late, approvals are unclear, or editorial is finding out about a campaign too close to publication, that is yours to fix

What we're looking for

• Four to eight years in account management, client services, brand partnerships, or content production. More if you are coming in as Director
• Experience managing people, or clear evidence you are ready to. For the Manager title, we will take strong individual performance plus appetite
• Real creative instinct. We are not looking for a coordinator who moves tasks between columns. We want someone with opinions about what a brand should make with us
• The ability to write. Briefs, concepts, and client emails all count. Ours read like our newsletters, not like templates
• Calm under a moving calendar. Media is late, always, and the person who holds the schedule needs to be the steadiest one in the room
• Native Turkish and strong professional English. Some of our clients and partners are outside Turkey
• Comfort with the tools: Google Workspace, project management (Notion, Asana, or similar), CRM discipline

Nice to have

• Background in publishing, an agency, or a content studio
• Experience with native advertising, branded content, or newsletter sponsorship specifically
• Event production exposure
• A portfolio of work you can point to and say what your part of it was