Directors are ultimately responsible for the quality of everything we produce. They ensure every team has an agreed strategy, clear priorities, and consistently exceeds client expectations. Directors set the scope, agree the fees and design the structure of our teams to ensure we have the right resources to deliver our best work. They give brilliant advice to our clients and coach their teams to do the same. Directors are instrumental in the growth of the firm, helping to build external networks and lead on new business opportunities, while also supporting the design and delivery of plans for quality, talent and growth. 

Setting clear goals and priorities for your teams and holding everyone, including themselves, to account for meeting them

Building trust with your client in order to give the most impactful advice and support

Taking responsibility for influencing the strategic direction and tactical choices for clients

Sharing your insights and experience in a way that allows the rest of the team to replicate your success

Drawing on the full expertise and resources of the firm to develop and deliver advice that helps our clients build and protect their reputations

Coaching individuals both in line management and on teams to identify opportunities to meet their goals

Working alongside our other Directors in the US team to lead and inspire the team in NYC - fostering a culture where commitment to delivering the highest quality advice, a desire to learn and a bias to collaboration is rewarded. 

Being a role model and leading by example in both managing and delivering exceptional work

Ensuring research, data and insight underpins all work that we deliver 

Seeking expertise from outside the firm - media, business, policy, academia, research - and using it to improve the quality of our advice and analysis

Identifying operational efficiencies with new technology that enables us to deliver our best work

Identifying opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing and growth for the business beyond your own client teams and proactively driving delivery. 

Identifying and leading on converting new opportunities into work and extending our work with existing clients

Cultivating an external network that enables us to deliver impactful results for our clients (e.g. with journalists, subject matter experts or other advisers)

Developing and building your external network in order to attract new clients and reach potential referrers and identify how best to share it with the team. 

Showing entrepreneurial thinking internally by identifying opportunities for collaboration, skills building and knowledge sharing

Line managing outside client teams, including setting development goals that enable individuals to perform at their best and stretch into new development opportunities

Giving and receiving regular feedback to people at all levels in the firm outside of review cycles. 

Actively seeking input or assistance from others and reflecting their contributions in the work

Demonstrating allyship to all colleagues

Supporting the wellbeing of everyone on the team

$175,000 - $240,000 a year

Milltown Partners is a transatlantic advisory firm working with influential companies, organizations and individuals on their reputation-defining communications and policy challenges. We work with established and emerging technology companies, global investors, iconic brands, renowned sports franchises and influential individuals. We collaborate across locations and disciplines to combine our judgement, deep subject-matter expertise and innovative use of technology to deliver impact for our clients. We root our strategies in data insights and research on the audiences that matter, messages that work, and communications channels that deliver. We are an independent, employee-owned company, which means we have the freedom to invest in our people and our culture, and everyone shares in our success.

Creating a diverse, equitably and inclusive environment is core to our values, culture and success as an employee owned business. We want to empower everyone in the team to share their best thinking and ideas, feel valued and know they are having an impact and belong in the business, regardless of their background, age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability. We have an ambitious DEI programme managed by a global leadership team of volunteers with three global company commitments to: improve representation of minority groups, enhance everyone's sense of inclusion and support underrepresented communities through pro bono work. Underpinning these commitments is a focus on what it means to have a DEI culture and how to measure that in our approach to growth, attracting talent and the impact of our work for clients.