We're looking for a Senior Business Director to lead some of Australia's most ambitious brands and help shape what's next for 2045.

This role sits at the intersection of client leadership, commercial performance, strategy and delivery.

You’ll be responsible for growing key client partnerships, leading integrated work from brief to launch, and ensuring our teams are producing work that creates measurable business impact.

You’ll move comfortably between strategy, creativity, operations and commercial conversations, connecting the dots across all four.

You’ll know when to challenge, when to back the team and when to push for more.

You’ll create momentum where others create complexity, turning client ambition into clear direction, commercial opportunity and great work.

About 2045

2045 is not a traditional agency. We move rapid, embrace new technology, and believe creativity should drive business outcomes.

We’re looking for someone who is commercially sharp, culturally aware, relentlessly proactive, and excited by the future of our industry.

We know what’s next. We make it happen. We go beyond the beyond. These are the 2045 values.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Delivery - Partner with clients and internal teams to turn business problems into creative opportunities. Ensure every brief is clear, every project has a purpose and every piece of work knows what success looks like. Lead integrated projects from briefing through to delivery and help teams navigate complexity without losing momentum.

Commercial Management - Own the commercial performance of your portfolio. Manage forecasting, profitability, resource planning and growth. Find opportunities to expand our impact, deepen relationships and grow the business. Understand the numbers well enough to make smart decisions before problems become problems.

Client Management : Build relationships that go beyond project delivery. Become the person clients call when they have a challenge, an opportunity or a crazy idea.



Earn the right to influence decisions through consistently great thinking, great service and great outcomes.

Team Management and Culture - Create an environment where talented people can do their best work. Give clear direction, keep standards high, remove friction and build a team culture where people feel supported, challenged and trusted.

Excellence in Execution - Set high standards across all outputs, ensuring work is polished, timely, and impactful.

Stakeholder Management - Confidently manage multiple stakeholders across client organisations and internal teams. Navigate competing priorities with clarity, empathy and strong judgement.

About You

- Extensive experience leading major brands within a creative, marketing or integrated agency environment.
- Proven experience delivering integrated campaigns and complex programs of work.
- Strong commercial capability, including forecasting, profitability management and account growth.
- Builds relationships quickly and earns trust through action, judgement and follow-through.
- Doesn’t wait to be told what to do. Spots opportunities, solves problems and takes ownership.
- Understands how agencies make money and knows how to grow both clients and the business.
- Excellent communicator with strong presentation and influencing skills.
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve quickly.
- Obsessed with where culture, creativity and technology are heading.
- Collaborative, low-ego and team-first.
- Curious, adaptable and always looking for better ways of doing things.

Why Join Us?





This is an opportunity to work with ambitious brands, talented people and emerging technologies at a time when our industry is being reshaped in real time.

You’ll help clients navigate what’s next, build work that matters, and contribute to an agency that believes the future belongs to those willing to create it.

If you’re excited by change, motivated by growth, and want to help define the next generation of agency leadership, we’d love to hear from you.

2045 VALUES

1. We Know What’s Next.

Our job is to stay immersed in what people are watching, swiping, wearing, sharing, and feeling - because clients pay us to know their audience better than they do. Our cultural fluency is what gives us good taste. It tells us what matters, what’s over, and what’s about to land. We know what’s next.

2. We Make It Happen.

We don’t wait for permission or perfect conditions.

We learn fast, experiment hard, and use every new tool that gives us an edge. Being entrepreneurial means moving first, thinking smarter, and delivering faster. We make it happen.

3. We Go Beyond The Beyond.

Anyone can go beyond expectations.

We go further- beyond what the client asked for, beyond what competitors can deliver, beyond what we thought we could do yesterday. That’s where 2045 lives. We go beyond the beyond.

ABOUT 2045

“I set the date for the Singularity ... as 2045.” — Ray Kurzweil

2045 is named for that moment - when human and machine intelligence merge, and creativity expands through both evolution and destruction. It’s inevitable, and it’s terrifying in all the right ways.

At 2045, we use our Headless AI stack to extend our creative will. But that only matters if the will itself is world-class, and that’s who our clients get when they work with us.

Location

Reporting to

Head of Business and Production Management

Direct Reports

Senior Business Manager, Business Executive

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📌 Senior/ Group Business Director (Melbourne)
🏢 2045 Agency
📍 Melbourne