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Okay, so I think we all need more context before commenting seriously. Are you highly awarded? Is your book swole AF in the four short years of your career? I.e. are you a 'brand name' creative? If you are, it makes total sense as to why you are being offered this ACD position so early in your career. If so, take it and run with it. If you are not some kind of prodigy my guess would be the agency in question wants to underpay for leadership. Or inflates job titles. In which case I'd still take it. But just know you may take a title cut at the next job. Or you may kill it and be a CD one day. A long way to say take the job. But be humble. Treat people well. Help juniors. 💪
Unless this is just a humblebrag post, how is this even a question? Ffs shut up and take their money/promotion.
Go do it! But wait is this pharma?
Not pharma
If you don’t take the position, you’ll probably still have the responsibilities of it anyway. Just not the $ May as well take it.
Your post tells us the biggest red flag
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Maybe you already have a couple of Cannes lions into your short career and deserve this post. But otherwise, I would never hire someone with only four years to be an ACD. If it’s a real ACD position, you will need to be managing people. In my opinion need four more years before you’ll have the necessary diplomacy, maturity and ability to recognize diamonds in the rough. Unless you’ve been in 30 new business pitches, I’d say you’re still too inexperienced. But over-promotion is all the rage these days.
Don’t do it. Rushing into it will get you in trouble, and then good agencies will demote you anyway to go there
When you hate the place and have to take a pay cut. Reversing your spending habits is basically impossible.
Depends on the agency, and the work you’ll be doing...but yes it sounds like it may be too early. When I was younger, I worried about building my book more than titles. Because if you have a good title but no work to back it up, you kinda end up stuck. But hey for all I know, maybe you’re a prodigy.
100% take it if it’s on a piece of business where you can make great work and keep advancing your portfolio. If it’s not there’s a chance they have to offer higher salaries and titles to get anyone to take the role. In that case, think about it long and hard, and if you do take it, have an exit plan
The work will be less yours and more managing. I’d say wait and enjoy the work more before you find out all the BS politics that comes with ACD. And so many meeting about nothing.