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PLACED: Group Strategy Director, $200K, NYC

Are you a creative problem-solver who can think big, is a student of culture and is passionate about ideas? Come join the agency that creates buzz-worthy cultural conversation for exceptional brands.

You are a strategic, curious and creative leader who can drive business from strategy development through final execution. You have a proactive, accountability-first, leadership sensibility with a hands-on work style and ability to guide day-to-day activity as necessary. The Strategy team uses their business acumen and experience in conducting interesting research, identifying solid insights (across consumer, culture, category and company), writing concise briefs, inspiring great creative work that is strategically sound, and presenting the same convincingly. You’ll develop brand essence and other strategic deliverables, and in collaboration with Media colleagues, own creation of campaign architecture and communications planning that will guide campaign development. You will have day-to-day responsibilities on marquee clients and should be equally comfortable leading C-Suite relationships as well as rolling up your sleeves and getting scrappy. You can find the human insight to solve a business problem and further develop that idea into actionable and superior creative executions.

We need someone who’s a nerd about strategic craft. Authorship is central to all the agency does –storytelling is their art – especially in service of smart business and brand building opportunity. We need someone with a strong toolbox for creating and directing strategic efforts – experience across categories and clients – and some seasoning in leading teams and businesses. We need someone with a cultural nose – an inner passion to know the code behind the passions people subscribe to – and a range of work that shows experience translating insight across problems, businesses and brands. We need someone who likes to get into the brain of the businesses.  Strategic power can be most valuable in story-selling – so it’s important to see evidence that insights and ideas are leveraged to elevate the brand IQ of clients and their creative work.

Please… be collaborative and welcoming; people need to feel they can ask for your help and actively involve you in discussions with clients and amongst the team. You are quick thinking and smart, able to debate complex issues with clients at length and under pressure. To that end, you likely have a natural authority and can clearly and brilliantly express complex ideas simply. However, you need to act in an ‘open’ way, responding openly to client questions, seeking information from other parties and sharing the knowledge you have. Your ‘can do’ spirit is infectious and attractive to both colleagues and clients. Category diversity is a plus; 12-15+ years strategic planning experience a must.

Sounds great? Please shoot your resume/portfolio to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

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PLACED: Senior Analyst, Social Media, $100-115K; NYC (Freelance or Full Time)

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Analyst to join the social practice at a digital innovation agency, on a major new account. This well-respected shop brings together product design, brand communications and social content to help businesses thrive. They are currently expanding as a business, and the Analytics discipline, and want to continue that success by collaborating with their social, strategy, design, and technology teams.

We’re looking for a person who loves research and analytics but who isn’t a robot. Someone who sees humans and how they behave in all the numbers. Someone who would rather tell you a good story about numbers than simply email a spreadsheet. Someone who understands the give and take between data and emotion when trying to get to great work. This person will have deep experience in social and digital analytics and platforms.

Role + Responsibilities:

  • Help clients understand the environment in which they compete – competitive analysis, social listening, keyword analysis and broader market trends
  • Help determine how clients can compete – information architecture, content strategy, social strategy, meta data, measurement and testing
  • Able to handle complex client environments; being able to understand the motives of different client teams and how this impacts use of data
  • Hands-on user of enterprise level such as Brandwatch, Sysomos, MOZ and be able to give clear direction to other teammates to help execute
  • Partner in the strategic process as the Analytics expert, providing insights into the best strategies and tactics to achieve business objectives through social
  • Help construct and execute nimble reporting plans that can adapt with new technologies and data
  • Help educate clients and teams about your discipline and how they can use it to make a bigger impact in their business

Skills + Experience:

  • 5 to 7 years experience in social media, digital analytics
  • Ability to confidently coach clients and colleagues about the pros and cons of different social tools and the data landscape
  • Proven success at guiding clients in refining their KPI approach
  • Ability to identify and resolve challenges with data-integrity in high pressure environments
  • Deep experience in Google Analytics, Sysomos or Brandwatch
  • Solid understanding of social listening, publishing, engagement and paid tech
  • Deep experience in Excel and doesn’t shy away from pivot tables and statistics
  • Passion for digital culture and inventing solutions to tomorrow’s challenges today
  • Exceptional writing and presentation skills with ability to synthesize and express complex ideas in accessible forms
  • Experience working on a large global account a plus
  • Insurance category experience a double plus

Sounds good?!  Shoot your resume to [email protected].  Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working. (Plus we offer a referral bonus.)

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