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PLACED: Freelance Account Supervisor, Experiential; Miami

Ready to work with high-profile brand partners in music, entertainment, sports, lifestyle, and technology?!

Full-service, culture-centered agency seeks a Freelance entrepreneurial Senior Manager, Client Services to serve a collaborative role on their Experiential team. Brands are constantly faced with ever-changing business challenges, so they look to the agency for fresh solutions, backed by meticulous insight and robust history. Today’s dynamic landscape and evolving consumer behavior is an invitation to identify and leverage unprecedented opportunities for clients, while delivering culture-driven engagement, with measurable results. You’ll help create authentic and efficient platforms for brands to engage with their targeted consumers every day, in every way.

With responsibility for overseeing the successful delivery of various aspects of live projects, from brief to execution, the strategically-savvy Senior Manager, Client Service will ensure that all of the projects’ relevant resources including operations and logistics are allocated and delivered on-time, on-budget ($500K+) and of high quality. You will contribute to the operations, processes, budgeting, agency quality control, vendor management as well as continually staying up to date with industry innovation. You can develop production schedules, enforce deliverable dates, build nurturing client relationships, and create a positive, team-minded environment. Focused and ambitious, you thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a ‘can-do’ attitude, and explore every opportunity to grow the business.

Ideal candidates have 4-7 years of experience. You naturally remain calm under pressure while working on multiple projects simultaneously and achieve tight deadlines. An open-minded mentality allows your thorough exploration of all ideas and thought-starters.

Sounds great?! Shoot a resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com.

Not for you? Share with your network, and get someone working!

March 8, 2022/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management, Freelance, Project Management

PLACED: Account Manager, Freelance, to $75/hr; Brooklyn

This global, multi-award-winning shop is a growing branding and design agency with studios in the heart of London and New York. What started as a creative collective of content creators has become a full service ad agency, with a fresh start-up studio in Brooklyn. Thanks to several major project wins, they’re looking for someone to become a key part of their NYC team. They need a confident, self-starting Account Manager with the ability to understand client’s business needs very quickly; a complete finisher who takes ownership and makes delivery happen. Someone to be the day-to-day representative, managing every aspect of delivery on a range of projects for a load of clients, from property to charities to hoteliers.

In short, you will have these things:

Minimum 4 years’ boutique agency experience
Branding, design and property experience
Strong client presentation skills
Mid-level experience, but looking to climb
Client facing experience
Able to start ASAP

And the role will include these things:

6-month role (with potential to go perm)
Annual salary up to $75K
Hourly rate during freelance portion of assignment up to $75/h

In a little more detail, you’ll be doing these things:

You’ll be the main point of contact between the London creative team and your clients. You’ll ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, keeping track of timings, milestones, budgets and resources across all your projects.

Working with internal team members to help define project scope, resource requirements and cost estimates for projects, you’ll produce relevant roadmaps, schedules, costings, and technical specifications. You’ll provide effective direction to ensure that clients, creatives and client-servicing team members are up to date on developments.

You will identify, communicate and escalate any issues like project delays and cost over-runs, and communicate with all stakeholders, managing the clients’ expectations and advising on actions. You’ll work with the wider client services team to define the scope of campaigns, and produce detailed plans encompassing project stages, delivery dates, budget and resource requirements and accurate statements of work.

Previous relevant agency experience in a similar role is a total must, and you’ll be well-versed in delivering branding, print and digital projects all the way from concept to completion.

So if you want to get your teeth into a new challenge and help push those creative boundaries, send your resume and a few words about yourself to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com.

May 16, 2017/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management, Art Director, Copy, Creative, Design, Freelance, Production, Project Management

PLACED: Senior Producers, Account Managers, Creatives; NYC

Are you ready to join a truly unique, best in class experiential agency? This buzz-worthy boutique is seeking to hire a crew of hands-on team players. You’ll be part of a network of production experts delivering the best in experiential, retail, digital environments, live media and social disciplines. This shop is a fast moving, forward-looking organization that is always looking for fresh, relevant ideas while exploring new solutions for engaging audiences through experiences that generate shareable content.

A strategic ally, the agency is an experiential production partner that crafts real world experiences that resonate over shared, earned, and owned media for the world’s best brands and agencies. As such, you should expect to deliver at the highest quality with passion and accuracy; you should have a strong level of strategic, financial, and creative thinking chops. From brief to wrap, you’ll support clients with production strategy, creative execution, global event management, and ground execution. You can approach every challenge from a holistic perspective. Combining activation, content generation, digital experiences (on and offline), environmental and traditional elements, you will collaborate in crafting magical concepts and campaigns that are at once bold and deeply effective. You’ll support clients with visual strategy, creative execution, content strategy, global experience direction, and consumer engagement, while also helping to grow a team of hybrid talents to support future goals.

Currently seeking spunky and savvy Senior Producers (make it!), Account Managers (relationship it!), and freelance Creatives (concept it!).

What more could you ask for?! Shoot your resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not quite for you? Share with your network and help get someone working.

November 30, 2016/by Hunter Gilmore

Copy, Creative, Freelance, Social Media

PLACED: Copywriter, Lifestyle, Freelance, from anywhere USA ($3-5K/mth)

Seeking a freelance Copywriter who nails crafting fresh, smart, progressive and motivating e-commerce content. (Best in class example: http://uncrate.com/) You’ll primarily be writing about outdoor adventures, products and gear, so experience participating in outdoor adventures is a nice-to-have. However, you must have a history of creating captivating content for a lifestyle brand and a mastery of producing visuals and copy that engages, as you will be responsible for creating product descriptions for the brand’s website, copy for social media posts and editorial content for web.

This Copywriter will oversee all marketing content for outdoor adventure retailer Backcountry, bringing the brand to life in all marketing content produced. You’ll develop editorial content to attract new customers and help them discover new brands/products. Editorial content creation includes: fleshing out story ideas, directing photoshoots, curating imagery and products to feature, editing influencers or writing new copy to be on brand. You will work in partnership with internal and client teams and are responsible for the vision, quality, and consistency of all digital creative work for the Backcountry brand.

Sounds amazing? Shoot your resume/portfolio to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Share with your network and getting someone working!

March 3, 2016/24 Comments/by Hunter Gilmore

Copy, Creative, Freelance

PLACED: Freelance Copywriter, mid-level, NYC

This highly creative experiential marketing agency leverages human connection to impact people in smart, meaningful ways. To do that well, they need both bright brains and big brawn. Independently owned, award-winning agency comprised of creative trailblazers, with multiple US offices, is searching for a highly imaginative and inspiring freelance Copywriter to generate big ideas. What sets these guys apart? Creating awesome experiences for people and brands combining strategic thinking and creative vision with impeccable design and flawless execution.

Reporting to the Creative Director, this collaborative Copywriter will be responsible for supporting the creative process from ideation to development. This person should have the ability to understand the “big picture” and offer macro-level creative solutions to current and prospective clients. Strong experience in brand marketing, sponsorship activation, and client relations is desired. Candidates must demonstrate proven leadership and be passionate about delivering and executing innovative ideas and experiences.

With an ability to deliver strong concepts for both physical and digital experiences, you’ll work with a cross-disciplinary team to develop and execute creative ideas for client objectives using a wide arsenal of tools from live events, sponsorships, partnerships, traditional media, social media, technology, and more. Driving brainstorming sessions and creating supporting presentation materials is old hat for you, so working with new business teams to respond to RFPs is a breeze. Further, the ideal candidate will have direct experience in brand marketing and a solid understanding of the experiential marketing and sponsorship landscape. Be incessantly curious about the world, culture, and trends that affect the business, and have the ability to think creatively about a variety of challenges and challenge the way the agency thinks. Please possess a great sense of humor and a positive attitude about stuff that is sometimes not that sweet.  4+ years of creative experience in an agency environment required.

Shoot resume/portfolio to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

September 21, 2015/1 Comment/by Hunter Gilmore

Copy, Creative, Freelance

PLACED: Senior Copywriter (Temp to Perm), Integrated/Digital, $75-90K, NYC

“High-end” ad agency with international reach is seeking a thoughtful and flexible Senior Copywriter to help creatively communicate the core truth of quality brands. This well-esteemed agency has major credentials on integrated and strategic campaigns for some of the biggest fashion and luxury brands on the market. Considering the bulk of your attention will be on a retail fashion or luxury account, a love of Vogue and previous category experience in fashion/luxury/beauty/retail/lifestyle would be ideal. Not just a wordsmith, this Copywriter must be savvy with concepting and strategic thinking; you’ll craft briefs, decks, manifestos, emails, ecommerce content, the occasional tagline and beyond. Prior agency/marketing experience is a must-have; a blended copy/design/art direction background is a plus. Assertive, stylish, and passionate folks, please apply.

Sounds perfect, right? Shoot your resume/portfolio to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Please feel free to pass this opportunity along to a friend.

September 8, 2015/by Hunter Gilmore