This funky, award-winning digital agency brings together product design, brand communications and social content to help businesses thrive. These guys are also a little weird, extremely collaborative, and sometimes communicate entirely in gifs with the account, design and technology teams. We’re now looking for sensational talent in the Brand Strategy space to round out this unique team. You know a real idea when you see one and can provide the right stimulus at the right time to tease more out of your creative partners.
There are three reasons why the strategically hungry come to this agency: to break free from thinking-by-department, to get closer to making, and to work with clients striving to recalibrate their business around digital. You will be involved in everything from unearthing and articulating the leading insight, partnering with the VP of Analytics to define a data vision, through to a shared accountability for the creative product. You’ll lead and manage your team with vision and empathy; you foster a spirit of collaboration, openness, and accountability. You can bring clarity and calm when there is chaos.
YOU:
-Grew up digital: This isn’t about spending every waking hour on Twitter. It’s about showing that you’ve played with a lot of the digital world, that you’ve experimented and learned – sometimes for work, sometimes for the sake of it.
-Can grow business for the right reasons: You thrive in a pitch but you can also patiently help clients achieve their goals and create opportunity for your team.
-Stay hands on: It’s an open-space office and most teams sit together. Your role may stretch across teams, but we need you in the work, not just around it.
-Have a range of experiences: Across different categories executing campaign work, brand building, social media and involvement in web/ product builds.
-Can work with fellow digital grown-ups: This is an eclectic mix of designers, technologists, strategists and producers. You must be an adept facilitator of ideas and insights sessions and be able to bring the best out of collaborators. We want a person who keeps the team inspired, curious, and open-minded.
-Are well versed in research techniques: An ability to get to the nub of the problem through thorough desk-bound, primary research or the latest tools.
-10+ years brand planning experience; traditional and digital. Should be comfortable with UX and branding for systems as well as content. An idea generator who has handled a masterbrand in entirety.
Sounds great? Shoot your resume/portfolio to [email protected]. Not for you? Share your network and change someone’s life!
PLACED: Director of Project Management, In-house, Beauty, NYC
Join a beauty brand with a smart category approach that resonates around the world.
This brand has encouraged millions to equate feeling beautiful with the ability to become the best versions of themselves in all aspects of their lives. Why not join them? It’s rewarding to help others look and feel confident.
This is a fast-paced, growing brand that requires creativity, innovation and leadership from its employees in order to bring the best in prestige beauty products to market. You will be challenged every day to ensure the brand lives up to its long, upstanding history. The mission: to provide the highest quality and most effective products to enhance every skin type and concern, offering products for men and women of all ages and ethnicities. The brand’s customized approach and quality products have made it one of the leading skin care authorities in the world.
At core, you’ll oversee activities within the Global Project Management Office for Creative Operations. This position partners with senior/executive management to ensure that all creative activities are aligned to business strategies and priorities. This role is responsible for pushing the envelope with new processes, techniques and technologies while also driving a cycle of continuous improvement within existing teams and processes. Further, this position will setup and drive the global framework for creative activities and toolsets in all offices worldwide. The brand is increasingly doing more digital asset creation and video, and this person would need to help lead the operational evolution to enable that strategy to come to life. Also…
The ideal candidate has experience with in-house and agency environments that have a heavy production output (product, digital, production, broadcast, post). You have the ability to influence outcomes and hold oneself and others accountable for commitments in a productive, assertive and positive manner. With a minimum of 12+ years’ experience as a creative project management lead, you’re adept with presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and pitching skills and well versed in short-term and long-range planning and execution of a portfolio of projects. You have experience working closely with finance, creative and marketing services and are comfortable utilizing technology platforms, ie. SmartSheet. Please have experience in recruiting, hiring, managing, developing, and motivating. PMP with knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and/or MBA a plus.
Further, the company deeply values the investment in the growth and development of its employees through extensive educational programs across all levels of employment. By inspiring confidence in the team, they all gain a lifetime of knowledge and in turn inspire confidence in clients. Understanding we are all unique, they value what each brings to the table and respect individual differences. This is a place where professional development is customized to your strengths and desired career path – to grow the individual and the brand.
Sounds great?! Shoot a resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Please share with your network, and get someone working!
The Brand of YOU
Businesses spend years coming up with a brand that they can promote to their target market. With the right branding, consumers will experience a company and know exactly what it does and what its overall mission is.
The same type of branding can be applied on an individual basis. Personal branding is the message you send to others about your own background and area of expertise. Whether you’re actively looking for a job or not, you should work hard to make sure everyone you encounter in the business world gets the right impression of you from the start.
Personal Branding for Social Media
Nothing exemplifies personal branding like an individual’s social media feed. Whether it’s Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or a similar platform, you can often get a feel for someone’s personal brand by looking at the overall tone of the posts. If you’re hoping to get ahead in your career, that general impression should match your professional reputation. Sure, you may want a place to share weekender photos and gush about your love for Game of Thrones trivia, but set that social media profile to private and make sure only your friends and relatives can see it.
Your In-Person Brand
The internet isn’t the only place for personal branding. You make a similar impression in your daily interactions. Whether you’re seated at your desk or interacting with clients in a meeting, the way you speak, dress and carry yourself makes up your overall image. Even in written materials such as your business cards, resume, and email signature line, you convey a personal brand that ensures people remember you long after you’ve met. If your business has a required email signature, you may still be able to add in a personal motto or sign off on each of your emails with a closing line that communicates your personal style.
As you work to define and communicate your personal brand, make sure you remain consistent. If you’re constantly switching or you send mixed messages, you may find that others think you lack direction. Provided the personal brand you’ve chosen matches your own core values, it should follow you throughout your career, over many decades, job changes, and promotions.
PLACED: New Business Director, San Francisco Bay Area
Join a creative technology company that helps brands re-imagine their customer experiences by creating digital products with purpose that have lasting impact on users’ lives and clients’ businesses. Through next-generation technologies and world-class design, these folks help brands like Apple, PayPal, L’Oreal, Home Depot, and Staples develop solutions that drive major business outcomes. The shop came of age with the invention of the app store; they have mobile in their DNA. The firm creates solutions across the digital ecosystem but approaches these problems from their mobile roots. Unlike agencies who are born desktop, this team is deeply connected to how consumer perception has shifted thanks to the mobile lifestyle.
So how do I crush it as the Director of New Business?
This role is key to shaping the future of the company. They’re on an exciting growth trajectory and this position’s strategic acumen, entrepreneurial spirit, relationship building skills and infectious enthusiasm will be critical to that acceleration. This role will be focused on actively seeking out the right opportunities to grow the team’s portfolio and capabilities, developing the strategy and leading the approach, managing the business development team as well as leveraging senior management engagement in the new business process. This position reports to the SVP of Strategy and Business Development. Let’s organize this into bullet points:
Still interested? Now your turn; you have…
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PLACED: Production Director, Experiential, NYC; $100-120K
Ready to work with high-profile brand partners in music, entertainment, sports, lifestyle, and technology?!
Full-service, culture-centered agency seeks entrepreneurial Production Director to serve a senior 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 Production Director will ensure that all of the projects’ relevant resources including operations and logistics are allocated and delivered on-time, on-budget and of high quality. The Director will contribute to the operations, processes, budgeting, agency quality control, vendor management as well as continually mentoring and developing team members. You can develop production schedules, enforce deliverable dates, build nurturing client relationships, and create a positive, collaborative 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 7-10+ years of solid production experience; a plus for time on the road, working on mobile tours, producing large scale events and wrangling vendors. 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. Be curious!
Sounds great?! Shoot a resume to [email protected].
Not for you? Share with your network, and get someone working!
PLACED: Group Strategy Director, $195-225K, NYC
This funky, award-winning digital agency brings together product design, brand communications and social content to help businesses thrive. These guys are also a little weird, extremely collaborative, and sometimes communicate entirely in gifs with the account, design and technology teams. We’re now looking for sensational talent in the Brand Strategy space to round out this unique team. You know a real idea when you see one and can provide the right stimulus at the right time to tease more out of your creative partners.
There are three reasons why the strategically hungry come to this agency: to break free from thinking-by-department, to get closer to making, and to work with clients striving to recalibrate their business around digital. You will be involved in everything from unearthing and articulating the leading insight, partnering with the VP of Analytics to define a data vision, through to a shared accountability for the creative product. You’ll lead and manage your team with vision and empathy; you foster a spirit of collaboration, openness, and accountability. You can bring clarity and calm when there is chaos.
YOU:
-Grew up digital: This isn’t about spending every waking hour on Twitter. It’s about showing that you’ve played with a lot of the digital world, that you’ve experimented and learned – sometimes for work, sometimes for the sake of it.
-Can grow business for the right reasons: You thrive in a pitch but you can also patiently help clients achieve their goals and create opportunity for your team.
-Stay hands on: It’s an open-space office and most teams sit together. Your role may stretch across teams, but we need you in the work, not just around it.
-Have a range of experiences: Across different categories executing campaign work, brand building, social media and involvement in web/ product builds.
-Can work with fellow digital grown-ups: This is an eclectic mix of designers, technologists, strategists and producers. You must be an adept facilitator of ideas and insights sessions and be able to bring the best out of collaborators. We want a person who keeps the team inspired, curious, and open-minded.
-Are well versed in research techniques: An ability to get to the nub of the problem through thorough desk-bound, primary research or the latest tools.
-10+ years brand planning experience; traditional and digital. Should be comfortable with UX and branding for systems as well as content. An idea generator who has handled a masterbrand in entirety.
Sounds great? Shoot your resume/portfolio to [email protected]. Not for you? Share your network and change someone’s life!
PLACED: Global Account Director, $90-120K, NYC
Global retail marketing & design innovators seeking a New York-based Global Account Director with 7-10 years experience. This is an entrepreneurial opportunity to own, grow, and strategize as a key partner to some of the largest, most high-profile global client accounts in the beverage, spirits, CPG, & entertainment industry.
As Global Account Director, you’re an energetic and ambitious individual who is exceptionally comfortable being independently responsible for driving business. You are constantly seeking out new opportunities to engage key accounts through insatiable insight. You’re a confident leader with both pitching, presenting, as well as day-to-day execution, keeping all internal and external partners on track to reach both immediate and future goals. Through your proactive initiative and authority over your pieces of business, you will build huge opportunities for development of your own career as well as the client’s direction over time, influencing the future of retail at every stage.
Ideal candidates for this Global Account Director opportunity have strong exposure to global accounts, shopper marketing strategy & in-store consumer insights, plus previous work on 360 campaigns with on & off-premise experiential brand activations.
You are excited to be lead within a fun, internationally-driven team environment in a lively New York office!
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