The Agency: A global full-service creative business and a different kind of advertising agency – one that merges the highest standards of creativity and strategic thinking to help build brands that truly stand out. This is one of the most revered agencies in the world – named Agency of the Year multiple times and countless strategy awards. They strive for simple, enduring ideas that are rooted in real human truths, and executed with brilliant craft. Their culture celebrates difference, education, inclusivity, innovation, restlessness, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. They also really like nice people.
The role of Strategy: To open up new spaces for brand transformation and growth, through visionary, innovative thinking and a precise, data-based understanding of business. It is about Intelligence and Magic. Fine-tuning the marketing machine, but also crucially, unlocking the idea that will animate the machine. It’s about getting to great work that works. Strategy should ensure that creativity is originated, deployed, and tracked so as to maximize the value of ideas and deliver success for a client’s business. There is not one way of doing strategy – one school of thought or dogma. Instead, everyone uses their judgement to draw from different theories, and develop thinking that is right for the specific problem you’re solving. As you can see, you’ll be at the intersection of excellence, teamwork, adaptability and openness.
What we need from You:
Thoroughly understands the brand, product and market
– Understanding of the brand: what it stands for, whom it speaks to, what it sells, who and what it competes against, how it differentiates, what its core purpose and commercial vision is, strengths and weaknesses
– The strategist on the account should be “the knowledge,” holds the best factual knowledge and knows how to access more
Ensures performance is central to creative process and client relationship
– In depth understanding of how client’s business operates, how it grows, what are drivers and barriers, what their portfolio of opportunities look like, what might be threats to and opportunities for growth in the future
– Ability to understand and use data to ensure creativity is rooted in and connected to commercial performance
– Ensures performance remains at the heart of the idea throughout production and implementation
Knows how to access insight and research, and make sense of it
– Understanding of the cultural context within which the brand operates, good understanding of the consumer world and culture
– Understand how quantitative and qualitative research works
– Ability to conduct desk research, together with Research and Data teams, and put together an informed point of view on a brand, consumer group, category, market, or area of culture
– Basic understanding of data-led insight tools
– Ability to unlock creative and commercial insights through data
Has an informed point of view on how the brand should engage
– Understanding of the consumer behaviors driving existing channel landscape and key trends linked to media and content consumption, leading to an informed point of view on channel planning (topline)
– Ability to build on ideas and help them connect better with desired behavior change, consumers and culture
Collaborates with creative and account teams to deliver work that successfully answers performance-based briefs
– Writes clear and inspiring briefs, to deliver a consistent strategic narrative from commercial objectives to executions
– Actively fuels the creative process with stimulus, pushing for the most innovative solutions whenever possible
– Builds good relationships with creative teams, able to provide upstream inspiration, collaborate and build on ideas further down
– Good judge of creative work, able to judge (with an open mind) whether work is on brief and give clear and constructive feedback
Organizes information into simple strategic narrative, delivers it in an engaging and compelling way
– Able to put together a strategic and creative story that is simple yet compelling, written and spoken, to any audience, adapting to the needs of different audiences
– Good analytic skills yet ability for sacrifice and simplification, distilling a lot of information into short and clear outputs
Please have approximately 3+ years (Strategist) or 8+ years (Strategy Director) in Strategy/Planning at a creative agency. Entertainment, CPG, Tech or Gaming experience is a plus.
Sounds perfect? Shoot a resume/samples to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!
PLACED: Strategy Director & Brand Strategist, Integrated, NYC
The Agency: A global full-service creative business and a different kind of advertising agency – one that merges the highest standards of creativity and strategic thinking to help build brands that truly stand out. This is one of the most revered agencies in the world – named Agency of the Year multiple times and countless strategy awards. They strive for simple, enduring ideas that are rooted in real human truths, and executed with brilliant craft. Their culture celebrates difference, education, inclusivity, innovation, restlessness, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. They also really like nice people.
The role of Strategy: To open up new spaces for brand transformation and growth, through visionary, innovative thinking and a precise, data-based understanding of business. It is about Intelligence and Magic. Fine-tuning the marketing machine, but also crucially, unlocking the idea that will animate the machine. It’s about getting to great work that works. Strategy should ensure that creativity is originated, deployed, and tracked so as to maximize the value of ideas and deliver success for a client’s business. There is not one way of doing strategy – one school of thought or dogma. Instead, everyone uses their judgement to draw from different theories, and develop thinking that is right for the specific problem you’re solving. As you can see, you’ll be at the intersection of excellence, teamwork, adaptability and openness.
What we need from You:
Thoroughly understands the brand, product and market
– Understanding of the brand: what it stands for, whom it speaks to, what it sells, who and what it competes against, how it differentiates, what its core purpose and commercial vision is, strengths and weaknesses
– The strategist on the account should be “the knowledge,” holds the best factual knowledge and knows how to access more
Ensures performance is central to creative process and client relationship
– In depth understanding of how client’s business operates, how it grows, what are drivers and barriers, what their portfolio of opportunities look like, what might be threats to and opportunities for growth in the future
– Ability to understand and use data to ensure creativity is rooted in and connected to commercial performance
– Ensures performance remains at the heart of the idea throughout production and implementation
Knows how to access insight and research, and make sense of it
– Understanding of the cultural context within which the brand operates, good understanding of the consumer world and culture
– Understand how quantitative and qualitative research works
– Ability to conduct desk research, together with Research and Data teams, and put together an informed point of view on a brand, consumer group, category, market, or area of culture
– Basic understanding of data-led insight tools
– Ability to unlock creative and commercial insights through data
Has an informed point of view on how the brand should engage
– Understanding of the consumer behaviors driving existing channel landscape and key trends linked to media and content consumption, leading to an informed point of view on channel planning (topline)
– Ability to build on ideas and help them connect better with desired behavior change, consumers and culture
Collaborates with creative and account teams to deliver work that successfully answers performance-based briefs
– Writes clear and inspiring briefs, to deliver a consistent strategic narrative from commercial objectives to executions
– Actively fuels the creative process with stimulus, pushing for the most innovative solutions whenever possible
– Builds good relationships with creative teams, able to provide upstream inspiration, collaborate and build on ideas further down
– Good judge of creative work, able to judge (with an open mind) whether work is on brief and give clear and constructive feedback
Organizes information into simple strategic narrative, delivers it in an engaging and compelling way
– Able to put together a strategic and creative story that is simple yet compelling, written and spoken, to any audience, adapting to the needs of different audiences
– Good analytic skills yet ability for sacrifice and simplification, distilling a lot of information into short and clear outputs
Please have approximately 3+ years (Strategist) or 8+ years (Strategy Director) in Strategy/Planning at a creative agency. Entertainment, CPG, Tech or Gaming experience is a plus.
Sounds perfect? Shoot a resume/samples to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!
PLACED: Brand Strategist, Social Media; NYC
This funky, award-winning digital agency brings together product design, brand communications and social content to help businesses thrive. We’re looking for sensational talent in the Social Media space to take on pivotal roles in their growing Social practice. These guys are also a little weird, extremely collaborative, and sometimes communicate entirely in gifs with the strategy, design and technology teams. We’re now looking to round out this unique team with the following position in NYC:
Social Media Strategist: Global lifestyle/tech/entertainment client, 3+ yrs, craft POVs for engagement, marry content creation to business goals, analytically strong with understanding of media landscape, live and breathe trends, craft magical decks, oversee community managers, lead ideation on social strategy, social listening.
Sounds great? Shoot your resume/portfolio to [email protected]. Not for you? Share your network and change someone’s life!
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:
Skills + Experience:
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.)
PLACED: Account Director, Managing Director, Production Director, $90-120K, NYC
Boutique creative and branding agency with an in-depth insight into fashion trends and luxury markets led by one of fashion and advertising’s renowned visionaries. Leveraging such insightful knowledge and a profound network of established photography, film, production, and celebrity talents, the agency is able to provide creative innovation and superior execution for its clients across all platforms of providing creative direction, brand positioning, film, book design, packaging, corporate identity and digital development.
Ambitious and entrepreneurial. This role is the head of the agency and reports directly to both the Executive Creative Director and the CEO of the company. This is a very heavy client-facing role, and would require daily communication with clients. Negotiation skills, experience working with industry influencers, and an overall knowledge of the fashion/luxury market are very important. The ideal candidate would have 4+ years experience in a managerial role. Other important skills include:
Business expansion, negotiate sales and pitch contracts
Identify opportunity in the market place for new business
Coordinate production and deliveries
Manage, create, and organize production team
Develop creative briefs to ensure client needs are met
Sounds great? Shoot a resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!
PLACED: Senior Producer / Account Manager, Integrated, $85-100K
A hardworking, personable bunch, this laid back shop generates big work for innovative brands; all with minimal bureaucracy and a family feel. A small enough agency to run a tight ship, but big enough to boast a diverse group of creative thinkers and makers. The rules: collaborate well with clients, strive to improve daily, make work that is simple, memorable, and beautiful. This is an office where music is always playing, dogs are part of the culture, patio BBQs are the norm, and excessive imagination is a must. They believe that every great relationship starts with a single job and grows over time with consistent care, hard work, and at least a little fun. A full-service creative agency, they’ve tackled everything from multi-channel campaign creation, to complex site and app builds, to fashion shoots and retouching. They like a good challenge, and have the creative resources to meet them.
The Integrated Producer has 3 primary roles:
Account Management: This client-facing role requires effective and professional communication between the client and agency team. Being a highly connected liaison between client and creative team is a must, as well as being able to interpret and communicate strategic and tactical feedback. Maintaining status reports, scheduling and leading conference calls, presentation preparation, post-presentation follow-ups, etc. are just some of the daily, routine tasks. Experience in agency account management (or similar client-facing roles) is a plus; please be able to maintain and grow client relationships through excellent communication, creative thinking, and problem solving.
Project Management: Using a PM system for creating and maintaining project schedules, OOP estimates, resource allocation, checking for quality control, tracking brand style updates across many projects, and keeping internal teams on-task to meet schedules. Proactive at managing expectations of Production, Creative, Strategic and Account teams, as well as Client teams.
Producer: Experience as a producer in the traditional sense in a variety of tactical mediums is essential. Creative feasibility and budget awareness are also primary responsibilities. Experienced with creating budgets and tracking costs, and successful at delivering projects on time, to spec and within budget.
The Integrated Producer manages Print and Digital projects for new and existing clients. They are responsible for the work from creative concept development thru final production. High-volume experience including, email, print and digital initiatives is mandatory. Having an overall understanding of 360-degree production is important, as many projects often contain several deliverables of varying media types. Candidates should have at least 5 years experience as an Integrated Producer. You should collaborate effortlessly, self-manage, and partner well with others.
Most importantly! You are a nice, normal human being that is easy to get along with and work with, as this shop has a No Ego policy.
Great, right? Please shoot a resume/portfolio to [email protected]. Not for you? Please share with someone in your network.
PLACED: Account Executive, Luxury/Lifestyle, $45-60K, NYC
“High-end” ad agency with an international reach is seeking Account folks to add fun, focus, and innovation to their family-style environment. 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 luxury lifestyle account, a love or curiosity of the finer things in life and previous category experience in fashion/luxury/beauty would be ideal. However, this Account team member must be savvy with the print/tv production process. Digital knowledge is a plus, though tweeting that you spilled coffee on your Dolce doesn’t count. Prior agency/design/marketing experience is a must-have. Assertive, driven, and passionate folks, please apply.
Sounds perfect, right? Shoot your resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Please feel free to pass this opportunity along to a friend.