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PLACED: Project Management Director, NYC; $125-150K

Help craft and tell beautiful stories, achieving the most creative and effective end result for the brand and the agency. Boutique ad agency with lifestyle clientele seeks to add highly passionate Project Management Director who will be the workflow authority for the agency. Someone who has built a career in Project Management, and understands that the agency is a business and you look to manage its workflow & resource deployment while minimizing churn.

What you’ll do:

-Motivate the PM and broader agency team by displaying a high level of respect, accountability and command for timelines, process and resource management across the agency

-Partnering with the CCO, ECD’s, Managing Director, and account management team, utilize a holistic view of the departments to offer guidance and recommendations on staff allocations

-Identify opportunities for workflow enhancement and embark on ways to refresh and share best practices across teams

-Assign and align resource needs with staff availability, strengths and developmental needs to maintain project and staff efficiency across multiple teams

-Participate in SOW creation process with Account Directors

-Monthly monitoring of agency hours to track burn across accounts, partnering with Account Directors to manage

-Assume accountability for the training and mentoring of PM staff, even those outside your brand assignment

-Project Manage key priority clients for the agency, while keeping track of other smaller projects working in tandem with other PM’s and Account Management team

-Integrate with other Senior leaders across departments to further the success of the Agency

The perfect candidate has:

-10+ years of project management experience within the advertising industry across multichannel media projects

-Experience managing and mentoring with a proven track record of hiring and developing staff

-Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead teams in high-pressure situations

-The ability to think big picture, while not losing sight of the details

-Quality decision making and problem solving

-High level Emotional Intelligence and ability to navigate different personalities

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

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PLACED: Strategic Planners, Junior and Mid-level, $50-65K, NYC

Do you have a constant curiosity?  Boutique strategy, research, and branding agency is seeking to add magical thinkers to their nimble team.  Join a collective of imaginative and thoughtful folks whose clients are progressive brands working to reinvent their products and their companies through strategic consumer insight.  As such, candidates should be brand-loving and relationship-building while displaying a flexible and challenging intelligence in an entrepreneurial setting.  This is a fast growing shop who thinks research should be fun!  The major offering of the agency is the creation, engagement and mining of online consumer communities with innovative reporting that comes in the format of videos or compelling images rather than static PowerPoint decks.  You’ll design and analyze research, present to clients, brainstorm daily, and write like the wind.  Client categories include CPG, fashion, youth, airline, beverage, etc.  Please be human, creative and full of energy; resourcefulness, flexibility, individual passions, and confidence mixed with quirkiness are highly valued. Previous qualitative research, brand consultancy or ad agency planning work preferred.  Intelligence and cultural awareness a must.

Sounds perfect?  Shoot your resume and a work sample to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com.  Not for you?  Share with your network and change someone’s life!

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