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PLACED: Project Manager, Media; $55-65K, NYC

Named a “Top Entrepreneur” by Crain’s magazine, this boutique independent media agency is seeking a smart, motivated Project Manager to assist in creating long-lasting consumer connections. This person will focus on engaging audiences across all media channels, from social to traditional. As such, your background should be truly integrated, including digital. And you better like hats, because you’ll be wearing plenty – client-facing, building out media strategies, ad trafficking, financials, production, etc. To succeed in this collaborative and casual environment, please be a self-starter and quick learner with a sense of humor. Previous media or ad agency experience is required – preferably 1-3 years. You’ll…

Assist with advertising operations (particularly digital): coordinate with external vendors, provide QA/functional review of digital creative assets, traffic ads. Exposure to digital and social campaign set up/tracking a plus.

Manage advertising and production projects from inception to completion: create and maintain schedules and deadlines, keep projects on track across cross-functional teams, create estimates, manage budgets.

Support client accounts: summarize meetings/calls, communicate project action items and updates, keep media plans updated, proactively collect and manage all client project details, update media decks.

Conduct media, consumer, market, and brand research; coordinate and administer new business development system and operations. Contribute to daily office management: calendar management, phones, etc.

Sounds great, right? Shoot your resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

June 11, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Senior Account Director, Integrated, $150-175K, NYC

We’re looking for an extraordinary and business-savvy integrated Senior Account Director to champion great creative, inspire client engagement, and have an eye towards agency growth. Plus be nice to be around:)

This mid-sized, indie agency believes that insight and creativity can change everything. And they love proving it with outstanding work and careful measurement. Reporting to the President, this brilliant Account Director will run a newly won online financial service client. You’ll be at the center of leading and growing the client’s brand and business. Success is about inspiring action in the client, the consumer and, ultimately, the marketplace. The best work delivers results, changes behavior and drives the business objectives. An effective storyteller, you’ll work across creative channels (digital, TV, outdoor, print, experiential) but absolutely must have 10+ years of ad agency experience. Financial, technology, healthcare, education category experience a plus.

As lead for the business strategy, you can be the rock of the integrated team, able to pull together the necessary team members from Planning/Account/Creative and additional resources in order to have the most success in the endeavor. You’ll work to understand the client’s business, the competitive context, the cultural nuances and the target audience insights to make great work happen. With strong strategic thinking abilities and a love for stellar creative, you innately develop collaborative, long-standing client relationships through trust.

You’ll make the complex simple with your organizational skills, and you’ll communicate and lead in such a way that clients and team members want to follow you. You manage junior staff by example and with patience. Your process is collaborative, but you take full responsibility and accountability for the outcome. You’re able to master the tough conversations – with team members and clients alike.

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

March 18, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Research, Strategy

PLACED: Senior Research Manager, Qualitative; $85-100K, NYC or Chicago

Ready to join a new breed of qualitative research company?

Global insight and strategic branding group is seeking to add a curiosity-driven Senior Manager to their nimble and entrepreneurial team. These folks believe research should be creative, rigorous, and flexible.

This qual-focused Senior Manager will have various responsibilities including client management and drafting proposals, to workshops and creation of documentaries, reporting, new business pitches, invoicing, strategic initiatives, and conducting various modes of research (ethnographies, shop-alongs, in-depth interviews, moderation of focus groups, etc.). Present projects touch on myriad categories such as CPG, technology, retail, hospitality, lifestyle, etc. While this is not a dedicated role, we are particularly interested in someone who has the skill and expertise to help advise clients working in the US Hispanic marketplace. This will include understanding segments, sub-groups, traditions, customs and nuances, as well as the related cultural dynamics and issues. Fully English/Spanish bilingual a must.

YOU are a talented senior researcher, planner or strategist with an involved, passionate, connected, collaborative spirit. You are smart, ambitious, exciting, a strategic thinker up for the challenge of growth. Experienced in tackling strategic, high profile briefs and projects, you’ll be happy working in a creative, informal but intellectually demanding environment. Enjoyment is key; please love what you do.

Further, a forward-thinking qualitative researcher with 5+ years experience (planning, brand consulting and/or research), involved in all stages of the research process, from designing and setting up projects and conducting fieldwork, through to analysis, report writing/storytelling and presenting findings. You must have experience leading projects and being the main client point of contact. You should relish the idea of working in a small growing team that offers progression through achievement and attitude rather than moving up a static career ladder. Please be human, creative and full of energy; resourcefulness, flexibility, individual passions, and confidence mixed with quirkiness are highly valued.

You will be fully supported by a well-developed project management team, back office support team, film team and a very ambitious group of qualitative researchers and brand consultants who delight in getting on planes to go to places to solve client problems. Compensation will be competitive based on the skills and experience of the candidate and will include healthcare, 4 weeks vacation as standard, participation in the company bonus scheme and of course invitations to our various outings, shindigs and away days.

If this is you, send us your resume/portfolio showing that you are whip-smart and never boring and why we would be mad not to have you on the team.

Sounds great?! Shoot your details to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Please share with your network, and get someone working!

March 13, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Account Director, $95-120K, NYC

Get ready to roll up your sleeves; mighty creative is born in this boutique NYC ad agency. Seeking an enthusiastic, go-getter Account Director to manage two health and wellness brands; the client is great and ready to do funny, award-winning work. Your previous experience should be fully integrated and well-rounded, as work spans traditional and digital/social mediums; also, know your way around Snap and the next app of tomorrow. The ideal candidate will have a 7+ year agency foundation coupled with a boutique agency “can do” spirit. Please be collaborative, entrepreneurial, and comfortable working on nimble and fast-paced teams.

Working in account management here is the exact opposite of working in the Account department of a big agency. You will be treated as an equal by the creative department, you will be asked to use your mind, and you will be asked to think strategically. Your insights will be sought out and valued. Your clients will rely on you for insights and direction, and the agency will rely on you for the same things. In an extremely flat management structure, you will be instrumental in ensuring that great business-driving ideas make it into the world. You will be given all the responsibility you can handle. You will sing karaoke.

You are responsible for establishing, maintaining and growing effective and profitable client relationships which result in continued new business and creative opportunities. You manage the day-to-day operations of client accounts including understanding client needs and effectively driving projects, working with internal teams to meet client expectations, meeting all budget guidelines and service deliverables. You’re a thought leader who has a full understanding of the clients business, goals, develops situation analysis, challenges, competitive reviews and measurement criteria and tracking for all campaigns. Collaborating with a producer, you’ll define project strategy and scope, create budget estimates, write Statements of Work and Change Orders, production estimates, weekly job/budget tracking. You will lead, coach and develop an Account Executive. Reports directly to the Managing Director.

Sounds great? Shoot your resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Feel free to share with your network.

March 2, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Senior Account Executive, $50-65K, NYC

Get ready to roll up your sleeves; mighty creative is born in this boutique NYC ad agency.

Seeking a super enthusiastic go-getter to pitch in on a variety of accounts – CPG, financial, technology, etc. Your previous experience should be well-rounded, as work spans traditional and digital mediums, including social media. The ideal candidate will have a 2+ year agency foundation coupled with a boutique agency “can do” spirit. Please be collaborative, entrepreneurial, and comfortable working on nimble and fast-paced teams. This is a collaborative, fun-spitited agency with a family-style feel.

Sounds great? Please shoot your resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Feel free to share with your network.

February 23, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Account Supervisor, $75-90K, NYC

Get ready to roll up your sleeves; mighty creative is born in this boutique NYC ad agency. Seeking an enthusiastic, go-getter Account Supervisor to help manage various clients – CPG, lifestyle, technology, financial, wellness; the clients are great, and willing to do funny, creative, award-winning work. Your previous experience should be fully integrated and well-rounded, as work spans traditional TV and digital/social/mobile mediums. The ideal candidate will have a 5-year agency foundation coupled with a boutique agency “can do” spirit. Please be collaborative, entrepreneurial, and comfortable working on nimble and fast-paced teams.

Working in account management here is the exact opposite of working in the account department of a big agency. You will be treated as an equal by the creative department, you will be asked to use your mind, and you will be asked to think strategically. Your insights will be sought out and valued. Your clients will rely on you for insights and direction, and the agency will rely on you for the same things. In an extremely flat management structure, you will be instrumental in ensuring that great business-driving ideas make it into the world. You will be given all the responsibility you can handle. You will sing karaoke.

You are responsible for establishing, maintaining and growing effective and profitable client relationships which result in continued new business and creative opportunities. You manage the day-to-day operations of client accounts including understanding client needs and effectively driving projects, working with internal teams to meet client expectations, meeting all budget guidelines and service deliverables. You’re a leader who has a full understanding of the clients business, goals, develops situation analysis, challenges, competitive reviews and measurement criteria and tracking for all campaigns. Collaborating with a producer, you’ll define project strategy and scope, create budget estimates, write Statements of Work and Change Orders, production estimates, weekly job/budget tracking. Reports directly to the Managing Director.

Sounds great? Shoot your resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Feel free to share with your network.

February 22, 2018/27 Comments/by Hunter Gilmore

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