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PLACED: Head of Strategy, NYC

Are you whip smart with a constant curiosity? Passionately interested in culture, ideas and behavior? Mighty creative is born in this boutique NYC ad agency seeking top-tier Strategy talent.

Independent, creative advertising agency with a mission to change the way the world feels about advertising by filling it with ideas that are smart, funny and respect people’s time and intelligence. The agency’s ability to make ads that people notice and love has translated into business results for myriad national brands. As a very powerful, all knowing department of one, please be collaborative, entrepreneurial, and comfortable working on nimble and fast-paced teams. This person is capable of exceptionally performing the core skills of interrogation, distillation and inspiration. Your ability to derive consumer insight will be directly responsible for positively impacting the quality of creative work. A strong writer and thinker, you are a confident presenter, able to articulate insights and ideas in a clear, human way. Poised in tough strategic debates, you partner well with Creatives and Account to deliver effective briefs, help guide new business, and craft thoughtful and imaginative research initiatives. You should be brand-loving and relationship-building while displaying a flexible and challenging intelligence in a playful and family-style atmosphere. Client list includes brands across CPG, apparel, spirits, financial, e-comm, etc. Your previous experience should be well-rounded and integrated, as work spans traditional and digital mediums; 10-20 years experience with creative agency experience preferred.

Sounds great?! Please shoot your resume/portfolio to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com.

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PLACED: Senior Strategist, Integrated/Digital, $90-100K, NYC

Break free from thinking-by-department. Get closer to making. Work with clients striving to recalibrate their business around digital. Agency values, not rules.

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 Strategy space to take on a pivotal role in their growing practice.  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 a curious, passionate, jargon-free strategist with 5+ years experience. A kid at heart, you feel free to use your imagination and to make a fool of yourself in front of clients, all in the spirit of fun. This is a unique opportunity to help iterate around off-line gaming silliness that translates to shareable online content.

Here’s what we need in you:

  1. You grew up digital – This isn’t about spending every waking hour on Snap. 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.
  2. You can tell a story – You understand narrative structure and can shape and reshape our content and work to ensure that is impactful and human. You can also package and present a compelling story.
  3. You grasp the fundamental concepts of the industry – You know how an insight differs from an observation, how a strategy differs from principles and tactics, and how ideas differ from executions. And you can show work that consistently and surprisingly delivers to these concepts.
  4. You can work with fellow digital grown-ups – You’ll be part of an eclectic mix of designers, technologists, strategists, producers and analysts, trying to achieve something new and powerful together.
  5. You love this stuff – Stories of innovation, trends and topics that inspire you both online and offline. We want a person who keeps the team inspired, curious and open-minded. You talk Creator speak, know what makes great content and have active social channels of your own.

The skills you’ll bring: (Few people are experts in all of the areas below; let us know which are your strengths.)

  1. Strategy – You’ll be able to show examples of how you’ve wrestled to understand business problems, to find provocative insights, and to create strategies that have ideas.
  2. Ideas – You’ll have them and help the team have them.
  3. Digital marketing – You’ll be able to turn SEO and web analytics thinking into ideas.
  4. Social media and content – You’ll understand what’s happening online and why; you’ll be able to research it all and create content that sticks.
  5. Communications and experience planning – You’ll know how to orchestrate an idea so that it doesn’t just launch and… then nothing. And you’ll be able to develop people-centric experience plans or customer journeys.

Sounds great?  Shoot your resume/work samples to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you?  Share your network and change someone’s life!

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ON HOLD: Senior Strategist, Experiential; $90-120+K, NYC

This buzz-worthy experiential shop leverages human connection to impact people in smart, meaningful ways. To do that well, they need both bright brains and big brawn. 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 a sought after partner, crafting real world experiences that resonate over shared, earned, and owned media for the world’s best brands and agencies. You can approach every challenge from a holistic perspective; combining activation, content generation, digital experiences (on and offline), environmental and traditional elements, you’ll collaborate in crafting magical concepts and campaigns that are at once bold and deeply effective. A strong grasp of channel and communications strategy will be helpful in showing clients how your ideas can come to life.

As Senior Strategist, you can straddle the line between data guru, idea generator, problem solver and brand interpreter. You have the skills to gain a full understanding of each brand—conducting assessments of competitive landscape, social media implication, cultural relevancy and target consumers, while extracting key insights that inspire and bring original ideas to our clients. This person will be a critical part of creative ideation, brief building, and ongoing strategy process, supporting production and client service to ensure that execution stays on-track and on-strategy. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a strong understanding and insight into experiential marketing, and be passionate about culture and the lifestyles embedded in it, in order to inspire new ideas and engender industry innovation leadership.

Collaborating across departments, this Strategist understands that a great idea is nothing if the client doesn’t understand and get behind it; you craft presentations that are as good as the ideas themselves. What’s more, you can effectively bring these presentations to life in a room full of clients. In addition to elevating the creative output for existing clients, you love the thrill of the pitch and are driven to lead teams of designers, writers, producers and account folks toward victory. You can think in large scale, overarching ideas, but can also focus on the nuances that turn a good solution into a great one.

Ideally, you are so immersed in culture that it is part of your daily life–not just your job. And it wouldn’t hurt to be a super duper writer with a creative soul and 4+ years of Account/Brand Planning experience.

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

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PLACED: Project Manager, $50-65K, NYC

Are you ready to join a network of experience creators and live media makers?  This buzz-worthy boutique agency is seeking to hire a proactive, jack-of-all-trades Project Manager. You’ll be part of a network of production experts delivering the best in the experiential, retail, digital environments, live media and social disciplines.

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. From brief to wrap, you’ll support internal teams by:

  • Possessing a keen sense of detail and attention to quality of client-facing documents, presentations and various reports
  • Directing and tracking project budgets, deadlines, invoices, estimates, purchase requests and billing
  • Developing and maintaining positive and respectful client, vendor and external agency relationships
  • Managing the flow of new business pitches
  • Creating and managing work back calendars to help organize internal process, including creative resourcing and freelancer needs
  • Maintaining and managing weekly production meetings
  • Maintaining the Board in the office outlining current projects
  • Maintaining Google calendar outlining travel dates for all dates for work
  • Keeping organized files of all projects coming in and out including team assignments, briefing materials, final decks and deliverables, schedules, and more
  • Setting calls with clients for check-ins/presentations; setting internal check-ins to ensure on-time delivery of presentations
  • Engaging communication between entire internal team

Ideal candidates:

  • Possess extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office; Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop helpful
  • 2+ years of relevant experience; agency experience preferred
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PLACED: Senior Producer, Experiential, $80-110K, NYC

Are you ready to join a network of experience creators and live media makers?  This buzz-worthy boutique agency is seeking to hire a proactive, jack-of-all-trades Senior Producer. You’ll be part of a network of production experts delivering the best in the experiential, retail, digital environments, live media and social disciplines. 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.

The Producer’s role is to ensure that all aspects of a program are successfully delivered to the client.  The Producer is also responsible for the fiscal health of the program and for communicating effectively with the team and the client.  It is essential that the candidate for this position has the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and must possess excellent communication and organizational skills. You’ll help reverse engineer creative ideas to bring them to physical life; as such, an understanding of business strategy, engineering, and technical savvy will come in handy.

From brief to wrap, you’ll be:

Directing and tracking project budgets, deadlines, invoices, estimates, purchase requests and billing.

Developing and maintaining positive client, vendor and external agency relationships, ensuring that all needs are heard, understood and addressed in a timely way.

Working with Account Management to guide the development, writing and support presentation of proposals, SOWs, schedules, financials and staffing plans.

Working with the Production Director, Account Director and Creative Director to manage the program process from creative through execution.

Planning and participating in team meetings and managing communications between team members, ensuring all deadlines are met and opportunities are identified to share project resources.

Developing, communicating and managing event schedules and logistic planning.

Managing resources; identify, participate in negotiation and secure external resources as needed.

Participating in creative brainstorms to generate ideas for clients; continually looking for innovative solutions and production methods.

Ideal candidates:

Extensive previous experience with Production Management and Consumer Events.

Demonstrated production competencies: build experience, fabrication understanding, ability to read drawings, estimate creation, client focus, accountability for results, team effectiveness, developing other team members, attention to detail, flexibility and professional confidence.

Strong familiarity and comfort with technology in general, a desire to remain informed of current trends and improvements.

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

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