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PLACED: Media Planner, Integrated, $40-48K, NYC

Do you have a passion for the arts, culture, and education? Then stop selling toilet paper, pills, or cars and join an agency whose focus is on the things in life that enrich us: museums, libraries, gardens, performing arts, visual artists, education, and non-profits.

Seeking an entrepreneurial, energetic, detail oriented multi-tasker who has experience with project management, creating reports, presentations, conducting research and serving clients. Experience with advertising agencies and marketing industry, the media planning process, and a passion for it is preferred. You will be working in a focused, contemporary, award-winning boutique advertising/marketing agency that serves a diversified set of clients in non-profit and for-profit sectors, with great benefits and room for growth.

Responsibilities:

• Work with senior management and account team to develop strategies and recommendations for Media plans

• Demonstrate an understanding of media fundamentals

• Keep up-to-date on media trends and media opportunities

• Conduct media research and evaluate data

• Understand various media and their applications against client strategies/goals

• Execution of media plan including negotiation of rates and contracts, consideration of timing, generation of insertion orders and coordination of ad specs

• Establish a professional, productive rapport with sales reps/media vendors and field any media inquiries

• Generate campaign completion reports

• Maintain media kits, ad specifications, and vendor contacts to make sure they are current and complete

• Coordinate trafficking of ads and deadlines for ad material

Requirements & Skills:

• 1+ years Media Planning, Advertising Agency, or similar experience

• Very detail-oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

• Strong mathematical and quantitative/analytical abilities

• Highly organized and able to efficiently multi-task

• Strong presentation skills

• Computer Skills/Software Knowledge, especially Excel and Powerpoint

• Demonstrate ability to learn account management software (Workamajig) and processes quickly and proficiently

• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of each Media type

• Able to make independent decisions and identify priorities

• Meet client and internal deadlines and obligations

• Be able to identify and promote solutions

Sounds great? Shoot a resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

March 29, 2016/by Hunter Gilmore

PLACED: Associate Program Manager, NYC; $45-55K (Freelance and/or Full Time)

Award-winning, indie B2B branding and marketing company is looking for an Associate Program Manager to join its sophisticated team. At critical inflection points, the agency works with clients to align brand strategy with business strategy—creating stories and experiences to engage customers, influence prospects, rally employees, inspire investors and build communities.

What you’ll be doing…

Assisting in management of projects including brand strategy, visual brand development, marketing, advertising, digital/web projects
Working closely with internal teams to ensure fluid communication and completion of projects on time and on budget
With oversight by senior program management team members, developing detailed project plans
Updating project status reports and GANTT charts
Supporting teams with ad hoc requests including review/proofreading of documents and coordination of meetings
Preparing for meetings (handouts, large format printing, set up of equipment, catering, etc.

What we expect…

Minimum 1 year experience working in account or project management, ideally at a branding or marketing agency
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Nimble multi-tasker and project manager
Great attitude and team player
Excellent computer skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, web-based research

Sounds great? Shoot a resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

January 6, 2016/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Senior Account Director, Direct/Digital/Integrated, $125-165K, NYC

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

This boutique, indie agency exists to help people make more inspired decisions and develop more inspiring habits. With a passion for connecting people emotionally through action, they believe that insight and creativity can change everything. And they love proving it with outstanding work and careful measurement.

The Account Director is 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 but absolutely must have strong direct marketing experience and 8-10+ years of ad agency experience. Financial, healthcare, education, technology 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.

These folks value love, courage and understanding. Their intolerables are dishonesty, lack of curiosity and empathy, or any action that undermines the team.

Sounds great? Shoot a resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

September 23, 2015/22 Comments/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Account Coordinator, $35-45K, NYC

Do you have a passion for the arts, culture, and education?

Then stop selling toilet paper, pills, or cars and join an agency whose focus is on the things in life that enrich us: museums, libraries, gardens, performing arts, visual artists, education, and non-profits.

Named a “Top Entrepreneur” by Crain’s magazine, this boutique independent ad agency is seeking a high-performance junior Account team member to assist in creating long-lasting cultural connections. This Account 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, managing production, building out media strategies, financials, etc. To succeed in this collaborative and casual environment, please be pro-active, detail-oriented, articulate and polished. Previous ad agency experience is required – preferably 1+ years or an intense internship at minimum.

Sounds great, right? Shoot your resume to [email protected]. Not for you? Share with someone in your network.

February 4, 2013/by Hunter Gilmore

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