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PLACED: Production Director, Experiential, NYC; $100-120K

Ready to work with high-profile brand partners in music, entertainment, sports, lifestyle, and technology?!

Full-service, culture-centered agency seeks entrepreneurial Production Director to serve a senior role on their Experiential team. Brands are constantly faced with ever-changing business challenges, so they look to the agency for fresh solutions, backed by meticulous insight and robust history. Today’s dynamic landscape and evolving consumer behavior is an invitation to identify and leverage unprecedented opportunities for clients, while delivering culture-driven engagement, with measurable results. You’ll help create authentic and efficient platforms for brands to engage with their targeted consumers every day, in every way.

With responsibility for overseeing the successful delivery of various aspects of live projects, from brief to execution, the strategically-savvy Production Director will ensure that all of the projects’ relevant resources including operations and logistics are allocated and delivered on-time, on-budget and of high quality. The Director will contribute to the operations, processes, budgeting, agency quality control, vendor management as well as continually mentoring and developing team members. You can develop production schedules, enforce deliverable dates, build nurturing client relationships, and create a positive, collaborative environment. Focused and ambitious, you thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a ‘can-do’ attitude, and explore every opportunity to grow the business.

Ideal candidates have 7-10+ years of solid production experience; a plus for time on the road, working on mobile tours, producing large scale events and wrangling vendors. You naturally remain calm under pressure while working on multiple projects simultaneously and achieve tight deadlines. An open-minded mentality allows your thorough exploration of all ideas and thought-starters. Be curious!

Sounds great?! Shoot a resume to [email protected].

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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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. Not for you? Share with your network and get someone working!

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