Distinct North America

Art Director

Chicago, IL – Onsite

$75,000 – $90,000

We are partnering with a leading brand in the city to bring onboard a new Art Director. They are looking for someone with the right combination of self-motivation, conceptual approach, and the artistic skills necessary to create, sell and execute impactful ideas for their clients.

Art Director Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the marketing team to create compelling marketing creative that level up our brand, help us grow customers — and keep them engaged.
• Lead brainstorms and prototype visual concepts in the form of mood boards, mockups, and storyboards.
• Work closely with the Creative Director to develop and enhance the aesthetic of the brand and ensure all materials are designed and produced accordingly.
• Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
• Lead the creation of creative templates and guidelines to use across our team on different projects.
• Produce compelling content to be used across various digital and traditional marketing channels.
• Work with project management and stakeholders to gather feedback, and incorporate it quickly while meeting deadlines.
• Partner with a copywriter to develop creative that’s not only well executed but strategically tells a story, too.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, incorporate new techniques, and inform others.

Art Director Requirements:

• 3-5 years of art direction experience working within a creative team
• Excellent skills with design software, primarily the Adobe Creative Suite.
• A link to your current portfolio is required.
• Strong decision-making skills
• Aptitude for being well organized
• Strong presentation skills, poise and professionalism
• Ability to multi-task and perform in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment

Distinct North America

A leading fine wine and spirits integrated communications agency in the United States, sought after by the top brands and industry players for the quality of their results, creativity, and return on investment is searching for a Paid Social Manager to join their growing team!

The main responsibilities of the position are to lead client interactions and spearhead the development of complex paid social and digital expertise for the agency, rounding out service offerings to our clients.

Hybrid working style – 2 days in the office weekly.

Responsibilities:

• The following responsibilities are required on platforms including Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube and Google. Experience with Pinterest is a plus.
• Advanced campaign management for food, wine, and spirits clients:
• From audience building and projections/proposals through development, execution, testing, analysis, reporting, and completion against client goals
• Oversee and plan client advertising budgets across platforms, time-scheduled flights, and among programs/services/offerings
• Develop effective plans to optimize conversion rates and maximize client ROAS
• Set and optimize bids and budgets across platform, placement, ad set, device, geographic, demographic, audience, and other levels
• Identify niche strategies in specific verticals and consistently incorporate developing strategies into existing campaigns
• Implement cohesive testing strategy for each element of campaigns
• Generate accurate and informative periodic internal and external reporting using relevant benchmarks
• Oversee and spearhead internal benchmarking to forecast accurate KPIs for clients during pitching and renewal
• Spearhead client education on search engine optimization (SEO) strategies to improve Google search rankings
• Generate, QA, and troubleshoot pixels
• Generate internal and external department specific documents and communication
• Work closely alongside our social media, creative and influencer teams to develop and execute integrated digital strategies that fit into the larger agency SOW for clients
• Affiliate marketing experience a plus
• Spearhead development of complex paid social and digital expertise for the agency, rounding out service offerings to client

Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Meta Ads and Google Ads – Must possess or be willing to undergo certification for Blueprint and Google AdWords.
• YouTube experience.
• BA/BS degree
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of paid social media ad platforms
• Problem solving and analytical skills coupled with the ability to act independently across competing priorities
• Strong communication skills. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to manage multiple campaigns and tight deadlines
• Strong acumen for applying critical thinking and analytics to formulate and test hypothesis
• Understanding of regulations regarding wine and spirits advertising a plus, but not required

Benefits:

• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401K, and a generous PTO policy.
• A chance to work with an incomparable list of clients, across a range of countries, regions, and categories.
• The agency is growing within all of their categories every year, affording every employee potential for promotion and career advancement.
• Fun!: Happy hours, events, product tastings both in the office and outside.
• Flexible Time, Flexible Space Policy: The agency believes that employees who are happier outside of work are happier at work, and vice versa, so we they created a culture that prioritizes work-life balance.
• Learning Programs

Distinct North America

A leading fine wine and spirits integrated communications agency in the United States, sought after by the top brands and industry players for the quality of their results, creativity, and return on investment is searching for a Paid Social Manager to join their growing team!

The main responsibilities of the position are to lead client interactions and spearhead the development of complex paid social and digital expertise for the agency, rounding out service offerings to our clients.

Hybrid working style – 2 days in the office weekly.

Responsibilities:

• The following responsibilities are required on platforms including Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube and Google. Experience with Pinterest is a plus.
• Advanced campaign management for food, wine, and spirits clients:
• From audience building and projections/proposals through development, execution, testing, analysis, reporting, and completion against client goals
• Oversee and plan client advertising budgets across platforms, time-scheduled flights, and among programs/services/offerings
• Develop effective plans to optimize conversion rates and maximize client ROAS
• Set and optimize bids and budgets across platform, placement, ad set, device, geographic, demographic, audience, and other levels
• Identify niche strategies in specific verticals and consistently incorporate developing strategies into existing campaigns
• Implement cohesive testing strategy for each element of campaigns
• Generate accurate and informative periodic internal and external reporting using relevant benchmarks
• Oversee and spearhead internal benchmarking to forecast accurate KPIs for clients during pitching and renewal
• Spearhead client education on search engine optimization (SEO) strategies to improve Google search rankings
• Generate, QA, and troubleshoot pixels
• Generate internal and external department specific documents and communication
• Work closely alongside our social media, creative and influencer teams to develop and execute integrated digital strategies that fit into the larger agency SOW for clients
• Affiliate marketing experience a plus
• Spearhead development of complex paid social and digital expertise for the agency, rounding out service offerings to client

Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Meta Ads and Google Ads – Must possess or be willing to undergo certification for Blueprint and Google AdWords.
• YouTube experience.
• BA/BS degree
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of paid social media ad platforms
• Problem solving and analytical skills coupled with the ability to act independently across competing priorities
• Strong communication skills. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to manage multiple campaigns and tight deadlines
• Strong acumen for applying critical thinking and analytics to formulate and test hypothesis
• Understanding of regulations regarding wine and spirits advertising a plus, but not required

Benefits:

• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401K, and a generous PTO policy.
• A chance to work with an incomparable list of clients, across a range of countries, regions, and categories.
• The agency is growing within all of their categories every year, affording every employee potential for promotion and career advancement.
• Fun!: Happy hours, events, product tastings both in the office and outside.
• Flexible Time, Flexible Space Policy: The agency believes that employees who are happier outside of work are happier at work, and vice versa, so we they created a culture that prioritizes work-life balance.
• Learning Programs

Distinct North America