Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries and billions of customers served each year. As the global leader in the food service industry, we have a legacy of innovation and hard work that continues to drive us. Today, we are growing with velocity and are focused on modernizing our experiences, not to make a different McDonald’s, but to build a better McDonald’s.

We are moving fast and are adding to our best-in-class team. Joining McDonald’s means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world. We are customer obsessed, committed to being leaders, and believe we are better when we work together. Over the last couple years, we’ve launched home delivery, modernized our restaurant experience through digital enhancements and have so much more to come.

We are dedicated to using our scale for good: good for people, our industry and the planet. From ambitious recycling initiatives and balanced sourcing efforts to our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, we are constantly improving. We see every single day as a chance to have a genuine impact on our customers, our people and our partners.

McDonald’s has long been an industry leader, innovating to deliver improvements in the experience for our customers. In recent years, digital platforms have become an increasingly critical part of delivering phenomenal customer experience. We have invested to build assets and capabilities that will take advantage of this growing consumer interest in digital, including upgrades to the mobile app, as well as installation of self-order kiosks, and digital menu boards.

We have built a new Digital Customer Engagement (“DCE”) team to work closely alongside Global Technology in developing and deploying smart digital investments that improve experiences for our customers and drive visits, sales and cash flow for the system. Our collective vision is to make digital experiences more personal, more convenient and better value for our customers with an agile ‘test, learn and improve’ mindset. The role of the DCE team is to set the overall digital strategy and define digital customer solutions across ordering, payment, personalization, loyalty, and delivery. Together with Global Technology, we identify the most meaningful opportunities for our customers and our business, and we bring them to life through industry-changing products like Mobile Ordering and McDelivery. In addition to setting the overall digital vision and strategy, we help markets to accelerate opportunities, consolidate lessons to share across markets, measure progress and drive continuous improvement and enhancements to the McDonald’s customer experience.

We are seeking a world-class product leader to serve as Sr. Manager, Mobile App and Web – Web & Lite Product to own the product customer journeys for our website and Lite version of the app, used across many of our international markets. The ideal candidate is a customer-obsessed, product visionary who can lead and inspire cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional products that customers love.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading discovery and translating the “voice of the customer” into the overall strategy and roadmap for how we build our website while working with owners & operators around the world to ensure experiences are operationally viable and, most importantly, adopted and loved by customers and crew around the world. While you will obsess about the website channel, you will be a collaborative, omnichannel experience champion who puts the customer first, and works closely with peers to deliver a seamless customer experience across all our touch points (e.g. App, Drive-Thru, Kiosk).

Specifically, you will own the product vision for our website, prioritize business requirements and translate requirements into features for agile development – leading a cross-functional effort that involves the DCE Capability and Design teams, and members of Product Engineering as key contributors. You and your product squad members will collaborate with a significant set of stakeholders around the world, and will be missionaries who bring our markets along as partners in the McDonald’s digital ambition. You will work alongside Design and Product Engineering, leading them with compelling product visions, clear and aligned objectives, and by creating a customer obsessive culture. This role will report directly to the Sr. Director, Mobile App and Web Experience.

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive forward holistic digital product roadmap for McDonald’s website product, including innovation opportunities
• Ensure product roadmaps align with leading-edge cross-channel vision for customers
• Own final decisions, with Mobile App and Web Lead, on backlog prioritization and refinement
• Act as a key activist for customer centricity
• Provide cross-functional leadership to agile product squads to deliver exceptional products for our customers, including day-to-day support (e.g., sprint meetings, rituals, OKRs)
• Coordinate closely with key team members, including product and DCE leadership counterparts, market leaders, and cross-functional strategists to ensure priorities and feature requests are clearly understood
• Lead interactions with markets as they relate to your product (coordinating with Product Engineering)
• Drive discovery and play a key role in delivery with Global Technology development lead counterparts
• Create and prioritize epics and user experiences during sprint planning, then work closely with scrum master and developers for agile delivery
• Analyze progress and customer response to the website and Lite app customer journeys, report on critical metrics and product release impacts
• Oversee feedback process and approve UX design wireframes for the website
• Support product demos and end-user testing activities during sprint review cycles
• Represent the business, both internal and external, in managing the backlogs and ensuring that development team understands priorities and customer needs

Qualifications

Key Proficiencies include:

• Passionate, customer-obsessed leader looking for new solutions for the business, who truly enjoys working with a team, designing and delivering great products
• Leader and activist in agile development responsible for multiple product managers
• Exceptional product evangelist, with experience dealing with diverse and global partners
• Expertise in digital project and product planning, including product definition, feature prioritization, trade-off processes, and roadmap creation
• Deep experience with agile product management, plus experience driving agile transformation in a large organization with complex stakeholders
• Ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners in collectively aligning and executing against the product vision
• Capable of finding product solutions that customers love, in a business that has complex operational and service delivery considerations
• Knowledge and familiarity with UX design, customer experience, and mobile app and web technology systems/specifications and interdependencies
• Passion for the McDonald’s customer and ability to ensure their needs are translated into a compelling experience
• Good sense of curiosity with genuine desire to learn and think with agility
• Identifying patterns/trends and applying them in new and unfamiliar situations
• Confident working in a fast-moving environment, with a willingness to make quick decisions based on continuous prioritization and evolving customer needs

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Has experience working in an agile product management role
• Managerial experience leading cross-functional teams and projects
• Experience at a consumer/retail company preferred

Additional Information

McDonald’s is committed to providing qualified individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs. Additionally, if you (or another applicant of whom you are aware) require assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise seek assistance in the application process, please contact [email protected] 

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

McDonald’s

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Social Media Manager will help with content creation & manage influencers within the Marketing group, based on your skills and career aspirations. You will join a group of professionals to bring the best that Mac Duggal has to offer our customers and Social Influencers, and to millions of followers across Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Grow and manage our online social presence to increase brand awareness and customer engagement
• Work with Marketing Director & internal teams to produce amazing social media content that continuously drives customer activity and purchasing
• Connect with Influencers to drive brand awareness and create excitement across social media platforms
• Develop creative social media marketing content and strategies
• Identify and engage Bloggers, Influencers and others that can continuously drive new customers to our multiple brand divisions
• Interact and engage with our audience and respond to inquiries
• Optimize and analyze posts for engagement
• Provide ideas for the website and social media promotions to maximize our brand’s visibility online, with measured KPIs to validate success of each campaign

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Three plus years of experience in a social media or community management role
• A passion for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands
• Experience writing professional social media|blog|content posts a plus
• Ability to tell engaging stories with posts and pics
• Creative, out-of-the-box mindset – Awareness of the latest trends across social platforms
• Organizational skills and attention to detail
• Direct experience working with some/all of the following: Instagram, TikTok YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etcetera
• BA|BS degree or equivalent work experience
• English, additional language(s) an advantage
• Schedule of this position: Monday – Friday | Core business hours | Onsite

Mac Duggal

MEA CULPA
A TYLER PERRY FILM
Seeking Background – Chicago, IL

Shoot Information
Shoot Location(s): Chicago + Glenview, Illinois

Shoot Dates: March 6th and 7th, 2023

Pay:

​General Background – $15.40/hour (8 hours of pay guaranteed)

Background with cars –  $15.40/hour (8 hours of pay guaranteed) + $25.00 car bump.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!

Casting Alert!
Searching for MALES AND FEMALES, all ethnicities, 20’s to 60, to work in our COMMUNITY CENTER scene on WED, March 1st, on Chicago Fire. You will need to attend a Covid test (which takes about one hour) on Monday, Feb. 27th.

Don’t apply if you have worked in the past two weeks on Chicago Fire or if you are scheduled to work on this episode.

We MUST have your full sizes.
Men: Suit jacket, neck, sleeve, waist, inseam, T-shirt size, shoe
Women: Dress, pants, T-shirt, shoe
You will work as NURSES, Volunteers, and Donors.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!

Casting Alert!
– Searching for an African American Male,
– Dark hair, 20s to 40s, 6’2 to 6’4″, 190 to 230lbs,
– to work as a stand-in (same height and coloring as an actor to light and camera block the set) on Wed., March 1st, and Covid test on Monday, Feb. 27th (takes about one hour).

The Stand-in rate is $167/8 hours and time and a half after 8 hours. Lunch is served about halfway through the day. You will receive a check about two weeks later.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!

Casting Alert!
– Searching for A CAUCASIAN FEMALE,
– brown hair,
– ages 40 to 60,
– height of 5’6″ to 5’8″,
– 130 to 150 pounds,

To work as a stand-in (same height and coloring as an actor to light and camera block the set) on Wed., March 1st, and Covid test on Monday, Feb. 27th (takes about one hour).

Stand-in rate is $167/8 hours and time and a half after 8 hours. Lunch is served about halfway through the day. You will receive a check about two weeks later.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!

Casting Alert!
Searching for a Caucasian Male, Red/Reddish hair in their 30s to 60s,
5’11” to 6’1″, 190 to 240lbs, to work as a stand-in (same height and coloring as an actor to light and camera block the set) on Thursday., March 2nd and Covid test on Tuesday, Feb. 28th (takes about one hour).

The Stand-in rate is $167/8 hours and time and a half after 8 hours.
Lunch is served about halfway through the day. You will receive a check about two weeks later.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!

Searching for a CAUCASIAN FEMALE, DARK BLOND TO BLOND,
5’1 TO 5’3,
THIN BUILD,
20s to ’30s, to work as a STAND-IN (same height and weight as the actor to use in place of the actor to light and camera block the set) on the Covid test on Friday, Feb. 24th, and work on Monday, Feb. 27th. This is for Chicago Fire.

Day 1 of ‘We Strangers’ (our next feature film) is Monday, 2-27!

Another fun project to be a part of. We will have more posts later. Not many extras on this one. One of the Producers you may recall from ‘Crafted For Christmas’. In addition, several crew from the big TV shows in town. Filming will take place in the South Suburbs of Chicago and Gary, Indiana, for a change.
Cast members have been selected. 

All we need this day is a little African American Girl 5–7 years old (to look 5 years old). 
This film is paying the standard extra rate of $150 for minors. $20 stipend for bringing a girl’s bicycle and helmet. She needs to have both a bike and wear a helmet.

Needs to be already work permitted or able to get one by this Friday. If not permitted yet or needs to be renewed, include that in your email so we can get you our Letter of Intent. It is a long process.

We also need to match a Dad ($123.20 for up to 8 hours)—African American Male 30–50 years old. If the ‘real’ dad is also submitting, will need an adult (18 or older) to be your child’s guardian.
There will be a Teacher on set for her.

This is a daytime scene filmed in LANSING, Illinois.

This is a 1 year contract position with our direct client and is hybrid.

2 DAYS A WEEK ONSITE: MUST BE LOCAL TO CHICAGO, IL or WASHINGTON D.C

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• The social media contractor develops content calendars and posts for the corporate channels, while encouraging collaboration with the family of companies.
• The position works with internal stakeholders to amplify employee voices through short videos for social channels in iCIMS Video Studio and employee advocacy programs.
• The position develops copy and suggested posts for employee amplification programs and maintains one-pager documents on social media best practices
• Compile data and research for recommendations and best practices for our operating companies
• Manage social listening queries to inform stakeholders on trending topics involving our companies and the energy industry.
• Compile campaign monthly and quarterly reporting, with the ability to succinctly share insights
• Collaborate with brand and marketing, media relations, and internal communications teams to execute a companywide integrated communications strategy.

Innovative Systems Group