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About Starcom:
As the Human Experience Company, we are a global media agency that believes in the alchemy of people and technology to create experiences people love and actions brands need. It’s in our DNA. We’re powered by the strength of our innovative, driven, and intelligent people who are deeply passionate about achieving best-in-class results on behalf of our clients –some of the world’s leading marketers.
We value you and the work you do. We work hard, but also enjoy scores of perks rooted in our legacy of having one of the strongest agency cultures. Our top-notch health insurance plans and paid time off allow you much-needed time to recharge and achieve the work-life balance you need to bring your absolute best self to work.
Overview:
The Platform Investment Associate Media Director is responsible for managing the team that handles our clients’ day-to-day digital business and investment operations. The Associate Director develops and implements processes and best practices to ensure digital investment success for our company and clients. The Associate Director works on a variety of accounts and understands our digital systems, data needs, and media buy structure to improve process efficiency. The ability to problem-solve and work well with various internal and external teams is a critical aspect of this role. This role provides the opportunity to work on cross-agency projects that drive business goals (both for Starcom and our clients) and increase efficiency across the agency.
Role Objectives:
- Work with internal and external teams to hone and improve processes for self-service buying across entire Kellogg’s team.
- Be the primary expert across the team in self-service buying platforms (DSPs, Google Ad Words and Social Ads Managers) and possess strong understanding of platform nuances and system setups.
- Must have deep understanding of digital marketplace (primarily in social and programmatic) – providing thought leadership with ability to tie new opportunities to client needs while supporting centralized learning agendas.
- Help improve Kellogg’s data strategy across 1st, 2nd, & 3rd party audiences, encompassing a holistic, cross-platform approach.
- Manage client 1st party data in the data onboarding platform, LiveRamp
- Work alongside Strategy and Investment teams to build audience recommendations for all digital platforms
- Manage brand safety processes and best practices across all Kellogg brands and partners, ensuring Kellogg media only serves adjacent to content in-line with their brand suitability guidelines.
- Spearhead refinement of all planning and buying best practices across programmatic and social platforms –analyzes data from MMM results and quarterly scorecards to improve future media plans.
- Work in partnership with the Measurement Team to align on yearly learning agenda based on client business needs.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the systems used such as Ad Servers/Verification, DSPs, Social Platforms, DMPs, and internal proprietary tools.
- Serve as an escalation point for teams to help troubleshoot operational issues.
- Determine how to deliver necessary data to teams for various activation and reporting purposes.
- Share best practices and learn from other teams in Publicis to ensure consistency and best work product across The Groupe.
- Build and maintain strong relationships across multiple internal teams, client teams and leadership.
- Maintain relationships with key vendors to ensure trust and confidence with our buying partners.
- Cultivate a team-focused mentality across the team that they lead.
- Responsible for team management and development of experienced Sr. Associate/Supervisors.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, consumer insights or equivalent.
- 5+ years of related experience and 3+ years of management experience.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with diverse groups.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience in data strategy (1st, 2nd, and 3rd party)
- Technical proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with a heavy focus on Excel.
- Knowledge of digital planning and buying process with an understanding of various vendors, different cost methods, various reporting, and delivery validation.
- Understanding of self-service buying platforms – DSPs, Google Ad Words and Social Ads Managers.
- Strong quantitative skills, including analytical abilities and math proficiency.
- Willingness to learn and create solutions that challenge the status quo.
- Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving abilities with the ability to think unconventionally in proposing solutions.
- A proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects effectively and work well under pressure to deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Proven experience in effectively coaching and developing others.
Starcom
CASTING CALL
PROJECT: DURANGO
ROLE: LEIGHTON (Dayo Okeniyi) BODY DOUBLES
DATES: MULTIPLE DAYS TBD but will be somewhere from 3/9 – 4/12
LOCATION: CHICAGO
FILMING RATE: $200/8
TESTING RATE: $61.60/4
LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO FITS THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION:
African American Males
Height 5’8-5’10
Weight 155 – 175
Darker Skin tones, the Actor is of Nigerian Descent
Casting Alert!
Searching for MALES AND FEMALES
– all ethnicities, the ’20s to 70, to work in our Molly’s Bar scene on Tuesday, Feb. 28th, on Chicago Fire.
– You must attend a Covid test (takes about one hour) on Monday, Feb. 27th.
Casting Alert!
We are searching for a MALE CAUCASIAN with a beard, brown hair, 280 to 310, to work as a stand-in (same height and coloring as an actor to light and camera block the set) on Wed., Feb. 22nd on Chicago Fire. This will require a Covid test (which takes about one hour) on Tuesday, Feb. 21st.
Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!
Searching for a FEMALE CAUCASIAN with brown hair, SLIM TO MEDIUM BUILD, 5’3″ to 5’5″ to work as a stand in (same height and coloring as an actor to light and camera block the set) on Thurs., Feb. 23rd on Chicago Fire. This will require a Covid test (takes about one hour) on Tuesday, Feb. 21st.
Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!
Searching for a FEMALE CAUCASIAN with brown hair, SLIM TO MEDIUM BUILD, 5’3″ to 5’5″ to work as a standin (same height and coloring as actor to light and camera block the set) on Thurs., Feb. 23rd on Chicago Fire. This will require a Covid test (takes about one hour) on Tuesday, Feb. 21st.
To apply send a recent color photograph with your height (without shoes), weight, age, phone number, city, state and clothing sizes to [email protected] and put “SI M 2.23” in the subject line.
Let us know if you have any extra or standin experience.
Thank you!
Americaneagle.com is a family owned web design, development, and digital marketing agency with a passionate belief in the power of technology to positively transform business practices. Our focus is helping customers grow and achieve success in the digital space. We cover a variety of different industries, including ecommerce, associations & nonprofits, government, healthcare, sports & entertainment, transportation and more. The company was recently named by Built in Chicago as one of the best places to work and to Inc.com’s list of 5000 fastest-growing private companies for the past eight years.
We’re looking for dynamic individuals who are passionate about creating and optimizing digital marketing campaigns for our clients. The Senior Digital Marketing Manager will work with a variety of team members and will be the driving force for marketing initiatives including: email marketing, SEO/SEM, social media, user experience, content strategy, analytics and measurement strategy. The ideal applicant will be passionate, results-oriented and focus on achieving ROI through digital marketing.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multi-channel marketing initiatives in an agency setting
- Audit existing digital marketing campaign performance
- Develop campaign strategy and marketing roadmaps
- Establish actionable goals along with measurement strategy
- Provide creative direction for social, email, etc.
- Collaborate and execute on digital marketing campaigns
- Manage day-to-day communication internally and with our clients
- Consult and train on best practices in digital marketing
- Analyze and report on digital marketing performance
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5+ years of digital marketing experience, agency experience a plus
- Experience managing enterprise-level digital marketing preferred
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, team-based environment
- Positive attitude and passion for marketing
- Experience in Google Analytics, certification preferred
- Experience with a variety of tools such as Google Tag Manager, Google Ads, Google Data Studio, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Pardot, HubSpot, Active Campaign, SEMrush and Screaming Frog SEO Spider are a plus
Americaneagle.com provides its employees with an energetic work environment and opportunities to further develop their skills. Our dedication to growing our development team is how we can produce excellent sites and applications for our clients. We do all of this while maintaining a family value focus and pushing for a good work-life balance. We offer a generous compensation and benefits package.
Americaneagle.com
Event and Experience Marketing Manager
***This is a Contract/ Temporary Position***
We are looking for a creative, proactive, experience-first Event Marketing Manager with 4-8 years of event, technology demonstration and project management experience to strategize, lead, plan and execute LG Business Solutions Tier 1 events and experiences across the US.
LG Business Solutions has an expansive portfolio of digital signage, stadium solutions, IT products and commercial TVs to support businesses across various industries including retail, corporate, restaurants, hotels, airports, schools, arenas and more. Key innovations include razor-thin commercial OLED displays, indoor/outdoor fine pitch LED signage, narrow bezel video walls, cloud computing, hospitality TVs, business laptops, and full line up of UHD desktop and gaming monitors. All of these amazing technologies and solutions are brought to life in our state of the art business innovation centers showcases in Chicago, Atlanta, LA and NJ – as well 10-20 major industry and vertical venue events across the US annually, attracting and engaging thousands of potential customers with “high touch” LG experiences.
This amazing opportunity at LG leads all of these strategic “high touch” customer touchpoints to drive revenue, impact and inspiration. This role is vital, visible, and an amazing marketing storytelling opportunity to showcase LG’s innovation, products and solutions – but also integrate across our valued ecosystem of partners.
The Event Marketing Manager focuses on planning, marketing and executing “experiences that amaze” LG’s end customers and partner communities – from our largest venue tradeshows and innovation centers. Several key duties include:
• Strategize, plan and execute LG’s most important tradeshows for top verticals, business units and channels. Have end-to-end ownership from design, collaboration and outcome. Agency leadership and partnership is key to success, as well as deep internal integration from briefs to defining the experiences to bringing the solutions to life on site.
- Create awareness, drive on-going lead generation activities and strategically execute from the floor space & booth design, set up and tear down, to @venue engagement, certification and entertaining activations.
- Elevate and maintain the LG brand, engagement and in-person conversation. Be an active, outgoing LG brand storyteller to drive confidence and excitement though experiences with LG technology.
- Be innovative, stand out, and communicate with creativity to help scale event systems for LG (tradeshow in a box) as well as simplifying and leveraging the experience across many smaller sales driven venues using a modular approach/systems (showcase, scheduling, product samples etc.)
- Partner with LG’s Global Marketing team on developing and localizing content for US events, as well as co-planning other global executions, and leveraging creative ideas globally for the US Markets.
- Launch Ideation: Becoming a key contributor to the new product introduction process, including prelaunch, launch and post launch activities.
- Develop an ongoing calendar of activities, be very well organized and proactive to respond to immediate business needs.
- Setting key performance indicators (KPIs) for LG’s events, such as customer leads, funnel acceleration, sales meeting/outcomes, and quality of experiences and measuring performance against the KPIs
- Develop event-specific and recurring monthly reports on activities including key customer highlights, business impact and recommendations for improvement.
Ideal applicant for this position has the following skills:
• Event and Experience Centric: The candidate will be expected to engage with customers, show and story tell confidently around LG’s solutions and promote our products internally/externally.
- Time management: Organization skills to meet deadlines and business goals. Great project management skills to manage multiple events and customers weekly. Be nimble and flexible.
- Thrives in a fast paced and customer focused organization; enjoys collaboration and team interactions and can be successful independently as well.
- Communication: Great verbal and written communication skills are essential. The Event Marketing Manager must interact with agencies, designers, product managers, sales teams, marketing SMEs, associations, venues, vendors, and customers.
- Event Creativity: Crafting engaging content to align with customer trends and market changes to interest and engage people. Strong planning and organization skills and coordination across multiple events is important. Results and A+ customer outcome driven.
- Technology: Digitally savvy, Computer skills, skills and experience with event planning, meeting, scheduling software is important.
This is an exciting, visible hybrid/remote position working with a with a diverse and large Business Solutions team, primarily based out of Lincolnshire, IL office.
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LG Electronics, USA Inc.; LG Mobilecomm USA, Inc., LG Mobile Research USA LLC, and Zenith Electronics LLC provides equal opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the Company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics.
LG Electronics U.S.
As an Art Director Intern, you will work to understand our client’s objectives, help shape our creative approach, and work with the design team in overseeing the creative vision and execution of projects.Specific responsibilities include:
- Concept big ideas for all kinds of clients and industry verticals
- Bring those ideas to life with creative team collaboration
- Work with and learn from copywriting and other craft experts
- Operate and learn across mediums, from digital to traditional to cutting-edge space
- You will useAdobe Software(PhotoShop,InDesign, etc.), and basic proficiency is preferred
Qualifications
- You can be a rising senior, recent graduate, career changer, or reentering the workforce after taking some time off
- Pursuing a degree, certification program, or equivalent work experience
- Must be within a commutable distance (ideally 30 miles) from Hub location
- Authorized to work in the U.S.
- Tell us if you are available to work for 40 hours per week. If not, what is your availability? We offer flexible schedules to work around school or other commitments.
Program Duration and Details
- Hybrid Internship (minimum of 1-2 days in our Chicago office)
- 10-week internship program from 6/6/2023-8/15/2023
- The hourly rates for our internship positions is$20/hour
Additional Information
Hawkeye is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Hawkeye
CASTING CALL!
PROJECT: DURANGO
ROLE: JASON (Joel Edgerton) BODY DOUBLES
DATES: MULTIPLE DAYS 3/9 – 4/12
LOCATION: CHICAGO
FILMING RATE: $200/8
TESTING RATE: $61.60/4
LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO FITS THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION:
Caucasian Males
Height: 5’9-5’11
Weight: 170 – 190
Jacket/Chest: 38-42
Pants: 32-34 waist x 32 inseam
T-shirt: Med or Large
We are also NOT requiring a Vaccination Status for this initial reach out. You are more than welcome to let us know what your status is below, but it is not required for the moment. We are simply trying to find as many interested individuals as possible that fit the Joel Edgerton’s size that we can for this role, regardless of vaccination status.
Chicago Casting Call: Be Part of Hulu’s The Bear Season 4
Are you based in Chicago and ready to be part of a hit TV series? The Bear, Hulu’s critically acclaimed show set in the heart of the city, is now casting local background actors and kitchen staff for its upcoming fourth season!
Filming will take place on location in Chicago, and the production is actively seeking real locals to help bring the story to life. Whether you’re an actor, a culinary professional, or just a fan of the series looking for your shot — this is your chance to join the action.
Now Casting Locals in Chicago
Casting Directors are looking for:
- Chicago-based talent only (must be local to the area)
- Background actors and kitchen staff for various roles
Featured Roles Include:
- Kitchen Staff: Line cooks, dishwashers, sous chefs, pastry chefs, and more. Real culinary experience is a big plus!
- Theater Attendees: Extras to portray audience members for specific scenes — no acting experience required.
About the Show
Set in Chicago, The Bear follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a young chef who returns home to run his family’s sandwich shop. The show has received widespread praise for its authenticity, intensity, and raw storytelling — especially its portrayal of the high-pressure restaurant world.
Season 4 will take the story even deeper, and this is your opportunity to be part of it in your own city.
How to Apply
Step 1: Sign Up on Project Casting
Create your free profile at ProjectCasting.com and make sure to:
- Upload a professional photo or headshot
- List any acting or culinary experience
- Highlight your availability and Chicago location
Step 2: Look for The Bear Season 4 Casting Calls
Search for the latest casting notices specific to The Bear and select roles that match your experience or interest.
Step 3: Submit Your Application
Follow the directions on each casting notice. Some roles may require a self-tape or in-person availability. Culinary roles may ask for experience or certifications.
Pro Tip: Familiarize yourself with The Bear‘s tone by watching past episodes — it’ll help you understand the world you’ll be stepping into.
Filming Begins Soon — Don’t Miss Out
Casting is ongoing, and filming is expected to begin in early 2025 right here in Chicago. Keep checking Project Casting for the latest updates and open roles.
Ready to Join One of TV’s Hottest Shows?
Whether you’re a seasoned actor, a chef with on-the-line experience, or just looking to get on set — this is your chance to work on a major production filming right in your hometown.
- Apply now through Project Casting and take the first step toward being part of The Bear Season 4.