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Graphic Designer – Product Packaging

Pro-Mart is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of Home Storage and Organization products. We’re looking for an experienced Graphic Designer with product packaging production experience to join our creative team with great product packaging experience to create assets of all kinds, including but not limited to:

• Create and maintain graphics for products, packaging, marketing, branding, and presentations
• Beautifully designed product packaging
• Innovative die-lines designs
• Skillful craftsmanship of mocked up packaging

Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Have expert knowledge of design, layout, typography and die-lines
• Oversee designs through ideation, concept refinement, and final production samples
• Manage the early phases of packaging design and development with other disciplines within the company
• Must have portfolio demonstrating strong vector and traditional illustration
• Knowledge of printing process and color management
• Ability to manage multiple jobs accurately while meeting short deadlines
• Strong attention to quality and detail is an absolute must
• Assist in the development of new processes to streamline workflow.
• Collaborate with photographer to communicate shot list vision and ensure correct photos are taken for packaging.
• Work with outside vendors and customers as needed to coordinate sending and approval of artwork.
• Regularly assess assignment priorities and communicate roadblocks to the Brand Director.
• Understanding of routing protocol for approval to ensure the highest level of quality before releasing file/executing.

Candidates must meet the following qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience as a graphic designer with product packaging experience
• Skilled with Adobe Creative Cloud products specifically, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and PowerPoint
• Microsoft Office 365
• Strong layout and branding skills

Pro-Mart Industries, Inc.

MSNBC is looking for an experienced Line Producer for Ayman.

Responsibilities:

• Assist senior producer in creating daily broadcast by executing editorial vision of day.
• Serve as backup senior producer.
• Oversee daily rundown changes.
• Supervise editorial content of newscast.
• Use leadership skills to motivate, mentor and manage employees.
• Write news scripts and teases.
• Work with show director and production crew.
• Oversee all in-show graphics and story titles.
• Work with senior producer to approve (copy edit) all scripts.
• Pitch story ideas (day-of, next day, futures).
• Initiate planning process.

In Control Room:

• Preview accuracy of upcoming video, graphics and chyron.
• Preview upcoming stories and segments.
• Communicate with guests and correspondents-time cues, roll cues, thank-you’s.
• Communicate with control room staff-director, teleprompter operator, chyron operator and TPM.
• Time newscast.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in live television (i.e. morning shows, cable shows, broadcast TV, etc.).
• Must have at 1 year of line producing experience.
• Editorial experience in a fast-paced news room environment, ability to anticipate and respond quickly to change.
• Experience in story first journalism approach.

Desired Qualifications:

· Possess ability to develop story ideas, research and plan segments.

· Exceptional editorial skills: Ability to recognize stories with high potential for provocative, compelling television.

· Knowledge of current events, politics and pop culture.

· Wide-range reader of news, including op-eds.

· Strong writing skills.

· Expert tease writer.

Additional Job Requirements:

· Must be willing to work in New York, NY.

· Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

· Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, under tight deadline pressure, including breaking news.

MSNBC

Who we are:

Founded in 1978, GS&F is an award-winning, fully integrated marketing and communications agency. GS&F delivers proven results for clients, providing experienced marketing, creative, interactive, media, public relations and production specialists under one roof. GS&F staff numbers 90+ and our roster features major regional, national and global clients, including Bridgestone, LP Building Solutions, Juice Plus+, Butler Snow, Nashville Predators, and the Tennessee Titans. A fiercely independent agency, GS&F takes an audience-first approach to determining the path to our client’s most dramatic business potential.

Who we are looking for:

Our team consists of makers, analysts, creatives, strategists, thinkers, tinkerers and more. If you are a big idea thinker, can find a nugget of wisdom in the smallest data point, are relentless in your pursuit of doing great work and are unafraid to say the tough stuff, we want you here.

Are you pixel perfect in your execution of creative files? Do you agonize over accurate spacing, color selection, and asset specs? Are you a creative machine that can create endless variations and iterations on established brand or campaign standards? In the role of Creative Producer you must be one part designer, one part production artist, one part organization expert and one part project manager. You must be able to ensure that all creative files are technically correct, resulting in high quality print or digital ready files and fulfilling the approved design work and internal production requirements.

You’ll likely need the following qualifications and experience to be successful in this role:

• We believe that years of experience is just a number; that said, typically someone in this role has 2–3 years of design, production artist, or print production experience
• Prior agency experience would certainly help you get up to speed more quickly but isn’t required for this role
• Should possess a mastery of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, After Effects as well as other design tools and technologies
• Prior experience with developing HTML5 ads, motion graphics, and other interactive art is highly desired in this role
• Must have a solid understanding of all production and printing industry technical requirements such as pre-press file set up for commercial offset printing as well as digital commercial printing
• Highly collaborative artist who works to produce all files according to the art director’s specifications
• Ability to take a master design concept and version out various deliverables for both print and digital while maintaining a brand’s design guidelines for a cohesive marketing campaign.
• Advises creative team on best practices for the creation and distribution of assets
• Skews toward the technical side of design and less about “big creative ideas”; candidates should be comfortable with this aspect of the role
• Should possess a “library catalog”-type mental organizational ability with the desire to create organization structures to best execute a large amount of creative assets
• Not afraid of voicing a dissenting or contrarian point of view, especially when it supports the brief, the creative idea or the business objectives of a project

Additional information:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

There is power in celebrating who we are. GS&F is committed to embracing and welcoming past, current and future employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status and other characteristics that make our employees unique. After all, diversity feeds the best friendships because what makes you, you…makes us, us.

Because of this commitment and our commitment to improve, we have set important DE&I milestones and goals for our agency. To that end, you may be asked a question about your gender, ethnicity, disability or veteran status as you submit your online application. Rest assured we don’t have the ability to track your responses to these questions back to you, and it’s never considered as part of your candidacy for a position at GS&F. If we say we want to improve, we simply want to know we are actually improving.

Location:

We are only considering candidates that currently live in or wish to relocate to Nashville in the near future (first 90 days of employment).

As a full-time member of the GS&F team, we offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, vision coverage
• 401K match
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Generous PTO
• Professional development opportunities and growth-oriented tools
• Support for mental and physical health
• Generous parental leave
• Relocation support

GS&F

WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe in inclusion, we believe in self-expression, we believe in no judgement and we believe in individualism.

WHO WE ARE

We are bold, we are tenacious, we are courageous and brave.

We are a cast of characters;

We embrace our differences and we share our likenesses.

Some of What’s in it for You!

• Paid Personal Days
• Generous Benefit package
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Loyalty Reward Program
• Generous welcome gift
• Company events

As the Senior Producer, reporting to the Associate Art Director, you will be responsible for the operational foundation in the creative team. As the lead liaison between several internal teams and external talent and vendors, you will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Some of What You’ll Do:

• Act as the operational leader for all creative project management and be the main contact for operational issues in production
• Create and manage creative budgets, while ensuring the delivery of projects are on budget
• Responsible for drafting proposals, Statements of Work (SOWs), Change Orders, Project Schedules, technical specifications, RFPs and any other production-oriented documentation
• Draft and maintain project status document
• Coordinate with the marketing team to define project briefs based on deliverables, budget, and schedule.
• Authorize and initiate talent / team bookings
• Maintain and communicate updated project schedules to all necessary parties in appropriate
• formats (client calendar, Basecamp calendar, Google calendar, Gantt Charts, etc)

Some of What You’ll Need:

• Minimum 5 years of producing experience in a premium brand or a premium Creative/Brand/Agency setting.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communications skills, as well as organizational, multitasking and time management skills
• Skilled in MS Office, Mac OS, Google Docs,
• A proven history of success managing creative output for premium or luxury consumer companies including but not limited to managing everything from large scale institutional campaigns to small social shoots to e-commerce production
• Some travel required

Some of Who You Are:

• Outgoing personality, vocal, inquisitive, friendly under pressure
• Demonstrated Strong Leadership Skills

Moose Knuckles Canada

Poretta & Orr is looking to add talented individuals to our Production Department. The Production Coordinator will work with our Production Managers, under our Director of Operations. The focus of this position will be to support the print production of a variety of portable items. This may include; table drapes, pop up exhibits, banner stands, table top displays or graphic posters.

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Complete quotes for projects with selected print partners
• Manage production timelines and communicate artwork deadlines to account team members
• Coordinate and prioritize print production schedules internally and with print vendors
• Review artwork against templates to ensure correct sizing
• Confirm all artwork elements are included and are of print quality
• Provide e-proofs and communication to account teams
• Provide tracking and delivery confirmation
• Keep internal company portable catalogue and print resources up to date

Preferred Job Skills Include

• Strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task
• Flexible in working with members of a team and switching priorities as needed
• Proven track record of staying organized in a fast pace, high demand environment
• Experience utilizing the Adobe CC Suite (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office software programs (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint)
• Experience with agency or print production a plus

Poretta & Orr, Exhibits | Events

Inkhouse is an integrated PR agency for innovative thinkers, creators and leaders who believe in the power of stories to effect positive change. We bring new ideas to market. We were founded in 2007 and have grown to an agency of more than 120 people across four offices. Find us in the real world in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Seattle and in the digital one at www.inkhouse.com.

We’re looking for people with innovative ideas about where media relations, social media, content and creative services are going next. Our business changes quickly, so Inkhouse must too. We’ve created a workplace in which everyone has permission to risk failure in service of big ideas. That’s the only way they get discovered. Our 11 company values serve as the foundation for how we work and how our people grow.

Job Summary:

The Account Manager position at Inkhouse requires an individual who can think creatively, lead effectively and manage expectations honestly. We are looking for the ideal mix of strategic excellence and tactical capability, a person who can define a client’s message and develop an integrated plan to amplify it — rolling up their sleeves for hands-on work alongside an account team they are mentoring and managing.

The ideal candidate should have strong media and influencer relationships, with a background in B2B (including cybersecurity) and consumer technology public relations, with experience leading integrated programs (including social (paid, organic) and digital marketing).

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day logistics and make assignments for team
• Day-to-day client contact and main responder to client
• Shows good judgement on when to involve VP in day-to-day issues
• High-level media outreach, building relationships with contacts at outlets of utmost importance to the client
• Owner of delivering documents to client on time and setting expectations
• First drafts of strategic plans and memos including amplification ideas
• High-level byline/blog post writer
• Regularly identifies new opportunities for each client
• Approves docs before they go to VP
• Stays up-to-date on PR trends and client trends
• Understands how to leverage social media for campaigns
• Constantly ensuring that the teams are conducting proactive outreach
• Reviews speaking and awards abstracts and submissions
• Oversees/assists with analyst relations program
• Role model/champion of Inkhouse Values
• Promotes teamwork and mindset that team success is everyone’s success
• Helps people at levels both above and below to achieve team and client objectives
• Commitment to employee development

Job Requirements:

• B.S./B.A. public relations, marketing, communications, or related field
• 5 – 10 years of experience in PR
• Experience in b2b (including cybersecurity) or consumer technology
• Experience managing teams and staff
• Excellent writing, pitching and presentation skills
• Ability to organize and manage multiple clients, teams and activities

Benefits & Perks:

The sign at the front desk at our headquarters reads, “Work Hard & Be Nice to People.” At Inkhouse, culture is our business model. We believe that great work is contingent on two things: the ability to come as you are, and the freedom to disconnect. Creativity requires perspective, and hard work needs to be balanced with mental space. We try to be on the forefront of progressive benefits including generous paid family leave, unlimited vacation, and dogs in the office. Check out the rest of our benefits, both the things you need and the things you want, here.

Inkhouse is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that is reflective of the communities in which we work and the clients that we serve. We seek to bring together people of varying backgrounds, skills, and experience, recognizing that this leads to a diversity of thought that fuels creativity and enables people to do their best work. BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and non-traditional candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Inkhouse is also committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR at [email protected].

Inkhouse Media + Marketing

Senior Affiliate/Publisher Manager

$70,000 – $90,000 and $40,000+ bonus and full benefits

On-Site

Performance Marketing Agency

**This role is located in Miami, Florida, and is in office. Please do not apply if you don’t live in Miami or are not willing to relocate.**

Aspire is working with a Performance Marketing Agency experiencing exciting growth and who are looking for talent to support this growth. The Senior Affiliate Manager will be responsible for developing publisher relationships, growing existing media accounts, and supervising team account activities.

The Senior Publisher Manager will be responsible for:

* Managing a portfolio of premier media partnerships, strengthening the strategic value to the client’s audience, business, and bottom line

* Overseeing a team of up to four managers/coordinators each with their own portfolio, making sure they drive the very best campaign performance and meet KPIs.

* Developing and maintaining an optimal media mix for company brand and agency clients

* Identifying new and existing media opportunities with the ability to negotiate close and on-board new clients

* Collaborating with Client Service Managers for media planning and ensuring campaigns are developed in line with brand objectives

The Senior Publisher Manager will have the following experience:

* Bachelor’s degree and at least five years of media planning experience with an advanced understanding of media vehicles and channels

* Successful track record of developing a premium portfolio of partnerships

* Knowledge of strategic performance media management, preferably with multichannel national brand clients

* Experience supervising and developing junior team members

* Needs to be available for travel

If this sounds like you then I’d love to hear from you!

We Are Aspire is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

WeAreAspire

We are looking for a competent digital advertising & content coordinator to support and optimize our organization’s digital advertising programs. Duties for this role will include creating and tracking sponsored product ad campaigns, developing various digital advertising materials, sourcing images and artwork, collating content, updating online assets, streamlining digital advertising production, and handling general digital marketing and content activities. Your creative and analytical thinking skills and strategies will be an essential part in driving our products’ discoverability, enhancing our brands’ reach, and encouraging business growth through efficient and cost-effective organic and paid campaigns.

Ideal candidates for this role should be analytical and innovative, internet savvy, well-organized, and must be excellent writers and communicators. Ultimately, the exceptional digital marketing & content coordinator should have a firm grasp of analyzing/tracking/reporting campaigns, drive highly effective digital campaigns, enhance user experience, and deliver on digital objectives.

What You’ll Do

• Supporting sales and merchandising initiatives through digital campaigns.
• Supporting product and brand launches on marketplace channels.
• Creating/Editing advertising material and copy.
• Researching market trends.
• Engaging with marketplace and licensing contacts.
• Creating sponsored product advertising campaigns on our ecommerce platforms.
• Developing and sourcing content for digital platforms.
• Optimizing organic SEO.

What You’ll Need

• Degree in marketing, advertising or equivalent.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Knowledge of paid advertising and sponsored product platforms.
• Excellent copywriting and copy-editing skills.
• Knowledge/Curiosity of current AI trends as related to digital advertising.
• Highly organized.
• Strong computer literacy.
• Project management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Knowledge of web analytics.
• Strong presentation/reporting skills

Air Waves LLC is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Air Waves | Hybrid Digital

Allen & Gerritsen (A&G) is seeking a rising public relations star to join its Boston or Philadelphia offices (although we have implemented a hybrid WFH model) as a Senior Manager, Public Relations (Senior Account Executive equivalent) to focus on our rapidly expanding B2B business division. The Senior Manager will be an integral member of a collaborative public relations, creator relations, and social media practice within a top independent, full-service advertising agency. The Senior Manager may be asked to pitch in on our additional division tracks — Consumer and Multicultural — still, the candidate will primarily focus on B2B clients, including those in clean energy, life sciences, healthcare, and more. This role will report to the Director of Public Relations, who leads the B2B division. We want to hear from you if:

● You’ve worked in B2B agency land for a few years or on the client side in a relevant company and category.

● You have solid media relationships and can share examples of reporters you can call in a crunch and pitches that you’ve converted from innovative ideas into secured placements.

● Writing is your superpower. If you’ve been told by teachers, friends, or managers that “you’re a great writer,” then you have an essential piece of the puzzle. We’re looking for a combination of outstanding technical and creative writing that’s been applied to draft key messaging, press releases, bylines, speeches, and op-eds.

● You’re open to not being a specialist; At the same time, most team members have a heavier focus on one or two divisions (B2B, Consumer, Multicultural), there is potential for crossover, and clients love our range.

● You have experience managing projects from start to finish and instill confidence in your colleagues and managers that you’ll get the job done.

● You love consuming the news and staying current with current trends, especially within your clients’ industries.

● You’re a flexible team player and you’re passionate about mentoring others. You know that the quality of work is dependent on the strength of a team, and you’re eager to be a contributing member, learn from others, jump into projects when all hands are needed on deck and help junior team members grow.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

● Serve as a client contact/relationship manager; manage everyday account activities with the support of the broader PR team

● Actively engage in media relations efforts; build relationships with reporters and secure placements

● Lead important foundational activities including media monitoring, pitch tracking, and presentation deck-building

● Work with the broader PR team to brainstorm, develop and implement campaign strategies and tactics

● Oversee account management and client reporting

● Participate in the new business process

● Manage interns and associates on account work

Other qualifications we like:

● Strong writing skills; writing samples, a writing test, and coverage portfolio will be required

● At least 3-5 years of experience, B2B agency or relevant client-side experience preferred

● Proven media relations acumen

● Impeccable attention to detail and strong research skills

● Working knowledge of PR tools like CriticalMention and MuckRack

● Strong deck-building skills (we use Keynote or Google Slides)

Allen & Gerritsen. Boston & Philadelphia. Independent & Integrated. Creativity & Purpose. Communications & Experiences. Data & Humanity. Black Lives Matter & Climate Change is Real. A&G builds the “Brand’s Best Self” through Creative Platforms, Strategic Insights, Communications Planning, Performance Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Outcomes Driven Analytics, Brand Integration, & more.

Check us out at https://www.a-g.com & LinkedIn & Twitter & Facebook & Instagram.

Allen & Gerritsen is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. Unsolicited resumes will not be accepted at this time.

Allen & Gerritsen

The Editorial Director oversees and manages internal Editorial Services personnel and external editorial contractors as needed to accommodate workflow and timely delivery of projects across all clients and products while maintaining the highest standards of quality and accuracy. The Editorial Director plays a key role in establishing, evaluating, and maintaining departmental policies and procedures as well as ensuring adherence to these procedures and prioritizing work schedules. The Editorial Director also has primary responsibility for assigned departmental personnel, including employee recruitment, mentorship, and retention. Accountabilities include team leadership and development, as well as the efficient and high-quality execution of editorial services within industry regulations and requirements for pharmaceutical marketing communications.

Job Duties

Leadership/Management

• Manage resourcing and workflow for editorial review of promotional marketing communication materials (eg, print and digital selling tools, promotional emails and mailers, print and digital advertisements, videos, websites)
• Establish, maintain, and oversee adherence to editorial procedures, processes, and work schedules
• Work closely with the Program Management and Medical Services departments to ensure proper resourcing and review/revise policies/procedures as needed to increase department efficiency
• Work closely with Program Management and Account Services to actively manage the departmental budget as it relates to contract editorial expenses
• Proactively assist colleagues across departments with editorial- and resourcing-related problem-solving, troubleshooting, and brainstorming, including development of new editorial policies/procedures if needed
• Provide direct supervision and oversight to all department personnel, including employee recruitment, mentorship, and retention
• Ensure departmental adherence to time reporting expectations as an essential part of resourcing and cost assessment

Internal and External Relationships

• Support key internal committees pertaining to Editorial Services
• Foster and develop collaboration between Editorial Services and other departments, internal groups, and individuals to ensure innovative and collaborative solutions to departmental efficiency and client needs
• Be a positive force for enhancing the team culture, consensus building, and internal communications
• Keep senior management apprised of key departmental concerns and issues

Editorial Services

• Take primary ownership and responsibility for maintaining the highest quality editorial work across products and clients
• Collaborate with Medical Services and Creative Services team members to ensure accuracy of content and convey editorial comments
• Ensure Editorial Services participation in internal kickoff, brainstorming, and review meetings at all stages of content development to provide input regarding content clarity, format, presentation, and messaging
• Attend product status meetings as required, and all individual project kick-off meetings as the senior representative for upcoming or in-progress editorial projects
• Assign work to department personnel, and review work to provide guidance/feedback as needed
• Contract with and provide guidance to external freelance editors to accommodate departmental workflow; monitor quality of work and provide feedback as needed
• Identify need for, create, maintain, and ensure adherence of department personnel to project-, product-, and client-specific style guides where applicable to ensure consistency across projects
• Ensure communication of internal style to all internal team members as well as external contract editors and writers; communicate changes in style to team members to ensure consistency/accuracy across projects
• Serve as subject-matter expert with regard to copyright permissions and obtain permissions as needed
• Actively pursue expertise in industry best practices and regulatory guidance across types of promotional advertising/marketing materials and serve as subject-matter expert in this regard
• Perform spectrum of project-specific editorial tasks as needed

Key Competencies

• Highly effective and developed leadership skills
• Ability to manage outcomes to win-win resolution
• High level of integrity, confidentiality, and accountability
• Well-developed professional communication skills, including written and interpersonal
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and time management skills, with a track record of attention to detail and ability to manage group priorities to meet timelines
• Expert knowledge of industry guidelines, regulations, and requirements
• Expert communicator both verbally and in writing
• Ability to train and provide management and developmental support to direct reports in preparation for future positions
• Ability to identify key issues; creatively and strategically overcome challenges or obstacles
• Ability to prioritize, coordinate, and execute multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment to serve many therapeutic teams and meet project goals
• Outstanding knowledge of grammar and usage, medical writing style guidelines, and promotional activity regulations and specifications, particularly in the digital space
• Familiarity with general scientific concepts and ability to grasp more complex scientific applications
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft (MS) Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat applications
• Ability to master various content management systems
• Desire to meet professional goals and acquire new skills

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (science or English degrees preferred)
• 5-7 years’ pharmaceutical/medical editing experience
• 1-2 years’ experience managing personnel

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience specifically managing editorial work at a pharmaceutical advertising/promotional agency
• Familiarity with electronic document review systems (eg, Veeva Vault)

Working Conditions

• Ability to commit to extra and/or nontraditional hours as client needs require

Additional Information

Synchrony places high value on the well-being of its employees; therefore, Synchrony team members are eligible for a comprehensive array of benefits, including competitive salaries, generous paid time off, excellent health insurance, family leave, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

EOE. Synchrony is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Core Industries, LLC