Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

ROLE: CREATIVE DIRECTOR, COPY

TEAM: THE KITCHEN NA

LOCATION: CHICAGO (Hybrid)

About The Kitchen

The Kitchen is the in-house agency at Kraft Heinz, bringing together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s an agile team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas, with a focus on digital and social media.

This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.

Position Summary

As Creative Director you will lead a creative team made up of a senior pair focused on social/digital activations, a junior team and content creators focused on agile and planned social content, and a team of supporting designers and resources tasked with making clever content that cuts through the noise on social.

As an experienced creative leader, you know how to have an impact on your team, and an ability to ensure every project they’re working on reaches its potential – from agile responses to online moments, to bigger concepts born from cultural trends.

You’re more than a creative manager; you’re a teacher to other creative managers and talent. You know how to help a senior creative pair get the most out of their team. You’re able to show the junior creatives ‘the ropes’ and get them to a great idea that they feel passionate about. You are hands-on in contributing to ideas and producing great work.

You’re always thinking about your team and its capabilities – addressing skill gaps, training talent, and making sure you’re holding them to a high standard.

You’re an enthusiastic pitcher and want to be the creative face of the agency to your brand partners.

OVERVIEW

• You lead: You Inspire and direct a team of writers, designers, producers, social media/community managers and strategists to ensure a culture conducive to great work. You are responsible for growing, retaining, and motivating this team to succeed.
• You’re adaptable: You demonstrate resiliency in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment where ideas and opportunities happen fast and require flexibility.
• You hold your team to high standards: You ensure the highest level of creative quality from your team and for the brands you work with. You understand how to give clear feedback that your teams can use to improve their work.
• You manage and supervise multiple creative projects and workflows, sometimes bringing your creatives together, sometimes focusing them on separate asks.
• You direct the design and development of creative materials.
• You ensure brand identity and message consistency across channels.
• You care about being a good partner: meeting business objectives, values, budgets, and deadlines with work that makes you proud. You present work and develop relationships of value and respect with the team.
• You will lead and participate in brainstorming sessions and bring interesting opportunities and trends to the team’s newsroom process.
• You’re a hands-on creative, writing copy or designing against guidelines and brand tone of voice for film, print, digital and social as needed to support your team.
• You lead teams and ensure strong and non-traditional creative output, collaborating with and working under the direction of the Head of Creative.
• You help the agency develop a strong and positive relationship with the advertising community to help recruit top talent.

Qualifications

• A proven track record of success in digital/social advertising.
• An established leader with a track record of developing talent.
• 8+ years experience in Advertising, social, or medium agnostic creative…. or a track-record that shows why you’re ahead of your peers.
• Strong Portfolio: You demonstrate originality, innovation, and a multi-disciplinary thinking through your work.
• International Recognition: You have created a world-class campaign that achieved international fame or won multiple international awards.
• Leadership Skills: You demonstrate strong leadership skills and can organize, motivate, and improve the creative output of those around you.
• Big Unconventional Idea Thinker: You go beyond the executional or tactical tasks and come up with innovative approaches that earn attention.
• Team Player: You are positive, collaborative and a contagious spirit, who works well with others.
• Entrepreneurial: You take initiative and proactively come to the table with new ideas to push forward the creative work and develop relationships with the team
• Production Savvy: You know how to work within budgetary constraints and have experience working with photographers, directors, and vendors.
• Time Management: You can manage your time, hit deadlines and be on time for meetings, while juggling multiple projects.

The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.

The Kitchen North America

This new Entertainment platform is looking for a Senior FP&A Manager to join their growing team in London. After a successful launch the brand are now looking to continue their growth across Europe, this is a newly created role with clear opportunity to take ownership and and lead a small team across commercial finance.

Reporting in to the Director of Commercial Finance your responsibilities will include:

• Act as key business partner across a range of stakeholders including Programming, Strategy and Product teams in order to deliver key commercial decision making
• Evaluating opportunities and analysing data in line with achieving strategic goals and growth plans
• Ownership of budgeting and forecasting processes with input across financial/commercial risks and opportunities
• Leading a small team and playing a key role in further development and embedding core values

The ideal candidate will be fully qualified (ACA/ACCA equivalent) with relevant post qualified experience held within FP&A specifically across Content (previous sector exposure within Media, Entertainment, Subscriptions and/or Streaming highly advantageous). You will possess excellent communication skills, proven ability to use initiative and be comfortable working within a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.

Marks Sattin

Want to work on great clients like Wendy’s, Skip the Dishes, Kids Help Phone, MasterCard and Nestle?

Come work at McCann! We’re now hiring an intermediate creative team.

We have a hybrid work environment (where you’ll actually want to work in the office), great people, and a mysterious room that sometimes sounds like pigeons. Just kidding, it always sounds like pigeons.

Note: Please include a link to your portfolio in your resume.

The Company

McCann Worldgroup Canada is committed to a diverse workforce as an Employment Equity employer (Women, People with Disabilities, Aboriginal Peoples, and Visible Minorities) and aims to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace where employees feel valued, respected, and supported. If you require an accommodation, we would be happy to work with you to meet your needs.

McCann Canada

BIMM is booming, so we’re looking for a Senior Art Director to join our team!

Who we are

For over 40 years, we’ve crafted flawless data driven creative solutions for some of the biggest brands in Canada and across the globe. Everything we do is guided by a simple philosophy: marketing with greater certainty. We love creating amazing integrated brand experiences for our clients that deliver real business results.

We all act as one unit and believe in “having every BIMMER’s back”. Nice people only. Egos need not apply.

Who we’re looking for

Reporting to the Associate Creative Director, you will be joining a high performing team of creative self-starters comprised of Art Directors, Copywriters, UX, UI and Traditional Designers. We are looking for a creative realist – If you’re a conceptual Art Director who brings their ideas to life with beautiful, smart design, applied across integrated channels and have award winning examples in your book, we should talk!

You will be working on several clients in the financial, home furnishings, non-for-profit, insurance, travel and automotive sectors. It is essential that you are able to collaborate with your creative team, the strategic planners as well as account leadership to deliver world class creative from one offs to fully integrated campaigns across multiple channels.

The Senior Art Director should have a proven track record to come up with award winning ideas for TV, radio, Email, Digital Ads, Out of Home, Landing Pages, Direct Mail and Social posts.

Requirements

Must have:

• 6+ years experience in a similar role or capacity
• Strong attention to detail, organized and extremely buttoned down
• Amazing presentation skills
• Mastery of craft: sweating the small stuff
• Agency experience working on big clients
• Proficient in Adobe CS, especially InDesign, XD and Figma
• Typographic snobbery

Nice to have:

• Award winning work, but also willing to roll up their sleeves
• Sketch

What’s in it for you?

• Work Life Balance with BIMM days: Spend your birthday any way you’d like, as long as it’s not at the office. Extra day off to enjoy every summer holiday and a week-long end-of-year break. Boo-yah!
• Benefits: We offer a comprehensive health & dental benefits plan with an Employee Assistance Program. BIMMers are also given extra $$$ to put towards wellness or health-related needs. Did we mention our RRSP with matching? A lil BIMM bonus to build your bank.
• Culture: Our squad is fun, friendly and entirely egoless. Our social committee plans BIMM bashes, Tasty Thursdays and quarterly outings like candle making workshops, board game nights, Jays games and cooking classes. Our summer and holiday parties are quite memorable as well! Having Fun Everyday is one of our core values.
• We believe in working & meeting with purpose. We observe a hybrid working model in our beautiful dog-friendly office located in the Distillery District, stuffed with snacks.
• Belonging: Our dedicated DEI committee provides thought-provoking insights which are reflected in our work; They also organize engaging awareness activities and events to showcase BIMMER’s professional talents and personalities. What talents might you bring? 🙂
• Growth: BIMM is part of kyu collective which gives our employees access to the network’s resources, training, offices, and more. We also prioritize your personal and professional development with opportunities like on-site Lunch n’ Learns, conferences and online courses. Love 2 Learn.

BIMM is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We are an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without discrimination. Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met.

BIMM

Female model to be featured in the May Issue of Fashion Republic Magazine. Selected models will be asked to submit photos.

Casting Fashion Republic Magazine’s May issue. All selected models are featured on a full page and have a chance to be seen by a broad audience of designers, agents, and casting directors through the magazine and our social media accounts. This is not a photoshoot. It’s online submission only. There is no need to go to any locations. There is no application fee.

Project Name: EPCOT Magic of Possibilities

Project Type: Commercial

Project Union Status: Non-Union

Usage/Run:  Standard Disney Release – all media worldwide, in perpetuity. The rates are higher on this shoot because we’re hoping to get new talent who’s not yet shot a Disney project with us. We’re still open to repeat talent as well, though.

Project Synopsis: “EPCOT Magic of Possibilities”- MOP D100 UPDATE PROJECT $1,000/PER WORKING DAY $250 FOR FITTING DAY $250/ONE TIME TRAVEL ALLOWANCE PER PERSON IF TRAVELING FROM 90 OR MORE MILES OUTSIDE OF ORLANDO 20% AGENCY FEE THIS IS A TOTAL BUYOUT – all media in perpetuity – video and/or photo all-inclusive  

CONSIDERATIONS: SHOOTS ARE CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR OVERNIGHT 5/3 INTO 5/4 AND OVERNIGHT 5/4 INTO 5/5/23. ASK TALENT IF THEY’VE APPEARED IN DISNEY COMMERCIAL PROJECTS RECENTLY. IF SO, WHEN? ASK TALENT IF THEY’VE APPEARED IN ANY OTHER THEME PARK COMMERCIAL PROJECT RECENTLY. IF SO, FOR WHOM AND WHEN. ANY DIETARY RESTRICTIONS?

NEEDED: DIVERSE YOUNG ADULT FRIEND GROUP 5/YA’S

Additional Provisions: Talent MUST work as local hire to Orlando as production is not budgeted for hotel, gas, per diem, etc. In-person fitting in Orlando is mandatory. Fitting most likely on Saturday 03/25, possibly Sunday 03/26

Rate / Payment Summary: $1000+20%                 

MIAMI – HYUNDAI COMMERCIAL 

NEW DATE MAY 2 AND 3. RATE $500 PER DAY

Hispanic (or can pass as) actors.

NO DIALOGUE, JUST MIMIC. 

CAN BE DONE IN GROUPS OF FAMILY IF ALL APPLYING OR SINGLE TO MATCH.

• Senior Lady from 60 to 65 years 
• Husband of Senior Lady same age.
• Son of Lady 40 to 45 años (men #1)
• Younger brother 35 years (men#2) 
• Wife of 40 years (men#1)
• Girlfriend of brother 25 to 30 years (men#2)
• Daughter  10 years (men#1)
• Daughter12 years (men#2)

Does your child always have something witty to say?

Haribo Nationwide VO Commercial

Recording Date: 5/1 or 5/2

Compensation: $2000 if chosen

Child’s Age Range: 4-7

NOW CASTING 

Multiple STAND-INS for a popular VH1 series for a Promo Photo Shoot!

We are looking for models/actors with similar characteristics to our leads to stand in during a photo shoot.

Rate: $200/day

Please read below for character descriptions:

• Character “R”: AA Female, 5’2, Brown Skin
• Character “Y”: AA Female, 5’7, Brown Skin
• Character “J”: AA Female, , 5’9- 5’10, Brown Skin
• Character “S”: AA Female, 5’1, Dark Skin
• Character “E”: AA Female, 5’4, Dark Skin
• Character “M”: Hispanic or AA female, 5’7-5’9, Light Skin
• Character “B”: AA female, 5’10, Brown Skin
• Character “A”: AA female, 5’8, Dork Skin

Casting teenagers for a really cool upcoming campaign!

We are looking for real teens to be part of this fantastic experience.

This is a paid opportunity for anyone who is confirmed for the shoot and will be shooting later this month in Austin, TX.

We are casting individuals, couples, friend groups, siblings, etc. so please share this with all your friends!

CASTING SPECS

• Ages 13-20
• All ethnicities, sizes, genders, styles, characters
• No acting experience needed