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The Meta VR group brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. We have a clear mandate to ship products at scale.We are currently seeking an Art Manager on our VR Art team to partner with 3D artists, engineers, product managers and other wide cross functional groups. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with 3D pipelines and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, semi-structured environment. This person must be comfortable guiding teams and production partners and should be willing to roll up their sleeves to do the work when necessary.

Art Manager, VR Art Responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of artists who are chartered with supporting an array of AR/VR initiatives and teams across VR at Meta
• Recruit and hire talented contributors
• Establish collaboration processes within the internal team and external stakeholders
• Engage with PMs, Designers and Engineer & Art Leads to define art experiences, components, and scope and goals for key projects with our various stakeholders
• Connect, build relationships, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and drive mutual vision and goals
• Effectively influence leaders and key partners to gain alignment

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a 3D artist in immersive software development
• Proven communication and presentation skills
• Experience managing complex schedules across a range of stakeholders
• Willingness for empowering teams to produce results
• Demonstrated experience to manage artists and contributors in a creative environment
• 3+ years of people management and leadership experience in art pipelines
• Demonstrated experience to manage the development, maintenance and documentation of art processes and experiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing complex schedules across stakeholders
• Experience participating in, and leading the development of creative prototypes
• Games & AR/VR experience

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

Employees at Quad thrive at the intersection of thinking, making and marketing. As we continue to take the bold steps necessary to transform our offering, our goal is to provide our clients with the most powerful integrated marketing platform. We’re all partners in our company, committed to do the right thing, trusting the process, innovating for the future, growing the business, believing in each other, and having a little fun along the way.

Are you passionate about brand execution and photography? Are you a brand guardian that can inspire new photography ideas and execute them across all channels? Quad, a marketing experience company serving premier brands, seeks an experienced, versatile Lead Photo Art Director to work at our studio in Mooresville, NC. The Lead Photo Art Director works closely with the Client’s creative team and the internal Quad creative team to develop and execute on-brand, creative solutions for a variety of channels. The right candidate will have a strong photo background and thrive in the collaborative process of delivering exceptional work. This person will be responsible for understanding the client’s comprehensive marketing strategies and campaign goals, and will display a keen interest in related industry trends.

Responsibilities:

• Lead on-figure, in-studio photographic creative efforts for Print, Digital, Retail business channels
• Collaborate with Creative and Merchandising partners, using expertise in visual communication and problem solving
• Manage and mentor creative talent providing direction, coaching and professional development guidance
• Collaborate with client and creative partners to brainstorm and concept seasonal photography needs for omni-channel exposure plans
• Direct photo shoots, pre-production meetings, selection of talent and resources to meet project objectives
• Collaborate effectively with Studio and Client team members on assigned work to deliver the highest quality results
• Participate in client pre-production meetings for assigned projects, providing creative input concerning product presentation
• Establish, direct and maintain the creative Photography standards
• Produce assigned projects on schedule and within budget
• Responsible for the organizing and final selection of all assigned photography
• Conduct review of new photography with Senior Leadership ensuring that presentations are complete, effective, and meet creative and marketing objectives.
• Partner with Premedia team to ensure final images meet technical standards
• Identify and recommend solutions to graphic problems in partnership with Client Designer team
• Collaborate with Lead Photographer to mentor photographers
• Understand the client’s brand and properly adhere to guidelines/requirements

Qualifications:

• Degree in photography, design or related field preferred
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience providing Art Direction for all marketing channels
• Knowledge and understanding of channel requirements to ensure assets meet required specifications
• Proficiency in all Mac-based, industry-standard software programs including, but not limited to, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Capture One.
• Deep understanding of branding, marketing, advertising, and strategies within those disciplines
• Proactive, appropriate and timely communication skills across department, agency and clients
• Allocates time efficiently to the most important issues and completes work in a timely fashion
• Holds high regard for personal performance and professional accountability
• Adapts as needed to clients’ needs, feedback and critiques
• Can adjust and streamline priorities within multiple assignments to ensure all goals and objects are met or exceeded

Additional Company Information:

We offer excellent benefits to eligible employees, including 401(k), holidays, vacations and more.

Quad is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to creating a place of belonging — a space where employees do not need to sacrifice who they are to exist and grow in our workplace. Quad does not discriminate on any unlawful basis including race, religion, color, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Quad also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.

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Creative Director, Experience Design

We’re looking for a Creative Director, Experience Design who is passionate about delivering beautiful and intuitive digital experiences that drive results-a systems thinker who knows how to tell a great story. Someone who is equal parts entrepreneurial, collaborative, hungry, and humble. Someone whose positive energy and drive to be great is infectious. Who’s passionate about raising the game of those working under and alongside them and willing to throw their own award-winning ideas into the mix.

As a Creative Director, Experience Design for Deloitte’s esteemed Green Dot Agency, you will be central to a multidisciplinary team of strategists, analysts, creative technologists, copywriters, and art directors. You’ll maintain a highly functional and healthy team while meeting the demands of various stakeholders across multiple lines of business. Your responsibility will be to create simple, useful, and elegant cross-channel experiences. You’ll run 360 campaigns, overseeing execution of all creative work from concept to completion, ensuring that work is on brand, on strategy, on schedule, and executed with excellence. You will be expected to stay endlessly curious and ahead of the trends, technologies, and tools that will help you-and the organization-deliver the best digital experiences across the widest markets. And you’ll be tasked with translating your passion for top-notch experiences into actionable best practices and processes that don’t just stimulate the people on your team-they intrigue all who interact with them.

If this sounds like you, send us your portfolio which demonstrates smart thinking, innovative concepts, and a high level of craft-from integrated campaigns, broadcast and video storytelling to visual identity, social launches, and digital experiences. You’ll have work examples across a wide range of categories that are clearly driven by strategy.

Expectations:

• 12+ years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of experience as a Creative or Associate Creative Director with an agency/ firm
• Strong portfolio demonstrating your innovative work across multiple channels
• Deep understanding of user interface, application, mobile and responsive design
• Ability to develop strong client relationships to establish a level of trust to help sell creative
• Strong collaboration skills and track record of acting as an open and willing resource to team members in assessing ideas and directions
• Detail-oriented manager who can navigate a large organization to execute under tight deadlines
• An exceptional communicator who knows when to stand your ground and when to compromise.
• Innovate and improve on agency processes and deliverables to continually set new standards
• Display advanced skill at developing wireframes, user stories and journeys, and prototypes optimized for devices and contexts
• Possess solid knowledge of Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch and HCI principles.
• Have expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud tools, as well as familiarity with AEM
• Demonstrate excellent public speaking, presentation, and listening skills, with and ability to own the room
• Be familiar with Agile and Sprint working methodologies
• Combine a strategic, business savvy with strong advocacy for experience design
• Inspire those who you lead to elevate their craft and thinking
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be a working leader, generating your own ideas and experiences while inspiring your teams to do the same.
• You’ll oversee dozens of projects, maintaining high level of accuracy, quality, and impact across all.
• You’ll translate marketing objectives into strategically sound ideas and manage the creative process from concept to completion.
• You’ll oversee a diverse creative team, with broad responsibility for the design and development of the visual, tone, and aesthetic character of marketing campaigns.
• Create the vision of the campaign and collaborate with copywriters, art directors, designers, planners, and account service to bring it to life.
• Lead the work into fresh creative territories by making ideas compelling, relevant, and desirable to our audiences.
• Lead effective client presentations that create excitement and demonstrate how the creative delivers on the strategy.
• Be a steward the Deloitte brand.
• Grow our teams and businesses and approach each project with a strategic and innovative mindset.
• Recruit and manage freelance talent to augment in-house teams as needed.
• Regularly interface with clients at all levels and put them first, listening to understand their obstacles and hunting for solutions that are innovative and fresh.
• Actively coach junior through ACD-level creatives, involving them in projects and inspiring their growth and development by providing consistent feedback, training, and growth opportunities.

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado or Nevada, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of Colorado and the State of Nevada and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is ($104,575-$192,590).

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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Casting for DIVERSE WOMEN EXTRAS to work in Doraville, GA on Saturday, September 10.

 

Must be able to work as Atlanta Local.

 

Rate: $150/6

 

Date: Saturday, September 10

 

Terms: Buyout

 

Age: 30 – 60

 

Gender: Female

 

Ethnicity: All Ethnicities

 

General Description: The scene will be women in a church small group conversing and enjoying one another’s company.

Casting for MOTHER AND CHILDREN EXTRAS to work in Jonesboro, GA on Wednesday, September 7.

 

Rate: $150/6

Date: Wednesday, September 7

Terms: Buyout

Age: Mothers – 30’s to 40’s, Children 5 – 10

Gender: Mothers – female, Children – male/female

Ethnicity: African American and Caucasian

 

General Description: The scene will be mothers with their children at a playground. We are looking for real mothers and children.