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POSITION DESCRIPTION

ROLE: SR. ART DIRECTOR

TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA

ABOUT THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA

The Kitchen brings 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 that live in a variety of mediums, with a focus on 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.

OVERVIEW

As the team’s Sr. Art Director, you’re a key contributor of ideas, and the visual leader of a creative team dedicated to producing high quality content. Your work will stand out on social platforms and in the real world, driving conversation and headlines. You’ll be a leader to a team of social creatives, and a partner to a Writer who (like you) wants to make clever, disruptive work for iconic brands.

You’ll partner with your team’s Creative Director, your writing partner and a team of designers and creators to innovate, and visually concept design ideas that break the norms and disrupt social media. When the Kitchen isn’t reacting to cultural moments, it’s making its own moments: planning 365 days of culture: acts, content, thumb-stopping design, and interactions that breathe personality and life into amazing brands all year long.

You’ll need a strong understanding of the best-practice design principles for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but you’ll also need to be comfortable breaking them with innovation that captures attention in new ways. Your experience in traditional mediums will help you raise the quality of work that we do and ensure we tell compelling stories. You’ll work at a pace that fits the dynamic needs of an agile agency, working quickly when needed to capture the moment, and taking the time to perfect ideas when the opportunity allows it. You’ll use your unique skillset and design eye to inspire others around you.

Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what marketing can be in today’s always-on, socially connected marketing industry.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• CREATIVE IDEATION: Work in collaboration with your creative partner to create and develop world-class ideas that earn attention and gets talked about online and in the media. You understand how to spot a consumer or cultural tension point, and to find an idea that leans into it.
• ART DIRECTION: You are an experienced art director who manages others to a level of visual quality that meets your own high standards. You have experience elevating others’ work and a care for your craft.
• TEAM LEADERSHIP: Leads by example to help inspire the creative team around them. Motivates and works with a team of designers, producers, social media/community managers and strategists to ensure that The Kitchen is a collaborative place for producing great ideas. Pushes the creative team around them to be more agile – generating ideas quickly, reactively, and constantly.
• INNOVATIVE & TRADITIONAL DESIGN: You work in a wide range of mediums ranging from traditional video and photo content, real world design (experiential) and social media content.
• BRAND DESIGN: You steward the look and feel of iconic brands, ensuring they have a consistent look and feel online. You are the final voice in ensuring these brands have a consistent high-quality look and feel across all mediums.
• PRESENTATION: Create compelling visual stories that bring ideas to life and gets hands-on as required to design those presentation decks that sell through big ideas. Develops storyboards and presentation decks that help preview the creative ideas we want to make.
• COLLABORATION: Acts with optimism and a love for the next big challenge, working as one integrated team with your creative partner, as well as the broader team. Participates in and occasionally leads brainstorms with positive energy and big-idea thinking – ability to think about how we can bring ideas to life visually, but also able to think broadly about big ideas and how they come to life.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• 5+ years of experience at the art director level, or experience with a as an art director with a proven track record of leading and stewarding brands visually
• A broad portfolio that includes examples of work you have created yourself. Your portfolio includes examples of ground- breaking, innovative work, including examples of social media work that elevates the medium
• College or University diploma in Advertising, Graphic or Communication Design is preferred
• The ability to execute concepts at a level that is among the top-tier in the industry
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – both written and verbal
• Exposure to Art Direction, Photo Shoots, and UI/UX are an advantage
• Proficient using Mac OS, Adobe Creative Cloud (Expert knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (or Keynote)

The Kitchen North America

Liquid Agency, a brand experience agency, is looking for a Group Creative Director. This is a remote position (must be based in the US).

If you believe in the power of design to activate strategies, advance client objectives and impact the world, we’d like to meet you.

You will oversee all campaign assignments at Liquid Agency as well as the leaders and teams who do the work. The GCD is actively involved in growing existing business and attracting new business.

What you’ll do:

Ensure that all creative teams across Liquid’s offices are delivering the best possible work on behalf of the agency’s clients

Drive ongoing improvements in creative processes and methodologies, improving efficiency and profitability

Foster Liquid’s spirit of collaboration with other agency disciplines

Align the creative group priorities with the greater agency’s purpose and objectives

Build and maintain working relationships with key clients

Provide creative leadership on all new business efforts with existing and new clients

Participate in the development of agency plans and programs by advising, evaluating and assisting in moving these initiatives forward

Instill creative leaderships, inspiration and motivation day-to-day to the creative team

Travel as required

Attend periotic team trainings, workshops and events

What you bring:

12+ years of continuous creative work experience, having maintained a core focus on design and user experience with an ability to drive excellence across many creative disciplines

Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Digital Media Design or Interactive Design

Well versed in using design thinking as a process to approach creative problem solving

Charismatic creative leader with a proven ability to pitch and win business, as well as inspire creative teams and retain senior talent

Proven experience in selling creative work – cross-selling, up-selling with existing clients and in new business situations

Excellent and innovative presentation skills

A broad array of expertise in branding, advertising, social media, digital design and marketing, video/motion graphics, environment/retail design

Confident leadership with solid experience managing creative teams and a variety of freelance consultants

Proven business experience in running and co-managing large, global accounts and creative departments/ businesses

High-level strategic and entrepreneurial thinker with a clear understanding of branding, digital marketing, campaigns and business strategies

Ability to manage budgets, resources and timelines for multiple projects running simultaneously while meeting profit goals

The talent and experience to develop compelling creative solutions on complex, multi-dimensional projects in fast-paced deadline-oriented environments

Effective and persuasive presentation skills and the ability to articulate strategic creative solutions to high-level clients, including the C-Suite

Sophisticated strategic analysis and written communication skills

Strong understanding of creative methodology

Ability to translate strategic vision into tangible project deliverables

Outstanding ability to build solid relationships with internal Client Services, Strategy and Technology leads; strong interpersonal skills (open, friendly, patient, pragmatic and supportive attitude)

Contributing team member and team builder

Ability to travel up to 50%

We are brand makers born of Silicon Valley. In a world that’s moving fast, Liquid looks for new ways to solve complex problems. We meet each challenge with a fresh perspective, deploying smart tools and new approaches to create the right path forward. We call this Silicon Valley Thinking. Whether it is helping reposition an organization’s brand in a competitive market, engaging their employees to deliver on their brand’s promise, or reimagining the customer experience, we strive to design meaningful and relevant brand experiences at every possible touchpoint.

Liquid Agency is recognized the world over as a progressive thought leader in the field of branding, culture, and experience. We are fortunate to work with some of the most innovative clients of our time. Join us so you can do the best work of your career!

Liquid Agency

Yunker is looking for an experienced Creative Director to provide our creative team with guidance and ideas to bring our clients in-store vision to life. Direct and coordinate the conceptual and technical development of all projects designed within the Creative Services Department. Responsible for the overall quality of work and brand integrity of graphic design and industrial engineering projects. Provide the leadership and knowledge needed to achieve the highest standards of creative and innovative design solutions in order to exceed our client’s expectations. Act as the key liaison between all internal and external customers while maintaining a high level of communication, professionalism and efficiency as it applies to our expertise and the services we provide. This is a hands-on position with 3-D graphic design responsibilities

Responsibilities

·       Manage the creative/design process from concept thru completion.

·       Collaborate with account executives to obtain knowledge of client’s design requirements and overall project scope.

·       Ensure visual communication and brand standards are met both internally and externally.

·       Oversee deliverables, timelines and budgets and communicate effectively with internal stakeholders.

·       Foster a spirit of teamwork and dedication toward excellence within the Creative Services Department and with other internal and external customers.

·       Inspire and encourage fresh, innovative ideas and solutions working with creative, industrial design and prototype teams. Strive for creative excellence and exceeding customer expectations and objectives.

·       Support the marketing department and their efforts in the development of effective marketing concepts, corporate identity pieces and any other additional presentation support materials needed.

·       Review work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to creative teams.

.  Manage and cultivate the career development of the creative services team.

Qualifications

• Proven 5 + years’ experience as a creative director or in a similar senior creative/design role in a visual communication printing organization or agency supporting the retail and c-store industries.
• 3-D graphic design expertise understanding and adhering to client brand standards and expectations.
• Strong understanding of industry trends and creative tools.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, problem-solving and project management skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc., SketchFab, Form-Z

Yunker Industries, Inc.

Alchemy Worx is an award-winning, audience management agency specializing in email, SMS, and paid social marketing for clients ranging from the Fortune 500 to local market players. The agency offers advanced marketing services, utilizing both time-tested and emerging methods and technologies to secure a higher rate of customer engagement and retention.

We are seeking a Creative Director for a role that combines design expertise, creativity, and thought leadership with business, operational, and leadership abilities. This is a leader who can inspire in-person, remote, and offshore teams to efficiently deliver the right creative solutions to our clients every day. The goal is to define and advance a positive and highly productive design culture, regardless of where the team sits, with a focus on email and SMS channels.

This position is based in NYC.

What You’ll Do:

• Create a team culture amongst designers and copywriters across both US and offshore teams to efficiently create high performing and engaging creative for clients.
• Provide direction, support and growth opportunities based on strategic thinking and relationship building with account team and clients
• Create opportunities for open dialog and creative critiques in a fast-paced environment
• Execute stand-out creative across email and SMS for our impressive roster of clients
• Investigate, propose, and implement innovative ways of delivering design services to create a balance between creativity and efficiency/productivity
• Stay on top of current events and cultural trends as well as design and creative trends
• Pitch new business alongside strategists, account managers, and business development team members

Requirements:

• 10 years experience, with a focus on driving results through email and SMS creative
• 3+ years experience managing and leading a creative team of designers, copywriters, etc.
• Experience guiding and mentoring remote teams both onshore and offshore
• Experience in CPG, Retail, or Beauty a plus (not required)
• Must have hands-on skills as a graphic designer or copywriter
• Ability to successfully organize, prioritize and manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment
• Expert knowledge in Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite + Figma
• NYC-based, in-office 3+ days per week

Benefits:

• Salary range: $150,000 – $165,000
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Fully covered medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401k with company match

Alchemy Worx is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience. One that reflects the world we live in today. We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes people regardless of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, physical or mental disability, genetic information or military and veteran status.

Alchemy Worx

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%