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Who are we?

The Soze Agency is a social impact creative agency. Guided by three core values — compassion, authenticity, and equity — we launch campaigns, build brands, create content, produce immersive experiences, and support movements, all through storytelling that’s grounded in culture and cultivates the conditions for a better world.

About this role

The Creative Design Team at Soze integrates social impact strategy to communicate stories through creative visuals and design that can come to life through an array of mediums and experiences. We are hiring a well-rounded Art Director to join our team of storytellers, entrepreneurs, strategists, optimists and creatives. Our ideal candidate is an interdisciplinary designer who has training and experience as a graphic designer yet can share meaningful art direction and creative feedback for our team on various storytelling outputs from digital content to IRL  experiences.

We’re looking for candidates who are:

• Design thinking. You use design to make sense of the world, and understand how it is an effective means to communicate and envision it as a place where we all can belong and thrive.
• Interdisciplinary in practice. You have experience creating graphics for different mediums, including experiential; presentation design, environmental graphics, signage, and branding for the digital and physical worlds. You might also love photography or have wet your feet in UX/UI design or motion graphics. 
• Inherently curious. You love thinking as much as making. You have a strong appetite for learning and discovery. You have a diverse set of references that you draw to find inspiration whether it is post-war Sainsbury’s Design Studio to Wangechi Mutu — that supports the team in ideation to develop grounded design concepts.
• Proactive & solutions-oriented. You push to understand and identify the real problem hiding behind the perceived one. You see the challenges you encounter as opportunities to provide innovative solutions that create positive change. 
• Skillful collaborators. From building relationships across multiple teams to navigating varied personalities, you’re eager to work with others to solve problems, brainstorm together, support each other, and push for great ideas. 

Responsibilities

Art Directors are expected to be designers while also being conceptual thinkers, problem solvers, and storytellers who work across integrated teams and multiple projects—internal and external. 

• Provide end to end art direction and execution for branding, events, experiential and exhibit design, 360 campaigns, social, editorial, video and photo shoots
• Collaborate with a team to develop strategy and design for internal and external projects
• Production and execution of a broad array of visual communication, content and experiential pieces
• Collaborate with a team of creative designers & strategists, architects and production artists and working in close collaboration with other CSM teams (business development, accounts, partnerships, PR/communications and digital) as appropriate

Experience 

• 3-5 years of design experience ideally in a creative agency, design studio or similar environment. 
• Strong and rapid visual design skills, whether hand sketching, mock-ups, 2D or 3D renders
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, with emphasis on InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Advanced knowledge of presentation software including Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides
• Strong graphic/typography skills and a keen eye for exceptional aesthetic executions
• Strong comfort level researching mediums in which you may never have worked (video, interactive technology, social media, emerging technologies, etc) so as to grant flawless execution 
• Experience in conceptual content development and video editing; at a minimum, strong skills storyboarding and collaborating with photographers, videographers, directors and/or content teams. 
• Strong understanding of how to translate the client’s objectives into creative solutions.
• Oversee installations on site as needed, ability to travel for projects
• Strong organizational abilities, including time management and attention to detail. 
• Proven and tested ability to juggle multiple projects, navigate various working styles, and maintain an optimistic, solutions-oriented attitude through it all.
• Proficiency in utilizing Google Workplace, Asana and other project management systems, and understanding how they integrate with creative workflows
• Oversee installations on site as needed, ability to travel for projects
• Plusses: Experience with FIGMA, AdobeXD or other product prototyping software; comfort with collaborating with and directing digital teams
• Knowledge of After Effects and motion graphics big plus

Salary + Benefits

• Salary band for this role is $86,000 to $99,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.
• 100% paid medical, dental + vision benefits
• 401k plan with 50% employer matching 
• Unlimited vacation after one year of tenure, allowances for gym membership, cell phone, and personal development stipend
• The Soze Agency is a worker-owned cooperative. Full-time employees are eligible to become co-owners after two years of consecutive full-time employment. Benefits to co-ownership will be discussed during the hiring process.

The Soze Agency

Are you part creative visionary and part technical wizard — developing and maintaining unique, strong, cohesive visual brands while pushing the boundaries of what is possible with today’s creative software and coming up with new ways to bring concepts to life?

Do you have big ideas, an open mind and an interest in residential real estate? Do you love to learn, grow and be challenged, but can also remain calm under pressure? Would you describe yourself as driven, yet humble? 

If so, you could be NDG’s next Art Director. 

And in addition to joining our talented and dynamic team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the nation’s leading home builders and developers. 

At NDG, we believe that home buyers need a trusted guide to truly help them navigate their new home search, which is often stressful and crowded with choices, competition and noise. So we innovate effective marketing strategies that challenge our clients — and ourselves — to better serve today’s home buyer, as their guide, because helping people find their dream home means we are helping them improve their life.

Working remotely, you’ll conceive new brands from scratch and create stunning campaigns that draw an emotional connection with the intended audience. Alongside the Creative Director, Designers, Copywriters and the entire agency team, your role is to deliver top-notch creative while meeting deadlines and ensure everything we create for our clients meets their lofty standards and our own — which are even higher.

If you understand the power of branding, visual storytelling and lead generation — as well as being part of a service-minded team that never settles for average — this could be the place for you.

Let’s talk.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Creative Leadership:

• Monitoring the quality of finished artwork and conceptual materials produced by the creative team
• Engaging in any personal development necessary to stay current in advertising techniques and standards, and researching activity required to become more familiar with clients’ businesses
• Participating in client presentations and pitches

Creative Execution:

• Providing high-level creative concepts and graphic design to projects while overseeing brands to ensure consistency and cohesion — including specification of type style/font, color, photography, illustration and paper stock; inspecting and approving vendor pre-press and press proofs
• Delivering a variety of products for our clients including logo design, print advertising, signage and environmental branding, digital advertising, social media, website and landing page design, presentations and marketing and branding strategies
• Meeting established deadlines or providing reasonable notice to the production department of special circumstances requiring deadline extension

Mentorship:

• Consulting with the Creative Director, as well as other art directors, graphic designers, copywriters, marketing managers and more to ensure agency objectives are met
• Supports and mentors Production Artist, Junior Graphic Designer and Graphic Designer
• Encouraging the professional development of department staff, including researching and mentoring the team on any new tools or software 

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience / Skills:

• 6+ years designer role, including past agency experience
• Tested and proven concepting, visualization and communication skills along with a solid portfolio of published marketing, advertising and digital work 
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, proficient in G-Suite and/or Microsoft applications and comfortable with the Mac OS

Key Characteristics:

• A passion for creating diverse brand experiences and unique campaigns
• Attention to detail and strong time management skills in a fast-paced business environment
• Desire to continually learn more about the craft, the business and the industries we serve

BENEFITS

Compensation / Leave:

• Competitive annual salary based on skills and experience 
• Excellent health care benefits including dental, vision, etc.
• 401K retirement plan with company matching contributions

Culture / Perks: 

• Professional development planning, coaching and mentoring program for every team member
• Team retreats and industry awards events
• Remote work

NDG

CookUnity is the first chef-to-you marketplace connecting the country’s most talented chefs with eaters (consumers). We’re changing meal delivery by bringing small-batch, restaurant-quality meals to eaters across the country. Every week, a diverse collective of all-star chefs craft their signature, ready-to-eat dishes for an elevated at-home dining experience.

CookUnity is home to more than 100 of NYC, LA, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle and Miami’s most inspired and innovative chefs. Through a weekly subscription, eaters can select from a diverse, ever-changing menu of hundreds of hand-crafted meals. Our chefs create dishes that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences, so the best part of dining out can be enjoyed by everyone.

Delivering more than 1M meals per month and growing 3x YoY, CookUnity is also helping improve the livelihood of working chefs, tripling their income, enabling the growth of their own teams and personal brands. And believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity partners with Food Bank For New York City, the city’s major hunger-relief organization, working to end food insecurity across all five boroughs.

What we are looking for

The Creative Team is central figure in CookUnity’s Brand Marketing organization. This team leads the company’s creative and content vision, strategy and execution.

Its primary function is to drive the development of the brand’s aesthetic and voice through the strategic implementation of content. Their mandate includes production and management of creative and art direction, copy, design and filmmaking, and also leading the discovery and evolution of the emotional connection with the eater.

Success isn’t simply creating world-class brand experiences for the brand, it’s also being the team’s vanguard for cultural relevance.

The Creative Team plays an integral role in connecting the rest of the marketing team and the company to its brand expressions and experiences. And in turn, the other arms of Marketing and Product feed Creative the insights, customer data and performance data to build solid briefs and powerful brand interactions.

The Role

The Creative Director is a visionary, a discerning point of view and a shepherd, all in one. Success begins with a strategic eye, an ordered attention to detail and a graceful but firm guiding hand. The primary mandate is to manage a “studio” that not only produces an incredible volume of content and creative work from internal makers and external agencies, but also to deliver an excellent final product. This team collaborates with the rest of the Brand team to position CookUnity as the primary destination for the best food in America and with the Growth team to generate powerful creative assets that can perform efficiently in all paid channels.

This right candidate will be a master of managing multiple types of contributors and creators—a digital first view of design, video, copy, podcasts, editorial, etc. across all brand touch-points. And with the unique ability to influence people—agencies, vendors, cross-functional teams and executives.

Reporting directly to the VP of Brand Marketing, this role is a key player in the organization and collaborate closely with Campaign, Portfolio, Growth Marketing, CX and work cross-functionally with Product, Tech and Design.

Responsibilities

• The Creative Director will lead the marketing vision for our brand expression
• Provide the Growth marketing team all the creative assets they need to unlock great performance in paid channels at scale.
• Lead and inspire the Creative Team of designers, art directors, copywriters and motion designers—in-house and freelance
• Lead 3 creative pods, each including designers, writers and the support of producers and freelance editors and production:
• Performance Creative Studio—growth marketing advertising creative with a high iteration cycle to accelerate ad performance and improve brand experience
• Campaign Creative—from direct response all the way to 360 brand campaigns across all types of digital and traditional media
• Brand Creative—as that we just launched an internally-built, company-wide brand reimagining, this team is continuing to imagine the future of the evergreen brand assets design, positioning, brand strategy, product experience, brand voice + identity
• Lead + own key Creative’s initiatives from kickoff to completion—most notably the physical brand experience.
• Run cross-departmental discovery, overseeing shoots and production, hands-on in design execution for print and digital, addressing feedback from stakeholders, etc.
• Conceptualize and execute message and designs for marketing campaigns across digital and print
• Be a go-to resource for the heads of Campaign, Growth and Product

Qualifications

• 10 + years of relevant experience ideally within an in-house creative team
• Must have a background in art direction and hands-on skills as a graphic designer or copywriter
• Experience working for a DTC or subscription brand is ideal
• Experience in advertising / creating impactful 360 marketing campaigns
• Experience working with Marketing teams and understanding business metrics
• Experience managing and leading a creative team of designers, copywriters, etc
• Working closely with producers, project managers and production partners to create campaigns within budget
• Ability to successfully organize, prioritize and manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment
• Experienced concept developer and strong in directing photo and video shoots
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to mentor and grow an in-house team
• Expert knowledge in Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite + Figma
• Great wit is a must

Compensation

• All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data
• Pay Range: $150,000 – $175,000 per year

Benefits

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If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we’ll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

CookUnity

Duties:

• Booking jobs/travel
• Curating portfolios
• Cultivating new clientele and overseeing all general inquiries for the artists.
• Procuring suitable new artists is required of this position as well
• As maintaining open communication between artists, clients and agency.
• Mentor and manage Junior Agents and Coordinators on outreach, strategy and negotiation, as well as problem-solve within the office.
• Diagnose and resolve problems within and among work groups. (According to top management directives) and when applicable, recommend changes.
• Communicating new jobs for artist and establishing if appropriate for them to be working on.
• Booking/overseeing travel for artists.
• Pitching and developing relationships with new clients for artist.
• Stay up to date with current events and pop culture (celebrities, fashion, movies, music, art, Photography, etc).
• Networking with publicists, publicists, assistants, producers, photographers, etc. Attending events
• Maintaining professional relationship with your artists.

SBH Fashion

Welcome to a better way, an authentic way. Welcome to Nature’s Way.

Inside our minds, inside our hearts, inside our business, inside our bottles.

Our reason for being, the purpose that inspires our work every day, is quite simple: Help people live healthy lives.

When we help people live healthy lives, we build a happier, healthier world for everyone.

How we go about our work drives TRUST in who we are, what we do, and the products we produce. That means something important to the world, and it means the world to us.

People TRUST

• Our products to be the gold standard
• Our words to be true
• Our claims to be honest,
• Our actions to have integrity.

Together we work with an awareness of how even small actions affect others, an attitude of kindness and concern for each other, and a drive for action that helps people live healthy lives.

It’s the best way. The right way. The only way. Nature’s Way.

Be a part of helping people live healthy lives as our new Creative Manager/Art Director.

This key role on the Nature’s Way Marketing Brand Equity team will be responsible for inspiring and managing the creative team as well as delivering engaging and effective work to help grow the Nature’s Way brand. The ideal candidate will have a background in art direction and able to take on projects with an eye towards delivering strong creative for any touch point. The equivalent agency level would be a senior art director or associate creative director that is accustomed to a “player/coach” type role and is looking to grow their leadership abilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides guidance and delivers work that elevates the creative expression of the brand and ensures a consistent voice and visual identity
• Oversees both conceptual and executional development of copy and design that supports our overall business objectives and marketing plans
• Regularly takes on development and execution of creative projects
• This includes all forms of content including social, digital, videos, in-store materials, and internal needs
• Partners with cross-functional teams to determines creative strategy for a variety of channels including eComm, website, and in-store
• Engages with agency partners to enhance campaign strategies, reinforce brand guidelines, and shepherd executional deliverables
• Creates a cohesive team by promoting collaboration, mutual trust, and opportunities for development.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position does have supervisory responsibilities.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Required: Undergraduate college degree in marketing, design, art, or a related field. Strong knowledge of and experience in digital innovation, digital design, creative direction, and creative development. An exemplary portfolio of digital creative across platforms including social and email. DTC and Ecommerce experience a plus. Demonstrated strong business judgment and decision-making skills. Excellent management skills, with the ability to delegate and manage multiple priorities and execute high impact initiatives. The ideal candidate is collaborative, scrappy, and willing to roll up their sleeves and has a track record of producing content that totally delight consumers.

CREATIVE TOOL SKILLS

Proficient with Adobe Creative Cloud – XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite – PowerPoint, Excel (general spreadsheet navigation), and Outlook. Understanding of HTML5, Adobe Marketing Cloud, Sketch, and Canva helpful.

As a Nature’s Way employee, you’ll enjoy a wide variety of benefits that offer the support you need to truly live what you believe.

All benefits are effective on day 1 of employment.

Medical Option to select either a PPO plan or one of 2 high – deductible medical plans that includes a company contribution to your personal health savings bank account.

Dental Delta Dental PPO & an option to select an enhanced dental plan.

Vision Routine preventative coverage under medical plan and an option to elect additional voluntary coverage

Time Off All employees receive 11 holidays off per year, as well as paid time off that starts at a minimum of two weeks per year.

401K Plan Company match of up to 4% as long as employees contribute a minimum of 6% to the account. An additional profit-sharing contribution is also made to employee accounts if the company meets its annual targets.

You’ll also enjoy a variety of other benefits that support your long-term health and wellness:

• Company provided short-term & long-term disability
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary critical illness & accident coverage
• New parent phase-in program & paternity leave
• Educational assistance reimbursement
• Product discounts & a wellness program

Start Helping People live Healthy lives today!

Nature’s Way

ZoomerMedia Limited is a growing public company in the media space. We are a dynamic and creative organization, where employees have the opportunity to be a part of a truly innovate brand of media development and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate interesting, original and current show ideas and angles
• Track down and confirm high-profile and expert guests for on-air interviews
• Prepare draft scripts and questions for use by on-air hosts
• Design and produce shows, including oversight of graphics, editing video footage to help illustrate coverage, and written intros
• Manage resources to ensure delivery of succinct, dynamic programming
• Assist with shooting of items
• Fact check stories
• Other related duties as required

Qualifications:

•  At least 3 years of experience managing a daily or weekly television news production within tight deadlines
•  A diploma/degree in television broadcasting
•  Proficient in Final Cut Pro X with the ability to assembly edit
•  Experience creating and managing television show budgets
•  Experience researching current affairs programs
•  Experience chase producing
•  In-depth knowledge of domestic and international news and current affairs
•  Deep understanding of national politics, business, foreign affairs, as well as a broader interest in boomer-related issues, science and technology, entertainment and culture, health and wellness, sports, and other topics that arise in the daily course of events.
•  Able to take a story from idea stage into a fully produced segment
• Demonstrates ability to originate coverage of developing stories with speed, accuracy, and proven journalistic attributes
•  The ability to work with minimum supervision and be extremely detail oriented 
•  A positive attitude and willingness to work in a team environment
•  Highly motivated self-starter; thrive under pressure
•  Excellent writing, research and fact checking skills
•  Excellent organizational and communication skills
•  Reporting experience and fluency in all social media platforms

Application Process: If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit your resume through LInkedIn or to [email protected] (clearly identifying Associate Producer position in the subject line). 

ZoomerMedia Limited

Parents!! Location: Bostwick, GA
Seeking Teens 13-17 and Kids 9-12. Children Under 18 must be certified by the Department of labor!

Patriots Day Scene: 1900s era
Filming Date: (TUES, MAY 30th)
Must be ok with FIREWORKS

1930’s ERA
Caucasian Males & Females
Date: Tues, MAY 30th (Possible wrap day)
This date is subject to change by production
Location: Bostwick, Ga
GAS BUMP: (TBD)

• (10) Caucasian Kids/Teens Males & Females

Evening to LATE NIGHT shoot

AGES: 9-17 

Filming Date: MAY 30th
Filming Location: BOSTWICK, GA area
Kids Rate: $154/12

Must be ok with FIREWORKS

Covid test date/LOCATION: TBD
Kids Covid test: $50
Fitting Date: TBD
Parent/Guardian test $50.00

NO COLORED HAIR OR BLEACHED HAIR

NEW FEATURE FILM “CONRAD” STARRING WILL SMITH!
CASTING MALE PRISONERS

Project: CONRAD

Dates: Costume Fitting Thurs 3/30, Filming Mon April 10

Location: Atlanta, GA

Rate: $140/12 (filming), $35.5 (fitting)

NOW CASTING:

• Men
• 18+ who portray HISPANIC or Caucasian to play Prisoners.
• Must have short hair (bald works too!) or be willing to receive a haircut at your fitting ($15 bump). 

Casting: WYNDHAM HOTELS

• M 20-30
• F30-40
• ANY ETHNICITY
• RATE: $3500
• WORKS ORLANDO
• MARCH 27TH

MAKE UP ARTISTS NEEDED

– PAID OPPORTUNITY

– MOUNT VERNON, NY

– MARCH 26TH

MAKEUP ARTIST WILL DO 3 MODELS

2 PM-5 PM