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Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we’ve been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our app is now downloaded more than 75M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in over 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we’ve been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now, we’re rolling out a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Ad Producer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be a foundational member of an in-house ad creative team and help grow and shape the ad production discipline within the User Acquisition team. You’ll apply your creativity and leadership skills to manage the development and production of DuckDuckGo ads across our multi-channel portfolio, including TV, online video, radio, billboard, and more.

Partnering closely with internal and external creatives, you’ll distill campaign ideas into ads that speak to specific audiences and serve as the single point of contact for production companies, directors, business affairs consultants, and contractors.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• 7+ years of experience pioneering the development of ad campaigns and driving large-scale productions.
• Experience producing video content for TV and major digital video platforms (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.).
• Experience working with in-house legal and business development teams to negotiate favorable contract terms with external agencies, consultants, vendors, and third parties.
• Interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships between internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for hands-on, creative collaboration and experience in managing in-house ad creative development.
• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.

How We Will Support You

Our core values — build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction — underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We’ve always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.
• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. For team members in designated leadership roles, we offer reimbursement for leadership coaching services. The reimbursement amount varies by professional level. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
• Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide† , which explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work††.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $170,000 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it’s a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire†††.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that:

• Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/team_support_guide.pdf

†† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_work.pdf

††† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf

DuckDuckGo

Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we’ve been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our app is now downloaded more than 75M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in over 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we’ve been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now, we’re rolling out a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Ad Producer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be a foundational member of an in-house ad creative team and help grow and shape the ad production discipline within the User Acquisition team. You’ll apply your creativity and leadership skills to manage the development and production of DuckDuckGo ads across our multi-channel portfolio, including TV, online video, radio, billboard, and more.

Partnering closely with internal and external creatives, you’ll distill campaign ideas into ads that speak to specific audiences and serve as the single point of contact for production companies, directors, business affairs consultants, and contractors.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• 7+ years of experience pioneering the development of ad campaigns and driving large-scale productions.
• Experience producing video content for TV and major digital video platforms (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.).
• Experience working with in-house legal and business development teams to negotiate favorable contract terms with external agencies, consultants, vendors, and third parties.
• Interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships between internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for hands-on, creative collaboration and experience in managing in-house ad creative development.
• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.

How We Will Support You

Our core values — build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction — underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We’ve always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.
• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. For team members in designated leadership roles, we offer reimbursement for leadership coaching services. The reimbursement amount varies by professional level. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
• Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide† , which explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work††.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $170,000 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it’s a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire†††.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that:

• Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/team_support_guide.pdf

†† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_work.pdf

††† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf

DuckDuckGo

Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we’ve been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our app is now downloaded more than 75M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in over 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we’ve been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now, we’re rolling out a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Ad Producer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be a foundational member of an in-house ad creative team and help grow and shape the ad production discipline within the User Acquisition team. You’ll apply your creativity and leadership skills to manage the development and production of DuckDuckGo ads across our multi-channel portfolio, including TV, online video, radio, billboard, and more.

Partnering closely with internal and external creatives, you’ll distill campaign ideas into ads that speak to specific audiences and serve as the single point of contact for production companies, directors, business affairs consultants, and contractors.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• 7+ years of experience pioneering the development of ad campaigns and driving large-scale productions.
• Experience producing video content for TV and major digital video platforms (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.).
• Experience working with in-house legal and business development teams to negotiate favorable contract terms with external agencies, consultants, vendors, and third parties.
• Interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships between internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for hands-on, creative collaboration and experience in managing in-house ad creative development.
• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.

How We Will Support You

Our core values — build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction — underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We’ve always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.
• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. For team members in designated leadership roles, we offer reimbursement for leadership coaching services. The reimbursement amount varies by professional level. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
• Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide† , which explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work††.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $170,000 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it’s a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire†††.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that:

• Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/team_support_guide.pdf

†† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_work.pdf

††† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf

DuckDuckGo

Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we’ve been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our app is now downloaded more than 75M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in over 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we’ve been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now, we’re rolling out a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Ad Producer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be a foundational member of an in-house ad creative team and help grow and shape the ad production discipline within the User Acquisition team. You’ll apply your creativity and leadership skills to manage the development and production of DuckDuckGo ads across our multi-channel portfolio, including TV, online video, radio, billboard, and more.

Partnering closely with internal and external creatives, you’ll distill campaign ideas into ads that speak to specific audiences and serve as the single point of contact for production companies, directors, business affairs consultants, and contractors.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• 7+ years of experience pioneering the development of ad campaigns and driving large-scale productions.
• Experience producing video content for TV and major digital video platforms (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.).
• Experience working with in-house legal and business development teams to negotiate favorable contract terms with external agencies, consultants, vendors, and third parties.
• Interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships between internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for hands-on, creative collaboration and experience in managing in-house ad creative development.
• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.

How We Will Support You

Our core values — build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction — underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We’ve always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.
• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. For team members in designated leadership roles, we offer reimbursement for leadership coaching services. The reimbursement amount varies by professional level. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
• Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide† , which explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work††.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $170,000 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it’s a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire†††.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that:

• Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/team_support_guide.pdf

†† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_work.pdf

††† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf

DuckDuckGo

We are looking for a Senior Art Director to work as a team with our senior copywriter to produce top-notch advertising concepts. This is a conceptual role, working with our senior creative team as the visual creative lead in the concept creation process. We are looking for someone with clear experience and ability in bringing original thinking to creating campaign and advertising concepts, preferably in B2B and / or technology. (Please note – We are not looking for a senior graphic or motion designer).

At Ledger Bennett, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. We’re looking for commercially driven strategic marketers, sales professionals, and data scientists to help build the most advanced revenue services business in the world. If you think you could make a bigger impact on your client’s revenue than your current job allows, then join us to help change the way the world delivers revenue.

Activities will include:

• Creating the ‘Big Idea’ for campaigns working with an ACD.
• Bring original thinking to ideation, ensuring concepts can be executed to the highest standard across all media and campaigns.
• Inspiring and motivating the agency’s clients to be creatively progressive, through the application of fresh and inventive visual work.
• Reviewing the work of creatives and providing direction and feedback.
• Ability to create the visual elements and concepts for new business pitches.
• Uncovering new ways to incorporate emerging and new media formats into campaigns.
• Helping establish the agency proposition around ‘Forever Customer’.

Skills required:

• Ability to generate a reliable supply of original ideas and visual concepts.
• The confidence to explain and support your thinking, both internally and externally.
• A flexible approach and willingness to adapt your ideas to the needs of clients.
• A passion for advertising and what’s next.
• A keen eye for visual details and accuracy and signing off creative work.
• Resilience to perform under pressure and deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines.
• Good level IT skills in Adobe Cloud and the design packages.
• Good awareness of digital media and evolving online platforms.

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. Discover more about who we are and our benefits here: https://www.ledgerbennett.com/careers/

Ledger Bennett is an equal opportunity employer with diversity and engagement being the core of our beliefs.

Ledger Bennett

You’re already a high achieving Senior AM or AD with great experience in Sports, Entertainment or Lifestyle PR & Comms. Our client is a Global creative comms agency working at the nexus of sports, entertainment, lifestyle and culture, they’re expanding their client roster and are looking for an Account Director to contribute to strategy and deliver great PR & Communications campaigns for a major global gaming and eSports client. If you’re energetic SAM or AD with experience in PR & Comms in sports, entertainment or lifestyle and looking to progress your career at an agency that empowers its people through autonomy then this role could be the one for you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering best in class strategic and creative planning for a major global brand
• Delivering world class global multi-channel campaigns leveraging influencers and culture
• Contributing to the creation of world class toolkits and guidelines
• Delivering the best in critical path planning, budgeting, client and team management
• Writing the most creative and engaging copy of your career so far
• Setting new standards in campaign management and delivery
• Making reporting and evaluation as simple and easy as possible
• Managing and developing junior team members
• Contributing to a fully inclusive culture that actually values diversity

Who you are:

• An experienced Sports PR & Comms Senior AM or AD with exposure to strategy development fully able to deliver great campaigns
• Experienced in creative and content strategy with a focus on Gen Z audiences
• Experienced in sourcing and managing sports and entertainment talent and influencers
• Someone with strong knowledge of digital channels and experience of the various social media platforms
• Experienced in building global comms or marketing toolkits for major brands
• Not necessarily a hard-core gamer but someone well tapped into the intersection sports, fashion and culture
• Above all someone who has a growth mindset, doesn’t need micromanaging and is willing and able to contribute to a positive and inclusive agency culture

What You’ll get:

• The opportunity to do your best work ever for some of the world’s most iconic brands across all areas of sport and entertainment
• The opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in sports and entertainment marcoms
• The chance to work with a global agency of 750 plus people that still retains a scale-up mentality
• Work somewhere where the MD is actually delivering on diversity & inclusion
• A base salary up to £55K DoE, plus hybrid working.
• Some international travel and so many other benefits that there simply isn’t the room on here to mention…

f1 Recruitment Limited

Working in part of a global integrated agency you will be an established Account Director, you will be an ambitious and proactive manager with a wealth of knowledge of the AV marketplace, built up through several years working within an agency setting. You will have already developed strong relations with media owners, will collaborate effectively within a team and build solid relationships across the wider agency.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the continued development and professional growth of the talented AV team
• Develop and cultivate relationships with clients in a manner that generates opportunities for both the client and agency
• Take a lead role in developing AV strategy for key clients and across the AV department as a whole
• Contribute significantly to new business pitches, including presenting as part of the pitch team
• Lead the AV planning and buying of key client AV accounts with annual budgets in eight-figures
• Undertake rate negotiations and act as a point of escalation for the team in resolving issues
• Monitor department reconciliation positions and report back to Head of AV/Managing Director

Key requirements

• Demonstrate experience of developing individuals within a team
• Highly experienced using AV planning, buying and reporting tools, including TechEdge, DDS, attribution software
• Exceptional administration skills
• Concern for and a superb attention to detail
• An ability to identify key insights from AV campaigns and develop client strategies around them
• Ability to work to multiple deadlines, across multiple clients and under pressure
• Ability to prioritise workloads and support the team to manage theirs
• The ability to confidently communicate with senior clients and media owners on a daily basis
• Minimum of 5 year’s industry experience – preferably within a media agency
• A proactive and positive “can do” attitude, always ready to go above and beyond to deliver exceptional quality and service

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, they are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all their people. This includes benefits such as 28 days holiday, plus the opportunity to buy more holiday, enhanced pension contributions, life assurance and much more.

A culture of learning and development is also central to the ethos, so you’ll have access to industry leading training and development programmes, plus you’ll get to work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.

Most importantly, you’ll be part of a fun and collaborative team and you’ll work in an environment where you are supported and developed.

If you want to join an iconic network agency that offers you the chance to work on one of the top clients in our portfolio & the opportunity to progress your career with an unrivalled development programme, contact us now.

Ashley James Technology

A vibrant, dynamic, and successful entertainment business is looking for an experienced CRM Manager to lead customer engagement and experience and drive customer growth.

You will create a CRM strategy working closely with internal teams that is highly personalised and with real-time decisioning.

You will be hands-on and define, manage, and report on CRM objectives, tracking customer acquisition, conversion, retention, and lifetime value.

Experience in managing and segmenting customer data and creating meaningful, compelling customer journeys and experiences.

You will have experience in managing large-scale and complex CRM activity across the full marketing mix.

You will also manage, mentor, and guide a junior CRM executive.

If you have a passion for film, and entertainment and looking for a challenge then this is the role for you.

This role is office based for 4 days a week (SW London) with a day at home. Fantastic office and benefits on offer.

Direct Recruitment

Interim Finance Director | High-Growth Live Entertainment Company | Temp-to-Perm

Harmonic are delighted to be working with one of the UK’s most renowned live entertainment businesses. The company operate predominantly in the Entertainment event space and have begun to expand their operational internationally, putting on shows in Europe and Asia. As the Interim Finance Director, your role will be integral to the short-term financial wellbeing of the organisation as well as road-mapping and commercial support for the expansion, should the contract go temp-to-perm.

The business currently has a turnover of in excess of £15 million, which has bounced back incredibly quickly since the Covid pandemic and has recently been subject to a £4million fundraise. They organise around 10 events and festivals, predominantly in the UK, but have begun to already have an international foothold. The company is well-known for having an inclusive working environment, with a sociable and fun-loving team. Our client requires an experienced Finance Director who can hit the ground running and begin this role by the end of January.

The Role

Starting initially with a 3-month contract, there is a high chance this will develop into a permanent position as the business looks to expand its sphere of influence in the live entertainment market across the globe. Reporting directly into the Business Directors, this role also comes with management responsibilities, leading the other two members of their finance department.

Your responsibilities will include overarching responsibility of the finance function, ensuring that a high level of financial control is established and maintained. As well as the general accounting duties, such as reviewing month-end and leading the annual audit, this position will be highly commercial acting as a business partner to various departmental leads as well as running the budgeting and forecasting process. The Directors are looking for a Finance Director who is commercially astute enough to play a significant role in setting the commercial and financial strategy of the business alongside the Directors.

Duties

• Overall responsibility of the Finance function
• Working closely with the Directors to produce the commercial and financial strategy
• Responsibility for the production of budget and forecast
• Preparation of annual accounts
• Acting as a finance business partners to various departments including commercial, marketing, and senior leadership teams
• Analysing profitability of various projects
• Supervising and reviewing Management Accounts
• Manage and mentor the more junior members of the finance team

Required Experience

• ACCA/CIMA/ACA Qualified
• Experience in the Events/Festivals/Entertainment/Hospitality/Music sector
• Experience working in consumer and supplier facing businesses.
• High level of written and verbal communication skills
• Strong personal interest in live music and events!

Day Rate: £550-£650/day (Inside IR35)

Start Date: 30th January

Location: London

If this is something of interest, please get in touch at [email protected] or please apply online.

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Creative Director / Senior Art Director (Part time 3 days a week)

SEEN Group Values:

• Creativity

• Inclusivity

• Positivity

• Excellence

The Opportunity

This role is at the heart of the SEEN Works division working closely with our Divisional Director, Associate Beauty Director and design team to lead creative direction across our brands. You will partner with our Clients and team to provide the best creative and strategic solutions across our roster of world class Beauty Brands to originate ideas so inspiring they elevate perceptions of Beauty.

Your role will be fully integrated working across all internal teams to lead the development and delivery of creative content and experiences across all channels.

This is an opportunity to work across some of the world’s strongest Beauty brands so you will need to be an ambitious and commercially minded Creative Director.

The work you do will place us ahead of our competition and encourage our internal teams and clients to boldly pursue innovative ideas that translate into outstanding creative and experiences consumers will remember.

The role

• You will be working to set the creative vision and aesthetic agenda for our clients – both at a brand and campaign level.
• You will work collaboratively to translate strategy and insight into stand out creative concepts which transcend multiple channels.
• You will work across SEEN Group to deliver excellent creative solutions to meet client needs, in partnership with strategy, client services, production and other internal teams
• You will work with our clients and wider SEEN Group teams to understand the real business problems to solve with creative and cut through solutions.
• You will present and articulate visions, strategies and technologies to clients from marketing executives to Board level
• You will establish your own relationships with key clients. Actively work to unlock briefs from new and existing clients
• You will be responsible for developing creative solutions on communication, planning and pitches across brands and teams
• You are always thinking ahead, aligning your creative vision to the structure, vision and future of the business
• You will be responsible for design direction and lead vision / innovation workshop activities
• You will be responsible for Inspiring and leading the creative vision across Direct Reports and all SEEN Group team.
• You will be responsible for contributing to creative direction on new business pitches. Driving the process from start to finish, ensuring that we deliver first class creative work.
• Being a leader and advocate of the group creative process – ensuring the process is used efficiently and improved where there are challenges.
• To help grow the agency’s reputation and strive to develop work that wins awards and is stand out in Beauty.
• Leading multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines
• Evaluating and, if necessary, altering, the content of projects before completion

To succeed in this role you will demonstrate the following:

• Experience from within an integrated creative agency, ideally involved with Beauty accounts
• Experienced as a media-agnostic creative
• An innovative thinker who is always looking to challenge the work produced to ensure it is of exceptional quality
• Gravitas, a sharp thinker who is big picture savvy
• Instinctive problem solver with a love of complex problems and elegant solutions
• Confident, articulate and persuasive; someone who enjoys sharing and developing ideas.
• A confident and persuasive visual thinker, a skilled crafter and deliverer of presentations
• Highly collaborative and adaptive to working with all disciplines within the agency
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to push back on clients where appropriate

To learn more about SEEN Group visit seengroup.com* or follow us on Instagram *@seen_group

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday per year, plus additional days off at Christmas and New Year
• Monthly gym membership
• Hybrid Working – 2 office days a week
• 3 Wellness Days
• Mental health support – including chat and video therapy
• Pension contribution
• Private healthcare
• Enhanced family leave package

SEEN Group