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Our client, a notable food company, is looking for a contract Art Director to join their team.

6 month contract

Hybrid in Irvine – potential for remote candidates

$35/hour

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR

Craft and curate the visual identity & creative direction of the brand, collaborating with all levels of the design team.

Responsibilities:

· Strong presentation skills, both internally and externally. Selling in creative ideas and the strategic rationale behind them with enthusiasm

· Understanding and appreciation of the importance of strategy and can create compelling, creative solutions

· Mentor and coach art directors and designers by providing inspiration and direction

· Implementing process to make sure deadlines are met on each project

· Ensures projects adhere to the approved brand and messaging guidelines to maintain our Brand Codes

· ​​Effectively improve processes and look for efficiencies

· Schedule and/or work with PM’s to create check-in’s and priorities with design team and copywriter

· Ability to carry branding seamlessly across multiple channels

· Ability to take industry experience and apply it towards better processes and creative output

· Think holistically about each project across all categories of the business

Qualifications:

· 7+ years of experience at agency/in-house concepting and art directing ideas for brand and product

· Strong digital and web design experience

· Photography, Motion graphics, animation, video skills a plus

· Strong Design and Branding Experience

· Ability to carry branding seamlessly across multiple channels

· Must stay current with skill sets and have a mastery of the Adobe design applications along with sketch and comping skills

The Day-to-Day

· Design, articulate and present visual direction to partners. Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to articulate conceptual creative

· Able to make strategic decisions based on marketing objectives

· Photoshoot Direction—working with Art Director of Photography and designers on pre-production documents, set design, food styling, hero selects and retouching.

· Prioritizing team projects and time management.

· Simultaneously direct multiple projects while managing one’s own design project(s).

· ​​Effectively improves processes and looks for efficiencies

· Schedules creative check-in’s and priorities with design team, copywriter and reporting back to ACD’s.

· Provides inspiration and initial direction

24 Seven Talent

ABOUT US

VisualCreatures (VC) is an artist-focused VFX/animation company and creative R&D field lab that partners with storytellers to deliver their creative vision through the efficient use of cutting-edge creative technology and techniques. VC specializes in using—and advancing—the next generation of virtual and real-time production technologies to more efficiently deliver upon large-scale premium animation and VFX-driven feature, episodic, commercial, and interactive productions. The company is built upon a cloud-based, real-time production pipeline that flows seamlessly from shot production to animation. As an AGBO subsidiary, VC is well positioned to play a key role in AGBO’s Universe strategy by providing pre-visualization, digital asset creation/management/utilization, post-production, and virtual production services across the AGBO slate.

We are currently seeking an Executive Producer – Cinematics & Animation to join the team at VisualCreatures. We are in a period of rapid development and it’s a very exciting time as we further expand, leveraging our Unreal Pipeline for visualization, VAD and final pixel. The Executive Producer will develop and oversee all real time business at the studio. This includes but is not limited to, establishing and nurturing client relationships, supervising budgets and financial status of projects, project oversight and client management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• With Company Founders and President, develop and execute long-term Company growth plans designed to achieve measurable strategic and financial outcomes.
• With Company President, establish regular reporting with the accounting team and annual budgets.
• Has an entrepreneurial and proactive approach and enjoys converting opportunities to push both creative and business success, with an eagerness to develop new and lasting relationships.
• Progress in-depth knowledge of clients (new and existing) including client’s business strategy, financial goals & metrics, challenges, and opportunities that add value to identify the best opportunities for VisualCreatures growth and create actionable steps to achieve growth.
• Ensure the mutual and continued success of the clients and VisualCreatures by offering clients a trusted, direct line to VisualCreatures while also meeting annual revenue targets.
• Represent the entire range of VisualCreatures’ creative solutions and technological capabilities to the client.
• Exceptional team management, communication & networking skills, and enjoys presenting the offer.
• Meets with clients early on for all projects to establish and/or renew relationships (together with Creative Director and/or Supervisor).
• Prepare sales strategies and proposals.
• Ability to create and deliver effective presentations.
• Works with the show producers and production accountant to provide studio management with early, consistent, and accurate cost/actuals reporting.
• Attends weekly show status meetings and presents cost/actuals for assigned shows.
• Serves as a point of escalation for clients.
• Identify and evaluate industry shifts and new market trends as related to the client/company.
• Responsible for bidding projects, budgets, schedules, and strategy for delivering shows on time and on budget. Evaluates estimated costs and schedules for projects. Knowledge of project resourcing.
• Key participant in discussions around improving efficiency and cost competitiveness.
• Attends weekly show status meetings and presents cost/actuals for assigned shows.
• Work collaboratively with various internal teams to create effective solutions.
• Problem-solves across shows to maximize efficiency of crew across multiple projects.
• Manages client conflict and expectations while supporting show leadership.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years hands-on digital production experience and minimum of 5 years experience in senior capacity in performance capture management.
• At least 5 years experience working in a senior level client facing role at a studio, streamer, or production company.
• Extensive network of contacts within the VFX/post community.
• Ability to leverage existing contacts and build new relationships that broaden and strengthen VisualCreatures reach within the entertainment community.
• Proven problem-solving and negotiation skills.
• Exceptional presentation skills, both verbal and written, including the development of visual presentations and pitch decks.
• Proven track record in bidding and client management.
• Must have a specific understanding of visual effects techniques, scheduling and throughput.
• Strong production and technology knowledge required.
• Proven track record of fiscal responsibility.
• Excellent organization and interpersonal skills.
• Must be a compelling communicator with the ability to influence others.

Covid-19 Update: VisualCreatures is currently working hybrid (with our new offices located in downtown Los Angeles next to AGBO).

In compliance with California law, we are disclosing the compensation range for this role, $150,000.00 – $175,000.00 per year.

The job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent to this position.

Due to the requirements of this position, VisualCreatures requires as a condition of employment for this role that a candidate be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. If a candidate is offered this position with VisualCreatures, such offer is contingent on the candidate providing proof of full vaccination status by his or her start date. Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, VisualCreatures will consider reasonable accommodations to a candidate’s inability to vaccinate due to disability or religious belief, but VC’s consideration of potential reasonable accommodations does not guarantee employment.

VisualCreatures

JOB TITLE: Creative Director, Experiential

POSITION: Full-Time

Applicants for this role must have live event production experience in an agency setting, and be willing/able to work from our office in Santa Monica, CA.

Summary of Position:

The Mirrored Media creative department operates as the agency’s lead for creative ideation, conceptual development, experience architecture, brand storytelling and design.

We are currently seeking a Creative Director to join our team to support creative development and management of new and existing clients and campaigns.  The Creative Director will be responsible for spearheading the creative concepting and executional design of campaigns from start to finish.  Candidates should have experience working hand-in-hand with producers and external vendors to ensure all ideas and campaign elements are feasible given client goals, timelines and budgets.  The ideal candidate for this position will have experience crafting strategic campaigns, developing innovative and first to market ideas and overseeing all multi-platform design elements and teams.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as head of agency’s Creative Services department
• Own full creative campaign cycles from RFP to execution to post-mortem
• Develop creative strategies and ideas across all client projects, campaigns, and initiatives
• Accountable for render to reality design execution; working closely with the internal and external teams to ensure all concepts are feasible and executional within budget and timelines
• Generate and communicate ideas, updates, and deliverables across internal teams and clients
• Design and oversee client pitch and project decks; including maintaining agency deck templates
• Visualize brand experiences and guide creative execution across varied mediums
• Oversee creative workflows and drive forward all design deliverables across projects
• Manage and mentor creative department full time employees
• Oversee Creative Services resource planning, including cultivating and managing roster of freelance talent
• Develop and execute agency marketing materials across platforms (website, social, etc)

Requirements:

• Minimum of 6-10 years of creative and multi-platform design leadership experience 
• Minimum of 4 years in an agency setting, managing junior designers and freelance creative roles
• Specified experience developing experiential and event marketing creative
• Strong technical experience with Adobe Creative Suite, 3D and CAD (or similar modeling) software 
• Deep knowledge and experience working with lighting designers, fabricators, set designers, and staging vendors
• Strong attention to detail and an obsession with brand and cultural trends
• Ability to juggle multiple concurrent projects and tasks, completing work within tight timelines
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and ability to build and maintain relationships with external partners, colleagues, senior management and executives
• Excellent computer skills including Microsoft, Apple and Google applications 
• Ability to work nights and weekends, as needed
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally 
• Hybrid in-office (3 days) and remote work schedule, based out of our Santa Monica office; candidate must be based in Los Angeles Metro Area 

About the Company:

Mirrored Media is an award winning experiential & digital marketing firm with a focus on music and entertainment. We create high impact, enduring lifestyle campaigns that help brands connect to their target market through buzz worthy experiences.

Our board includes Steve McBeth, founding President of Disney Interactive; Steve Kofsky, of RCI Global LLC; Hans Zimmer, world renowned film composer. As an award-winning agency, Mirrored Media is consistently recognized as one of the most creative companies that caters to brands, media, influencers, and artists, creating custom tailored marketing solutions. By bridging the gap between music, technology, influencers, art, automotive, and fashion, Mirrored Media has curated some of the most successful and influential experiential activations and campaigns. Ultimately, every client experiences transformational results.

The company culture is light hearted but passionate. As a millennial founded company in a high stress industry, we pride ourselves on our team. You will benefit from a close working relationship and exposure to multiple areas of the business. We are always looking for growth within the company, and we invest in the personal and professional growth of our family.

Mirrored Media

Job Details:

Title: Art Director III

Location: California (Remote)

Duration: 6 Months

Pay Range: $75-$88/Hour on W2

Job Description:

As an Art Director, you will work with leadership to provide artistic direction across numerous workstreams. You will collaborate with product designers, technical artists, artists, and engineers to understand what capabilities are on the technological horizon and demonstrate what is possible through well-crafted visuals and functional demos to shippable experiences.

Problem-solving, prototyping, and creative exploration come second nature to you and are evident in your skills, past projects, and the breadth of successes that have marked your career. You are curious about and engage with emerging technologies and have your hand on the pulse of all things AR, VR, MR, and XR. You are interested in how new technologies enable new means of self-expression to a Meta-scale audience through a highly polished aesthetic lens.

Job Responsibilities:

• Guide the understanding of technical capabilities and constraints and the creativity to imagine new uses for them.
• Drive projects from start to finish that are both highly creative and technical in nature, including proposals, pitches, creative concepts, prototyping, and implementation, individually or as part of a team.
• Communicate project direction and strategy to internal partners.
• Coach internal partners on technical constraints and creative concepts.
• Anticipating problems that may put a project at risk and implementing solutions.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience creating AR/VR, mobile apps, and interactive installations
• Strong artistic skills and design aesthetic.
• Ability to design and build systems using 3D tools (e.g. Blender, Maya, Houdini, Unity, Unreal, Spark AR)
• Has experience in designing, prototyping, and constructing visual/motion systems, both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build compelling prototypes.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Resilience under pressure and tight deadlines
• Familiarity with Spark AR and Unity
• May have experience with procedural artwork generation.

“U.S. Tech Solutions, Inc. is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status”

US Tech Solutions

Summary:

Quigley-Simpson is seeking a conceptual and design-driven Senior Art Director who will be responsible for the creation and execution of 360 campaigns for a portfolio of travel-related credit cards. Experience with both brand and response-driven communications is ideal as the Senior Art Director is responsible for delivering big ideas as well as more tactical, performance-driven executions. The Senior Art Director collaborates to create content across a variety of media, including online video, digital banners, out-of-home, print, and email as well as brand integration and concepts for branded content. A passion for travel is a plus and an appreciation for travel rewards is ideal.

Core Accountabilities:

· Possesses strong design skills across a variety of media

· Ability to create a big idea and turn it into a 360 campaign, plus have the capability to create tactical executions

· Ability to design to established specs, templates and brand guidelines

· Highly detail-oriented and organized

· Comfortable managing a heavy volume of deliverables

· Delivers high-quality work with an emphasis on quality control

· Knowledge of best practices across digital and social channels

· Able to digest client feedback and effectively revise work

· Can multitask and manage changing priorities

· Able to collaborate with team members across all departments and respect/follow processes

· Able to communicate and present work with confidence and clarity

· Team player

Academic/Educational Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience

Required Skills/Experience:

· 4-6 years of experience in an art direction role

· Knowledge of digital standards and best practices

· Strong design skills to inform your work from layout to production

· Software skills: Adobe Creative Suite

· Expertise with InDesign and Photoshop

• · All applicants must provide samples via a Link to an online portfolio of recent work

Quigley-Simpson

This is a hybrid position located in Los Angeles, CA.

Hybrid Schedule- in the office on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays, and Tuesday and Fridays remotely from home.

What we are looking for:

We are searching for an Art Director to be the right hand, a trusted and confident wingman/person, to the CBO/Creative Director. This full time role will oversee a full 360, in-house, design and production teams of 9 in LA with weekly production supervision of assets in Hong Kong and China.

The Art Director needs to be a mature, creative problem solver with a strong managerial background in CPG. You are as comfortable presenting to a Marketing Director as you are to a retail partner. We’re a scrappy team, so we expect this AD not just to provide direction to designers, but also to execute your own ideas. From quick comps to dazzling packaging and digital creations, we want someone who can take an idea from the conceptual phase and bring it all the way to market. You have experience working with epic story creators, from copy writers to video directors, and have strong writing skills yourself.

You bring these critical skills to the table (in this order of importance):

• 8-10 years of experience in a managerial role for design teams at a hypergrowth consumer startup or top tier CPG company.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: You feel at your best in a team environment; You are a curious, patient leader who thrives coaching young designers and illustrators in daily crit sessions; You understand the nuances and value of the critical role of right hand to a C-Suite.
• You are a well-seasoned, graceful giver and receiver of feedback.
• Excellent communication skills. You are crystal clear, transparent, and confident communicating (presenting and selling-in) creative ideas, their rationale, and the specifics of the solutions.
• Killer design chops with Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, and ability to evaluate future tools for team productivity. You have familiarity with Word, Excel and embrace the reality that Power-Point is a necessary and powerful design tool.
• Animation and video production and are well versed in the language of the internet and social.
• You have impeccable taste in and appreciation for the role of music as a story telling backdrop for motion.
• Demonstrated ability to concept across a variety of mediums including social, digital, print, audio, experiential and whatever comes next.
• A tried-and-true Rolodex of vendors to lend a hand when needed from copy writers to stylists to video directors and editors.
• Social fluency and a solid understanding of how to drive conversation and engagement across social channels.
• Strong communication design sensibilities and an understanding of how composition, information hierarchy, color theory and typography work together to drive home a message.
• Proven creativity in the Ecommerce space is preferred.
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll Do:

• In collaboration with the CBO/Creative Director, you will help lead the global creative vision for our brand in alignment with marketing, product development, and digital strategies and business objectives.
• Concept, design, and produce engaging strategic content and creative assets across a range of brand projects and touchpoints, including video, social and influencer campaigns, marketing and promotional, email, print, branding and logo design, packaging, media and PR programs, and whatever comes next.
• Communicate and interact well with team members and supervisors across multiple departments. Work closely and build relationships with Brand Marketing, Global Marketing, Product Development, Ecommerce, and Social Media teams to drive the creative strategy across the Company.
• Ensure that brand and visual identity is consistently applied to all collateral and marketing materials across the company. Drive creative consistency into global markets in packaging and digital platforms. Ensure consistent application and governance of the brand style guides, internally and externally.
• In collaboration with the CBO/Creative Director, provide the vision for photography and direct all photography efforts for use in packaging, social media, and Ecommerce.
• Ensure execution of a thoughtful creative strategy and positive user interface across multiple digital platforms.
• Manage a team of designers by demonstrating enthusiasm for the creative landscape and new technologies; and contributing strong, inspirational, and relevant creative thinking. Ensure the Creative Team delivers on business objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you will bring:

• Minimum 10-12 years industry experience or related creative process experience combining creative strategy, content, and messaging with creative deliverables as an Art Director. Some of your management background is in-house at a CPG company.
• 8-10 years of experience in a managerial role for design teams at a hypergrowth consumer startup or top tier CPG company.
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to come up with modern, playful, original ideas and innovative approaches across channels, along with the visual skills and attention to detail to execute superbly in a variety of mediums
• Stunning photo and video art direction. Experience with baby models is a huge plus.
• Proven experience allocating and managing budgets
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and inspire both internal and external creative teams
• Understanding of all dimensions of communication: business strategy and experience design, with the ability to translate this into effective innovative, but integrated marketing programs.
• Expert knowledge in Mac-based tools of your trade: InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Premiere, After Effects are a huge plus.
• Expert knowledge in the graphic printing and production processes, including translations needed for international commerce.

Aquent Talent

Must be registered with Central Casting. 

Kristan is casting Union & Non-Union males to portray Soldiers who look like the real soldiers in the photos below.

It is kind of a mix between Central Asia and Russia.

Should portray age 18 to early 30’s and you must be ok with getting a military haircut (see below). 

Covid Test on Tuesday, 5/9 in Los Angeles 

Costume Fitting on Thursday 5/11 in Los Angeles 

Shoots on  Thursday 5/18 in either Santa Clarita or Los Angeles. 

CASTING BG TALENT

• Major TV network and cable company live music mini series starring Major R&B artists in LA
• 5/8/23 & 5/9/23
• 5 pm – 3 am
• African -American men and women
• Ages 21-35

1 LEAD ROLES ON A NON-UNION SHORT FILM

• An immigrant woman comes to America for a better life.
• She must make a difficult decision regarding her future.

NON-UNION SHORT 

RATE: $125/day, possibly more

MILAGROS –

• indigenous or Latin female,
• mid 40’s,
• should also speak fluent Spanish.

WORK DATES: Thurs 5.25, Fri 5.26, Sat 5.27, Sun 5.28, Mon 5.29, As well as June 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th

9 Days for Milagros

FEATURE FILM CASTING: BODYGUARDS

Looking for:

• Middle Eastern And African-American males,
• Ages 25-45,
• tall, intimidating, large build to portray bodyguard

Shooting in Anaheim, CA

Thursday, May 11th

Union: $187/8 + Mileage