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Our client, a global broadcast media and entertainment company, is actively looking for an Art Director to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

This role requires candidates be in the office Tuesday-Thursday so local candidates are required.

***This is a 3 month initial contract with the opportunity to extend or convert***

This Art Director will be responsible for leading art direction across multiple games and digital content in the company’s portfolio. The ideal candidate will have direct experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped products-ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops.

Responsibilities

• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfills team, studio, and company goals
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

Required Skills & Experience

• Degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• 7+ years of experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product-ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Experience shipping multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UX/UI and technical art challenges
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in game concept prototypes
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Motion Recruitment

About the Role:

• The Creative Director will share responsibility of managing multiple creative teams, and effectively driving the creative disciplines of the agency.

About you:

• A strategic, creative thinker with robust experience in the digital marketing space
• Able to navigate client ambiguity and business challenges to find data-driven, strategic creative solutions where there is no obvious path.
• Confident and versatile people leader, excited to design, train, and implement best practices for a team to achieve consistency, and ultimately – client success.
• In pursuit of personal growth and challenge, and have a track record of doing the same with how you guide your creative teams and the clients at large.
• Able to traverse complex workstreams, with an eye for detail, and vision for the bigger picture.
• Champion of the creative work and the people executing it.
• A direct source of guidance and leadership in the department.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and manage a large creative team, composed of roles across Art & Copy disciplines.
• Provide hands-on guidance to elevate creative work.
• Foster ongoing improvements to creative processes and methodologies.
• Partner with the Head of Creative to build and continually improve the creative department to be in line with the company vision.
• Motivate clients to embrace and pursue work which is impactful beyond initial request/goals.
• Inspire and empower others to solve business problems with creative, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
• Contribute to new business pitches and large-scale production efforts.
• Bring outside influence to WITHIN, and encourage us to think beyond the expected

Requirements

• Must have extensive knowledge in Social & Digital-first creative
• Strong art background
• Expertise in work with Adobe suite
• Working knowledge of post-production
• Ability to conceptualize and execute conversion-yielding creative
• Up-to-date knowledge of successful creative trends and tactics to appease diverse KPIs, from awareness to acquisition.
• Ability to diagnose shortfalls in Clients’ existing creative campaigns or brand at large
• Senior experience in a Social/Digital first shop with demonstrated leadership
• Ability to prompt and promote collaboration; both inter departmental and with clientele
• Proven ability to foster new and additional growth to existing client relationships
• Confidence in working in a fast-paced cutting edge digital environment
• Ability to attract and retain top industry creative talent
• Compelling presenter, wanted by teams to be involved for important client and pitch opportunities

Benefits

About Us:

We are Performance Branding experts, working with scalable and enterprise brands including Nike, The North Face, Vans, and Proximo Spirits. We leverage digital channels and creative to grow our clients. Data drives our decision making and enables us to operate like trusted business partners. WITHIN works with brands to collapse the funnel between performance and brand marketing unifying objectives, targets, strategy, and implementation. Partnered with a brand’s value proposition, our integrated media and personalized content solutions prioritize profits and growth over channel optimization, taking a holistic approach to marketing programs, and training our people across every channel. We use the best technology available along with proprietary tools delivering the best performance for our clients.

Everyone at WITHIN wants to grow and be challenged. It’s a collaborative place made up of small, closely knit and versatile teams that are fast and adaptive to solve problems and build systems.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits based on ability level including:

• Base salary DOE ($96,000-$500,000)
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Monthly Phone Stipend
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
• Dog friendly office
• Hybrid work opportunity

WITHIN

OVERVIEW:

Ten Thousand is looking for an innovative Creative Director to join our Brand Marketing team. The ideal candidate is a proven creative leader, technical designer and gifted communicator. Reporting into our SVP of Brand, you’ll be responsible for bringing a strategic lens to creative output, evolving the brand look/feel, producing engaging content and leading the creative department with vision and structure. We’re looking for someone who brings an elevated aesthetic and nuanced understanding of the training/fitness industry. You are fluent in designing everything from TikTok ads to brick-and-mortar fixture displays. With this role, you’ll be joining a fast growing company at an early stage and will have the opportunity to make a major impact on the business. 

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build the Ten Thousand brand into a household name with deep relevance and authenticity.
• Manage a team across graphic/site design, copywriting, content production and editing. Help prioritize their work and lead the team from ideation to delivery. 
• Act as the internal creative agency to develop and execute on-brand and differentiated campaigns across email, site design, paid advertising, social content, product graphics, packaging, with event and retail signage support. Output should support target CPAs, CTR, and CVR.   
• Lead frontend UX/UI strategy and design on site. Develop best-in-class brand experience while pushing CVR and AOV. 
• Build strategy and vision around organic and paid content that is optimized for high engagement and CTR respectively while remaining on-brand.   
• Ideate, establish, and reinforce consistent brand narrative and design systems across all platforms via creation of Brand Book and Style Guide. 
• Establish clear communication structure across your internal Creative team, as well as Marketing, Partnership, Product Merch and Executive teams, and clearly articulate workflow needs with the proper advanced timing to anticipate needs.
• Identify gaps in our capabilities — when we need to build and when we need to source specialists.
• Oversee the Creative and Production budget.
• Lead, develop and inspire the Creative department with best practices and an ownership mentality. 
• Recruit new creative talent when needed and nurture growth and development of the current team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of agency or internal creative team experience.
• Proven track record as a Creative Director or similar role and responsibilities.
• 2+ years of management experience of designers, copywriters, producers and editors. 
• Hands-on experience in creative process, marketing, graphic design, site design and brand development.
• Strong conceptual and aesthetic skills (color, illustration, typography, logo design, layout); retouching; knowledge of print, OOH, and social media/digital delivery.
• Possess deep knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite – master of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, etc.
• Experience with Figma, Sketch, and C4D is a bonus.
• Advanced listening, verbal and written communication skills, including experience in creating, writing, researching, and managing content in multiple formats.
• Strong knowledge of and connection to athletic, lifestyle, and culturally relevant individuals and brands.
• Outside-of-the-box thinker who takes initiative and thrives in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Highly organized with good project management skills. Able to juggle competing priorities.
• Ability to build productive relationships at all levels throughout an organization, and cross functionally.
• Independent, entrepreneurial, passionate self-starter with a focus on delivery of excellence, a GSD attitude and a sense of urgency.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Humility and eagerness to learn and grow.
• Salary range is dependent of years of experience and skills and ranges between $120,000-$175,000
• This position is based in FiDi in NYC and must be open to being in office 4 days a week minimum. 

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary 
• Stock options
• Benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Unlimited PTO
• Complimentary gear
• Free office consumables 
• $50 month+tax/fees Life Time Fitness Membership (orig. $250 value)

ABOUT TEN THOUSAND

Starting with the world’s best training shorts, Ten Thousand is building the go-to men’s performance apparel brand for the functional fitness movement. Each Ten Thousand product features premium performance fabrics, an elevated aesthetic, and thoughtful fit and feature options.

Since launching, Ten Thousand has been featured in GQ, Esquire, Gear Patrol, Men’s Health, and other leading lifestyle and fitness outlets, and we’ve developed partnerships with other industry-leading brands including Equinox and SoulCycle.

With funding from leading consumer VCs and e-commerce leaders, we’re well on our way to becoming the go-to training brand for men. Learn more on Instagram or at www.tenthousand.cc

Ten Thousand, Inc.

Cogs & Marvel, an award winning experiential agency, seeks an Art Director with a passion for design to join our growing team of creative talent. This role reports to the Creative Director in our San Francisco office, aligning on company goals and vision to push our work into new and constantly innovative directions. We’re looking for an exceptional visual storyteller who understands the power of narrative, live, and digital experience design.

Paramount in this role is an artistic design eye with multidisciplinary creative thinking. You should be comfortable ideating with your team and stakeholders to come up with fresh, conceptual content, from the big idea to the supporting details. What matters most is that you start with a story and imagine ways to bring that spirit to life in the most compelling way, across physical, digital, video—or all three. Cogs and Marvel is agnostic in terms of platforms and media. Our stories go where their audience lives, and we don’t constrain how an experience might express itself.

Headquartered in Ireland, our agency grew alongside the tech boom in Dublin, producing the biggest global activations for Google, Facebook, Twitter and other luminary companies. Now, with offices in San Francisco and London, we are growing our team and our capabilities, with an eye toward serving retailers, luxury and consumer lifestyle brands, arts organizations, and more. Help us visualize our dreams and turn artful ideas into extraordinary activations.

What you’ll do

• Ideate within a team to come up with fresh, immersive conceptual content, from the big idea to the supporting details
• Apply design thinking to live environments through brand activations, wayfinding, signage and other dimensional deliverables
• Bring concepts to life with key visuals (from sketches to 3D)
• Concept and design ideas for a range of demographic audiences, tailoring aesthetics with subtle nuances accordingly
• Lead projects, working with a team of artists and designers to bring original concepts to life
• Present and sell the work to clients with confidence
• Visually communicate original ideas that catch attention and pack an emotional punch
• Build decks that sell the idea through research, moodboards, cultural context, and effects
• Articulate the work’s meaning and resonance, from a cultural perspective
• Conceive ideas that deliver on specific strategic goals
• Oversee creative projects from ideation through execution, with an eye toward detail, quality and seamless production
• Demonstrate aesthetic that reflects a fluency with popular cultural references, but also stands out for its unique perspective

The ideal candidate should have

• Minimum five years of professional experience in design with a broad knowledge of branding, environmental, print, video, and digital, with at least two years working in a comparable position
• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding conceptual and design work
• Experience managing junior designers
• A strong foundation in design and typography (Experience with motion design, 3D, illustration, or packaging would be a plus)
• Must have a Design degree or work experience equivalent
• Demonstrable taste level in aesthetic approach
• Exceptional communication skills and confidence working within a multidisciplinary creative team
• Experience presenting concepts to team and external stakeholders
• General understanding of physical and spatial design
• A collaborative, diplomatic approach to teamwork
• A commitment to the rigor of the creative output
• Cultural curiosity
• A global mindset. Experience working in a diverse environment
• A demeanor of humility, respect, and optimism. No ego
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

Cogs & Marvel embraces diversity and celebrates our differences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Flexible PTO
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k
• Commuter benefits
• Mobile Phone Stipend
• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Abundant opportunities that come with a dynamic and fast-growing organization!

Cogs & Marvel

Primary Skills: Product Design, Creative Producer, Marketing, Content Creation, Product Design/Development

Contract Type: W2

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Los Gatos, CA

PayRate: $55.34-59.86/hr

NOTE: Role open to Women Back to Work candidates with a career gap

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TALK to a recruiter NOW: CONTACT Sahil @ 408-512-2354

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Work for the best in the industry!

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Collaborating with content creators and production teams to identify merchandise opportunities.
• Conceptualizing and developing new product lines and merchandise collections and overseeing product design and development, from prototyping to mass production.
• Working with licensing partners to secure rights for product development and distribution.
• Collaborating with marketing teams to create effective campaigns and promotions for merchandise and staying up-to-date on industry trends and consumer behavior, and incorporating these into product development.
• Managing budgets, schedules, and timelines for merchandise projects and to be successful in this role, you should have a strong background in product development and design.

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Call NOW: Contact Sahil @ 408-512-2354

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ABOUT AKRAYA

Akraya is an award-winning IT staffing firm and the staffing partner of choice for many leading companies across the US. Akraya was recently voted as a 2021 Best Staffing Firm to Temp for by Staffing Industry Analysts and voted by our employees and consultants as a 2022 Glassdoor Best Places to Work.

Akraya, Inc.

Title: Art Director

Duration: 3 Plus Months (Possible Extension)

Location: Universal City, CA 91608 (Hybrid)

3 Days Onsite & 2 Days Remote

Shift Time: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Job Description:

Required

* 7yrs Exp (open to 4-5 w/solid understanding of 2D & 3D)

* Building a new Team- great opportunity long term – HM is believer of mentorships

* Must have worked on IP and provide feedback on * Web 3/ NFT/ Metaverse – helping support the digital side

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product—ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Shipped multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UI/UX and technical art challenges
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Receptive to critique and feedback
• Solid project management skills and excellent knowledge of various project management methodologies and practices
• Strong process knowledge, attention to detail, organizational skills and timely follow-up
• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring artists
• Good cross-disciplinary communications experience between engineering, production, design, and art
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Desired:

• A degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in-game concept prototypes.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead art direction across multiple games and digital content in the Client portfolio
• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfils team, studio, and company goals.
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

eTeam

Inspiration, trust, and passion are at the heart of Travelzoo. Every week our global team creates irresistible and rigorously reviewed offers that get our 30 million members exploring the world through travel, entertainment, and lifestyle experiences. Our long-standing expertise, appreciation of other cultures and high standards are key to creating value for our members.

Travelzoo is seeking an Associate Producer, Affiliate Marketing in our New York office.

Do you feel…

• Confident to onboard new partners to the Travelzoo CPC (cost per click) program and affiliate platform
• Able to drive content curation across partner emails, website placements and network channels
• Keen to activate strategies that increase participation in our network and affiliate programs
• Motivated to build client relationships that result in the best offers for our members, while balancing the clients’ need to see top performance for their offers
• Capable of researching offers to determine their true value and concisely convey why we recommend them for our members
• Keen on sifting through a variety of offers to find the very best ones and push them forward
• Excited to test book and update ongoing deals and pitch your best deals to Publishers
• Work closely with Sales counterparts to develop new client relationships and grow current ones
• Able to monitor and analyze performance; make adjustments and recommendations in order to ensure our members see the best deals and clients’ expectations are met

You are ideally…

• Degree educated, preferably in Journalism, Advertising, Communications, Marketing or Hospitality
• A rising professional with 3-5 years of experience, including direct experience in a related field (Digital Media, PR, Advertising)
• A high performer with strong work ethic and sound judgement
• An excellent communicator with strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Fluent in another language beyond English preferred; experience living internationally even better
• Someone with a proven passion for travel, including experience booking personal travel
• Empathetic with a hands-on and innovative working style

What’s in it for you…

• Broaden your horizon by working in a global team and potentially in a different country
• Experience one of our travel deals first-hand – we call it the Travelzoo Experience
• We recognize your achievements with our employee awards
• Enjoy working like an entrepreneur? Our flat hierarchies will provide you with this opportunity
• Meet and network in our workspaces in the heart of vibrant cities
• Enrich your career perspectives by joining our global mentorship program
• Is life-long learning important to you? We offer online and offline learning options
• We offer competitive compensation and benefit packages

If you are excited about this opportunity and feel intrigued by our values of “leading by example”, “warm heart”, “cool head” and “working hands”, then we would like to get to know you!

Travelzoo

Art Director

Location: Hybrid Role onsite in Los Angeles, CA (Tues/Wed/Thurs onsite and open to more days in office as business needs)

Pay Rate: $35-$40/hr

Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision and more

Responsibilities:

• Lead art direction across multiple games and digital content in our client’s portfolio
• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfills team, studio, and company goals.
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product—ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Shipped multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UI/UX and technical art challenges
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Receptive to critique and feedback
• Solid project management skills and excellent knowledge of various project management methodologies and practices
• Strong process knowledge, attention to detail, organizational skills and timely follow-up
• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring artists
• Good cross-disciplinary communications experience between engineering, production, design, and art
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Desired Qualifications:

• A degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in-game concept prototypes.

Planet Technology

Looking for an experienced Creative Director to join a motivated and hard-working creative team of designers focused on social media campaigns.

Extensive Social Media/Activation experience is needed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design brand appropriate social content concepts for clients.
• Build content to be used on TikTok, Instagram (reels, stories, posts), YouTube, and other social media channels.
• Develop all types of content – same day, quick turn content, weekly launches, monthly/quarterly concepting, social-first campaigns,
• Collaborate with the organic social media team on client content strategy.
• Help the Social Media department to push boundaries and stay on the bleeding edge of social media creative.
• Assist with the selection of influencers. Direct influencer content for clients.
• Align social content with broader client campaigns that may span multiple channels including paid, earned, and owned.
• Develop strategies for the distribution of client content across paid, owned and earned channels.
• Design and produce creative assets to be used on various paid media channels.
• Research the social media landscape and related digital trends to develop recommendations that best address and leverage industry changes. Develop official agency POV’s on trends and technology.
• Communicate directly with clients, including participation in client review meetings. Present content and creative ideas to clients.
• Assist in the development of strategies and materials for new client presentations.
• Work with other media specialists within the organization to create integrated campaigns.
• Create content for use on agency social channels.

Desired Experience & Skills:

• Demonstrated expertise as a social media creator ideally working with brands or personalities.
• Proven experience in all facets of the creative lifecycle – strategy/planning, ideation, concepting, pitching, production, and launch.
• Solid track record of ideating and producing original, branded content that has driven measurable business results and is culturally relevant.
• Ability to create and edit photos and videos for use on social channels including YouTube.
• Demonstrated experience using and communicating in social networks, blogs, and content.
• A history of developing compelling cross-channel campaigns that utilize social media.
• Experience planning and building content including planning creative production.
• Experience working with directors, producers, filmers, videographers, copywriters, and other creators.
• Strong copywriting skills
• Knowledge and experience with community management tools.
• Advanced knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of social media platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Reputation Management tools, Blogging Platforms, and YouTube & other video platforms.
• Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.)
• Strong business acumen.
• Entrepreneurial personality is a must.
• Must be highly collaborative.
• Social Media, Content Strategy, Creative Strategy, Graphic Design, TikTok Marketing, Instagram Marketing

Synergy Interactive

What You Will Do:

As the Hybrid Experience Creative Director, your main responsibility will be to lead our creative marketing strategy for current and prospective brand partners. Focused on all brand & commercial driving channels supporting the full spectrum of key brand campaigns and business priorities for First Tube clients. This role reports to the EVP, Head of Agency.

How You Will Make A Difference:

• Partner with a cross-functional team to establish campaign creative strategies/direction & content development.
• Inform and drive senior management alignment on best practices in marketing storytelling.
• Lead and assist on client proposals – from brainstorming to crafting narratives and strategy, to storytelling, co-creation of presentations (writing, working with graphic designers, etc.), to presenting.
• As an expert in the brand creative space, drive testing, data, and efforts to help improve existing team resources/output to ensure best practices and a consistent brand voice and tone for each client.
• Drive clear creative direction & execution strategies with internal and external partners.
• Deliver best-in-class campaigns, celebrating the innovative DNA of our brand partners to authentically connect with consumers.
• Collaborate with the Creative Services Team to ensure the campaign’s creative vision is carried across all digital assets.
• Convey information to diverse audiences, often across multiple channels.
• Lead cross-functional alignment on key campaign launch moments
• Assist with design direction/vision on new business efforts
• Be a true brand expert focused on holistic narratives that highlight our brand partners’ campaign priorities.
• Drive ongoing creative partnerships with brand marketing teams to maximize long-term potential relationships.
• Drive cross-functional efficiencies and effective brand marketing engagement to optimize internal/external resourcing.

What You Bring:

Years of Related Professional Experience: 10+ years minimum relevant brand experiences and 5+ years in management, including leading a team.

Educational Position Requirements:

A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

• Extensive digital experience and a proven track record of success in digital content creation required. Specific knowledge and experience within Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and/or Twitch is a plus.
• Working knowledge of graphic design and the editorial process, including familiarity with Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop.
• Demonstrated success as a conceptual thinker that understands complex issues and how to drive new concepts and creative solutions.
• Demonstrated success in brand marketing experiences leading fully integrated brand campaigns.
• Demonstrated success in establishing best-in-class consumer experiences, product launches, collaboration and breakthrough consumer activations.
• Established concept visualization experience.
• Experience in live (streaming) content
• Deep consumer culture experience.
• Experience in leading virtual teams.
• Experience in managing a diverse and creative group of individuals and leading change based on purpose and values
• Demonstrated ability to work with and inspire a broad range of individuals to work towards a common goal.
• Strategic leader with the proven ability to recruit, retain, motivate, and develop a team.
• Strong understanding and appreciation of music.
• Desire to be part of a rapidly growing business that you will have the ability to help shape

We Just Have One Question: Are You In?

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

First Tube