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POSITION DESCRIPTION

ROLE: Art Director/Copywriter (Looking for 1 Intermediate pair and 1 Senior pair)

TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA

*Please note, this is for 2 separate positions. Consideration will only be given to those applying as a team, both an Art Director and a Copywriter*

ART DIRECTOR/COPYWRITER TEAM

The Kitchen is looking for an award-winning and innovative Art Director and Copywriter team at both an Intermediate and a Senior level. You will be joining a team changing the way Kraft Heinz creates breakthrough creative and experiences.

ABOUT THE KITCHEN

What is The Kitchen?

The Kitchen is an agile team of brand-building creatives, strategists, designers, producers, content creators, business management team, and social media managers working together to deliver remarkable ideas across a range of mediums. What makes us unique is the way we work: sometimes we’re working on our brands’ biggest briefs, and sometimes we create our own briefs from the opportunities that arise from culture and current events. We leverage our unique position as an agency built inside Kraft Heinz to make work that’s only possible with agility and quick collaboration with brands.

POSITION SUMMARY

This Creative team is made up of two dedicated partners whose out-of-the-box ideas and delivery are on the same wavelength and in constant sync. This pair will create a wide range of ideas and creative concepts that stand out and earn attention. The work will range from brand acts that create conversations, to advertising across a range of mediums, to compelling visual stories that stand out on social platforms. This duo will be a key part of a creative process that makes ideas, acts, and experiences that get shared and talked about on social and in the press. Together, you and the team are building a design culture that moves food marketing forward.

As the Copywriter, you will understand how to craft a headline-inspiring brand act, how to write attention-grabbing copy, and how to tell stories across a diverse range of mediums enabling you to tackle a variety of interesting and exciting challenges. Your experience in a variety of mediums, from traditional to social means that you have a wide lens for solving problems, breaking down norms, and delivering ideas that are interesting and disruptive. You know how to translate insights into copy that make people pay attention.

As the Art Director, you’ll use your strong concepting and ideation skills to produce great creative ideas and use your strength as a visual storyteller to bring them to life. You’ll translate your ideas (and the team’s concepts) into visuals for social media, digital advertising, and traditional content. You’ll partner with producers to make sure that a wide variety of content is captured and edited in a way that fits the iconic brands you represent. You’ll need a strong understanding of the best-practice design principles for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but you’ll also need to be comfortable breaking them with innovation that captures attention in new ways. Your experience in traditional mediums will help you raise the quality of work for social but also work at a pace that fits the dynamic needs of the digital environment. You’ll use your unique skillset and trained eye to inspire the design team around you.

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

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• CREATIVE IDEATION: Supports the team by creating idea-driven, world-class creative that dares to be better, and encourages the entire team to think bigger, faster, and more innovatively. Develops big ideas with a focus on storytelling, working with your team to push ideas forward and fuel the team’s creative output.
• INNOVATION: Invents and creates cutting-edge ideas. Helps drive social innovation and digital ideas from the team around them with proven fluency in social-first content creation.
• COLLABORATION: Acts with optimism and a love for the next big challenge, works with a creative partner, creative lead, and a team of designers, producers, social media managers and strategists to ensure that The Kitchen is a collaborative place for producing great ideas as one integrated team.
• BRAND STEWARDSHIP: Cares for the tone and spirit of the brands The Kitchen represents, working to ensure the creative tone and social presence of brands are both distinctive and ownable to the brand. Ability to turn brand data into compelling messages and create strategically sound brand stories.
• ADAPTABILITY: Demonstrates resiliency in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment where ideas and opportunities happen fast and require flexibility.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• 5-8 years of relevant agency experience with a focus on creative ideation capacity and a proven track record and portfolio of work
• Ability to come up with cutting-edge concepts and executions
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and simplify complex situations. You are comfortable creating your own brief from an insight for a quick ideation session or to quickly create a concept.
• Experimentation mindset, embracing new creative technologies, media platforms, and trends.
• A high level of curiosity, awareness, and enthusiasm for the unique world of online culture.
• Highly organized with an ability to work under tight deadlines and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient using Mac OS, Adobe Creative Cloud (Expert knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (or Keynote).
• Passion for food and food design with an insatiable curiosity to learn more about it
• A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work

The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability

The Kitchen

We are currently looking for an Account Executive to join our UK Media & Entertainment Team. The role will focus on new logo acquisition as well as account development and revenue growth within an established set of accounts.

This is a high-impact role, where you will represent the company as you work with our Media & Entertainment customers to ensure they fully realize the value of the Lumens solutions.

Ideal candidates will have 2-3 years of successful Network or IT sales experience.

This is an opportunity to work with some key multinational Media & Entertainment accounts involving global projects and initiatives that will give you a great platform to learn not only the Lumen offering (Network/Edge/CDN/Cloud/Security) but the very important global teaming aspect of supporting your customers.

Success Planning, value-driving and developing a deep understanding of the customers and market dynamics will ensure your success in this role. If this sounds like something that excites you, we welcome your application.

The Main Responsibilities

· Identifies, bids on, negotiates and closes new sales opportunities in order to meet and exceed established sales and revenue quotas. Provides comprehensive account plans and strategies to win new business from new and/or existing accounts.

· Broadens and deepens existing customer relationships in order to gain strategic positioning as well as retain existing revenue and attain additional business.

· Provides input to sales management about trends and changes taking place within the customer’s organization, and makes recommendations about future courses of action necessary of the company towards improving its position with the customer.

· Provides accurate and detailed weekly forecast funnel of identified and proposed opportunities in order to meet or exceed sales quota requirements.

· Demonstrates knowledge of the company’s entire product suite mainly working knowledge of selling IP, data, transport, and colocation.

· May have more in-depth knowledge on a subset of other products and/or services like CDN, DDOS mitigation

· Drives account management responsibilities including solution creation, solution offering, configuration management, order issuance, service delivery, service management, and revenue recognition. Demonstrates a balance of strategic and tactical thought leadership.

What We Look For in a Candidate

Knowledge and understanding of the IP & Software Defined Network or Security industry’s competitive landscape.

Demonstrated strong communication, written, and formal presentation skills as well as proficiency in selling to the close.

Self-motivated, pro-active, results-oriented professional with an ability to work with minimum direction.

Lumen Technologies

About Pagaya

Shape the Future of Finance

Pagaya is building a leading artificial intelligence network to help our partners grow their businesses and better serve their customers.

Pagaya powers a leading artificial intelligence network that enables banks, fintechs, merchants, lenders, and other B2C businesses to provide their customers with greater access to financial services. We help partners grow their customer base while managing risk, all with a seamless customer experience.

Pagaya’s network enables our partners’ customers access to credit across Auto, Credit Card, Personal loans, and Point of Sale markets. We are also developing products in insurance, real estate, and more. Our network is fully automated and operating at scale – with the support of the Pagaya network, our partners have processed millions of applications, with a new application typically analyzed every second.

Let’s create better outcomes together!

About The Role

Pagaya is looking for a Vice President Creative Director to lead the creative vision for Pagaya and lead a team of thinkers and doers. We are looking for a leader with a wealth of expertise who can inspire the team, and who is driven by the mission of elevating our creative and brand to a new level as we continue to grow. The right candidate will have a natural eye for design and a drive to inspire dynamic ideas that connect with all types of audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the direction and evolution of our brand
• Own the articulation of our creative work and narrative, ensuring clarity and alignment with our brand
• Develop, refine and evangelize creative ideas that are thoughtful and clear, across all channels
• Build, lead, and review work of the creative team and provide actionable feedback on their work to ensure it reflects the brief and our brand mission & vision
• Lead and manage content strategy for both small-scale and large-scale projects, harnessing strategy, digital and brand design, compelling content, and technology
• Collaborate with the marketing and sales teams to seek out, discuss and integrate feedback to elevate the overall output
• Proactively identify and present opportunities for creative ideas that can tangibly impact Pagaya’s brand and business
• Develop internal marketing campaigns that translate marketing objectives across business units into clear and motivating creative strategies
• Effectively demonstrate a sound understanding of strategy and feasibility for projects including budgeting and resource allocation
• Manage, inspire and develop both internal and external creative teams, and help them identify and bring together ideas in a cohesive manner
• Effectively prioritize the workload of our teams
• Set a high bar for exceptional performance and output across all deliverables, and help teams deliver to high standards
• Analyze brand tracking, market trends, consumer need, and the competitive landscape

Requirements

• 10+ years of related experience with 7+ years of creative direction in agency or corporate setting within financial services and/or tech
• Successful track record of developing creative campaigns and proven experience with concept development
• Flexible POV/voice and ability to adapt different messages to various audiences, channels, and outlets
• Strong ability to make engaging content and drive action with our audiences
• Collaborative approach to ideation, brainstorming and partnering with other members of the brand team
• Change agent with high adaptability; a test, learn, and experimentation mindset
• Strong ability to influence across all levels both internally and externally
• A proven leader who exemplifies our values through their work and relationships with others
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to take a consultative approach when working cross-functionally

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with our head quarters located in Tel Aviv and New York City.

We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We believe great solutions are built through a great community.

• Continuous Learning: It’s okay to not know something yet, but have the desire to grow and improve.
• Win for all: We exist to make sure all participants in the system win, which in turn helps Pagaya win.
• Debate and commit: Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit to it fully.
• The Pagaya way: Break systems down to their most foundational element, and rebuild them unique to Pagaya.

More than just a job

We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That’s why we’re continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life.

Pagaya

We’re looking for talented and versatile art director. You’ll join a passionate team of creatives striving to put amazing work into the world for a wide range of clients. From brainstorming and pitching big ideas, to designing and executing beautiful content, you’ll have lots of opportunities to create remarkable work. You’ll touch many different mediums, from TV/video to social content, print, outdoor, landing pages, digital ads, app designs and branding – pretty much anything worthy of a great eye and great design.

Responsibilities:

· Collaborate with your creative teammates and foster relationships with the other agency departments (i.e., project management, account, strategy, and production)

· Develop and execute thoughtful creative concepts with a high level of craftsmanship and attention to detail

· Work with senior teammates to ensure your creative meets the clients’ brand standards and strategy

· Present ideas, concepts, and designs to internal teams (and potentially to clients)

· Work with a resource manager to own assignments and prioritize multiple deadlines.

· Communicate the status of your projects and show a willingness to jump in help others

· Bring a positive, passionate, and unselfish attitude to the team.

· Continuously learn, develop and grown your talent and skillsets

Requirements:

· Minimum 5 years of experience in agency environment

· BS or Art/Graphic Major with college degree

· Expert in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

· Proficient/knowledgeable in Sketch, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word

· Ability to create for digital and traditional media

· Ability to do basic retouching when needed

· Ability to listen, incorporate feedback and work well with others

DP+

Job Description

LaSalle Network has partnered with a growing financial services company to hire a Creative & Content Director. This position gives you the opportunity to manage a team of creatives and execute marketing material under a new and growing brand identity.

If want to be in a position that gives you the opportunity to make change and work with a creative team, then apply to this role today! This position is hybrid in their Chicago office.

Creative & Content Director Responsibilities

• Lead creative content team, build content and narrative, drive messaging, look and feel and look for design perspective
• Manage a creative team and outside vendors to create marketing materials
• Own content mapping and content for the company
• Manage social and content strategy through digital marketing to drive execution

Creative & Content Director Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 8+ years of experience in creative marketing, including content writing
• Experience managing a creative team or creative work
• High level expertise in creative marketing & creative execution
• Strong understanding of brand marketing
• Bilingual in Spanish or having proficiency in Spanish is a huge plus!

Thank you,

Emily Baer

Recruiter

LaSalle Network

Keywords and Related Terms: creative director , graphic design , content management

LaSalle Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer m/f/d/v.

LaSalle Network is the leading provider of professional staffing and recruiting services. LaSalle has worked with more than 10,000 companies, ranging from Fortune 500s to start ups. With units specializing in accounting and finance, administrative, marketing, executive search, technology, supply chain, healthcare revenue cycle, call center, and human resources, LaSalle serves companies of all sizes and across all industries.

LaSalle Network

Position Details

A stage manager is responsible for overseeing the logistics of the Production stage environment.

The stage manager job requires strong organizational skills, the willingness to work long hours when needed and the ability to multitask and ensures that all elements of the performance run smoothly.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities Of a Stage Manager

Works with Production management to maintains cast and crew lists and manages local rehearsal and show calendar.

Oversee daily technical run-throughs directly prior to shows

Work with technical support team on the camera placement, Lighting, stage pieces.

Addresses and resolves any technical difficulties during rehearsals and performances.

Mic talent

Provide stage directions and cues to talent during rehearsals and performances as necessary.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Demonstrates familiarity with the logistics of a television production.

Familiar with the basic function of lighting and technical details.

Willing and able to work shifts between 12noon to 11pm and occasional Weekends and some longer hours during election and special events.

Works well with a team.

Communicates clearly and effectively.

Manages time efficiently.

Demonstrates ability to multitask on an ongoing basis.

Possesses physical stamina required to remain standing, walking, and moving for long periods of time.

Exhibits knowledge of proper production safety procedures.

Newsmax Media, Inc.

Position: Art Director

Location: Hybrid

Starts: September 2022

Duration: Full-Time

Status: Full-Time

Rate: Up to $90,000 per year

Our agency client is looking for an Art Director to join their team, on a fulltime basis. This will be an onsite hybrid role (2x per week in Mississauga).

What you’ll be doing:

• Ideating 360 degree campaigns for reputable retail, CPG and food clients,
• Working with clients and a full in-house creative team.
• Art directing photo shoots & video shoots
• Illustrating storyboards, briefing clients, and creating actionable plans to deliver the creative.
• Overseeing and collaborating with Designers, Production Designers, fellow ADs, and Copywriters.
• Sketching and ideating storyboards
• Working on set with creatives!

Skills needed:

• A portfolio showcasing your AD skills: photo shoots, video shoots, conceptual/ideation
• 4+ years of experience
• Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Client-facing skills

#IND123

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]

Creative Circle

JOB DESCRIPTION – CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Job Type:         Part-time (25 hours / week M-F)

Pay:                 $50-$65 / hr

Location:          Choice of Offices (Toronto / Vaughan / Oakville), with some days Remote

Reports to:       CEO

We are looking for a creative leader to join our fast-growing organization: Someone who can push our creative boundaries, drive an emotional connection with our customers and elevate our organization!

What You Will Do

• Direct the overall creative strategy to build increased brand awareness of Ultramatic and increase our overall return on ad spend
• Finetune our brand guidelines to support our corporate values, ensuring all internal and external digital executions adhere to the brand standards harmoniously
• Articulate our brand look and personality for different customer avatars / segments
• Develop create assets that promote our products and explain their benefits, for digital and print media as well as in-store merchandising
• Be responsible for the creation of copy, graphic design, photography, advertisements, emails, and video – for use on our website, landing pages, ppc platforms, social media sites, print, SMS and TV
• Oversee the marketing calendar and go-to-market plan for all product and category launches, promotions and campaigns
• Periodically, lead the redesign and UX of our website, ecommerce flow, social media sites, and in-store customer experience
• Lead process to recruit and evaluate creative vendors and new hires
• Be the lead creative contact with our SEO, PPC and Website contractors and agencies
• Participate in a cross-functional team that maps out the ideal customer journey for each customer avatar and articulates the value each customer segment seeks to receive from Ultramatic
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in sales, operations, and finance to support their roles and identify synergies
• Oversee the budget for creative services and advise stakeholders on the most effective use of the budget to achieve the objectives

Who You Are

• University/College degree in Marketing, Design or related field, with a diploma in Graphic Design
• 6+ years of art/creative direction experience in an agency or 8+ years in an internal creative department
• Experience with brand building through creative ideation and technical execution
• Demonstrated capabilities in creative software and copy writing (Figma, Sketch, Canva, Adobe creative suite, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop + Animate, Premiere and After Effects, Anyword, etc)
• Media production experience (print, video, web, etc)
• Team player who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves for any task
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must have an online portfolio for viewing
• Organized self-directed and able to manage multiple and complex projects in a timely manner
• Global awareness of visual trends
• Experience in the furniture industry or with the senior demographic is a bonus

Ultramatic Canada Corp.

Keepthinking (London, UK) is the creator of the Qi Collections Management System, which allows museums such as SFMOMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Dia Art Foundation and the Clyfford Still Museum, as well as archives such as GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd’s Register, Asia Art Archive, Sainsbury’s Supermarkets and Unilever to manage and publish their amazing collections.

We have worldwide clients ranging from Hong Kong to San Francisco and we are growing rapidly. Our team needs a talented person, with a passion for culture, museums and archive, as well as a keen interest in databases.

Every one of our clients is different and needs a different approach. The right person for this job will work alongside clients to understand their needs and help them specify and implement a Collections Management System that meets them, understand how to migrate their existing databases, train them and support them.

Required skills:

• Collections Management Systems for museums and archives
• Understanding of database design (training will be provided)
• Ideally, having worked as a database manager or a registrar in a cultural organisation

Soft skills

• Personable and able to communicate
• Problem solving, creativity and good time management

Travel will be required to attend to clients’ sites and conferences, in UK and worldwide.

We work 2-3 days a week in the office (Borough Market, London) and the rest from home. Full or part time commitment considered.

Salary commensurate with experience.

Please send an intro letter and CV to [email protected]

Keepthinking

The Product Management role within the central Product team is a critical function working collaboratively with counterparts in Propositions, Sales, Technology, Transformation, Operations and Marketing. Working collaboratively, this role is the lynchpin to the successful delivery of business outcomes through the design, development and launch of products, whether at Group level or more specifically for the Consumer, Business Direct or Wholesale business units.

Our product managers thrive on continuous learning and want to experience and learn as much about our fast-moving industry as they can. We support this through opportunities to move within the product organisation to support different business units and product portfolios as you progress.

As a Product Manager, you will be accountable for the strategic direction, roadmap and ultimately the development, through collaborative working with your colleagues, of a market-beating product portfolio, in line with the company business plan and targets, the OnePlan.

Reporting to the Head of Entertainment Products, you must also be able to drive development and take initiatives in matrix teams. You will be expected to own your portfolio area with a high level of autonomy, identify opportunities and drive them to fulfilment.

The ideal candidate must have:

• Product Management experience, can demonstrate understanding of customer needs, product-market fit, deriving competitive advantage, creation of an excellent CX with a clear focus on delivering what customers want
• Good understanding of the product discovery process and working with agile delivery teams
• Good understanding of Product Lifecycle Management
• Good understanding of telcos/ISPs industry and market, online security, relevant technologies
• Excellent analysis, planning, presentation and execution skills, including ability to develop business cases
• Proven delivery in complex dynamic situations
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to communicate and evangelise the vision, the strategy and the roadmap, while taking on all feedback and stakeholder input.
• Good collaborative skills, actively supporting the establishment of the new product processes and product team structure.

You’ll work with stakeholders, internal and external, to ensure the product line is delivered efficiently to the highest performance and quality levels and at best value.

As a person, you’ll be flexible, open to change, driven, smart, creative, persistent and enjoy being part of something big!

Specific Accountabilities for Product Manager: Entertainment

• Contributing to, developing as well as ultimately delivering critical areas within the TalkTalk Entertainment strategy and roadmap, working closely with the Head of Entertainment
• You will be comfortable being the Product Owner, owning the backlog, driving prioritisation and working within dedicated cross-functional product teams
• You will lead Product Discovery in Product Squads, creatively and clearly articulating product/market fit, customer journey, CX, business case and identify any technical constraints.
• You will be a thought-leader, advising, guiding, and continuously collaborating with a broad set of stakeholders, including the Product, Consumer, Technology, Operations and Commercial team members
• You will build effective working relationships with external partners too – including as well as Content Provider, Joint-Venture and Device/Service partners.
• You’ll evangelise the product vision
• You will be obsessive about the continuous improvement of our in-life products to deliver our customer needs and drive NPS

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE

Product Management

• Analytical and strategic thinking
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including confidence and experience at presenting to Senior stakeholders
• Business case development
• Strong customer-centric product management skills, ideally experience in working in agile squads and product discovery
• Strong commercial acumen

Market:

• Solid understanding of the TV platform market in the UK from both a device and a content perspective
• Understanding of changing consumer behaviours and needs
• Experience of having worked with, or in context of, Public Service Broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, 5) and SVODs (Netflix, Prime, Now TV, Disney etc)

As a recognised Top 50 Inclusive Employer in the UK, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities and customer we serve. Being inclusive is part of our DNA; we are all 100% human, and we create a culture where you can truly be yourself.

We’re also not your usual 9-5. We are a dynamic workplace and we want to talk to you about how you like to work.

TalkTalk