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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

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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

Our agency client is looking for an Art Director to join their team, on a fulltime basis. This will be an onsite hybrid role (2-3x 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

Creative Circle

THE DONERNORTH EXPERIENCE

Join DonerNorth! We are a new agency, having brought together UNION Creative and 6Degrees in December 2021. With deep competencies in brand storytelling, shopper marketing, experiential and packaging, we believe that ideas need to be as impactful creatively as they are commercially. Our list of clients includes a wide range of internationally recognized consumer packaged goods, retail and alcohol/beer. We like to say that DonerNorth is where the big idea gets its hands dirty, meaning we help our clients solve issues from insight, strategy and creative through to execution. We are a passionate, friendly, inclusive, professional, and growing agency, and our office is located in the heart of downtown Toronto at Church and Bloor.

THE OPPORTUNITY

DonerNorth is on the market for an awesome intermediate to senior creative team. We’re looking for a dynamic duo with a passion to create award-winning work, who also has experience across all media – TV, outdoor, print, and innovating in the digital space. Get ready to tackle some killer briefs, using your brilliant minds to create campaigns that meet the client’s expectations and beyond. In addition to this, we’re looking for team players who want to contribute to the greater agency good and have a little fun along the way. So, if this sounds like your cup of tea, we’ll put the kettle on. Talk to us!

Copywriter Role

• A conceptual thinker who spells real good (plus, other writing skills.)
• Has the ability to turn briefs into insightful, effective and thought-provoking campaigns
• Skilled in developing brand tone and voice across multiple platforms (television, radio, print, social, etc.)
• Works well with Client Services and Strategic Planning teams to help build marketing and creative strategies for a variety of brand campaigns
• Good multi-tasker, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight deadlines, who never complains about it! …Just kidding. We love to whine. Especially on Fridays. 😉
• Understands the production process including casting, partnering with production companies and directors, as well as working with typographers, designers and printers
• Can sell the shit out of a creative idea, passionately and persuasively
• Keeps up with the Kardashians, and other less relevant cultural trends
• Positive, forward-thinker who contributes to office culture and morale. And can tell a joke or two! Or, at least laugh at ours
• Does not wear socks to bed

Art Director Role:

• A conceptual thinker who can design real good
• A keen eye and technical ability to create well-crafted layouts and artwork using the entire Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience in briefing, supervising and supporting studio on individual projects
• Good multi-tasker, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight deadlines, who never complains about it! (well, maybe you and your partner can take turns complaining, but never at the same time…)
• Up to date on all current design and cultural trends
• Understands the production process including casting, partnering with production. companies and directors, as well as working with typographers, designers and printers
• Works well with Client Services and Strategic Planning teams to help build marketing and creative strategies for a variety of brand campaigns
• Excellent at explaining and fighting to design options, decisions, and strategies across the organization – usually to non-designers (they need all the help they can get.)
• Great at developing and translating brand identities across multiple platforms
• A passion for experimentation with new tools and processes as well as researching new approaches and techniques
• Doesn’t heat up fish in the microwave at work because that’s an abomination

DonerNorth is an equal opportunity employer. We are a culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, a request for accommodation will be considered throughout the hiring process.

We thank all applicants but must advise that only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

DonerNorth

We need the best. This isn’t a tactic or an enticement, this is a gate. Our clients expect next level shit, and we aim to deliver more than they expect. Our company culture is built on “great is not good enough. Always aim for awesome.” Period. Better, smarter, faster. If you think you fit this description reach out. tension

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