Los Angeles Dance Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

The ideal candidate will be responsible for understanding the goals of our clients and be able to oversee project strategy to project completion. By having a knowledge of emerging technologies in the area, this candidate will be able create cross-channel deliverables to clients that meet their needs. This is a Freelance to Full Time role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with clients and project teams to understand client objectives and project design
• Develop and present creative projects that support agreed upon goals and strategy
• Create cross-channel visual communication strategies (digital, print, and motion)
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in visual communications
• 1 – 2 years’ of digital and print design or advertising experience
• Knowledge of social platforms (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc.)
• Breadth of style and design capability

MCD Partners

Onward Search is partnering with a clinical skincare brand to find a Creative Director/CD to join their team.

This is a 3 month contract role with potential to extend. This is an onsite position ONLY! Candidate must be willing to work onsite, in an office in Santa Fe Springs, CA.

After 3 months a hybrid schedule may be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and directing the creation of art, photo/video, copy, and layout for creative projects.
• Scouting, contracting and finalizing outsourced creative projects or collaterals.
• Supervising the creation and update of all packaging labels and containers.
• Ensure adherence to brand guidelines in all creative deliverables.
• Implementing policies and standards that reinforce the organization’s branding strategy and quality goals.
• Managing the the creative team and partners that may include graphic designers, videographers, copywriters, partners and vendors.
• Evaluates and adopts the most effective tools and techniques for communication and advertising initiatives across all media.
• Leads the development of creative briefs and utilizes design methodologies that meet the business objectives and timelines of the organization and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Portfolio showing Skincare, Cosmetic or Beauty campaigns and design work
• Have in-depth knowledge of brand development and multichannel marketing models in the Skincare/Beauty industry.
• 6-8 years of creative experience.
• Minimum 1 year supervisory/management experience.
• Experience in manufacturing or B2B-driven marketing.
• Experience in the skincare or beauty industry strongly preferred.
• A solid understanding of design, copy, and editorial practices
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Brilliant interpersonal and communication skills that will encourage, strengthen and develop a strong creative team while still satisfying the needs of the executive team.
• Must be a creative thinker and strategic planner.
• Must be proficient at setting realistic deadlines and remain flexible when priorities change.
• Ability to ideate and execute on effective creative deliverables while ensuring constant adherence to brand guidelines.
• Bachelor’s degree in art, graphic design, marketing, or equivalent professional experience required.

Employer Details:

• Onward Search is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in an employment with regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state and local laws and ordinances. Candidates must be at least 18 years old to be considered for employment. EOE/M/F/D/V/SO.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
• Onward Search offers medical, dental, vision benefits, as well as a 401k program, for all eligible full time temporary assignments.
• Onward Search is unable to support 1099 / Corp-to-Corp or Independent Contractor arrangements at this time. All freelancers will be paid as W2 employees.
• Onward Search is a drug-free workplace.

Onward Search

Art Director

$75,000 to $85,000

Chicago

We’re working with a highly successful property and investments firm currently expanding its marketing and design team with the addition of a new Art Director role.

This role will work closely with the VP of Marketing to take responsibility for the design and production of marketing materials at corporate, project and property levels.

Core Responsibilities:

• Create, edit and update print and digital visuals to deliver exceptional marketing collateral
• Provide art direction and manage deliverables from external creative vendors to ensure visual assets are of a consistently high quality
• Handle all in-house production requests
• Manage external vendor budgets

Required experience:

• Expert capability across the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio to accompany
• Ability to understand brand essence and appropriately apply style guidelines
• Experience in the professional services / corporate industry would be beneficial

3Search’s customer care and unrivalled marketing expertise will supercharge your marketing career. We are dedicated to promoting equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants.

3Search

Company Profile

Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game “Poppy Playtime.” Poppy Playtime is one of hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand’s popularity, Poppy Playtime was the #2 most searched term on YouTube in the last 12 months in the U.S. (only behind a recent Disney film), and Poppy Playtime has over 5 billion views on TikTok.

Responsibilities:

• Work with game, product, and marketing teams to develop a visual style and world setting that maximizes the commercial success of our original IP games.
• Define and uphold the quality bar of our aesthetics – visual targets, style guides, reviews, etc.
• Help build, lead, and nurture the growth of a team of talented artists.
• Create an efficient and scalable art pipeline that can provide a foundation for future games.
• Stay educated on the latest trends and have a strong perspective on how they relate to our current and future projects.

Qualifications:

• Ample experience leading a team.
• Extensive knowledge of game and traditional art processes and production pipelines, Excellent eye for graphical quality and knowledge of techniques used to achieve specific visual targets.
• Strong understanding of the practical implications that different visual styles have on not just art, but also product, design, marketing, and engineering.
• Ability to communicate creative vision, process, decisions, and rationale to team members in a way that inspires and motivates.
• Ability to direct a team across a wide range of visual styles in both 2D & 3D.
• Proven artistic talent and a firm understanding of traditional art and design principles.
• Enthusiasm for directing, mentoring, and otherwise elevating the people around them to do their best work.
• A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn.

Required:

• 4-5 years of experience – Photoshop or other industry illustration software
• 4+ years of experience – Autodesk Maya
• 3+ years industry experience as an Art Director
• Experience developing for a live product
• Department management
• Team management

Mob Entertainment

Oliver Sanderson is engaged with a multi-award-winning Media & Technology Company in search of an Enterprise Sales Director selling AI and Sas Software.

The AI & SAS Enterprise Sales Director will be responsible for outbound sales activities and management and growth of named accounts. They will work closely with the technical team to provide client feedback and help identify areas for improvement.

This is a single contribution role with no direct reports and will be reporting into the Business Head of North America. This will be a hybrid role based in New York and the surrounding areas.

Key Areas of Focus:

• Co-develop and implement a comprehensive sale and account growth strategy.
• Create awareness of product offering, close revenue, and nurture accounts.
• Analyze customer needs and advise them on how to implement cloud applications and services into their organization.
• Solidify and strengthen long-standing relationships to create business and product partnerships.
• Sell across stakeholders at multiple levels in an organization.

This is an amazing role with a fantastic opportunity to make it your own. The ideal candidate will be a strong salesperson and hunter working in the Media & Entertainment space. You will have a proven track record and experience working in and selling into the Media & Entertainment industry, as well as experience selling complex SaaS to enterprise accounts in the Media & Entertainment sector. You will also have an in-depth understanding of content supply chain from production through to distribution.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone on an upward trajectory or a candidate moving for parity to join a rapidly growing organization and make an impact. You will be results-orientated and a proven hunter who has consistently met or exceeded their targets. You will be an excellent communicator with the ability to lead and inspire others in your ecosystem.

Prior experience selling into the Media & Entertainment sector is a must.

Does this sound like you? Then we want to hear from you! Click apply and send us your CV today!

Oliver Sanderson Group PLC

Job Title: Senior Art Director

Client Location: Boston ( or East Coast ) Remote

Starting: 05/22/2023

Salary/Pay Rate: $52.59 to $58.44 Hourly

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 6 Months to start with the possibility to extend

Job Description:

My client, is an American diversified global insurer and the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the United States, looking for a Senior Art Director ( mainly digital ) to join their small but mighty creative team.

As a Senior Art Director, you will be responsible for bringing creative concepts to life and ensuring the visual quality of our brand is maintained. This role will be integral in developing campaigns that solve business challenges and increase brand visibility and perception. The ideal candidate is a seasoned, hands-on creative who can work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and execute creative campaigns ( mainly digital ) that support business objectives and increase brand visibility
• Experience working across a breadth of marketing channels is preferred – print, digital, video, social, web, etc
• Develop visual language and design systems that can be applied across a variety of mediums
• Manage and mentor junior creatives on the team
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality creative work on time and on budget
• Maintain brand standards and ensure consistent visual execution across all channels
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, and apply them to creative work

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in art direction, with a focus on digital and print media
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional design skills, including typography, layout, and color theory
• Adobe After Effects skills a huge plus
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Experience in designing for both B2B and B2C audiences
• Agency or corporate experience considered
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience mentoring junior creatives
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present work to stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in an advertising agency or in-house creative team
• Experience with video production and animation

The target hiring compensation range for this role is the equivalent of $52.59 to $58.44 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match.

Aquent Talent

Creative Director – Full Time | Marketing

Location: Park City or Salt Lake City, UT, Jackson, WY or Teton Valley, ID, open to Hybrid or Remote

Reports to: Rakesh Patel, VP of Marketing

At New West KnifeWorks, we believe in the power of beautiful tools to turn everyday chores into joyful experiences. We make our premium knives just like we cook; we use the finest ingredients and prepare them with the patient hands of an artist. The result is a finely-crafted masterpiece that fuses form and function. As a locally-grown, founder-led brand, we believe in spreading joy throughout our company, our factory, our stores and in giving back to the local communities that we call home. For 25 years, we’ve been on a mission to make innovative, functional art for the kitchen and field and share our love of genuine hospitality and high-quality craftsmanship with customers from around the World.

New West Knifeworks is looking for an exceptional Creative Director to elevate the brand across every customer touchpoint: product, retail and digital. In this role, you will ensure clear and consistent communication, deliver cohesive visuals and define stories that engage. You will collaborate with the product team on design, the retail store on layout and point of purchase and the brand team on content strategy, social media and influencer/partner collaborations.

About you: 

• 7+ years experience developing creative from ideation to execution across marketing channels, including digital, print, events and retail.
• 4+ years of experience coordinating photo and video shoots.
• 4+ years of experience in managing/overseeing a range of creative positions and/or agencies such as graphic design, production, and art direction.
• Proven creative examples of successfully launched projects that demonstrate strategic, conceptual and creative thinking.
• Experience in DTC e-commerce businesses focused on helping the end user understand the key messaging and call to action.
• Experience in retail layout, product display and experiential marketing preferred.
• Have a digital native approach to creativity, social media and new technology in all aspects of idea-development and final execution across platforms.
• Drive and passion, particularly in the culinary and food and beverage industries.
• Ability to set, manage and meet deadlines.
• Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop.

What you’ll do: 

• Be the main creative voice for the New West KnifeWorks brand and act as the steward and keeper of the brand guidelines and visual identity. Make it easy for all brand collaborators to support and uphold the brand.
• Lead and direct the ideation, presentation and execution of all creative marketing and advertising campaigns.
• While exercising a good eye for aesthetics, grasp and distill complex product attributes and translate them into clean, focused, understandable solutions.
• Bring data, trends and design ideas to the product team and collaborate on regular product drops and existing in-line products.
• Partner with the marketing team to design the unboxing experiences and custom or semi-custom products for use in PR and influencer relationships. 
• Partner with the marketing team to define a marketing calendar, including key messages and creative concepts.
• Partner with the marketing team to deliver a content strategy for social media that builds community, drives engagement and expands our platforms.
• Collaborate with marketing and retail teams to reduce acquisition costs and increase engagement across digital, social and retail through the creation of innovative, customer-centered concepts.
• Run a creative project management process and produce on-time assets and designs across website, social media, email, digital advertising, partnerships and retail.
• Curate all creative concepts, photography, design, typography, copywriting, art and styling direction for all creative channels; including social, paid media, email, branded content, retail and brand partner creative/activations.
• Be a valued and inspirational partner by promoting strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

New West KnifeWorks

In 2010, we started making sun care products to protect ourselves, our families and our friends from the damaging rays of the sun. Since then, we’ve grown and expanded into hair care and lip care products, and even launched Baby Bum, our rad plant-based baby skin care line. Along the way, we’ve been building an amazing, like-minded global community of friends that encourage us and help us be better. Today, we are looking for a few more talented and passionate people to join our crew – not for the money or the awesome location to live and work, but for the opportunity to change the world a little with us.

Summary

We are looking for an Art Director with a witty, quirky, funny, and a little edgy personality that can reflect the simple, free of concern, and socially conscious voice of the irreverent and iconic Sun Bum brand. And in doing so will help us take Sun Bum to the next level of global brand awareness and market disruption.

The Art Director will be responsible for leading the development of campaigns both large and small for digital and traditional platforms. These include but are not limited to motion, photography, animation, and print. Our ideal candidate will be able to create original work across a variety of mediums with exceptional skills in visual storytelling.

The person in this role will be responsible for delivering original design concepts while also maintaining the creative integrity and brand continuity of Sun Bum. They will collaborate closely with other members of the creative, brand, and social teams. They should be able to thoughtfully present their decision-making and also apply the direction given by team leaders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Passionate about creating skillfully crafted ideas across the web, mobile apps, social media, and traditional platforms.
• Ability to create pitch decks to communicate ideas that excite and sell to marketing and partner teams.
• Strong experience across a range of mediums including digital, social, integrated, and traditional.
• Concept and produce brand and product visual communications delivering final executions on deadline.
• Strong verbal and written skills, and the ability to present new ideas or seasonal concepts to small and large groups.
• Skillfully leads and maintains relationships with external partners including animators, filmers, artists, photographers, and producers ensuring content is on brand.
• Responsible for maintaining global brand consistency across all visual communications.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge of current trends in color, technology, communications, art, and other cultural design influences.
• Have knowledge and passion for film, photography, design, animation, logo design, illustration, typography, color theory, and web design.
• Ability to build and edit files using Adobe programs including Premier, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• Perform high-level oversight on certain specified projects by providing day-to-day feedback for designers in coordination with the Creative Director and VP of Marketing.
• Guide the team towards appropriate solutions based on the overarching creative vision (and business objectives).
• Mentor and inspire less experienced members of the team. Work actively with them to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Passion for surf/ skate culture and beach lifestyle
• Experience with agency process
• Perform research for projects in various aspects
• Provide support as workflow dictates and is assigned

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies

• 7-10 years of relevant experience in graphic design and art direction
• Possess a strong graphic design background, including having an excellent understanding of color theory, light logic, typography, iconography, layout, fundamentals, and composition
• Extensive proficiency with Mac OS
• Extensive proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: Premier, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Must have an understanding of working with brands and branding strategies
• Must work well within a fast-paced environment and keep your cool while juggling multiple projects
• Ability to work within the provided structure and handle direction with attention to production schedules
• Must have great verbal communication skills, a positive attitude, and be an overall team player
• Other duties as reasonably directed
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

$140,000-$160,000 is the salary range for this position. It represents a portion of the overall package, and there is flexibility based on the candidate’s qualifications.

Sun Bum

Hi there! We are looking for an Art Director for our client, a Public Engagement Firm in Austin. Assuming that’s you (after all, you clicked on this job), we’re in need of someone with the following attributes:

• Designs a range of outreach materials in the form of branding, information campaigns, presentation graphics, social media marketing, and web design
• Can manage design projects pipeline and delegate work to team: Graphic Designer, Design Assistant, and freelance/contract help
• Can lead internal and external company marketing efforts, such as developing team member bios, maintaining the company website, photographing events, managing company LinkedIn, planning company events, assisting with RFP submissions, and more
• You have at least 3 years of experience as an Art Director
• You have a strong knowledge of print standards and set-up requirements

If this is you, we’d like to meet you. If every piece of criteria is a match for you, we want to know how you were genetically engineered to be a Art Director – just kidding. But seriously, get in touch if this looks like a good fit. We can’t wait to hear from you.

*This is an ON-SITE position in AUSTIN, TX. Candidates must be local

*Salary Range depending on experience: $70,000 – $80,000 p/y

We are Mathys+Potestio / The Creative Party® – a staffing firm for creatives by creatives. Founded by a graphic designer and a copywriter, we have offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, and Boise. We’re the fastest growing privately-held creative staffing agency in the country (Inc. Magazine, 2020), and one of the Best Places to Work in the U.S. (Outside Magazine, 2020). If you want a recruiter who gets you, we’re your people.

Mathys+Potestio values applicants of all backgrounds and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion or religious creed, disability or handicap, sex or gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Mathys+Potestio / The Creative Party®

Position: Creative Director

Location: Hybrid in Ballard, WA

Status: Full-Time

Starts: As soon as we find the right person

Salary: $120,000 – $140,000

Job Description:

Our agency client is looking for a Creative Director to join their team! This is a full time direct hire position starting as soon as we find the right person.

This is a hybrid opportunity, the team works 2 days per week in their office located in Ballard, Seattle.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Creative direction and strategy for the agency as a whole, you will work on copy-focused campaign work for their clients in the CPG, retail and active/lifestyle industries
• Building and leading a team of direct reports consisting of designers and copywriters where you’ll be expected to conduct 1:1’s, manage workload delegation, creative mentoring, and project expectations of employees.

The ideal Creative Director will have:

• 7+ years of copywriting and creative strategy experience, specifically focused on advertising and campaign work
• Experience leading creative strategy
• Building out creative teams
• A variety of client category work showcased in portfolio
• Experience on 360 degree campaigns, bonus if you’ve intertwined campaigns with PR initiatives
• Previous smaller/mid-sized agency experience is a MUST!

This position includes a salary, Summer Fridays, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and paid time off.

Creative Circle