D1A Rising Leader or VP w/ Assignment

Department: Brand Leadership

Location: New York

Description

Day One Agency—Fast Company's #1 on the Most Innovative list —is hiring!

We're looking for a Sr. Director, Brand to join our growing team. The successful candidate is ambitious, curious, and creative. A storyteller at your core, you thrive on audience connection regardless of the medium. You take pride in your work, sweat the small stuff, ask for forgiveness not permission, and go the extra mile to ensure you are doing your best work for your clients.

We're looking for self-starters with creative agency experience who are excited to collaborate with our squad within a rewarding learning environment. Day One prides itself on being a place to grow and further your career.

Our company culture is at the core of everything we do. It's what makes every day, Day One. We offer a highly collaborative environment where smart, passionate people come together to solve creative challenges. We work hard on the things we love. It's how we produced e.l.f. SKIN's first-ever global brand campaign based on cultural insights that our team unlocked and how we honed in on the legacy of both Nike and Converse to contextualize each brand's heritage with creative that resonates with the next generation.

We emphasize and value all of our relationships—they're what powers us. Our colleagues, clients, and partners are the most important part of our business. So if you want to join a fast-growing, award-winning, creative team, we'd love to hear from you.

This role is full-time, requires a hybrid work schedule, and is available only in New York City.

Responsibilities


Overview

Acting as the day to day leader of the account operation, the Sr. Director, Brand will be the client liaison, understand their business and internal process, and be equally strategic and creative. This person helps to be a roadblock remover, and answer-seeker, knowing how to balance client and agency priorities, alike.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will represent a mix of creative thinking and strategic reasoning alongside strong written and verbal skills to articulate not only the team's ideas but also the value behind them. As the Sr. Director, Brand, your responsibility will be managing workstreams across both vertical work and conceptual ideation, leading the charge on projects and providing your expertise to all components of the process—assessing project feasibility, assigning work, resourcing, project planning, and interfacing directly with clients to manage expectations along the way.

• Oversee the day to day operations of the team, working closely with Integrated Production to ensure on time delivery of creative assets and strategic ideation presentations; and client communication from beginning to end


• Oversee the development & ideation on both campaigns and on-going projects, thinking through channel specific needs and ensuring client briefs are answered accurately and on time


• Work closely with cross functional Strategy and Creative teams on the development of a brand's owned social presence from tone and voice to look and feel to the cadence by which their stories roll out over time


• Audit, research, and analyze outside materials in shaping new ideas


• Work directly with team members across design, strategy and story, participating or overseeing projects as needed


• Brainstorm and bring a point of view, contributing ideas and creative executions to solve problems in unexpected ways, translating them in ways that make them feel simple


• Be on top of the changing social, digital and cultural landscape—looking for untapped opportunities and thinking to bring to our work

Qualifications

• 7 years of agency experience in an account leadership role, or similar


• Experience managing or contributing to creative ideation and campaign/asset execution, with a social and earned centric lens


• Experience thinking through both tactics and the big picture, able to articulate the why and the how to clients and partners


• Understanding of both major and emerging social platforms


• Strong written/verbal communication


• Conceptual thinking, editorially minded


• Leadership and problem-solving skills


• Self-motivated, organized, and reliable


• Enthusiasm for digital communication with a consumer/people-first approach


• Design and presentation abilities (Powerpoint and Google Slides are your friend)


• Passion for people, organization and excitement to collaborate in a fast-paced team environment


• Bachelor's degree

Compensation Benefits

We value all of our employees and are happy to provide comprehensive benefits to help support them holistically in the best way we can. We offer all our employees:

• Health Care (Medical, Dental, Vision)


• Paid Time Off and Company Paid Holidays


• Summer Fridays


• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match


• Lifestyle Spending Account


• Paid Parental Leave


• Commuter Benefits


• Company Credit Card


• Uber Business Account


• New Business Referral Bonus


• Employee Referral Bonus

The Company is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base compensation range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000 and this position is eligible for benefits that include medical insurance (health, dental, and vision), retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, new business and employee referral bonuses, etc. Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for New York City based hires only and is provided pursuant to the New York City Pay Transparency Law. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as candidates' relevant work experience, skills, qualifications, and location.