Account Director
Job Summary
As the AD, you will act as leader of client relationships and be responsible for familiarizing yourself with specific team hierarchies. You will be the go-to person for all things related to your specific accounts’ brands.
The person best-equipped to succeed in this position is a self-directed, operational leader – a “do-er” as well as a thinker / manager. Our ideal AD is not easily intimidated by large deliverable batches and quick turnaround times and is comfortable with B2B as well as B2C. You must be organized, strong communicators with team-player mindsets who are also thought leaders, adding value to teams and projects by offering up guidance, support and brand-specific feedback. Thriving in a fast-paced environment is a must.
Along with being highly organized, the AD will be great at prioritizing and able to balance multiple projects. To that, candidates must be able to work with various creative team, planner, production lead and project manager personalities.
Responsibilities
The Account Director is responsible, in the area of account management, for:
- Ensuring deliverables meet client objectives / expectations
- Managing the day-to-day project needs and client communications
- Delegating projects / tasks to AS / SAE / AE as needed
- Empowering and encouraging AS / SAE / AE in their day-to-day activities and providing constructive feedback when needed
- Creating estimates and SOWs for new projects
- Managing scope (in partnership with PM) and ensuring project profitability
- Reviewing all project briefs and ensuring team success in project kickoffs
- Will perform other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Marketing, Communication or related field
Experience
- 8+ years industry experience and strong recommendations
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Digital experience is a MUST
- Experience managing multiple projects at a time and working within tight
timelines - Direct, clear communicator
- Knows the importance of when to say “no”, professionally
- Incredible attention to detail
- High sense of ownership / responsibility
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Organizational and time-management skills
- Experience in Quickbooks and Wrike is a plus
Client Management Director
Job Summary
The CMD is a client-facing leader of multiple accounts for the agency, primarily responsible for brand stewardship of clients’ businesses as well the leadership of internal teams in service of client needs.
A CMD, while reporting directly to the HOCB, should expect to interact regularly with all agency leadership while (a) orchestrating cross-functional agency resources on his / her particular accounts; and (b) participating in new business development and internal initiatives as they arise.
As CMD, you will own the ultimate responsibility for agency / business results on your clients including making every effort to control costs and ensure agency profitability.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
1. Functional / Client Responsibilities:
You will oversee specific client assignments, with the expectation you will: shape / grow the business & the account team; lead all agency efforts against the account(s); provide thought leadership to clients; be a key partner to creative, strategy and comms planning functions; and steer all agency operations in service of client(s) with an account team of 1-5 (depending on client scale) reporting into you.
Based on client scope, you will source expertise from all areas of the agency like strategic planning, broadcast / print production, digital / social, comms planning, and beyond. We are an entrepreneurial team, so outside partnerships and innovative ways of delivering service / offerings to clients is expected and encouraged.
2. New Business Participation
You should expect to contribute to new business assignments / pitches as they arise. This will be in close partnership with the Head of Strategy and agency leadership, with all agency resources as support, based on the demands of the particular opportunity.
3. Building Agency Culture & IP
Your individual background, passions and unique experiences are very important to us. Working with agency leadership, we expect you to bring fresh perspective to the agency. We expect your active input in: shaping our culture; talent recruitment & retention; exploring new methods of working; building new capabilities; and identifying areas of opportunity in which to invest agency time and money.
In all aspects, your success will be measured by your appreciation of and ability to partner with creative teams; build and lead client relationships; partner with functional agency leaders; and in all efforts, guide them into unchartered territory due to the trust they will have in you.
We’d also expect you to perform other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
Education
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in related fields; other graduate work, degrees or relevant studies always a plus.
Experience
- 10+ years industry or applicable work experience, and strong recommendations.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Extreme flexibility, adaptability and calm in the face of ambiguity, change and never-ending client pressures.
- High-functioning organizational leadership & time-management skills.
ACD Copywriter
Job Summary
OKRP ACD Copywriters search to find the big idea and also have passion to sweat the details. Our Associate Creative Directors are problem solvers with soul who find solutions that feel both human and true, drawing insights from the real word. At OKRP, we believe work is ready when we “feel” it.
Our creatives are prolific and iterative in their approach to the work. They’re deeply collaborative, transparent communicators who always endeavor to “bring something extra” to each assignment. Egoless creativity is key. People that work at OKRP are smart, driven and collaborative.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
The ACD Copywriter is responsible, in the area of creative for:
- Delivering the “Big Idea” that is on brief. Always.
- Ownership is key to success. The ACD Copywriter is responsible specifically for the written elements of the big idea across TV, print, digital and social channels while directing photographers, illustrators, animators and junior designers with the utmost attention to detail.
- Taking leadership in meetings, calls and creative briefings for the internal creative team
- Supporting day-to-day creative deliverables, managing other creatives and making sure creative decks come to fruition on schedule
- Routing creative / copy internally for proper approvals with Creative Director
- Managing projects’ creative assets and schedules to ensure on-time deliverables
- Working with CDs and GCDs to seek out constant improvement, in the work that is created and growth as an individual. The ACD Copywriter should always be looking to master their craft and improve on their skills.
- Staying current on trends beyond advertising – understanding what is relevant in both culture and technology.
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in English, writing or related field is a plus
Experience
- 5-7 years minimum industry experience, or applicable work experience, and strong recommendations
- Experience working on large, integrated, cross-channel campaigns – and a killer book to boot.
- Most likely has experience working at a digital agency or on a digital/social first account
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Know how to think big when it comes to social activations with experience implementing them
- Able to improvise real-time creative ideas on the spot, if needed.
- Show a dedication to growing their craft with exposure to outside creative classes.
- Possess a strong command of the English language – including all grammatical nuances that come with it.
- Be both right brained and left brained – but never overthink work.
- Possess strong communication skills
- Exceptional time-management, organization, written/verbal communication skills
- Fluent in Microsoft Word, Google shared documents and have familiarity with Keynote.
Director of Brand Strategy
Job Summary
Planning is the generation and application of human insights to inspire and improve creative and agency output. Strategic planning’s foundation is built on market research and consumer insights. The work includes: knowledge generation, analysis, testing, cultural observation and specialized techniques (e.g., shopper marketing, segmentation, etc.), but focuses those insights towards the work of a creative agency. The output can be impact on creative—more grounded, human, engaging, connected work—or stand-alone strategic deliverables, e.g., targeting models, brand positioning, etc. These outputs parallel the two faces of a planner: the internal face as educator, ideator, briefer, and inspirer, and the external face (client directed) of strategic advisor, research partner, and brand consultant.
Acting as the voice of the consumer at Agency, the Director of Brand Strategy is the planning lead for assigned brands and teams. This person provides research, insight and strategic guidance to a variety of accounts, consumer profiles and industry verticals.
Responsibilities
The Director of Brand Strategy is responsible, in the area of Strategy, for:
Core Responsibilities:
- Being a planning subject matter expert in the eyes of internal counterparts and clients
- Developing strategies that inspire innovative work, including brand strategies, journeys and comprehensive multichannel plans.
- Leading team through annual planning process.
- Facilitating ideation work sessions internally and with the client.
- Proposing and fields secondary, quant and qual research.
- Participating in and often leading strategy development for new business opportunities.
- Ensuring team continuously meets planning standard.
- Looking for opportunities for subject matter experts (SMEs), agency and creative to add value and for clients to buy into our work.
- Rallying teams and drive agenda, provide impactful direction and set team goals.
- Forming and maintain solid relationships with department and account leads.
- Embodying the Agency culture.
- Managing agency resources.
- Guiding career development of direct reports.
Insight Generation:
- Leveraging industry knowledge to provide key insights and strategic recommendations for positioning a client’s business/products
- Having a passion for uncovering consumer, cultural, category and brand insights
- Leading consumer insight projects, e.g., shopper intercepts, excursions
- Representing the agency voice when partnering with external research teams
- Developing and express insights and ideas in visual and impactful manner
Strategic Direction:
- Seeing the big picture. Lead strategic initiatives for clients and new business.
- Gaining an intimate understanding of the client, their competitors and key industry trends. Provide constant thought leadership based on this knowledge.
- Based on foundations of insight, formulating and distilling a strategic direction for agency deliverables.
- Collaborating with client(s) and internal teams to develop positioning and messaging strategies, as well as strategic and tactical marketing communications plans.
- Adding value on both, large integrated campaigns and smaller tactical projects.
- Partnering with and inspiring other agency partners while representing the agency’s thinking.
- Helping to define key performance indicators and measurement for programs.
Creative Inspiration:
- Moving internal and external teams via leadership, confidence and demonstration of deep category and consumer knowledge.
- Raising the bar for creative work through providing consumer perspective in all phases of marketing communications, working with account managers and creative staff.
- Leading, with the account management team, the crafting of creative briefs.
- Working closely with creative team throughout concept execution stages.
- Crafting and lead inspirational briefing and brainstorming sessions with account and creative teams.
- Following creative executions through to measurement stage and identifies improvements to process and work in the future.
- Knowing a good idea when you see it and know how to nurture it.
That Little Something Extra:
- Planning is a leadership position.
- Having huge passion for what communication and creativity can achieve in the world.
- Contributing to developing intellectual products for the agency.
- Contributing to developing the internal reputation of the Strategy and Insights team.
- Developing of a specialty (or three) is expected, e.g., technology at retail, moms, men, coupon ROI, etc.
- Being a champion of OKRP culture—independent yet collaborative, entrepreneurial, driven, all with a fun attitude and joy in the process of making and doing great work.
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a social / human-oriented field (e.g., Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, etc.) or communication / marketing (e.g., Integrated Marketing, Brand Planning, etc.).
- Master’s degree or higher is desirable.
Experience
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in planning, strategic planning and related communications experience
- Strong recommendations
- Previous creative advertising agency experience
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Competency and strategic direction must go beyond traditional marketing. Must be comfortable with digital, promotional, and retail strategy in addition to overall brand strategy.
- Proven ability to think creatively; evidence of success in developing digital multichannel strategies for brands and delivering them to market.
- Strong digital and analytical capabilities a must.
- Storytelling and persuasive presentation skills
- Deep understanding of digital channels and knowledge of the various roles and contributions of other strategic disciplines such as CRM and social media
- Digital “fluency” is expected, given the speed of changes in communication
- Experience with multi-cultural marketing (primarily Hispanic or African-American) is a positive.
- Able to thrive in an entrepreneurial culture where creativity and data are both highly valued.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure
Creative Director Team
Job Summary
OKRP, one of Ad Age’s 2019 A-List Standouts, is looking for a dynamic CD/CW + CD/AD team with chemistry, history and humor. A couple of highly collaborative (and client-friendly!) creative change-makers that can dive in as leaders and makers who inspire and create strategic work that’s got truth, texture, and plenty of soul.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
The CD Team is responsible, in the area of creative for:
- Being able to process feedback then respond with creative that exceeds expectations.
- Knowing the difference between an execution and a big idea.
- Conveying ideas articulately and concisely to GCDs, OKRP partners and
clients. - Directly supporting your GCDs on your brand team’s creative development and championing the executions best aligned with strategic reasoning forward.
- Mentoring, nurturing and creatively challenging ACDs and those reporting to you on a daily basis.
- Managing the creative process with PMs and your partner. You will have several balls in the air at once and need to keep things flowing smoothly, while continually reviewing and optimizing every piece of work – sometimes under changing deadlines and parameters.
- Working with your partner to find creative solutions for current and prospective OKRP clients.
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in respective concentrations with advertising focus / emphasis
Experience
- 10 years minimum agency experience
- Strong recommendations
- Strong portfolio of work that features integrated big ideas
brought to life through a wide-range of media channels
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Possess strong art directing and copywriting background / skills, respectively
- Plays nicely with others
- Believes in great work and knows it when they see it
- Willing to dive in head first to any assignment-big or small
- Strong client-facing and presentation skills
- A passion for all things art and word related: type, photography, color, film
etc… - Be both right brained and left brained – but never overthink work
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Exceptional time-management, organization, written / verbal communication and presentation skills
- Energy, curiosity and an ability to maintain your sense of humor under tight timelines and long hours
- A passion and expertise for managing talent–you’ll come in ready to lead and develop a seasoned creative team