Our Interactive Art Directors combine killer interactive design skills with a proven ability to deliver stunning work, developing original creative concepts and approaches for web-based projects as well as overseeing project design all the way through execution. The Interactive Art Director must possess superior visual conceptual skills and knowledge of media requirements/terminology.  This position is suitable for a creative professional with two to five years of interactive design experience.  We need someone who can represent our culture and standards within the agency as well as to our clients—someone who is as passionate and excited about their work as we want audiences to be.

This position will design and assist in the development and management of assigned digital projects for the agency and its clients. This person should be skilled at conceiving and designing interactive web-based solutions that are visually inviting, functional, dynamic, effective, and capable of maintaining the brand image and achieving the strategic goals/objectives. This person will work with our creative director to produce, maintain and update content and design for agency produced and maintained websites. This position also produces cutting-edge online creative advertisements (banner ads, buttons, interstitials, etc.) for assigned online advertising projects, in conjunction with a web programmer and based on provided creative briefs.  This job function requires some familiarity with rich media and online bandwidth considerations.

Reports to the Creative Director and/or Associate Creative Director.

Responsibilities:

• Helps establish and maintain the highest possible standards of reproduction for all interactive/web, audio/visual and other digital materials produced by the agency.
• Meets as needed with client service team members to ensure coordination between interactive advertising and marketing efforts.
• Provides creative concepts and designs interactive/web ads, emails, websites and more, according to strategic plans provided by creative director/account executive, and by assignment from the creative director.
• Meets with account executives/traffic manager/production manager/media as required to ensure timely, accurate completion of assigned projects.
• Works with other art directors, copywriters and additional designated “team” personnel for successful production of creative work.
• Monitors the quality of finished artwork and conceptual materials produced by internal and freelance artists as assigned by creative director. Examines and approves finished art and conceptual material, and supervises alterations and/ or corrections.
• Informs and advises the creative director on department business, including all creative and technical issues and requirements (hardware and software needs, upgrades, training).
• Consults with the creative director, as well as copywriters, production, and account service personnel as necessary to achieve agency objectives.
• Promotes agency consensus in the production of client presentation materials, either conceptual or finished art.
• Engages in any personal development necessary to stay current in web standards, and researches activity required to become more familiar with clients’ businesses.
• Meets established deadlines or provides reasonable notice to the production department of special circumstances requiring deadline extension.
• Performs occasional additional duties as deemed appropriate by the creative director.

Position Expectations

Creativity

• Delivers strategically sound conceptual thinking and high level, craftsman-like art direction across multiple brands and channels with minimal supervision
• Contributes a range of solutions to client marketing problems (and briefs) while developing deeper knowledge and understanding of client’s business and competition
• Displays perseverance in pursuing work with energy and drive, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks
• Collaborates effectively across departments to develop, refine and elevate creative concepts
• Inspires creativity within the agency

Communication

• Ability to effectively present one’s own ideas and rationale for creative in an effective and persuasive manner, both internally to the agency, and externally to clients
• Demonstrates organized thinking; arranges work into presentations that communicate information effectively and efficiently
• Open-minded and personable with innate curiosity and conceptual ability
• Listens to, acknowledges and responds to others appropriately
• Listens to and applies constructive criticism to their own work as well as that of others
• Offers assistance to peers when needed

Technical/Craft

• Ability to expertly execute all art needs, including designing and laying out concepts across channels with minimal supervision
• A sound understanding of web technologies such as HTML, Javascript, ASP, Macromedia, SQL Server, CGI, Windows NT, and XML development is desirable
• Extensive experience with and/or knowledge of web server hardware, site architecture, user interface requirements, web navigation, web page layout, cross platform issues, browser and platform compatibility and capability, animation, image compression, size and speed issues
• Effectively partners with agency team and client to see work through from initial concept stage to finish with minimal supervision
• Ability to meet all required deadlines, both internal and external, with minimal supervision
• Expert skill level with Adobe Creative Suite and other related software

Career Development 

• Drives the client’s business forward through strong creative product
• Ability to analyze and learn from both successes and failures
• Creates meaningful results for agency team and client
• Takes direction from CDs and shows immediate progress on feedback
• Stays current with regard to design and advertising trends, tools and practices
• Stays current with trends in culture in general
• Proactively seeks out improvement, training and growth opportunities
• Exhibits a fun attitude and pride in the process of making and selling great work

Located in our Lake Mary, Florida corporate headquarters, just north of Orlando, this is a full-time salaried position with health benefits, PTO and ongoing education/training/support package. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, physical capability, sexual identification/orientation, national origin, or other protected class distinctions.

Please provide a link to online portfolio and resume when submitting.

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Evok’s Social Media Manager is a key member of our team that is primarily responsible for social media strategy and execution, management of the social media team and reporting for social media clients.

Our social department is well-versed in a range of industries and topics, and is well connected with the broader social media world. The social media manager must be able to think strategically and work to effectively implement social media programs for agency clients. This person leads the agency social team and is the agency’s primary advisor on all social media channels, including social networks, content sharing sites, blogs, micro-blogs and wikis. This person must demonstrate extensive social media experience, including knowledge of all platforms and the use of social media for marketing and business purposes. The social media manager actively participates in a wide variety of social media activities such as blogging, community development and management, social bookmarking, commenting, etc. The social media manager must be able to think strategically, but be willing and able to roll up his/her sleeves to help implement social media programs for agency clients.

This person is a storyteller, a tribe-builder, someone who knows how to connect with people in a real and genuine way and help them to be part of something big… and who also can change hats to be the agency’s social media data, numbers and analytics expert. This person will play a critical role in assisting our new business team on proposals and strategies for potential clients.

This person recommends social media channels appropriate for client marketing, and guides clients in adopting social media strategies.  The social media manager coaches clients and agency staff in how to participate in the social media conversation to help grow customer-brand relationships.

The social media manager advises on, manages and monitors the agency’s social media initiatives and participation, and works to grow agency staff participation in and understanding of social media as an agency self-promotion and engagement tool.

The social media manager should have experience, or be willing to acquire such experience, in as many of the following areas as possible: social media tools and techniques; traditional, new media, guerilla and “word of mouth” marketing; strategic planning; product marketing; press and analyst relations; business development; technology; operations; sales; financial and quantitative analysis, and project management.

Reports to the Director of Digital and the VP, Strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Creates comprehensive social media strategies for both new business pitches and existing clients, defining programs that use social media marketing techniques to increase visibility, membership and traffic across all client brands.
• Participates in new business pitches and presentations.
• Leads, manages and mentors the agency social media team.
• Implements and manages social media programs.
• Experiments with new and alternative ways to leverage social media activities (“marketing R&D”).
• Monitors social media trends, tools and applications, and appropriately applies knowledge to increasing client use of social media.
• Strategizes with and educates the client service team as well as clients on incorporating relevant social media techniques into the corporate culture and into all company products and services.
• Measures the impact of social media on overall marketing efforts.
• Develops, executes, and monitors all social media paid advertising campaigns
• Administrates the creation and publishing of relevant, original, high-quality content
• Identifies and improves organizational development aspects (i.e. employee training, team building, department organization, etc.)
• Creates editorial calendars and syndication schedules.
• Collaborates with other departments to manage online reputation, identify key players, coordinate actions, and leverage new and emerging tools/techniques.
• Utilizes knowledge of SEO and works with the agency SEO team to enhance overall content strategy marketing efforts.

Requirements:

Four-year degree required in marketing, advertising, PR or similar.  Should have 5+ years of professional experience in social media tools and techniques including traditional and new media marketing.  We are a culture-first agency, so you must be a team player and ready to be part of a growing team in a fast-paced environment.  Our social media team is resourceful, creative-minded, and presents themselves professionally.

Located in our Lake Mary, Florida corporate headquarters, just north of Orlando, this is a full-time salaried position with a strong benefit, PTO and ongoing education/training/support package. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, physical capability, sexual identification/orientation, national origin, or other protected class distinctions.

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