You won’t find any cubicles here. In fact, we don’t have many walls in general. That’s because here at Small Army, we think of ourselves as one big team — office dogs included.
Whether you’re working furiously in a room by yourself, collaborating in a group, or attending one of our many offsite enrichment opportunities, Small Army wants you to leave work every day feeling inspired and empowered. Our work-life balance is off-the-charts incredible, and we have a PowerPoint somewhere to prove it. But you should really just come and see for yourself. (That way you can pet the dogs, too.)
Seeking a Relationship Supervisor for our Account Service department. This position requires 5-7 years advertising agency experience. Along with a positive attitude, the Relationship Supervisor at Small Army demonstrates the ability to strengthen client relationships, adds value to the conversation, and knows how to motivate and energize their teams. As a strong strategic thinker, the Relationship Supervisor is passionate about great creative that is on strategy, distinctive, relevant, and measurable. And as an emerging leader of the Relationship Management team they are expected to begin taking the role of a thoughtful manager and thinking of ways to the help grow the Agency.
What you’d do:
What you’d bring to the table:
Consensus, collaboration, and trust with Clients, colleagues and those you supervise.
We are looking for an Associate Relationship Manager for our Account Services department. This position requires 1-3 years Advertising Agency experience—the right balance of knowing how an agency works but eager to learn and do more. The Associate Relationship Manager must be a project management pro—organized, able to galvanize teams to get work done, and good at overseeing timelines and meeting deadlines. As an entrepreneur at heart, we’re looking for those who like to wear many hats and think on their feet.
What you’d do:
· Keep it all together: manage budgets, projects, meetings, timelines to ensure everything keeps moving.
· Build trust and relationship both internally and with Client.
· Able to assess creative and assess if it meets project objects.
· Dive deep in your Client’s business and become an expert in their industry.
· Work collaboratively and help draw consensus with those you work with.
· Mentor interns.
What you’d bring to the table:
· 1-3 years experience working at an advertising agency (previous ad agency experience is a requirement – no exceptions).
· A deep desire to always want to learn.
· A passion for working with others and an attitude that keeps the team calm in the storm.
· An attitude of not being afraid to ask, “how can I help” or boldly say, “I can do more.”
Some perks working at Small Army:
· An open vacation policy.
· Pet friendly.
· A work from home policy.*
· Summer Fridays (close at 3pm each Friday in the summer).
· A fully stocked kitchen (beer included).
· Many company parties, events, and enrichment activities.
· A fun bunch of colleagues with an attitude of “we like to work here.”
*Note we are currently fully remote due to the pandemic. Once our office is able to open and employees return to the office, our work from home policy will be reinstated.
Due to the high volume of submissions, we are not able to reply to each individual applicant. You will be contacted if you have been selected for an interview.
If you’re a seasoned Sr. AD ready for the next level or newly minted ACD/art looking for an opportunity to help a small agency do big things, we’d love to talk to you!
Job Expectations
• Help the ECD lead the creative department by being a living example of positivity, forward thinking, mentorship, kindness, curiosity and creativity.
• Both execute and lead the development of world-class creative concepts across all channels that are on brand and on-strategy.
• Demonstrate superior conceptual art direction and design skills while helping foster and develop those skills in senior and junior art directors.
• Model high graphic standards and pro-actively learn and evangelize new techniques and trends in advertising and graphic arts.
• Be a constant student of current and evolving technology, that helps deliver creative in new, cool and surprising ways.
• With approval and guidance from your ECD, monitor all materials through all stages of pre-production and production.
• Be highly organized and complete all assigned work correctly, on time and regularly report the status of projects to your team leader.
• Be self-motivated, presenting and defending your work with confidence, creativity and strategic thought.
• Mentor creative staff by developing and guiding creative thinking and execution.
• Develop and nurture strong, trusting client relationships.
• Manage a full plate of assignments across all channels, including new business pitches.
• Be able to distill and incorporate feedback/input from your agency team and clients.
• Foster and build a team atmosphere, built on collaboration and positive, productive working relationships.
*Portfolio Required – Submissions without a link to view work will not be considered.
Can you write headlines that stop people in their tracks? Take long format content that’s deathly technical and turn it into human-speak? Come up with big conceptual ideas that make other creatives say, “Dang I wish I’d thought of that!” If so, we’d love to meet you!
But before we get ahead of ourselves…in order to be considered for this position, you also need to have 4-6 years of copywriting experience at an in-house or external ad agency and a portfolio of work that demonstrates your mad skillz.
Responsibilities include:
• Help steward the quality of the creative department by being a living example of positivity, forward thinking, kindness, curiosity and creativity.
• Be a creative leader, inspiring and motivating others with the wisdom of your experience and awesomeness of your talent.
• Develop groundbreaking creative concepts across all channels that are on-strategy and on-brand.
• Distill complexity into consumer-friendly content in a variety of formats including long format, traditional media, broadcast, digital and social media.
• Write in a variety of styles and voices and model a consistently high standard of work for your team and the agency.
• Write copy from concept through to completion based on input from client, agency team, and personal research.
• Be self-motivated, presenting and defending your work with confidence, creativity and strategic thought.
• Be a constant student of media, culture and life, infusing these things together to deliver creative in new and surprising ways.
• With approval and guidance from your ECD, monitor all materials through all stages of pre-production and production.
• Be highly organized and complete all assigned work correctly, on time and regularly report the status of projects to your team leader.
• Mentor and guide creative staff.
• Participate in and lead brainstorm sessions with your partner and other creative team members.
• Manage a full plate of assignments across all channels (broadcast, print, direct, digital, etc.) as well as new business pitches.
• Foster and build a team atmosphere, built on positive, productive working relationships.
Job Summary:
The Media Planner will be working with the local and national paid media team members, supporting execution and measurement for all media efforts. He/she will own their plans, reports, and recommendations – seeing campaigns from start to finish, and will continue to hone their media planning and buying skills.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Education and Experience:
Knowledge & Skill Requirements:
If you’re a current student or a recent grad and you’re good at organizing and scheduling things, we have an internship for you. As a Project Management Intern, you’ll work on a variety of accounts to help us manage client projects in a fast-moving creative agency—with snacks.
Note: Internships are required to be full-time. Internships are also paid.
WHAT YOU NEED
Strong organizational skills, good sense of time management, great communication skills, proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel, a basic understanding of Outlook, Google Docs and Google Sheets, and a great attitude.