Junior Art Director

Art Director

Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a rockstar Art Director to join their growing creative team and help push the craft across several high-profile health, wellness, and consumer accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work alongside a team of creative directors, copywriters, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 2-4 years of experience and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented designer.

 

If there’s a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, get ready to play in that space. Whether driving a big project (a multi-channel campaign) or overseeing social creative, this candidate will be expected to deliver exciting, cutting-edge, brand-focused visuals.

 

The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented copywriters and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria:

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Help lead design across a wide range of assignments, including identity work, campaign creative, social content, video, mockups, and infographics. 
• Experience in designing for social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube.) with an advanced understanding of best practices for creative, design, and layout.
• Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
• Create design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
• Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations for client objectives.
• Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
• Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers

• Cultivate an inclusive culture as a part of the team that values trust, honesty, and team accountability towards defined goals and results

 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2-4 years of art direction and/or design experience in a related agency department or industry (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
• Must have a portfolio.
• This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office up to two days per week.
• Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
• Ongoing drive to learn and incorporate new and emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
• Knowing what makes for compelling work – be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d thought to do that” envy.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint); any After Effects animation skills will be utilized.
• Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML.

 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

Salary range: $59,000 – $75,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Senior Manager, Integrated Media (MEDIA & INFLUENCER RELATIONS, TECHNOLOGY)

 

If you’ve got a passion for PR, a pulse on Canada’s evolving technology landscape, and in-depth experience with enterprise tech and/or telecom brands – here’s an opportunity to grow your career at a forward-thinking, award-winning integrated communications agency.

 

Weber Shandwick Canada is currently seeking a Senior Manager to join our Integrated Media team in Toronto. You’ll work with some of the most innovative companies shaping Canada’s digital future, developing and executing integrated earned, owned and paid campaigns that position them at the center of business, innovation, and policy conversations. You love the thrill of the pitch, building strong media and influencer relationships, and translating complex topics like AI, cybersecurity, cloud and 5G into compelling, accessible stories. You’re equally comfortable navigating the business press, national newsrooms, and tech trade media.

 

With 4-6 years of experience across the traditional media, influencer and digital/social landscapes, you’ll work within integrated account teams to create powerful campaigns that drive meaningful and measurable results.

 

Responsibilities:

• Help develop and execute innovative and award-winning integrated PR campaigns for major brands
• Develop strategic media relations plans, including goals and objectives, media targets, story angles and outreach approaches, in collaboration with and support from senior media relations experts
• Identify and build relationships with influencers and content creators to bring our clients’ stories to life through trusted and relatable voices
• Identify new outlets and platforms, and creative ways to propel earned-first storytelling for our clients
• Monitor media outlets, understand industry issues that directly and indirectly affect our clients, and analyze and distill meaningful insights from media coverage
• Develop strategic messaging and provide counsel for clients’ issues and reputational risks
• Proactively monitor social media and influencer space for brand-building opportunities while also developing a sense of competitor programs and relevant cultural conversations
• Develop and track meaningful KPIs to measure the success of campaigns and return on investment for our clients
• Participation in office-wide initiatives, seminars and meetings to further professional learning and development
• Assist in the development and coaching of junior team members
• Actively participate in agency development and assist with new business

KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

• Approximately 4-6 years of experience, ideally in an agency, communications or journalism environment
• Strong understanding of the overall media and social media landscapes
• Experience working with technology and/or telecom clients 
• Established media relationships and examples of past success
• Proven ability to garner earned-first coverage and conversation on behalf of brands, organizations, companies or other institutions
• Familiarity with media and/or influencer databases, journalist-led tools and resources
• Ability to work effectively with integrated agency teams
• A working style that is self-motivated, well-organized and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests and deliverables
• Strong written, verbal communication, presentation, collaboration and problem-solving skills

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• RRSP (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• MyDays – Flexible time off
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave Policy

Salary range: $79,000 – $95,000 
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Weber Shandwick is looking for an Administrative Assistant to support a senior leadership team.

This Administrative Assistant is designed to support the finance team across Canada. Due to the nature of the work, you must have meticulous attention to detail and be able and eager to juggle multiple responsibilities. You will be tasked with supporting key activities including but not limited pulling finance related reports, inputting data from Excel, and partnering with our Client Experience team. You will possess strong organizational skills and familiarity with a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.

 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Expense reporting

• Meeting support
• Supporting accounts payable processes
• Maintaining and updating Excel-based reports and data
• Help in month end close process
• Analyze time data
• Help with vendor setup and payment
• Presentation design
• Coordinating with Finance and HR and management of contacts
• Other special projects as assigned

 

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of experience
• Must be technically savvy– Proficient in MS Office Suite
• Smart, self-starter, resourceful and ready to jump in
• Additional Qualifications:
• Client service experience a plus
• Extreme attention to detail, ability to multi-task and juggle priorities
• Articulate, professional phone presence with a positive attitude and excellent communication skills
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and be solution-oriented

 

Benefits

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• RRSP (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• MyDays – Flexible time off
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave Policy

 

Toronto Salary range: $50,000 – $65,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

 

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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