Careers
Departments
- Information Technology
- Media
- Professional Services & Development
- Research & Planning
- Strategic Services
What if... you could work in a dynamic interactive advertising environment for one of the Best Companies to Work for in America? At VML, you can.
Current Openings
Location: New York City
Department: Media
The Online Media Manager is responsible for assisting the supervisor with all media planning efforts. Tasks will include but are not limited to: compiling research, distributing RFPs negotiating buys, creating plan spreadsheets/proformas and flowcharts, and media authorizations. Other responsibilities include:
- Meeting with media reps on assigned clients
- Monitoring campaigns in the market for accurate delivery and optimizing according to performance goals
- Running performance reports and assisting in the development of performance summaries and post-buy analysis
- Working with the assistant media manager on the team to reconcile billing
- Routing industry articles and news throughout the department for continuous updates in the ever changing medium
What we’re looking for:
- Two-plus years of online media buying/planning is required
- Agency experience preferred
- Must have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree
- Must have knowledge of all planning tools
- Knowledge of trafficking and ad serving process
- Solid Microsoft Excel and media math skills-- precise and accurate
- Ability to maintain good vendor relationships
- Must be a very strong presenter and team player
- Must be able to work well under pressure and be very detailed
Location: Seattle
Department: Creative
VML Seattle is looking for an Experienced Senior Copywriter to join their team.
What we’re looking for:
- At least five years of relevant writing experience; digital agency experience a plus
- Strategic thinking, creative concepting and slinging sizzling copy need to be part of your MO
- Must have a solid command of the English language (grammar, spelling, vocabulary)
- Tight timelines and deadlines don’t rattle you
- You love to present and sell creative work
- You have a college degree in journalism or a related field (preferred)
But that’s not all it takes to join our creative collective. You’ve also got to be organized, dependable, knowledgeable, detail-oriented and able to work both on your own and as part of a team. And did we mention you’ve got to be a good at multitasking and handling multiple projects simultaneously?
Location: Kansas City
Department: Creative
Develop concepts and designs; create new and innovative solutions while incorporating the newest technologies.
What we’re looking for:
- Five-plus years design experience, three of those with traditional and online design;
- Strong conceptual and design skills with comprehensive knowledge of digital media;
- Working knowledge of web design, online-media, User-experience analysis, video, audio, animation and illustration are pluses;
- Polished client presentation skills, demonstrating a clear vision of how the work addresses problems and requirements set forth in a creative brief;
- Strong organizational and management skills;
- Ability to envision creative ways to leverage online ideas and technologies;
- High level of proficiency in branding, online marketing, and media concepts;
- Able to integrate the big idea through multiple mediums;
- Proficient in Web applications such as Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator;
- BFA/BA preferred.
Location: Kansas City
Department: Creative
VML is currently looking for an experienced Senior Copywriter for our Kansas City office.
• At least five years of relevant writing experience; digital agency experience is a plus
• Demonstrated proficiency with strategic thinking, creative concepting and writing
• A solid command of English language (grammar, spelling, vocabulary)
• The ability to work in a timely manner to meet deadlines
• Good presentation skills (a must!)
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field preferred
The successful candidate will be organized, dependable, knowledgeable, detail-oriented, able to work both autonomously and as part of a team and possess the ability to multitask and handle multiple projects simultaneously without freaking out.
Location: New York City
Department: Creative
What we’re looking for:
- Five-plus years of design experience in an agency setting, traditional and online
- Strong conceptual and design skills with comprehensive knowledge of digital media
- Working knowledge of web design, online-media, user-experience analysis, video, audio, animation and illustration are pluses
- Flash skills are a must, video and 3D skills are a plus
- ActionScript skills are a plus
- Polished client presentation skills, demonstrating a clear vision of how the work addresses problems and requirements set forth in a creative brief
- Strong organizational and management skills
- Ability to envision creative ways to leverage online ideas and technologies
- High level of proficiency in branding, online marketing and media concepts
- Able to integrate the big idea through multiple mediums
- BFA/BA preferred
Location: San Francisco
Department: Account Management
VML, Inc. is looking for a seasoned Account Director with solid interactive marketing and business development experience to lead a San Francisco-based embedded agency partnership engagement.
What we’re looking for:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field
- Fifteen-plus years of experience, agency interactive and new business mandatory, some client side a plus
- Experience with paid search, major online media campaigns and site development required
- CRM/Analytics experience really, really helpful
- Need large-scale project management or enterprise-level solution experience
- Strategic planning experience in emerging channels is key
Location: Kansas City
Department: Strategic Services
This position is responsible for using marketing analytics to develop analytics implementation and optimization plans that become integral to our clients’ overall business strategies.
What we’re looking for:
- BA or BS, MBA preferred (quantitative coursework like mathematics, statistics a plus, but not necessarily required)
- Three to five years of web metrics experience, including two years of experience implementing and using Omniture or similar tools such as ClickTracks, WebTrends, Coremetrics, etc.
- Experience using testing tools like Offermatica and Optimost
- Expertise with BI tools, two-plus years with tools such as Brio, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Cognos, with experience writing and tuning SQL queries in online or offline environment
- Expert at Excel, strong skills with MS Office
- Mid-level expertise in SEM/PPC and SEO strategies and minimum one year experience measuring success of these types of efforts
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of end users and technical resources
- Business analysis experience in large companies with multiple functions/divisions helpful
Location: Kansas City
Department: UXp
The Senior Analyst will build and implement the research strategy for web applications and websites for Fortune 500 companies across the country. This individual will report to the Managing Director, Research & Planning and work collaboratively with Research, Experience Architecture and Creative Design teams to create and evaluate website and application solutions that meet end user/customer needs in addition to client business needs.
What we’re looking for:
- Four-six years of experience in HCI, UCD, Psychology, Usability or related field
- Bachelor’s degree or certification in related field preferred
- Experience conducting user research and testing, summarizing results and making recommendations
- Experience performing heuristic evaluations, user needs analysis, persona development, prototype testing, remote testing and validation testing
- Candidate will conduct and oversee qualitative and quantitative data analyses through ethnography, contextual inquiry, depth interviews, focus groups and surveys
- Candidate will also plan and scope research strategy for projects based on UCD approach
- Must have excellent research and communication skills
- Some travel is required
Location: New York City
Department: Creative
What we’re looking for:
- At least five years of relevant experience; technology/software client experience helpful
- Demonstrated proficiency with strategic thinking, creative concepting and writing
- A solid command of English language (grammar, spelling, vocabulary)
- The ability to work in a timely manner to meet deadlines
- Good presentation skills (a must!)
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field preferred
The successful candidate will be organized, dependable, knowledgeable, detail-oriented, able to work both autonomously and as part of a team and possess the ability to multitask and handle multiple projects simultaneously without freaking out.
Location: Seattle
Department: Creative
What we’re looking for:
- Three-plus years of experience in building out digital projects utilizing HTML and other development based code
- HTML/DHTML/JavaScript/CSS knowledge is mandatory
- CGI/ActionScript 2.0 and streaming media experience is also very important
- Experience in Flash 8 is a plus
- Agency experience is extremely helpful!
- Must have strong design sense
- Solid understanding of aesthetic web optimization
- Must work well in a team environment
- Accuracy and attention to details is a must!
- Must be able to brainstorm/concept with other members of the team
- Must have good presentation skills and work well under pressure
The successful candidate will be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and be able to estimate time and effort needed to perform a project. We need somebody with an interest in staying ahead of current interactive technologies and trends.
Location: Seattle
Department: Creative
What we’re looking for:
- Two-plus years of relevant experience
- Strong design and typography skills, with an understanding of digital media
- Macromedia Flash skills are a must
- Video, 3D skills are a plus
- Good client presentation skills
- Strong team player
- Ability to envision creative ways to leverage online ideas and technologies
- Proficiency in branding, online marketing, and media concepts
- Able to integrate the big idea through all mediums
- Great design skills are a must; knowledge of traditional mediums including print and broadcast are a plus
Location: Kansas City
Department: UXp
Responsibilities will include:
- Educating internal and external clients in all matters related to user-centered design
- Conducting stakeholder interviews to determine business / site objectives
- Conducting user interviews to assess needs and analyze task flows
- Performing heuristic site evaluations
- Performing competitive site audits
- Creating information design and navigation flows for internet, intranet and extranet sites, as well as online applications
- Creating and revising information architecture documents including content matrices, user personas and scenarios, site maps, wire frames, flow diagrams, and user requirements documents
- Preparing and presenting design recommendations based on user research and Information Architecture principles
What we’re looking for:
- Strong knowledge of user-centered design and HCI principles and user analysis techniques
- A minimum of three years experience strategizing and architecting user experience design for high-traffic dynamic websites
- Experience with one or more diagramming tools (e.g., Visio)
- Strong communication and organization skills
- Ability to work as a team member in a fast-paced, flexible environment
- Willingness to travel
Location: New York City
Department: Account Management
We’re looking for entrepreneurial, fearless candidates with at least three to six years experience managing digital marketing projects. Comfort with and passion for technology is required. We need a candidate who demonstrates initiative and drive and can lead projects with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with experience launching integrated and interactive brand campaigns. This person will be client-facing almost immediately.
What we’re looking for:
- Three to six years of agency/and or client-side experience
- Interactive experience necessary with significant knowledge of web development
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field
- Must have the ability to work effectively with a variety of internal disciplines and business groups, including Account Management, Creative and Product Development teams in a fast-paced, flexible environment
- Must be able to multi-task while handling multiple projects at once
- Must be detail oriented, a strong communicator and effective presenter
- Must be a team player with strong intrapersonal skills
Location: Kansas City
Department: Creative
What if…you could direct multiple design efforts and teams: designing, concepting and producing new media ads, wireless communications, website content and other digital and interactive media incorporating the newest technologies all while working closely with creatives and other internal teams (user experience, professional services and account management) for one of the “Best Companies to Work for in America ”? At VML, you can. We’re looking for a Senior Art Director to join our Kansas City-based team.
What we’re looking for:
- Five-plus years of design experience in an agency setting, traditional and online
-Strong conceptual and design skills with comprehensive knowledge of digital media
-Working knowledge of web design, online-media, user-experience analysis, video, audio, animation and illustration are pluses
- Flash skills are a must, video and 3D skills are a plus
- Polished client presentation skills, demonstrating a clear vision of how the work addresses problems and requirements set forth in a creative brief
- Strong organizational and management skills
-Ability to envision creative ways to leverage online ideas and technologies
-High level of proficiency in branding, online marketing and media concepts
-Able to integrate the big idea through multiple mediums
-BFA/BA preferred
Location: New York City
Department: Account Management
We’re looking for entrepreneurial, fearless candidates with at least three to six years experience managing digital marketing projects. Comfort with technology is required; passion for/interest in technology is a plus. We need a candidate who demonstrates initiative and drive and can lead projects with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with experience launching integrated and interactive brand campaigns. This person will be client-facing almost immediately.
What we’re looking for:
- Three to six years of agency/and or client-side experience
- Interactive experience necessary
- Must have strong knowledge of web development
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field
- Must have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Must have the ability to work effectively with a variety of internal disciplines and business groups, including Account Management, Creative and Product Development teams in a fast-paced, flexible environment
- Must be able to multi-task and handle multiple projects at once
- Must have strong presentation skills and be very detail oriented
- Must be a team player
Location: Kansas City
Department: Strategic Services
We’re currently looking for an Email Marketing Solutions Manager for our Strategic Services team in Kansas City.
Key responsibilities are:
1. Delivery of the end-to-end client email experience from thought leadership, to strategic consultation on best practices, to the flawless deployment of email marketing communications.
2. Business development and practice management as a revenue generating discipline within the VML organization.
What we’re looking for:
The preferred candidate will be able to provide senior-level strategic consultation on best practices, collaborate on implementation of eCRM strategy across client accounts, and demonstrate thought leadership in maximizing a client’s email success from planning through deployment and optimization. And provide team leadership by supervising, mentoring and inspiring two individual contributors.
Additional responsibilities will be to write/publish email marketing white papers on behalf of VML, participate in email marketing industry committees, (involvement on advisory boards or sub-committees within industry associations) and attend/moderate/speak at industry conferences (role should grow into speakerships at industry events).
- Experience must include five or more years in email marketing (experience should include the management/execution of large multi-touchpoint campaigns, directly utilizing a toolset)
- Two or more years of team management
- Prior experience in advertising agency environment, a plus
- Strategic planning capabilities for promotional email, transactional email, enewsletters, email survey/research and RSS (i.e., understanding of how to integrate email efforts with research)
- Business-level understanding of data, database systems and email application capabilities (understanding of the Silverpop tool is desirable)
- Exceptional project management skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects from start to finish
- Excellent relationship management skills, working as a team member internally and working with strategic partners
- Ability to foster relationships with cross-functional counterparts and key stakeholders
- Ability to respond to new business requests and pitch the VML/Silverpop solution to current and prospective clients (including the ability to write scopes of work to support client needs
- Ability to negotiate skillfully and settle differences without damaging relationships
- Ability to thrive and succeed in heavy work load environment
- High degree of initiative, personal responsibility and ownership
- Undergraduate degree required
Location: Seattle
Department: Creative
This position will report to the Group Creative Director. The role needs to ensure that all materials produced are accurate as to spelling, syntax, punctuation, tenses and voice to successfully deliver projects on time and within budget for all client projects.
What we’re looking for:
-Three-plus years of editing and proofreading experience in an agency environment
- Technical writing experience is a plus
- Thorough working knowledge of the procedures, symbols and conventions of professional proofreading
- Thorough understanding of the rules governing the grammar and usage of the English language as well as a familiarity with standard reference texts
- Excellent written English language skills including spelling
- Superior attention to detail is a must as well as excellent organizational skills
- Must have the ability to proactively manage simultaneous projects while working in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience is necessary
Location: New York City
Department: Creative
What we’re looking for:
- At least five years of relevant experience; technology client experience helpful
- Demonstrated proficiency with strategic thinking, creative concepting and writing
- A solid command of English language (grammar, spelling, vocabulary)
- The ability to work in a timely manner to meet deadlines
- Good presentation skills (a must!)
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field preferred
Location: Kansas City
Department: Account Management
What we're looking for:
- Three to five years of experience managing digital marketing projects
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field
- Agency experience is required
- Comfort with technology is required; passion for/interest in technology is a plus
- Superior communication skills required, internal and client-facing
- Candidate must have the ability to present in all settings
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of internal disciplines and business groups, including Account Management, Creative and Professional Services and Development teams in a fast-paced, flexible environment
- Smart, independent thinker who can take initiative and get things done
- Experience implementing integrated campaigns a plus
- Ability to lead and manage multiple projects
- Must be team oriented and self-motivated
Must be prepared for a fast-paced environment and comfortable making your own decisions. Must be organized and able to work on several different accounts over the course of a day or week.
If you are a self-starter with strong written and verbal communications skills, solid interpersonal skills, a "can-do" attitude and enjoy working in a fun, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. Paid internships are offered year-round in most areas at VML, including but not limited to: account management, creative, media, research and user experience planning. You'll have the opportunity to work on specific client-related projects as well as agency-wide efforts.
Knowledge of computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Quark Xpress is preferred. To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to:
Farrah McGuire, VML Talent Manager
VML
250 Richards Road
Kansas City, MO 64116
You can also submit your resume via fax at +1-816-283-0954 or via email to fmcguire@vml.com. For more information, call +1-816-283-0700.
Resumes and cover letters must be received by the applicable deadline for each session as shown below; finalists will be interviewed as resumes are received.
Fall semester (September - December): July 1
Summer (May - August): February 28
Spring semester (January - April): November 1
About VML:
VML delivers creative solutions at the intersection of marketing and technology. Founded in 1992, VML conceives and executes best-in-class interactive experiences for industry-leading brands. It is ranked by Advertising Age as one of the Top 20 Interactive Marketing Agencies in the U.S.
A full-service digital agency, VML provides the full breadth and depth of creative ideation, strategic marketing and digital solutions. VML's active client roster includes adidas, AMC Theatres, American Cancer Society, Bayer, Burger King, Cadbury Schweppes, Colgate-Palmolive, Ernst & Young, Ford, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Intuit, Microsoft, SAP, Sprint Nextel, Vanguard, Xerox and YRC Worldwide.
VML is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with principal offices in New York, Seattle and White Salmon, Wash. The 700-person VML Digital Network includes Studiocom, with offices in Atlanta and Bogotá, Colombia; and GT (Good Technology), in London and Barcelona. VML has been a member of the WPP group of global communication agencies since 2001.
