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VML is looking for creative, innovative and experienced digital marketers.
VML positions in Kansas City, New York City and Seattle are listed to the right.
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Current Openings
Location: Kansas City
Department: Project Management
What we're looking for:
· Seven-plus years of project management experience
· Must have a proven track record of driving web development projects
· Bachelor’s degree required
· Excellent strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills required
· PMP or Six Sigma-type certification preferred
· Consulting or Product Management experience is a plus
· Self- motivated, goal-oriented individual who excels in a rapid development environment
· Excellent written and verbal skills for multiple audiences
· Must possess ability to help manage teams and projects within a fast-paced environment
· Travel may be required from time to time
Location: Seattle
Department: Technology
VML is seeking an experienced Technical Director to provide leadership to our growing technical capability. This position requires endless passion for finding quality, innovation, leadership and problem solving. It asks that you interface with our clients at the highest levels to develop and implement technical strategy, insights and innovations. It asks that you lead a team of experienced, talented professionals through a complicated and ever-changing work environment. It asks that you lead our other agency disciplines through the twists and turns of enterprise software development projects. Most importantly, it asks that you join a technology leadership team that sets the direction for how we provide technical services and solutions to our clients.
Job Requirements:
· Technical Experience and Background: candidates will have had previous exposure to and will have been deeply engaged in various stages of software methodologies. Have had experience performing in various roles throughout the SDLC (for example, Developer, Designer (BSA) or Tester). Having this experience provides the individual with a different vision into the necessities, complications and challenges and can define solutions enabling the teams to overcome these barriers to successfully deliver an engagement.
· Strong Leadership Skills: candidates will have displayed strong leadership skills and have successfully performed leadership roles at the team and engagement level. They have provided guidance, suggestions and feedback to individuals, teams and clients to ensure successful delivery. This individual will have had specific experience leading technical resources and engagements.
· Strong Communication Skills: candidates must have proven the ability to speak confidentially in various situations with the client, within VML technology and with fellow VML teams. They are comfortable speaking at an individual and group level. They have the ability to filter and present the appropriate information to the appropriate people at the right time. They can communicate positive and negative information efficiently, attempting to turn negatives into positives.
· Strong Management Skills: these individuals have a proven track record in regard to managing workload, deliverables, schedules, etc., at both an individual and team level. They have the ability to get the right tasks in the right hands and see it through to completion.
· Strong Decision-Making Skills: these individuals have the ability to make critical task, engagement and business decisions. They have the ability to identify and gather the appropriate information and facts to make these decisions. They have the ability to effectively communication the decision and support for their decision to the appropriate audience. They have the ability to make these decisions instantaneously when required to provide direction for a task or engagement
· Education and Experience: prefer a bachelor’s degree appropriate to supported area or in computer science and 10 years’ experience or five years’ experience of project execution and management experience and well-developed client skills. Master’s degree is a plus.
Please email Farrah McGuire at fmcguire@vml.com for the full job description
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 for our New York office. 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
Familiarity with online advertising is necessary. This candidate must be prepared for a fast-paced environment and comfortable making their own decisions. Organizational skills are imperative.
Location: Kansas City
Department: Strategy & Innovation
What we’re looking for:
- 12-plus years overall marketing experience with at least six years of strategic leadership experience with clients
- Proven ability to rapidly synthesize large quantities of information, identify critical observations and insights, and summarize driving implications and opportunities
- Experience applying insight to marketing program development
- Deep knowledge and experience with multi-channel marketing
- Experience successfully bringing together people from different disciplines, internal and external, to achieve desired outcomes
- Able to effectively lead, influence and negotiate across disciplines and organizational levels
- Proven ability to quickly gain the trust of clients and internal team members at all levels
- Minimum education includes a bachelor’s degree and a multidisciplinary background, including developing marketing strategy, consumer insight, media strategy and/or account planning
- Graduate degree a plus
Contact Farrah McGuire at fmcguire@vml.com for the full job description
Location: Kansas City
Department: Creative
VML is on the hunt for an Associate Creative Director who has a background and knowledge of B2B direct response and email campaign experience to join our ever-growing team. This person will be responsible for the management of creative resources required to execute SAP demand generation campaign work. Assets delivered for each campaign typically include landing page flow, emails (inquiry, thank-you and rejuvenation), direct mail, telemarketing guide, telesales guide and campaign execution guide.
What we’re looking for in the ideal Associate Creative Director:
- Five-plus years of writing experience; direct response and agency experience preferred
- Knowledge of direct response campaign best practices
- Experience in the development, evaluation and execution of direct response campaigns and creative briefs
- Copy and creative layout are critical skills that are a must in this role
- Strong interpersonal and client presentation skills are absolutely necessary
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
- Ability to lead by example and mentor younger creatives in their development
- The ultimate responsibility is to ensure that the final product meets the strategic communications objectives
- Must be dependable, detail-oriented, able to work both autonomously and as part of a team, and possess the ability to multitask and handle multiple projects simultaneously
Location: Chicago, IL
Department: Strategy & Innovation
Description:
The Web Analyst will ultimately be responsible for providing data-driven customer insights. This position will focus primarily on data querying, data integration, report generation and analysis. Ideally, the Web Analyst will have a sound understanding of multichannel marketing strategies and concepts, KPIs and statistics. This position is client-facing and work will be on-site with Gatorade.
Key Accountabilities:
· Provide and assist with the delivery of measurement and analytics services
· Web analytics: gather, integrate, analyze and report on-site and campaign performance using Web analytics tools and third-party data
· Database marketing: assist with development of reports and presentation of advanced analytics
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, mathematics, statistic or related work
- Minimum of one to two years related experience
- Experience implementing and using tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Coremetrics, Google Analytics, Yahoo! Web Analytics, etc.
- Demonstrate experience in marketing campaign tracking and analysis
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, etc.)
- Experience with Access, SAS or SPSS is helpful
- Excellent problem-solving and organization skills, and ability to multitask
- Strong written and analytical skills
Location: Kansas City
Department: User Experience
Our ideal candidate for this position possesses a bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in the liberal arts, the humanities or user-centered design or equivalent in a related field, and a minimum of five years of experience researching and developing strategic user-experience design for high-traffic, dynamic websites. Digital agency experience and background preferred.
So if this sounds like something you’re qualified for, here’s what a Senior User Experience Architect should possess:
-A love for the digital space (practices, procedures and technologies) and user-centered design principles
-Diagramming tool know-how (e.g., Visio, OmniGraffle, InDesign) and communication tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote)
-A desire to work in a multi-tasking, fast-paced environment — we’re talking lightening fast
-Willingness to jet-set across the country … or the world
-Extremely strong interpersonal and client presentation skills. But surely you knew that if you made it this far into the job description, right?
Responsibilities will include:
-Working with our Strategy and Insights group to leverage primary research, personas, task analysis, heuristic and competitive reviews to craft industry-leading user experiences
-Crafting and conducting stakeholder interviews with everyone from subject matter experts to C-level executives to determine business/site objectives
-Creating information design and navigation systems for internet, intranet and extranet sites, as well as online and mobile applications
-Creating and refining user-experience thought expressed as deliverables, including task and gap analyses, content analysis and strategy and feature/functionality matrices, usage scenarios, site maps, wireframes, flow diagrams and user-requirements documents
-Preparing and presenting design recommendations based on business goals, user research, UCD and IA principles
-Collaborating as a member of the Creative team
Location: New York City
Department: Creative
VML New York has an opening for a Senior Interactive Art Director to join our team. The ideal applicant would have:
- Five-plus years of advertising experience in an agency setting, digital and/or traditional
- Must possess a strong command of the digital space with awesome design and envious concepts
- Experience working on large cross-channel projects in a variety of media
- Knowledge of website development in Flash and other technologies is a huge plus and makes us very happy
- Needs to have good client presentation skills and play nice with others
- Must be able to leverage online ideas and technologies with an eye to integrate a big idea through multiple mediums
- Ability to lead by example and inspire younger creatives in their development
- Must be dependable, detail-oriented and possess the ability to multi-task and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
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 and PowerPoint is preferred. To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to:
Farrah McGuire, VML Talent Manager
fmcguire@vml.com or fax to 816-817-1766
If you wish to apply by mail please send your materials to:
Farrah McGuire, VML Talent Manager
VML
250 NW Richards Road
Kansas City, MO 64116
Also, if you are applying for an internship in our creative department please email the URL to your portfolio site or send work samples along with your resume and cover letter.
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.
Please specify which city you are applying for (Kansas City, New York, Seattle or multiple cities) in your cover letter and/or email.
Fall semester (September - December): August 1
Summer (May - August): February 28
Spring semester (January - April): December 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.
