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Camp + King is a creatively-driven advertising agency with offices in San Francisco and Chicago. In 2020, we were named AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year Silver Overall, our fourth time receiving Small Agency award honors. We’ve also been selected as one of Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work. 

Our agency philosophy is to Make Brands Conversationworthy. We do this by creating content for brands that’s worth talking about. Our AOR clients include Papa John’s,  Energizer, RE/MAX, PrAna, Grove Collective, Jackson Hewitt and Akili.

We’re experiencing rapid growth, and looking for a strong brand leader to join our team. The Brand Director will run our newly-won account, Grove Collaborative, along with a second piece of business, to be decided pending the outcome of current New Business pitches.

The Brand Director reports into the Director of Brand in San Francisco, and will be responsible for mentoring and growing a small team.

# Requirements

- Seasoned Brand Director with 7+ years of Ad Agency experience
- CPG category experience 
- Strong strategic thinker and thought leader
- Proven success selling creative ideas to senior level clients 
- Highly proficient at writing and building Keynote presentations
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and get in the weeds, especially when it comes to Production. 
- Detail-obsessed and always striving to improve
- Experience managing a team, inspiring and mentoring young talent
- Extensive production experience, particularly in Video and Social/Digital
- Experience developing staffing plans and compensation proposals.

To apply, please send CV and a cover letter on why you think you’re suited for the role, to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com).


Brand Director

Camp + King is a creative advertising agency with offices in San Francisco and Chicago. In our short-but-mighty 10-year tenure, we’ve been named to AdAge’s Small Agencies of the Year four times and have appeared in Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work. Our agency philosophy is to Make Brands Conversationworthy. We do this by creating content for brands that’s worth engaging with, talking about and sharing. 

We’re seeking a Brand Manager to join the team on our healthcare technology account, Akili—who is creating a new class of digital medicines for people living with cognitive impairment. 

Camp + King has a flexed work from home/office policy and is open to candidates in San Francisco, Los Angeles & San Diego, Austin and Chicago.

__Requirements:__
- 2-3 years of experience in a brand management role at an advertising agency.
- Traditional and digital production experience.
- Understanding of the entire advertising process, from client briefing to shipping, and all the steps in between.
- Strong writing skills. Writing samples may be required.
- Extremely articulate and capable of presenting to clients, as well as making persuasive arguments on the fly.
- Some healthcare or pharmaceutical brand experience a plus.

__Qualities:__
- Self-motivated problem solver: You’re ready to roll up your sleeves and get down to business.
- Resourceful and highly proactive: You’re able to solve problems on your own and keep work moving without being micromanaged
- Detail-oriented and hyper-organized: You’re a perfectionist who doesn’t let anything slide
- Positive, enthusiastic and driven: You set the tone for the rest of the team, good vibes only.
- Passionate: You love brand management and are committed to pursuing a career in it.
- Critical Thinker: You’re more than just a doer, you have a desire to contribute strategically to building better briefs and more successful creative. 
- Personable and easy going: You’re able to get along with all types of personalities across departments internally, and across client teams.
- Team player: You put your team first, which sometimes means putting in long hours (but having fun doing it). 

__To Apply__

Please send your résumé to careers@camp-king.com


Brand Manager—Healthcare

We’re looking for a seasoned, socially savvy Community Manager who’s well versed in social media and some analytics, as well as all major social media platforms. The Community Manager will support the Social Strategy team in monitoring and reporting, executing a long-term content strategy, building content calendars, engaging online communities, and working with our Creative teams to develop ongoing campaigns that tap into the very core of pop culture. This person will help push our clients to use social platforms in new and truly innovative ways. This role will also work directly with our Senior Social Strategist in executing an “always on” social media engagement strategy for a major QSR brand, be the voice of an iconic CPG brand’s Twitter presence and help define a content strategy for an emerging startup that’s redefining cognitive health. 

We are currently working remotely and plan to reopen our offices later in 2021. We are considering candidates in Chicago, San Francisco, southern California, Atlanta, or Austin, with a preference for Chicago-based candidates. This position includes occasional travel between our offices or on client business.  

__About you:__
- You’re a well-connected, tireless pop-culture geek with a passion for optimization; you’re always on the lookout for opportunities for your client brands to engage with the world at-large; you’re able to move at the speed of social with a good understanding of community management processes (reactive, proactive, and crisis management), and have a minimum of 2 to 4 years of relevant experience
- You’ve got experience using social listening and content publishing tools—bonus points if it’s Sprinklr and/or Netbase; if you haven’t used either, specifically, you’re a quick study
- A lover and expert of all things social media: you know the ins and outs of how each platform works, can keep pace with their constant changes, and can keep the agency and its clients updated
- Ideally, you’ve got experience working in a large agency’s or PR firm’s social team
- You write confidently; you’re able to intimately understand the nuance of a brand’s unique voice and adopt it
- A responsible, motivated self-starter who’s able to work on his or her own; you’ll partner directly with several members of our client’s team, as well as Camp + King’s Brand, Strategy, Creative, Production, and (paid) Media teams; you’ll team up with our partner agencies and may even have the chance to work with some celebrity talent
- You’re interested in joining a creative boutique that’s been recognized four times by AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year list and was recently named to Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work

__What you’ll do:__
- Support our Social Strategy team:
  - Stay on top of trending social media conversations to uncover timely creative opportunities
  - Create, execute, and update organic content calendars
  - Write copy for owned content across all social channels
  - Traffic creative material to paid media teams
- Use social listening to help articulate insights about our brands’ communities and social audiences per platform to inspire kickass creative work
- Regularly gather and report on competitive intelligence to keep our client in the know on what its core competitors (and broader QSR players) are doing in the social and digital spaces
- Support the Senior Social Strategist in executing both a long-term content strategy and a social media engagement strategy that builds online communities. 
- Publish & monitor owned content leveraging Sprinklr
- Optimize, optimize, optimize 
- Build reports using data to understand how content is performing and make recommendations for future content development 
- Other duties as assigned by other members of the Strategy team

__To Apply__
Please send your résumé to careers@camp-king.com.


Community Manager 

__Camp + King San Francisco & Chicago__

Camp + King is a creatively-driven advertising agency with offices in San Francisco and Chicago. In 2020, we were named AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year Silver Overall, our fourth time receiving Small Agency award honors. 

We create content for brands such as Papa John’s, Energizer, RE/MAX, PrAna, Grove Collective, Jackson Hewitt and Akili.

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior IT Technician to support both offices (approximately 60 employees, some in markets outside of SF and Chicago).  Havas has majority ownership of Camp + King and many finance and HR systems are provided by Havas.  This position is based in San Francisco, where our primary hub is located.

__Position needed:  Senior IT Support Technician__

This position will be in San Francisco to help support both offices and work very closely with Havas’ IT and procurement team.
The office and work environment is 99% Apple products and very creative in nature.  There will be a flexible work from home/in-office schedule, so you must be flexible in terms of working on and off premise, depending on workflow needs. 

This position would have a dual reporting structure into Havas NA IT Director and Camp + King’s Operations Director.

__Your daily responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:__

- Manage day-to-day IT support operations for all staff in both offices while having an explicit understanding and awareness of Havas systems and network.
- Manage software administration & implementing upgrades as needed.
- Provision and maintain local and SaaS-based user accounts including but not limited to Google Apps, Office365, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Manage Support & Automation Applications in a Mac OSX, including but not limited to JAMF, Anti-Virus, and Backup Configurations.
- Administrating collaborative services such as G Suite, Zoom, and Slack.
- Maintain a hardware and software inventory.  Assist in purchasing new equipment when needed and coordinating repairs.
- Troubleshoot network and connectivity issues.
- Able to troubleshoot the physical A/V and printing office equipment including Conference Rooms’ A/V setup, architecture, and support.
- Provide advice and troubleshoot any mobile or telephone system issues.
- Have a very good understanding and ability to troubleshoot remote presentation tools such as Zoom, Teams, etc...
- Help shape and enforce basic IT SOPs and Security Policies.
- Monitor and maintain the IT ticketing queue.
- Work very closely with HR and Ops Team in onboarding and offboarding full time employees and freelancers.

__IT finance__

- Work with IT Vendors & Havas Procurement and Finance Director in a collaborative way to develop a robust support program, negotiate and track contracts and estimates and seek approval from Havas CFO & Procurement
- Work with finance for purchasing & management of IT inventory and fixed asset tracking

__IT security__
- Develop and administer an IT security strategy in conjunction with Havas (Firewalls)

__Desired Skills And Experience__
- Minimum 4+ years of IT Support Experience is required, preferably at an advertising agency or Apple products based creative industry.
- Excellent understanding and knowledge of Creative Suite.
- Understanding of video editing equipment and suites is a big plus.
- Strong understanding of Mac troubleshooting principles is necessary.
- Thorough understanding of troubleshooting principles with a willingness to constantly be applying these principles effectively is important.
- Personable and friendly demeanor is a must.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
- Understanding of IT security principals including “least privileged” access, data governance, etc.
- Must have a highly detail-oriented and very organized approach.
- Must be able to manage multiple tasks concurrently; Understands/values timeliness and deadlines and completeness for projects.
- Must be willing to work and accommodate emergency requests off hours.
- Must be a self-starter with experience managing IT projects and delivering results.
- Ability to seek proactive solutions to difficult situations.
- Experience with Compliance, Security Audits, Vulnerability and Penetration Testing.
- Cloud Infrastructure Experience – AWS, Google Cloud Platform, B2.

Please email your resumes to:  careers@camp-king.com


Senior IT Support Technician

Camp + King is an advertising agency with offices in San Francisco and Chicago. We’ve been named an AdAge Small Agency of the Year 4x over and appear in Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work.

We are looking for a confident, experienced, senior copywriter to join our SF team. The ideal candidate is versatile, strategically smart, and highly self-motivated. Our group is tight knit, so we’re looking for someone with great people skills and a knack for collaboration across departments. 

In this role, you will be expected to lead assignments of varying sizes, often at the same time. So, you should be organized and capable of running your own projects with minimal oversight from creative directors. Additionally, you are at ease with clients, and are capable of selling your own work at a high level. Most importantly, you should be a genuinely nice person who makes the work, and the lives of your coworkers, better.

What you bring:
- Strong conceptual and storytelling skills
- Mastery of the written word
- Proficiency in all media spaces
- Collaborative mindset
- Solid strategic understanding
- A variety of production experience
- Familiarity with production technologies
- Ability to deliver high-level platform campaigns
- Commitment to and respect for craft
- Polished client presentation skills
- Ability to juggle multiple assignments
- Ability to own workload and hit deadlines
- Passion for creative problem solving

Your experience:

- 5+ years in an agency setting

Email your work and resume to:  careers@camp-king.com


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