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# Job Description
- Assist the principals of the company—Jamie King and Roger Camp—with all scheduling, travel plans, and anything else they may need/require.
- Track whereabouts of aforementioned principals (this is essential).
- Assist in scheduling client and internal meetings and serve as point of contact with all client Executive Assistants.
- Lend support to all other Jr. Partner &  director level people: Managing Director Chicago, Strategy, Creative, Account, Talent/Operations/Finance and Production.
- Have an understanding of the accounts and the businesses, what is going on, etc. Attend all weekly agency status meetings.
- Serve as the agency point-of-contact for Concur travel booking, ensuring that all employees are able to book everything they need and provide guidance as needed. Ensure that all travel charges are accurately coded on our corporate American Express bill.
- Prepare all travel, expense reports, and scheduling for staff at director level and higher. 
- Work very closely with Director of Talent/Operations in all Human Resources efforts. Coordinate employee PTO, recruiting and scheduling interviews, employee reviews, etc.
- Assist Office Coordinator in executing all agency events and outings. Play an active role in adding to the agency culture.
- Responsible for accurate time sheet entry for the agency partners.
- Must be flexible and available at off hours especially when team is out of the office and traveling.
- Must jump in and help on any/all creative/strategic presentations and new business pitches. This may mean working late and weekends and could encompass anything from doing research, competitive reviews, mounting boards or putting leave-behind books together.
- Position reports to Director of Talent/Operations and Principals of Agency.

# Applicants must possess the following attributes:
- Must be flexible and available at off hours especially when team is out of the office and traveling and on production. 
- Eager to learn and not afraid of hard work. Be willing to pitch in when needed.
- Be a team player and someone who takes initiative.
- A well-balanced individual who is positive, smart, fun/funny, but knows when to be serious and professional, intuitive.
- Be very organized, have great follow-through, be thorough and detail oriented.
- Must have a working knowledge of Google Drive & Microsoft Office and be very proficient on a computer and all Apple programs.
- BA required.
 
# To Apply
Send cover letter and résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)

Administrative Assistant

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, confident, organized individual to serve as one half of an Associate Creative Director team. The ideal candidate is obsessed with making great
work, has outstanding interpersonal skills, and a talent for building strong client
relationships.

The Associate Creative Director reports into our Creative Directors and CCO.

# What you bring to the table

* Strong conceptual abilities
* Should possess a sharp strategic understanding with the ability to deliver high-level platforms
* Remarkable art direction and a strong knowledge of the        advertising media landscape
* Has a strong eye for design and possesses the ability to design on their own
* Polished client presentation skills demonstrating a clear vision of how the work addresses the client challenge
* Inspires clients and team members with great visual design
* Keeps up-to-date on emerging advertising media, popular culture and trends
* Ability to lead and mentor younger creatives in their development
* Work collaboratively as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
* Ensures all work is done to agreed deadlines and within budget, often monitoring the progress of more junior staff
* Multi-tasks, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight deadlines
* Experiences in all facets of the production process, from concept to ship
* Multi-tasks, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight deadlines 
* Experiences in all facets of the production process, from concept to ship

# Your experience
* A bachelor’s degree, design and advertising emphasis preferred 
* 8-plus years of experience in an agency setting
* Experience across a variety of communications channels and business categories (agency experience preferred) 

# To Apply
Send cover letter and résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)



Associate Creative Director/Art Director

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, confident, organized individual to serve as one half of an Associate Creative Director team. The ideal candidate is obsessed with making great
work, has outstanding interpersonal skills, and a talent for building strong client
relationships.

The Associate Creative Director reports into our Creative Directors and CCO.

# What you bring to the table
* Excellent written skills 
* Strong conceptual abilities 
* Should possess a sharp strategic understanding with ability to deliver high-level platforms 
* Ensures the proper placement, context and meaning of every word as well as the 
overall message within a creative assignment 
* Establishes tone, character, and messages that will effectively communicate with the target audience and fulfill the project objectives 
* Able to prepare a range of integrated copy for 360 campaigns in various 
mediums 
* Polished client presentation skills demonstrating a clear vision of how the work 
addresses the client challenge 
* Inspires clients and team members with great writing and conceptual thinking 
* Keeps up-to-date on emerging advertising media, popular culture and trends 
* Ability to lead and mentor younger creatives 
* Work collaboratively as part of a team in a fast-paced environment 
* Ensures all work is done to agreed deadlines and within budget, often monitoring 
the progress of more junior staff 
* Multi-tasks, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight 
deadlines 
* Experience in all facets of the production process, from concept to ship 

# Your experience
* Bachelor’s degree in an associated field 
* 8-plus years of experience in an advertising agency setting 
* Experience across a variety of communications channels and business 
categories 

# To Apply
Send cover letter and résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)







Associate Creative Director/Copywriter

Our Chicago office is growing and was established to expand our new business opportunities with clients east of the Rockies. 

We need to find a special breed of leader who can help build a strong foundation for our new Chicago offering during its critical nascent phase. We’re not only looking for a masterful business lead that can drive their client’s business and be a creative catalyst for the agency, but also a cultural leader who nurtures our ‘one office, two locations’ agency model and plays an indispensable role creating the long corridor between our West Coast home base and our Midwest operations for both our internal agency and client teams. 

Specifically, we’re looking for a seasoned Brand Director with experience leading large, fast-paced, national retail accounts (ideally in the QSR category) to be the day-to-day brand business lead for a new account out of our Chicago office. 

The Brand Director will report to the Management Director of Camp + King Chicago and have responsibility for both a Brand Supervisor and 2 Brand Managers who will be based in both Chicago and San Francisco.

# Leadership Capabilities
- A proven track record forging deep, credible, trust-based relationships and casting influence with senior level clients (CMO/CEO).
- A relentlessly committed brand steward that will immerse themselves in the client’s business in order to embrace, inspire, and elevate the creative idea.
- Strong strategic thinker and thought leader that can solve marketing and business problems with innovation, decisiveness, speed, and clarity. Responsible for bringing the strategy to life in creative and managing both internal creative and external client parties to drive to the desired strategic outcome.
- The ultimate advocate for the agency and the work, while also representing a trusted and fair picture of the client’s perspective, needs, and objectives. Responsible for building the bridge between client and agency and fostering mutual trust that allows us to elevate our creative product.
- A respected manager, mentor and inspired team leader with a proven track record driving and elevating the growth paths and success of your team members and direct reports.
- An authentic collaborator responsible for forging strong partnerships amongst internal and external agency partners.

# Characteristics
- Someone who was raised (or spent considerable time) in a creative agency culture known for strategic problem solving and world-class creative work with a track record of driving agency and client growth.
- A passionate leader who can help build a young agency and the Camp + King brand in the highly competitive Chicago advertising market.
- A self-starter who can quickly earn the respect and trust of their new team members and create a strong team dynamic that will close the distance between Chicago and San Francisco.
- A “roll-up your sleeves” mentality and willingness to play a role below and above them.
- An entrepreneurial mindset and attitude, with the ability to operate in a scrappy, “start-up-like” environment. A genuine commitment to do all it takes to help the agency and clients become great.
- The desire to both “do” and “lead.” Delegating shouldn’t be the default.
- A personality that doesn’t take themselves too seriously, but takes the agency and its work very seriously.

# Creativity
- Recognize the relevance of the agency’s ideas to your client’s business needs, demonstrate original thinking, and make a positive impact on your team.
- Uphold high standards of excellence and provide valuable counsel in the creative development process to maximize the quality of the agency’s creative ideas.
- Continually search for creative ways to drive the client’s business and improve our creative product.
- Lead the charge with senior members of the Agency team to foster, protect and sell the big idea.
- Challenge yourself to be innovative in your thinking and take calculated risks.
- Seek ways to become more creative by actively participating in your professional growth.

# Knowledge & Skill
- Effectively oversee the day-to-day needs of the business
 - You have a command of the QSR category and the key drivers of the client’s business.
 - You actively seek new ways to solve our client’s business problems and improve our creative product.
 - You provide valuable business perspective and analysis.
 - You routinely develop helpful perspectives to solve issues and answer assignments.
 - You can help author marketing plans on behalf of your client.
 - You clearly understand how your client evaluates business success, understand their measurement tools and present recommendations to strengthen the business.
- Demonstrate the ability to solve problems via observations, analysis, and action.
- A dynamic and charismatic presenter and can persuasively present a POV sell the Agency’s POV.
- Equipped with a deep understanding of all aspects of production.
- Proven knowledge of all media. Examples of leading traditional, digital, social and mobile campaigns.
- Well-versed in campaign and pitch strategy development.
- A leading contributor to the agency’s new business/growth efforts.
- Constantly pursue your own professional development.
- You solicit feedback on your performance and respond well to it.

# Productivity
- Effectively forecast and allocate resources based on current and future workload while monitoring how those resources impact the financial health of the business.
- Play a meaningful role in the Agency’s financial management of the client’s business and agency costs.
- Seek integrated solutions for the client’s business that also grow agency revenue.
- Contribute ideas that result in real cost and time savings for the agency.
- You make every effort to control costs and ensure profitability.
- Capable of managing an account P&L and SOW.

# To Apply
Send cover letter and résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)

Brand Director

We’re looking for a Brand Manager to join the team on RE/MAX and Del Taco. 

On RE/MAX, you’ll report directly into the Head of the Brand department, giving you an opportunity to manage up and challenge yourself. You’ll be producing one major integrated campaign per year with a healthy budget and managing Social year-round. The pace is measured, and you get exposed to Broadcast, Radio, Digital, Print/OOH, and Social. 

On Del Taco, you’ll work in a fast-paced retail environment alongside a Brand Supervisor and report into the Managing Director, owning various projects across Social and Digital, with opportunities to take on Broadcast as you grow. 

The accounts are very different, so you’ll get varied experience and the opportunity to work with amazing talent across the agency. You’ll also get to work on New Business when your bandwidth allows.

# Requirements
- 2&thinsp;–&thinsp;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.

# 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
Send cover letter and résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)

Brand Manager

We are looking for a self-motivated Content Designer, who has a strong background in social, digital and traditional media while working in a fast-paced environment.
 
The Content Designer reports into our Creative Directors and collaborates closely with art directors and designers in the creative department of our advertising agency.

# Responsibilities
The Content Designer is responsible for creating and optimizing content that aligns with client marketing objectives. The ideal candidate is someone who lives and breathes social and design, is always up to date on trends and innovations. They are passionate about consumer behaviors and social trends that can be translated into creative work that exceeds clients and agency expectations. 

# Job Description
- Work with Art Directors and Designers to design and execute high quality content across all relevant social, digital and print media.
- Take campaign ideas and create multiple executions across all media.
- Build presentation decks. 
- Build multiple print mechanicals & work directly with print/broadcast producers to ensure proper guidelines, specs and pre-press practices have been followed.
- Can provide industry best practices, digital knowledge and deep understanding of social platforms.
- Partner with brand teams to make sure deadlines and deliverables are met based on scope of work agreed with client. 
- Can adhere/work within client design and brand guidelines. 
- Keeps current with industry visual design standards and trends.
- Will help from time to time with Photoshop and Illustrator comping.

# Skills 
- Passionate about design, sets a high level of craft in their work
- Ability to take direction and provide multiple solutions
- Ability to prioritize with tight deadlines and follow through
- Extremely detail oriented, well organized, strong problem solving skills
- Must possess strong applied skills in design, layout, composition and typography
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Knows the digital & print production process inside and out
- Layout design and retouching a plus
- Expert in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Keynote. Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite workflow and user experience of social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, etc.) 

# Experience
- 3+ years of design-related industry experience (advertising agency or digital marketing) 
- Proven design experience for social media and most digital platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, etc.
- Degree in design preferred (BA/BFA)


# To Apply
Send cover letter and résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)

Content Designer 

Camp + King is looking for an Integrated Producer to join our agency.
 
Our agency philosophy is to Make Brands Conversationworthy. We do this by creating content for brands that are worth engaging with, talking about and sharing. Some of our clients include: Energizer, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Uber Freight, Del Taco, RE/MAX , PrAna and Papa Johns. 
 
We’re looking to add an Integrated Producer to our exceptional production team. Our producers are creative problem solvers who love assembling the best makers to pull off miracles no matter the budget, large and small.  We produce a wide variety of content for a wide variety of clients – handling everything from traditional broadcast to social to experiential. 
 
Our producers are incredibly organized and have the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time. We’ve cultivated a very close-knit community by working hard and having each other’s backs as we strive to make the best work any of us has ever done. You’ll fit right in here if you have a sense of humor, thrive on multi-tasking and love making great work.

# Requirements 
- 6+ years of experience in video prodiction with additional experience in digital and experiential. 
- Manage every stage of production from advising during creative development to estimating, scheduling, and delivering a variety of content. 
- Significant experience working with a range of directors, editors, animators, composers,  etc.
- Strong communication skills with creatives, clients and production partners.
- Ability to negotiate and manage budget from small and scrappy to very high end production.

# To Apply
Send your résumé and reel to [stacy.mcclain@camp-king.com](mailto:stacy.mcclain@camp-king.com)

 

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