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

We’re looking for a confident and capable Associate Creative Director /Copywriter tojoin our SF team. The ideal candidate is versatile, strategically smart, and highly self-motivated. Our team is tight knit, so you should have 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. You should be organized and capable of running your own projects with minimal oversight from creative directors. Additionally, you will help mentor and lead younger creative team members. You are at ease with clients, and effective at selling your own work to c-suite level executives.

Most importantly, you should be a kind, empathetic 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 perfecting your craft
- Polished client presentation skills
- Polished teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Ability to juggle multiple assignments
- Ability to own workload and hit deadlines
- Passion for creative problem solving
- Desire to lead

Your experience:
6+ years in an agency setting
To apply:  Send link to portfolio and cover letter to careers@camp-king.com.

Associate Creative Director /Copywriter

San Francisco & Chicago

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.

Camp + King has a flexed work from home/office policy.

# 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.

# 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](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)


Brand Manager/Account Executive

__Brand Supervisor__

Camp + King has offices in San Francisco and Chicago and in our short, but mighty, 10-year tenure we’ve been named one of AdAge’s Small Agencies of the Year 4 times and appeared in Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work list. 
In 2021 Camp + King was named on Ad Age’s A List as one of the top agencies in America. 

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. Some of our clients include: Papa John’s, Energizer, RE/MAX, Jackson Hewitt and prAna.

Our growing Chicago office is expanding our new business opportunities with clients east of the Rockies. A cornerstone of this office is the work we are doing with Papa John’s.  A company in transition, Papa John’s has spent the past 18 months reinvigorating its brand under the leadership of a new executive team and will be transitioning its corporate headquarters from Louisville to Atlanta.  We are partnering with this client in the evolution of their brand foundations and bringing those to life through their product innovation calendar, brand reputation efforts, and inter-disciplinary marketing activations. 
Camp + King is seeking a seasoned Brand Supervisor to support our Papa John’s client. The right person for this role is a highly driven self-starter who is passionate about growing and evolving as a strategic thinker and has developed client management skills that allow them to be comfortable with both leading a team, as well as working independently.  This person will report to the Brand Director (who is based in Chicago), while managing work streams with strategy, creative and production teams based in San Francisco.  Due to that, this person must be a champion of our ‘one office two locations’ agency model and play an indispensable role in supporting the long corridor between our West Coast home base and our Midwest operations for both our internal agency and client teams. While there is a preference for an individual based out of Chicago, candidates from both geographies will be considered.

The ideal candidate has experience in and is motivated by contributing to a large, fast-paced national retail piece of business, (ideally in the QSR category) and has the ability to develop strong client and partner relationships while providing invaluable support to the execution of the agency’s creative. We’re looking for someone who is able to wear many hats and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves; a team member who can work smartly, accurately, efficiently and have fun while doing it. You should be driven by a desire to do great creative work and to be highly involved in getting there.
Daily responsibilities include supporting the development of brand and social strategy, managing omni-channel campaigns, collaborating with inter-agency partners while managing the integrated marketing process, and acting as point person for the creation and delivery of projects, presentations and all creative work requested by clients.

__Skills Expected__
- A strategically sound mind that is built on your years of experience that can be employed to help solve problems as they inevitably arise with innovation, decisiveness, speed, and clarity.
- A proven track record managing workload, accomplishing tasks and managing others in a timely and effective manner. The ability to proactively manage the details while also monitoring high level initiatives of your team and account.
- An authentic collaborator and consummate team player, who has experience forging strong, trust-based partnerships with partners (client + agency), creatives, and producers not just in meeting rooms, but also in day-to-day conversations, at shoots and over coffee.
-	An ability to manage up, as well as down. What does that mean? It means you know how and when to loop in your supervisor—neither too often on the small stuff, nor too late on the big stuff. You have a sense of how to nurture those below you and help them grow.
-	Deep understanding of the production process - ability to analyze an estimate with an educated eye, run a shoot while managing client needs, deliver the goods on time and exceeding expectations, and generally keep all the wheels turning at an even pace.
-	A minimum 5 years of agency experience.  Experience in QSR preferred.

To Apply, please send your résumé to careers@camp-king.com 

Brand Supervisor

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.

# To apply
Please email your resumes to:  [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)


Senior IT Support Technician

Camp + King is seeking a seasoned and excellent Strategy Director or Group Strategy Director. We’re looking for someone eager to take the next step in her/his planning career, who brings with them a well-developed strategic toolkit, killer planning chops and creative instinct, and has expertly honed their people and client management skills.

This is a critically important position for our agency. This person reports into the Director of Strategy with direct responsibility for a client business or portfolio. You’d partner with C+K leaders across Brand, Creative, and Production teams, including our unique Content Lab offering. Likely, you’ll be asked to serve as a strategic lead across other integrated partner agencies, too.

This role is located in Chicago.  We’re currently working remotely, but plan to return to the office this fall with a focus on flexible work arrangements.

# About you
- You’ve got 10 or more years of experience as an agency strategist, in research or consumer insight development, or in a client-side brand planning team and have a portfolio that demonstrates your mastery of strategic planning skills
- (Note that Group Strategy Director candidates are expected to have more than a dozen years of experience in strategic planning and have been previously responsible for managing an entire client portfolio)
- A significant portion of your career has been spent within an agency environment (required)
- Expert-level fluency across many languages of strategic planning, such as brand strategy, account planning, creative strategy, product marketing, social strategy, communications planning, content strategy, digital strategy, or multicultural marketing
- You can point to actionable audience, cultural, or market insights that you’ve personally developed, explain how you generated them, and demonstrate how those insights led to success
- You are an accomplished presenter, facilitator, interviewer, and researcher
- You’ve fostered strong client relationships and demonstrated an innate ability to understand the complexities of your clients’ businesses—so much so that you’ve got former senior (VP-level or higher) marketing clients willing to sing your praises
- You’ve got a demonstrated fluency in understanding clients’ approach to research, including the metrics they’ve prioritized and the methodologies and partners they’ve historically deployed
- Ambiguity or complexity doesn’t scare you; you’ve got a strong ability to gather, analyze and synthesize information
- You can build beautiful creative briefs that inspire great work… in your sleep
- You’ve proven yourself to be a trusted, effective, and imaginative leader; you’ve managed team members directly and inspired them to achieve their best work
- You’ve got a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area of study, including advertising, public relations, journalism, sociology, anthropology, or psychology; preference given to candidates with Master’s or other advanced degrees, or a demonstrated academic curiosity through other coursework

# What you’ll do
- Take responsibility for the C+K Strategy offering to an entire client or portfolio
- Immediately develop deep client relationships, serving as a virtual extension of their marketing teams; more importantly, be the first person our client partners want to bounce an idea off of or from whom they seek out counsel—in this role, our expectation is that you’ll quickly become the de facto strategic consultant to a Chief Marketing Officer- or Chief Brand Officer-level client
- Partner with the Director of Strategy and the CEO to help evolve the overall strategic offering for Camp + King 
- Partner with our Brand team leaders to not only effectively service client needs, but to galvanize organic growth, and to pitch and win new business with a high win-rate
- Partner with our Creative team leaders to inspire excellent creative work and tirelessly champion creativity
- Manage one or more Strategists directly, taking ownership for the overall quality of strategic planning across your portfolio; providing mentorship and day-to-day management; and taking responsibility for their ongoing career planning, goal setting, and performance assessment
- Author thoughtful, provocative thought leadership pieces and proactively seek out industry publishing or speaking opportunities; expected to publish or speak externally multiple times per year 
- Push beyond traditional client marketing relationships to help expand C+K’s role deeper into the organization—potentially across internal insights, innovation, R+D, analytics, employment branding, engineering, culinary, or development teams
- Other duties as assigned

# About Camp + King
Camp + King is a creative boutique that was recently named an AdAge 2021 Agency A-List Standout. In our ten years, we’ve also been recognized by AdAge’s Small Agency Of the Year four times, including most recently as the Silver Overall winner in 2020. Outside Magazine has included us on its Best Places to Work national list, too.

At Camp + King, we’re a diverse team with a conscience. Our goal is simple—to have a positive impact on people and the world around us. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are deeply important to us and we’re proud that 69% of our agency is made up of women, BIPOC, or LGBTQ+ team members. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and that’s why we’re committed to:
- Data transparency with the goal of doing more and doing better
- Closing the opportunity gap and amplifying diverse voices
- Training and education to create a more inclusive culture

# To apply
Please send your résumé to [careers@camp-king.com](mailto:careers@camp-king.com)


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