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How do you interpret “Years of experience“ in salary surveys and reports?
Here’s an example. Does a Creative Director with 7+ yrs of experience have 7+ yrs in the role of a Creative Director? Or does that 7 yrs include their work as a Senior Designer?

A big tech/creative conundrum!

Copywriter w/ a decade of big name agency work, few awards but no lions or pencils. Making decent salary and decent work. Fairly happy but worried about balancing kids/money/work next year.

Have a great offer for a copy role at Facebook (salary, benefits and stock are amazing and way above what I could ever earn at an agency).

Would this effectively be my forever exit from the agency world? Ive heard once you leave you can’t come back. Any experience with this?

Question: does anyone have experience going from a creative at an ad agency to a more marketing/strategy role at a company, specifically in the entertainment industry? Been curious about how to make that career shift happen.

Anyone looking for a project manager?

Looking for a role that would interface with Account, Creative & Production teams to help execute ad campaigns & monitor KPIs/insights.

about me:
-Big4 Consulting xp
-Finance UG
-Creative portfolio
-Digital marketing xp (eCom)

ANY insight/feedback would be helpful. DM me!

I'm working at an agency that doesn't have the ACD role. On paper that means I'm a Sr. Creative. That said I was an ACD at my previous agency, I'm being paid like an ACD now, and the role is that of an ACD. If/when I leave how unethical is it to say I was an ACD here - just for the sake of optics on LinkedIn/elsewhere.

I'm looking for a new role at places similar to VSA Partners or Mother Design. Does anyone have experience at those places or similar and what appeals to them in a successful creative. I have 7 years experience and I'm mid-level to senior in my career.

Baldwin& is hiring a creative team in Raleigh/Durham. Apply on their site

How do y’all deal with imposter syndrome? I’ve been job hunting for my first Junior role and it’s so damn depressing never getting replies or any leads. It’s starting to make me question my book and myself. I’ve always been creative and don’t think I’d want to do any kind of work that doesn’t fulfill my weird creative side. Happy Friday!

JOBS! Come work on fun beer clients with our expanding in-house creative team. We do 40% social and 60% everything else, with potential to make some great portfolio-worthy work. We go into the office 3 times a week (might not have to if you are mid level) and our team is hilarious.

We’re hiring:
Senior Copywriter
Senior Art Director
Mid-level Art Director
Creative Resource Manager

DM me your book/questions!

Interviewing with a FAANG for an ACD/Creative Lead position and trying to wrap my head around salary negotiations. What are people making at similar tech companies with 6-8 years of experience (base salary and total comp)?

We hate it here. Anyone hiring creative producers?

I’m trying to make the jump from agency > platform (not FB…more like Spotify or Twitter etc.). I work with reps at these places as part of my job, but technically their loyalty is to my clients (the ones spending $ on their platform), not to me, working at the client’s creative agency. So it feels weird asking them for a recommendation or referral, but that would obviously be easier than applying on the jobs site... How do I utilize my “network” without making things awkward?

I thought I was interested in data science but I don’t care too much for the technical side of things. I am not sure what role or title I could transition to but some guidance would be nice… I’m interested in:
- coming up with creative ways to make “things” better
- little to no coding
- interacting with colleagues with ability to mentor or manage
- travel when necessary (25%)
- remote work
- ownership and autonomy of work
- high visibility role

Any ideas on what role would fit me?

1.5 yrs experience at mid level at a holding company agency, working on accounts that should in theory present a ton of creative opportunity, but for many reasons that is not the case. I have very little produced work and that seems unlikely to change. Am in final rounds of interviews for a senior position at another holding company agency on an account where the work will almost certainly not be “great” but should be able to make a lot of it. Do I make that jump to senior this early?

Just joined my agency & I’m really enjoying it!We’re hiring at a lot of different levels across our east and west coast offices (remote included). If you’re interested, message me!

B2B experience is ideal but we have consumer roles too.

PR Account Managers & Directors
Sr. Account Executives
Digital Marketing Managers & Directors
Director of Ecommerce
Senior Paid Digital Specialists
Research & Data Analysts
Art Director
Creative Director
UX/UI Designer

I’m looking for an entry-level role in SEO, Paid social, programmatic, affiliate, media strategy, account management.

Would love to find something that’s both analytical and creative, as I have experience with both. (No agency experience)

Please DM if you know of anything!

as a young creative, would you take a contract role at a FAANG that's currently on the table or try your best to land a job at a good agency instead?

Advice for transitioning from pharma to a consumer?

I graduated in 2020 and got a job in pharma, because it’s the only industry that was hiring. I really like my company, but I’m not going anywhere creatively. I want to get a job in a creative agency that embraces out-of-the-box ideas.

I have a portfolio that I’m pretty proud of but I haven’t added to it since I graduated. I’d like to avoid portfolio school (hello, debt) but am ready to put in work outside of my day job.

TIA for advice!

Want to pick up your brains.. after 11 grueling years of consulting, what are some good exit options? (Good = doesn’t have to be financially super rewarding, don’t want the office stress). Any creative ideas?

I just landed a full time role in creative at an agency but I have PTSD from my last job. I know this is kind of a broad ask, but I could use any advice that would help me not be terrible at work and keep me from getting fired.

I recently accepted a role at a smaller company and now I’m having second thoughts. I was planning on giving notice on Friday but now I’m not sure. I started looking because this summer has been really slow and I wasn’t excited by the work. Things are picking now and we’re tact planning now. Should I stay at an agency that I know, feel supported by creative leadership, and comfortable or leave for the unknown?

What’s the best way to position yourself for a creative role (eg marketing, content development, design) when you’re coming from finance / ops consulting?

Anyone got a giant spoon contact? HR or even their (creative) hiring manager?
TIA!

I was offered $108k for a designer role at chiat\day LA. Is that good? Should I have asked for more given today’s market? I’m looking for reasons to give up my freelancing lifestyle and was hoping for a title bump, which I didn’t get. I’m super unfamiliar w the advertising market and used to be a product designer. Took a pay cut to do more creative work, but if I can get back the salary I had, I would.

I don't know why this is the case and maybe it's just my agency but it seems like the people who are most eager to send out "internal trend email digests" be it cultural trends, social media changes, creative inspiration or whatever always seem to be people who are grossly failing in the primary role they were hired for.

Moving client side at a series A funded global tech startup as the Sr Director of Corporate & Brand Marketing role (lead the creative team and everything owned and earned). Report to the CMO. No VPs on the marketing team currently. SF based company. Offered 180. Seems low (and a pay cut from current role). Any thoughts on this? Appreciate the help!

Would you take an offer where there’s a lot of red flags about the company, the title is down leveled, but the money is better? For context, it’s not a creative role, I’d be the first woman on the team, there’s no bonus or 401K match, but the salary is $50K more than my current role. But there are so many red flags and the entire process was very chaotic.

Looking for Accenture info!
Interviewing at Accenture in two areas next week: Account Manager Creative and Brand Marketing and
Content Experience Manager at Accenture Interactive

The former sounds exactly like what I do now at an ad agency but on the in house agency team with Accenture being the “client”. Lots of execution work. The latter is more about answering RFPs for existing clients and developing some strategy and like 30% execution. I’m leaning toward the CEM role.
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Any mid-level copywriters looking for work? We had another writer leave and are looking to fill the position. It's a small shop with incredible creative leadership and fun food accounts. Trust me, you’ll get a lot of opportunities and have a blast. PM a link to your book and I'll tell you more.

Any mid-level copywriters looking for work? We had another writer leave and are looking to fill the position. It's a small shop with incredible creative leadership and fun food accounts. Trust me, you’ll get a lot of opportunities and have a blast. PM a link to your book and I'll tell you more.

Thinking of applying to a role at Verizon.

Yea / nay? Does anyone know what it's like?

And who to reach out to for creative roles?

🙏🏻

I work client side and had a woman in my team just put in her notice because she got an offer from another company for much more than she’s making here. Is $60k for a fully remote mid-level (3-5yrs exp) design position reasonable? If I rehire at the same salary will I get someone who will feel underpaid? It’s a state org so the benefits are amazing - but I don’t want to find myself in a situation where someone feels under valued from day 1. Thoughts, creative fishies?

Anyone looking for Sr/ACD team in London?Partner and I are currently the go-to creative team at the agency but looking for new opportunity. Lots of production experience. Some awards. Some experience managing Jr teams. Who’s hiring?