RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce complex creative projects from creative concepting through production and delivery.
• Working alongside the Creative Director to map out project needs based on client brief
• Prepare accurate and detailed budgets and schedules, ensuring projects run on time and within budget
• Liaise with clients and vendors to prepare SOW/contracts, negotiating scope and usage rights
• Keep track of studio resources, prioritizing tasks when projects run in parallel, and ensure deadlines are met
• Give accurate and timely status reports on progress
• Coordinate with account manager and creative team to guarantee the workflow, documentation, and design standards are being upheld
• Negotiate, book, and manage external resources alongside the Art Director
• Be the first point of contact with the client, managing new queries/requests, keeping ongoing dialogue to manage their expectations, ensuring they provide feedback in a timely manner, and clearly communicate any changes to the project scope
• Ensure all content is on brand and meets client’s requirements and is consistent with MW.S quality of work

QUALIFICATIONS + SKILLS

• 3+ years experience as a producer in a creative studio / agency
• Highly organized with excellent time & project management skills
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously and prioritize conflicting tasks while remaining level-headed and confident
• Excellent client/vendor relationship management
• Team-oriented and enthusiastic, with the ability to rally a team together
• Thrives in environments that require active problem-solving and removing roadblocks to allow the team to work without restrictions

NICE TO HAVES

• Working knowledge of post production, 3D, and animation language
• A knowledge of computer software that is related to web design, video editing, and graphic design is preferred.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This is a remote position, but we ask that you are located within a U.S. Timezone
• This position is Full Time for a duration of 3 months

RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Strategist will be expected to work with every team across the studio — Strategy, Design, Direction, Motion, and Operations — and as such, is expected to be able to adapt communication styles to best suit the needs of the recipient.
• Working towards making it easy for MW.S clients to make decisions about their future. First, by turning data about consumer behavior into information, so that it’s easily consumable. Secondly, to alleviate decision paralysis that clients are faced with by clearly displaying the practical benefits and drawbacks of creative opportunities placed in front of them.
• All members of MW.S are innately creative, optimistic, passionate, and possess a desire to constantly improve. As a Strategist, in addition to the attributes above, you are expected to maintain creative flexibility, adapting and molding to varying situations to arrive at the best possible solution.
• Ultimately, Strategists at MW.S are tasked with solving complex problems that don’t have obvious or immediate answers, which unlocks the work and potential of other team members.

QUALIFICATIONS + SKILLS

• A creative philosophy, vision, and approach that aligns with that of MW.S
• 3+ Years of experience at a design studio, agency, or in-house brand team (While specific role experience is not what we’re prioritizing, we would assume individuals with the right experience have held positions such as Brand Strategist, Creative Strategist, Content Strategist, Forecaster, Futurist, or Researcher).
• The ability to lead the development of a client-facing creative presentation
• The ability to connect loose dots and turn data into information
• The ability to conduct surveys & design and lead stakeholder interviews when necessary
• A researcher by default, is constantly consuming new information through web articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, etc
• Passionate and excited by art history, brand theory, cultural tendencies, consumer behavior, and Internet discourse
• Able to connect research in a meaningful way, guiding teams to clear objectives and tangible goals
• Naturally thinks ahead and predicts the needs of others
• Able to provide direction, guidance, and constructive feedback to team members
• Desire to make work that is culturally relevant, thought-provoking, and slightly playful

NICE TO HAVES

• The ability to design presentations using Keynote or Figma
• The ability to quickly reference creative examples within the world that are relevant to the problems we are working to solve

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This is a remote position, but we ask that you are located within a U.S. Timezone
• This position is Full Time for a duration of 3 months