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VP, Enterprise Sales

Direct Hire

A global Video Ad Tech company needs a VP of Enterprise Sales to drive revenue for a hot new SaaS-based product. They need a consummate sales pro, a hunter who thrives in a fast-paced, business-building environment, and who understands that success depends on being both a contributor and a team builder. You’re going to need a history of closing big strategic business with the media folks at top agencies and executives making platform decisions at publishers. The comp is right on for a true performance-oriented individual. The equity’s quite nice, to boot.

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UX Designer

Freelance

We’re searching for an Information Architect/UX Designer to join a major technology company. This is mid-level gig where you can expect a balanced focus between strategy and execution. It’s a 3-month contract gig, but if you impress them — and we think you will — you could find yourself in a full-time position when the contract ends. Oh, and there’s a twist: in addition to digital products, you’ll also get to lend your singular brilliance to physical devices. Read on.

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UX Strategist

Freelance

Your attention, please: a product-focused digital agency is looking for a director-level User Experience strategist to come aboard for an immediate client engagement. Their client is building a new e-commerce business, and they need a seasoned pro with exceptional customer-focused UX skills to lead this project. The project will be 40 hours a week for five weeks, and is an immediate hire.

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Content Producer

Freelance

We’re looking for an energetic, detail-oriented Content Producer for a freelance gig. You’ll be helping a financial giant get its in-house digital presence in order. This gig will likely be for six months – possibly longer.

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Industrial Engineer with UX Chops

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We’re on the hunt for a top-notch Industrial Engineer to join a large technology company. The Design team needs your expertise to inform the creation of innovative new hardware, including doing some actual physical modeling. That means you’ll need to be equal parts mechanical engineer, industrial designer, and UX pro. It’s a tall order, but we know you’re out there.

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Vice President, Business Development

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A premier Ad Tech company that’s a market leader in the video realm needs a VP of Corporate Development/Business Development to take the reins on a hot new SaaS-based product for media companies, publishers, and advertisers. To land this gig, you’ll need to have a knack for pulling together strategic deals at a very high level across major organizations.

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Executive Creative Director

Direct Hire

A prominent entertainment technology company needs an Executive Creative Director to come aboard and help them take their entire suite of products to the next level. If you can create engaging user experiences for multiple platforms and devices, and have massive design chops for both digital and physical products, this might be your next gig.

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Creative Director: Ad Solutions

Direct Hire

We’re looking for an all-star Senior Art Director (Ad Solutions) to join a brand new, in-house creative studio for our client, a well-known and respected media company. They’re focused on developing innovative ad solutions for the brands and agencies that they partner with, and they need someone who’s got plenty of experience developing creative solutions for a broad range of clients.

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General Manager, Mobile Monetization

Direct Hire

One of NYC’s top start-ups for 2012 in the video arena is searching for their next General Manager of Mobile Monetization. This role is all about adding oomph to their West Coast operation and helping it scale dramatically. This is the sort of company where innovation reigns supreme. The team here is motivated, smart, and extremely dedicated to building next generation video technology that powers mobile media (as well as all the other screens). If you’re a seasoned operator with passion for driving mobile products and doing mobile deals with publishers and/or advertisers, then raise your hand.

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Community Manager

Direct Hire

A company that’s revolutionizing education by re-imagining how educators and students interact through technology is looking for a Community Manager to help build and grow a thriving online community. Have you built a vibrant user community? Have you helped cultivate and elevate super users into community thought leaders? Are you passionate about the possibilities that lie beyond the intersection of technology and education? If so, you just found your dream gig.

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The Hired Guns

Budgeting for Cash: A Survival Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs

Creative entrepreneurs in any field face a similar challenge: managing cash. Whether we are artists, performers, freelancers, contractors, or simply part-time dabblers, we lack the income predictability and stability of colleagues with more traditional forms of salaried employment. But when it comes to managing our often unpredictable incomes, just building a budget isn’t enough. We also have to tweak the budget so that it will serve as a cash management tool, not simply a budgeting tool. I’ll show you how smart budgeting can prevent a panic during your next lean month.

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Ryan Galloway

What Rock ‘n’ Roll Can Teach Us About the U.S. Economy

Last week, NPR ran a story about White House economic adviser Alan Krueger’s abiding passion: Rockanomics. Yes, that’s a real thing, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: the economics of popular music. Despite being the least rock ‘n’ roll-looking person ever, Krueger makes some very salient points about how the economy of pop stardom closely mirrors the economy we mere mortals must contend with.

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More Money. Happier Life. Free Lunch & Learn. Wednesday, June 19.

The Hired Guns invite you to join Elaine Grogan Luttrull, an expert in helping creatives in every field achieve sustainable and fulfilling financial security, for a free Lunch and Learn session on Wednesday, June 19.

Elaine is the author of the new book Arts & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class. She’s also a CPA and the founder of Minerva Financial Arts, a professional financial consultancy for artists and arts organizations. She’s also blogged for us about how to craft a budget, and how the very act of budgeting can you make you happier person.

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Danny Flamberg

6 Rules for Creating Web Properties That Work

Everyone thinks they know how to create a site for the new Web. They’re almost all wrong. Gabe Shaoolian, founder of Blue Fountain Media, is emerging as a Web 5.0 guru based on the sheer volume of sites he’s built and his UX-driven insights. Here are his rules for recreating the Web in a way that works.

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The Hired Guns

Hired Guns in the News: Seniority Can’t Protect You from a Changing Economy

Our own Allison Hemming shared some thoughts on the volatility of the current job market with CNN Money’s Jennifer Reingold.

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Ashley Milne-Tyte

How to Overcome Female Guilt at Work

Recently I was at a conference for female entrepreneurs when a young business owner got up to ask one of the panelists a question: “How do you deal with Mommy guilt?” I wasn’t inspired by the answer, which consisted of the usual fudge along the lines of spending ‘quality time’ with the kids.

I wish she’d said what women need to hear, which is, essentially, “Don’t feel guilty.”

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Budgeting for Those Who Would Rather Not

Few tasks overwhelm us as much as budgeting. We worry the budget will be wrong. We fear that we’ll omit some key part that makes it “work” or worse, makes a working budget fail. We cannot begin to summarize our existence in a few key budget categories.

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Lewis Schiff, author of Business Brilliant, on career security in the new economy

Lewis Schiff would like to tell you how to build your personal wealth, and we think you should probably listen. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons, destroys common myths about wealth, and explains how legendary entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Suze Orman, Steve Jobs, and Warren Buffett have subscribed to a set of priorities completely different from those of the middle class. He’s a busy guy, but he was kind enough to make time for us.

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The Secret to Happiness

Once upon a time, the idea of a starving artist was etched in stone (long after the actual stone-etchers who were both artists and well-respected professionals, by the way, were no longer etching). The idea of a Renaissance person who mastered technical, intellectual pursuits as well as artistic ones had given way to starving artists, who were beholden to patrons to support their artistic pursuits. The patrons dictated the terms of their work; if the artists didn’t like those terms, they lived in poverty. The relationship between financial security and creative liberty was clear and linear. An increase in one meant a necessary decrease in the other. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case.

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Five Skills I Use Every Day: Tammy Sachs, Strategic UX Research Consultant

Tammy Sachs is the founder and CEO of Sachs Insights, a strategic UX research consultancy. She was kind enough to share the five skills she uses daily at while helping clients uncover new ways to improve their products.

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Stay tuned for our 2013 schedule of courses!

A brand-new schedule of courses for the creative class is coming soon!

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Lunch and Learn with Elaine Grogan Luttrull: Budgeting for Sustainable Happiness

The Hired Guns invite you to join Elaine Grogan Luttrull, an expert in helping creatives in every field achieve sustainable and fulfilling financial security, for a Lunch and Learn session on Wednesday, June 19.

Elaine is the author of the new book Arts & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class. She’s also a CPA and the founder of Minerva Financial Arts, a professional financial consultancy for artists and arts organizations. She’s also blogged for us about how to craft a budget, and how the very act of budgeting can you make you happier person.

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The 2013 Smarties Mobile Marketing Awards Call for Submissions

Submissions are being accepted now through July 19 for the global Smarties™ 2013 Awards program, recognizing the best of innovation, creativity and leadership in mobile marketing. We invite you to join us and stand up and be counted with best-of-the-best worldwide and submit your award…

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Nominations for the 2012 Small Business Influencer Awards

The Small Business Influencer 2012 Awards honor companies, organizations, apps and people who have made a significant impact on the North American small business market. A small business influencer is a person, app, company or other organization that has made a meaningful and lasting impact…

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Gotham At A Glance Free Introductory Writers’ Workshop

Ask the burning questions about writing that you haven’t yet found the right moment to ask at this evening with Gotham Writers’ Workshop faculty and staff. Instructors will give a few quick talks about writing, and everyone will mingle over wine, soda, and snacks. One…

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Social Media for the Freelance Soul

In this 90 minute seminar, you’ll learn how to leverage individual social media platforms to brand yourself as an authority in your field and grow your business. You’ll learn unique, laser-focused strategies that will bring you beyond the basics of popular social networking sites like…

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Women Leaders Summit: Empowering Women Forward

Three incredible women leaders speak about how they have led the way through their vast experiences for other women to become leaders. We are inspired by their journey and want to share it with a community of women interested in changing the ratio. A keynote conversation with: Francis Hesselbein, Christine Comaford, and Carole Hyatt.

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Columbia Journalism School — Summer Investigative Reporting Course

Overview: Over three weeks, fellows who work throughout the world and in ALL media platforms from newspapers to digital news sites to broadcast will examine what investigative journalism is and how to conceive, research and write such stories. The process involves recognizing when something should…

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Dart Center Newsroom Leadership Academy

Traumatic events and crises – such as natural disaster, civil unrest, mass shootings or threats to journalists themselves – test the skill and capacity of newsroom leaders. A small town is devastated by a mass shooting. A world capital comes under terrorist attack. A newsroom’s…

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CPG Panel Event

How are packaged goods leveraging digital technologies to become lovemarks? How is the path to purchase shrinking via shopping and payments technologies? Hear from best in class CPG marketers and brand change agents on how innovation is driving new marketing approaches. This event is open…

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Columbia Journalism School — Reporting Safely in Crisis Zones

Covering crisis presents some of the biggest challenges in the profession. The wrong move can kill someone, including yourself. Reporters must make quick decisions on whether to trust a translator or drive down a dangerous road. This course will show how to operate with caution…

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Animation, Art Direction, Creative Direction, Corporate Identity, Flash Design/Dev, Graphic Design, Web Design

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