A cutting-edge communications agency with a roster of amazing brands is seeking an innovative agency PR Account Director who’s a killer strategist, relationship manager, and team leader with chops in traditional PR, earned and emerging media, experiential, and social.
One of the world’s leading digital brand management firms needs a hybrid Account Lead-Senior Project Manager with top-flight project management chops, a keen eye for details, strong technical capabilities, and great client-facing experience.
This Hired Guns client, a major television network with a heavy digital presence, is on the hunt for a solid User Experience Designer with a strong understanding of editorial-driven site design. This team has a full slate of work for 2012, and they need your insight and command of UX best practices to jump in and crank through websites, mobile projects and more.
We’re drafting a top-of-the-line Digital Editor who can lead a complete rethink of a leading sports brand. On the content side, solid expertise within the sports vertical (particularly NFL, NCAA and the other big leagues) and time spent driving a digital news organization would be the one-two punch. You’ll have them kneeling like Tebow if you can also demonstrate a strong track record in delivering major traffic gains for the properties you’ve run.
Our client, whose disruptive approach to financial data transformed the way Wall Street works, seeks a Product Manager with top-notch mobile experience who can change the world of tablet and smartphone applications in an equally transformative way.
The Hired Guns are seeking a Visual Designer to join the digital team of a world-class web and TV media company. You’ll be responsible for the look and feel of a fleet of cross platform interfaces and products and help our client create engaging online destinations that deliver content in fresh ways.
A hot-shot integrated communications agency is looking for a Senior Account Executive. Digital PR pros and social media mavens with lifestyle and consumer experience, particularly in Spirits, Music and Tech, please apply.
We’re looking for a seasoned User Experience pro to tackle a major project for this Hired Guns client, a well-known presence in the financial space. We can’t share a lot of details here, but suffice to say that you’ll be a key player in the creation of interfaces for the next generation of financial software.
This Hired Guns client, a world-class ad agency, seeks a seasoned project manager (senior PM or Associate Director level) to take the reins with a creative team that’s redesigning a blue-chip company’s global website. What they need: an extremely poised and organized taskmaster and coach who can lead this effort every step of the way.
Our client, a household name in a very blue-chip sector, seeks a Data Visualization and Charting Business Manager who can conceive, prototype, develop, and hone the charts and other graphics that deliver financial and economic data to its sophisticated customers.
Bullet Points: New Tech Solutions for Talent Acquisition
And why “authenticity” is sometimes overrated.
Sree Sreenivasan on What Social Media Weekend 2012 Has in Store
“We love coming across people who still think that Twitter is all about celebrity gossip and people’s lunch menus.”
Bullet Points: Stop the HR Bashing!
Why HR makes a popular whipping boy, and what the new list of the “best companies to work for” reveals.
In the News: Todd Cherches Tells Crain’s Where He Finds His Best Ideas
If you need to get creative, you might want to start by getting clean — and heading for the “cocoon of solitude.”
The Five Best Things About Being a Working Mom
It’s not always easy to be a mom who also works outside the home, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of pluses, too.
The Leadership Journey: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words, and Hours of Discussion
Where are you headed?
Bullet Points: HR and Recruiting
Why social recruiting takes so much work, and why Googling job candidates isn’t going away.
Stay tuned for our 2012 schedule of courses!
A brand-new schedule of courses for the creative class is coming soon!
Social Media Weekend
The Continuing Education department of Columbia Journalism School will host its second annual Social Media Weekend with Professor Sree Sreenivasan leading a series of workshops, panels and keynotes to help journalists, media professionals and others understand social media better. Last year more than 200 people…
Comics Out Loud
Comics Out Loud Featuring: Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson, Bob Wiacek, Chris Sotomayor and John Workman Curated by Danny Fingeroth Comic books (and their cousins, graphic novels) are something we’re all familiar with from childhood on. But if you’re not involved in making them, how they…
Reboot Workshop
The workplace is drastically changing. A December survey showed that a whopping 84% of people planned on leaving their job in 2012, and many will strike out on their own, abandoning the safe corporate life to pursue a side project or dream that has been…
No Excuses: 9 Ways For Women to Boost Their Power in 2012
Have you ever offered an idea in a meeting and no one acknowledged you, then ten minutes later a man said the same thing and people thought it was a great idea? Do you wonder why women are stuck at 18% of the top leadership…
Colorbars Networking Mixer: New Year, New You!
Colorbars is a professional organization established to support the advancement of all people of color working in the media, entertainment and communications industries. Colorbars is celebrating the New Year and the New You! We challenge our attendees to set career goals in 2012, and we…
Tax Deductions and Quarterly Payments (Freelancers Union)
Do you know which federal tax deductions you’re entitled to? Should you count your home office as a deduction? How do you calculate a quarterly tax payment and what you owe for the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax? When you know the answers to these…
Women 2.0 PITCH Conference and Competition 2012 (California)
Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition (February 14, 2012 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA) is a full day event to learn from the product innovation leaders who built Flickr, Facebook, Zipcar, TaskRabbit, LARK and more. Both men and women working in…
Six-Word Memoir Story Show on Love & Heartbreak
“Following his blog instead of him.” “Arranged marriage now sounding pretty good.” “I blame it all on Mad Men.” “Hired me. Fired me. Married me…” “Butterflies still keeping after 30 years.” “I’m six words away from divorce.” Happy Hour: 6pm * Show: 7pm Whether you’re…
Agile 2012 Conference Speaker Submissions Open Through Feb 19
The Agile2012 conference is the world’s largest conference for Agile teams, developers, executives, and managers. You have the opportunity to be a speaker at the conference by submitting a topic of interest to the general Agile community. There will be much competition – we expect…
Agile UX NYC 2012
This conference is for stakeholders, product managers and user experience designers passionate about building products that delight their customers, whether you work for a lean startup or a large organization. You’ll learn from the thought leaders in the AgileUX community about the entire lifecycle of…