The Aquent ASAP Job List
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PLEASE INCLUDE :
- A recent resume
- A brief summary of how your experience matches the MUST HAVES
- Any samples, if requested
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THIS WEEK'S POSITIONS:
- Flash Developer
- Marketing Manager Consumer Packaged Goods
- Web Project Manager
- Design Director
- Web Designer with Agency Background (Off-Site)
- UI Designer
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POSITION: Flash Developer
TERMS: Freelance or Freelance-to-Perm (On-Site)
MUST HAVES!:
- 2 to 3 years of experience
- Hands-on skills in AS1 & AS2 (looking for a guru!)
- Prior work on large sites
- There is no design in this position
PERKS!:
- Great team at a large entertainment company
- Site seen by millions and millions
LOCATION:
- Burbank
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POSITION: Marketing Manager Consumer Packaged Goods
TERMS: Freelance (On-Site)
MUST HAVES!:
- 2 to 3 years of consumer packaged goods experience required
- Execution and analysis of marketing strategy experience
- Consumer promotions planning and execution experience
- Ability to manage P&L
PERKS!:
- Great team
- Snacks!
LOCATION:
- Glendale
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POSITION: Web Project Manager
TERMS: Three-Month Freelance (On-Site)
MUST HAVES!:
- 3 to 5 years of experience
- Previous work on large corporate sites (ideally B2C) or agency experience
- Must commit to traveling to Northridge for 3 months
PERKS!:
- Smaller group with mellow work environment
- Health-oriented company
LOCATION:
- Northridge
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POSITION: Design Director
TERMS: Permanent (On-Site)
MUST HAVES!:
- 10+ years of design experience
- 5+ years of managing teams
- Industrial design or manufacturing background
- Bachelors degree (MBA preferred)
PERKS!:
- Salary is up to $150K, DOE
- Global company
- Spearhead new product development
LOCATION:
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Monrovia
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POSITION: Web Designer with Agency Background (Off-Site)
TERMS: One-Month Freelance (Off-Site)
MUST HAVES!:
- 3 to 5 years of experience
- Agency background
- Hands-on skills in HTML & CSS
- Able to design and implement full sites for clients
- Must provide online portfolio link for client which show large, corporate sites
PERKS!:
- On-site for client meetings, otherwise, work in your pajamas!
LOCATION:
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Pasadena and Your Place
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POSITION: UI Designer
TERMS: Freelance (On-Site)
MUST HAVES!:
- Ability to take concepts and create wireframe presentations
- Background in usability and understanding of registration pages and search capabilities
- Must be available immediately
- Please submit sites and samples!
PERKS!:
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Very cool, hip site focused on GenY
LOCATION:
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Hollywood
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THAT BIT AT THE END
"Make a Run for the Borders"
Slovanistan, Former USSR (Associated Press) - From the small village of Slovanistan, located in a far corner of the former Soviet Union, PR executive Richard Price is passing out squeezee balls to village children and leading them around like a latter-day Pied Piper.
"It just makes me feel good at a deep level," said Price.
Price is part of a group of marketing executives who formed Marketers Without Borders four years ago to provide marketing materials and know-how to those populations who might otherwise have none.
"A group of us were out having drinks and discussing what other organizations were doing to help out the less fortunate, and we wondered how we could do the same."
"We were all skilled professionals, but we didn't know exactly how we could apply our skills to help the not-quite-so-prosperous. None of us know how to use a hammer so obviously Habitat for Humanity was out of the question," Price said, breaking out into laughter.
Using the organization Doctors Without Borders as a model (a group of medical specialists who perform free operations around the world), Price and five other ad industry execs formed Marketers Without Borders. Currently based out of a Frank Gehry-designed bunker in Santa Monica, California, the group now includes marketing executives from over 20 nations. Each year they send an elite team to visit six "marketing needy" villages to show them how to improve their way of life.
Walking down the mud streets of Slovanistan, Price hands out tiny house-shaped USB memory sticks, antenna balls, branded baseball caps, playing cards, visors, and thousands upon thousands of pens emblazoned with company logos to throngs of outstretched hands.
"Our clients really came out of the woodwork to give us their surplus swag," Price said, using the industry term for giveaways.
When asked what anyone from the village would do with the items, Price responded, "You may not know this, but the squeezee ball was invented as a stress reliever. And I'm sure once this hamlet enters the global economy they're going to need a heck of a lot of them."
Elsewhere in the village, Eugene Eggars, a Media Planner from YellowDuck ad agency, tried to give a PowerPoint presentation on market share and competitive advantage.
"It's been very difficult," said an out of breath and grimy Eggars. "I couldn't find a plug for my projector, so I've had to draw everything in the dirt."
Eggars laid out intricate slides and graphs on the ground around the village's main square to a crowd of curious onlookers.
He mused, "It's not really the same without the whooshing sounds and the theme from the movie Rocky playing behind me, but I think the village elders are getting the idea."
Almost as if to prove his point, two elders could be overheard telling a kulak, or peasant, they didn't have the "bandwidth" to hear his complaints and would have to schedule a lunch with "his girl".
"I feel like we're really getting somewhere," said a beaming Eggars.
Jim "Jym" Bartok, of NY's fashionable boutique agency GrAF2T, hosted another afternoon seminar to the a group of farmers. "You can say your village's yak milk is better than another village's yak milk, but without a marketing campaign, who the heck is going to believe you?" expounded an impassioned Bartok. He also implored the farmers to start thinking hard about brand consistency.
In places as remote as Pakalyn, Malaysia, Marketers Without Borders is teaching people the plusses of strategic planning and benefits of handing someone a ruler with your village's name printed on it.
But Price admits that they still have a long way to go.
While reaching into his bag for more Enron-branded whistles and lanyards he lamented, "It's going to be a long time until a lot of these townsfolk understand what we mean when we say something is 'This year's black.'"
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