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We create Beautiful Logic. We’re looking for someone that has the desire and passion for big thinking and even bigger design challenges. Someone which inspires and leads their team and projects to success and innovation. We’re looking for problem solvers, craftsman, communicators, team players, and all around cool people. You’ll be working on some of the largest and innovative media projects online. The AD will be responsible for brainstorming creative concepts with the project team, developing original design concepts, executing designs based on established style guides, leading visual design presentations to clients, and developing design specs for production.

Digital Art Directors are versatile and multi-faceted. An understanding of web technologies and grasp of the latest tools. The AD’s job is to create great interaction design schemes for clients and to help the team do the same. You should know how to foster a creative workspace, while overseeing and mentoring designers. You must have excellent communication and writing skills and also be a great team player.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, inspire, and collaborate with your co-workers to produce inventive, thoughtful, relevant work for clients
• Work closely with your team to execute on the creative strategy for projects
• Participate in all aspects of your team’s projects, focusing on innovation and quality
• Collaborate and lead visual designers and engineers to conceive and prototype interaction models, information architectures, and user interfaces
• Expertly craft documentation to represent the user experience, including: product requirements documents, functional specifications, flow diagrams, schematics, and prototypes
• Understand and work within project parameters: client goals and requirements, internal goals, usability, technical constraints, as well as budget and schedule
• Work with User Experience Designers to implement interaction design guidelines
• Experiment with new tools and techniques to improve our work
• Cultivate an understanding of industry trends and share your insights with the studio

Skills and Requirements:

• 5+ years of agency experience and at least 3 years as an Art Director
• Considerable experience in presenting and client interaction
• Self-motivated with the ability to juggle multiple projects
• Present a portfolio that represents a diversity of projects as well as a clear design perspective and a deep understanding of interactive methods
• An ability to be communicative, flexible and precise under tight deadlines
• Proficiency with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail
• Works well under pressure
• Strong mentoring ability
• Excellent attitude and desire to learn

**Please include a link to your online portfolio**

Non-digital Art Directors need not apply.

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401k, and is headquartered in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. This is an in-house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to San Diego.

Please contact us at Iwanttowork-digitalAD@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Digital Art Director" in the subject line of your email.

The Business Development Executive is responsible for driving revenue and establishing relationships with prospective clients. Working with the VP of Business Development, the BDE is focused on client relations, new business opportunities, strategic consulting, and growing the Digitaria brand in the Midwest and Southern US markets. 

The role of the Business Development Executive on the sales team is to hunt for new business opportunities in identified markets by building relationships, uncovering business problems and needs and provide solutions with great business impact.  

The Business Development Executive requires a minimum of 5 – 8 years working experience in Digital marketing with broad experience in all aspects of interactive marketing development. The Business Development Executive (BDE) works closely with and supports the VP of Business Development in all aspects of promoting Digitaria, prospecting and targeting potential clients, responding to prospect inquiries and conducting new business pitches. 

The sales team is responsible for targeting new client opportunities and cultivating these relationships. This includes prospect list generation, outbound marketing strategies and working with the executive team to foster profitable relationships.

He/she will report to the VP of Business Development and will collaborate closely with ongoing client services team to maximize revenue opportunity of business on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities:

• Develops a pipeline of qualified prospective clients.
• Proactively target and develop relationships with key prospects.
• Responsible for $2 Million in new business annually 
• Professionally responsive to customer inquiries and committed to excellence in all customer communication.
• Understands the organizations capabilities completely and accurately articulates the value proposition provided.
• Facilitates investigation and research into each opportunity in order to ensure our solution is packaged in a compelling and meaningful way. 
• Works closely with on-going account management team in order to maintain a long lasting, profitable, and referenceable client list. 
• Contribute to overall business development strategy, methodology, staffing and tools. 
• Collaborating with deliverable teams throughout the organization to assemble scopes of work and program details for proposals
• Writing client proposals that communicate Digitaria’s value proposition to prospective clients in a manner appropriate for the target audience
• Preparing materials (presentations, outlines, proposals) in Keynote, PowerPoint, Pages, Word and more (for internal and pitch meetings)

Skills and Requirements:

• 5 - 8 years professional experience and proven track record in consultative selling and management - ideal markets include: Interactive professional services, strategic consulting, ecommerce, software and/or systems integration.
• Experience in building a pipeline of new business and exceeding established financial targets
• Strong analytical skills, including market strategy, customer requirements and success factors, and a value based selling process 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in creation of convincing strategic sales approach, proposal, documentation and presentation
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively inform, motivate, and organize a multi-person sales effort 
• Strong understanding of the Internet including industry trends, key players, terminology and overall economics of the marketplace 
• Negotiating skills and contract (statement of work) experience 
• Proven hands-on experience with senior executives in medium to large business
• Familiarity with the overall site development process as well as creative processes, UI design issues, IA, writing for the web, online marketing and branding, and ecommerce issues
• Goal oriented, able to manage to a financial budget

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401k, and is headquartered in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. This position is in our Minneapolis office, and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to Minneapolis.

Please contact us at Iwanttowork-MPLSBD@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Business Development Executive" in the subject line of your email.

Digital Group Account Director (GAD) is passionate about digital destinations, interactive media and focused on driving bottom line results for clients.  Providing thought leadership on digital initiatives as well as foster client relationships and strategically direct project teams.

Responsibilities:

BD-specific responsibilities include:

• Pitch 2-4 DAOR pitches a year

Client-specific responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain client relationships as well as proactively identify new opportunities
• Collaborate and lead client strategic solutions for both business and user needs
• Serve as liaison between sales, client, and project teams
• Owner of client relationship
• Develop overall business strategy/ long term roadmap
• Contract Negotiation including renew, upsell and key contact for any new work discussion (nonbug/maintenance) 
• Monitor Projects/client satisfaction

Project-specific responsibilities include:

• Nutshell, Strategic Briefs, and Discovery Driver
• Play an active role in solution definition and project strategy
• Offer big picture perspective to project team
• Provide high level internal oversight for execution of digital solutions
• Ensure high standards of quality are met from project teams
• Provide a point of escalation for the client and the project team 
• Manages and mentors Account Directors, Account Managers and Account Associates 

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (MBA and technical background is a plus).
• Extensive agency experience consulting directly with clients
• Multi-category experience including: consumer, B2B, healthcare, entertainment, telecom or finance 
• Strong analytical background and understanding of web-based solutions
• Interactive production experience managing the development of sites, online media, search or email marketing campaigns
• Experience in managing resources to meet goals across multiple projects 
• Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast paced, changing environment

Desirable Character Traits

• Initiative 
• Insatiable curiosity
• Make it happen attitude
• Catalyst for change
• Strong sense of ownership

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and 401k. This position is located in our Minneapolis Office.

Please contact us at iwanttowork-mplsgad@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Group Account Director" in the subject line of your email.

We create Beautiful Logic. We are looking for someone that has the desire and passion for big thinking and even bigger design challenges. We’re looking for problem solvers, craftsman, communicators, team players, and all around cool person. You’ll be working on some of the largest and innovative media projects online. The VD will be responsible for brainstorming creative concepts with the project team, developing original design concepts, executing designs based on established style guides, participating in visual design presentations to clients, and developing design specs for production.

Digitaria designers are versatile and multi-faceted. An understanding of web technologies and grasp of the tools is expected of all designers. The VD’s job is to create great interaction design schemes for clients and to help associate designers do the same. You should be able to handle the day-to-day interactions with existing projects without needing monitoring. You must have excellent communication skills and be a great team player.

Responsibilities:

• Inspire and collaborate with your co-workers to produce inventive, thoughtful, relevant work for clients
• Work closely with your team to execute on the creative strategy for projects
• Participate in all aspects of your team’s projects, focusing on innovation and quality
• Collaborate with visual designers and engineers to conceive and prototype interaction models, information architectures, and user interfaces
• Expertly craft documentation to represent the user experience, including: product requirements documents, functional specifications, flow diagrams, schematics, and prototypes
• Understand and work within project parameters: client goals and requirements, internal goals, usability, technical constraints, as well as budget and schedule
• Work with User Experience Designers to implement interaction design guidelines
• Experiment with new tools and techniques to improve our work
• Cultivate an understanding of industry trends and share your insights with the studio

Skills and Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience designing software experiences
• Present a portfolio that represents a diversity of projects as well as a clear design perspective
• Experience working on small to medium-sized teams
• An ability to be communicative, flexible and precise under tight deadlines
• Proficiency with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail
• Works well under pressure
• Works well with senior designers and directors
• Excellent attitude and desire to learn

**Please include a link to your online portfolio**

Non-web designers need not apply.

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401k, and is headquartered in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. This is an in-house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to San Diego.

Please contact us at iwanttowork-visualdesigner@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Visual Designer" in the subject line of your email.

A member of the Digitaria Strategic Planning Group; the primary function of the Strategic Planner is to leverage industry and customer insights and best in class digital media strategies to develop strategic projects and initiatives.

The Strategic Planner is responsible for translating brand strategy and data analysis into a clear point of view that outlines how our clients can best leverage interactive marketing activities in support of new business initiatives and on assigned accounts. 

Additionally, they will provide day to day program leadership and be accountable for immersing themselves into our client’s business and serving as a voice of the business and the consumer.

Equipped with strong interpersonal communication skills as a team player–the Strategic Planner aides in the coordination of the efforts of the Creative, Multimedia, Web Development, Analytics, Search and Technology teams to effectively deliver upon all contracted campaign deliverables and client expectations.

Responsibilities:

•  Develop interactive strategies for clients in multiple business categories.
• Participate in the day to day planning/management/reporting activity on several accounts.
• Gather and evaluate qualitative data and competitive spend data.
• Conduct audience research using standard tools (i.e. MRI, comScore, Nielsen, etc.).
• Develop digital communication plans, recommendations and POVs .
• Prepare for and participate in strategic planning sessions with clients.
• Conduct content audits and inventories, and develop content strategies
• Collaborate with analytics team to generate comprehensive analysis reports for clients/account team. 
• Analyze campaign performance and recommend necessary optimizations.
• Build and maintain solid relationships with creative, UX, development and account teams
• Participate with training and supervision of Planning Associates, as needed.

Skills and Requirements:

•  Prior strategic planning or account management experience is required; (3 to 5 years strategic and/or relationship management experience with previous experience at an interactive agency is optimal).
• Ability to flex between being heads up and heads down, maintaining a balance between individual contribution deliverables, overseeing tactical executions and monitoring traction against overall strategic objectives.
• Experience in gathering, analyzing, and applying secondary research.
• Experience in analyzing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative research data/results.
• Experience in managing interactive marketing programs, with specific concentration in online/email advertising and search campaigns.
• Demonstrated understanding of interactive strategy, including research activities, stakeholder alignment, conceptual architecture, and feature matrices.
• Comfortable acquiring and communicating digital feature specifications (i.e. HTML email, display, etc.) and interfacing with technology and UX teams.
• Familiar with Google Analytics, Omniture, WebTrends and/or other analytic platforms and reporting tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills–augmented by strong presentation skills.
• Extremely organized, detail‐oriented and capable of self‐managing and multi‐tasking in a fast‐paced environment.
• Excellent problem‐solving skills, ability to quickly understand new technology concepts.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PPT, and ideally Keynote.
• Bachelor's degree.

Personal Attributes:

The Strategic Planner should strive to be perceived as a partner, trusted advisor and key solutions delivery resource. 

• Ability to effectively operate with high energy, flexibility and a sense of humor
• Ability to build relationships, both with clients and internal team members
• Excellent listener, with an ability to discern relevant information and articulate it appropriately to others
• Strong analytical skills and creative problem solving abilities
• A strong work ethic and career orientation; wants to learn, develop and attain new skill sets and improve
• Values others and acts with integrity and respect
• Ability to confront challenges or problems directly and honestly; must be able to handle difficult situations and conversations with grace
• Ability to facilitate
• Ability to think and act appropriately “on their feet”
• Has the ability to handle numerous assignments at once; is organized and thorough with professional follow through
• Displays professional “polish”; executive presence and confidence

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and 401k. This position is located in our Minneapolis Office.

Please contact us at Iwanttowork-mplsstrategicplanner@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Strategic Planner" in the subject line of your email.

As a member of the Account Team at Digitaria, the primary function of the Account Planner is to be the voice of the consumer. The Account Planner should use research data to identify, plan and constructively apply digital solutions that appeal to both the priorities of the client and the consumer. 

The primary responsibility of this individual is to pair traditional research with strategic thinking. The Account Planner should be the voice that shares, interprets and applies information about consumers and industry markets.

Acting as the voice of the target market/customer, the account planner is expected to contribute in defining digital solution(s) that is relevant to the target group, has the desired persuasive impact and is executed via the appropriate channel. A secondary responsibility of this individual is to manage strategically focused engagements and client/partner relationships across multiple major accounts. 

Equipped with strong interpersonal communication skills, unmatched research skills and innovation approaches to data application, the Account Planner will work to ensure the client’s vision, brand and overall satisfaction. 

Responsibilities:

• Communicating internally with colleagues within the agency, to ensure the digital outputs of the project match consumer-driven research and needs
• Researching and reporting on various consumers in multiple industries, to gain a comprehensive background/context (e.g. demographics, socio-economics, etc.) to provide a strategic platform 
• Commissioning research from outside organizations to inform advertising strategies, using both qualitative methods such as: focus group discussions, research groups, structured interviews, demographic profiling and questionnaires 
• Executing a variety of market and research data to monitor cultural and social trends and their impact on consumers’ attitudes, behavior and perceptions, as relevant to Digitaria
• Discovering approaches, angles and solutions on specific products or services on which to structure a strategic plan 
• Reconciling/managing the differences between consumers' current perceptions of the brand and priorities of the client’s desires as related to brand perception 
• Reporting concise information to key team members on the background/forecasted environment on a product/service, audience and strategy, so that applicable digital solutions can be reached
• Presenting conclusions and ideas to clients and other agency staff
• Analyzing and interpreting customer response and sales data to evaluate the effectiveness of each campaign, and tailoring approaches, with the consistent goal of achieving maximum positive response from the consumer. 

Skills and Requirements:

The Account Planner should have strong experience and familiarity with the following:

• Prior project or account management experience is required; (3-5 years project and relationship management experience with previous experience at an interactive agency is optimal). 
• Previous experience in industry/client/branding research
• Familiarity with digital branding, across multiple industries
• Experience leading brand platform definition and identity development engagements.
• Experience in gathering, analyzing and interpreting and applying qualitative and quantitative research data/results.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills–augmented by strong presentation skills.
• Must know how to develop and manage a budget.
• Extremely organized, detail-oriented and capable of self-managing and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to quickly understand new technology concepts.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PPT, and Microsoft Project.
• Bachelor's degree.

Personal Attributes 

The Account Planner should strive to be perceived as a partner, trusted advisor and key solutions delivery resource. The ideal candidate should possess the following qualities:

• Ability to effectively operate with high energy, flexibility and a sense of humor in a constantly evolving business environment.
• Ability to build relationships, both with clients and internal team members. 
• Excellent listener with the ability to discern relevant information and articulate it appropriately to others.
• Strong analytical skills and creative problem solving abilities.
• A strong work ethic and career orientation; wants to learn, develop and attain new skill sets and improve.
• Values others and acts with integrity and respect.
• Ability to confront challenges or problems directly and honestly; must be able to handle difficult situations and conversations with grace.
• Ability to facilitate.
• Ability to think and act appropriately “on their feet.”
• Has the ability to handle numerous assignments at once; is organized and thorough with professional follow through.
• Displays professional “polish”; executive presence and confidence.

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits and 401k. This position is located in our Minneapolis office.

Please contact us at iwanttowork-mspaccountplanner@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Account Planner" in the subject line of your email.

The ideal candidate for this position is someone who is passionate about the digital industry and sports and who supports client accounts and business development.  This candidate must be able to professionally/effectively communicate with clients as well as coworkers including engineers, web developers, designers, SEO strategists, producers and web analysts.  This candidate must also be able to think critically and he/she absolutely must have extremely high-level writing skills.

Responsibilities:

This role will require you to support and manage various tasks to help  the Digitaria Sports vertical, both in business development, account strategy and administration efforts.

The primary responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Facilitate and manage account support requests from the Vice President, account strategists and other business development.
• Create baseline proposal, presentation and SOW documents for AS staff to complete
• Provide writing for proposals, Statements of works, change orders, solutions, and presentations
• Provide/facilitate project assumptions and format final department estimates for sales requests
• Establish/maintain effective relationships with project managers to ensure efficient development of quality proposals
• Develop proposal schedules; manage overall development and production of assigned proposals
• Research and pitch deck coordination

Skills and Requirements:

• Be an outstanding technical (digital) writer
• Passionate of Sports/Industry
• Be able to demonstrate communication skills
• Have proficiency in Microsoft Office products (especially Excel, PowerPoint and Word) and iWork products (especially Keynote)
• Have attention to detail with a tracking mindset
• Be numbers oriented
• Be a proactive self-starter
• Be able to work in uncertainty, often with scarce information
• Be a team player and drive to facilitate tasks and requests
• Have an interest in the digital industry and be able to quickly get up to speed on Digitaria solutions
• Be able to work quickly under high-stress and tight deadlines
• BA/BS

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401k, and is headquartered in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. This is an in-house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to San Diego.

Please contact us at iwanttowork-sportaccountassociate@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Sports Account Associate " in the subject line of your email.

The Account Manager leads day-to-day marketing engagements with clients, facilitates client and agency relationships and coordinates and monitors the scheduling, budget, and technical performance of engagements. Responsibilities also include aiding in the negotiation of contracts and contractual changes and coordinating preparations of proposals, plans, and specifications of programs.

The ideal candidate will have excellent Program and Account Manager skills, be interested in and able to understand business solutions and digital marketing strategies, have the ability to focus at a detailed level on multiple strategic projects simultaneously, and be comfortable interacting with senior executives.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the head of engagements, managing resources including the planning, design, development and testing efforts of marketing initiatives
• Lead, manage and be completely accountable for the flawless execution of support for all facets of a digital-focused marketing program
• Communicating program status to executive stakeholders across multiple organizations and overall team members
• Act as advisor to program team regarding projects, tasks, timeline, budget, and operations
• Establish and manage strong partnerships with internal teams
• Possess strong operational leadership and an understanding of client and customer requirements
• Provide regular and detailed financial reporting to executives and key stakeholders
• Recognize system deficiencies, potential risks and implement effective solutions
• Create and execute development plans - revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Taking complex business or technical problems and decomposing them into well-organized, detailed descriptions to facilitate solutions
• Drive collaborative discussions and decisions with all key stakeholders

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and strong marketing background a must. Master's preferred. 
• Minimum of 6 years experience in an interactive agency and/or marketing/advertising environment in a client-facing senior role (account services)
• Experience with retail/CPG clients (please name client and approx. budgets managed to apply for this position). 
• Understanding of marketing principles and digital marketing, as well as web-based solutions and emerging technologies.
• Interactive production experience managing the development of sites, online media, social media and email marketing campaigns. 
• Experience and confidence in working with senior executives to achieve common goals
• Adaptability, flexibility and the ability to do the right thing under pressure, tight deadlines and high visibility
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
• Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
• Possess a sense of TRUE ownership of program and its initiatives
• Self-motivated and independent thinker that can translate circumstances and understanding into actions
• Excellent analytical, problem resolution, decision making, strategic and technical thinking skills.
• Ability to quickly distill, prioritize and act on feedback from a variety of sources
• Conviction and courage to drive decisions and defend positions as appropriate
• Ability to maintain optimism, good-humor, and a positive attitude in a challenging, fast paced, and changing environment

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401k, and is headquartered in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. This is an in-house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to San Diego.

Please contact us at iwanttowork-am@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Account Manager" in the subject line of your email.

We are seeking a digital account director (AD) that is passionate about digital destinations, interactive media and focused on driving bottom line results for clients.  Providing thought leadership on digital initiatives as well as foster client relationships and strategically direct project teams.

Responsibilities:

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (MBA and technical background is a plus).
• Extensive agency experience consulting directly with clients
• Multi-category experience including: consumer, B2B, healthcare, entertainment, telecom or finance 
• Strong analytical background and understanding of web-based solutions
• Interactive production experience managing the development of sites, online media, search or email marketing campaigns
• Experience in managing resources to meet goals across multiple projects 
• Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast paced, changing environment

Desirable Character Traits:

• Initiative 
• Insatiable curiosity
• Make it happen attitude
• Catalyst for change
• Strong sense of ownership

Digitaria provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401k, and is headquartered in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. This is an in-house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to San Diego.

Please contact us at iwanttowork-AD@digitaria.com and include your resume, portfolio, salary history and where you heard about this position. Please put "Account Director" in the subject line of your email.