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DEPARTMENT: CREATOR, CONNECTIONS
LOCATION: TORONTO | HYBRID – 2 DAYS ONSITE AT OUR DOWNTOWN OFFICE
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Creator Manager, you will lead the execution and day-to-day management of creator and influencer programs across a portfolio of clients. You are a highly organized, platform-savvy operator who brings structure to complex programs while ensuring content is engaging, on-brief, and performance-driven.
You will act as a key connector between creators, clients, and internal teams—translating strategy into execution, managing relationships, and ensuring programs are delivered to a high standard. This role requires a balance of hands-on execution, strategic thinking, and team support, with a strong focus on driving measurable outcomes through creator marketing.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Creator Partnership & Influencer Strategy
- Support the development and execution of creator and influencer strategies aligned to client objectives, target audiences, and campaign goals.
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard creators that align with brand fit, platform relevance, and performance potential.
- Build and maintain strong day-to-day relationships with creators, talent managers, and partners.
- Manage creator communications, negotiations, and deliverables, ensuring clarity, professionalism, and alignment.
- Provide input into partnership approaches, helping optimize creator selection and engagement strategies based on performance and learnings.
Campaign Execution & Operations
- Manage end-to-end execution of creator campaigns, from briefing and onboarding through to content delivery, approvals, and reporting.
- Own timelines, workbacks, and deliverables across multiple campaigns, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Oversee budgets, contracts, payment processes, and financial tracking for creator programs.
- Utilize and maintain the creator tech stack, ensuring accurate data management and efficient workflows.
- Identify and implement process improvements that enhance team efficiency and program delivery.
- Support and guide junior team members, providing direction, feedback, and hands-on coaching.
Platform & Trend Fluency
- Maintain a strong understanding of social platforms (e.g., TikTok, Instagram, YouTube), including formats, trends, and best practices.
- Monitor and share emerging trends, creators, and platform updates that can inform campaign strategies.
- Apply platform knowledge to guide creator selection, content formats, and campaign approaches.
- Collaborate with media teams to support paid amplification (e.g., whitelisting, boosting) aligned to campaign KPIs.
- Continuously build platform expertise and contribute to internal knowledge sharing.
Content & Engagement Strategy
- Support the development of content strategies that are platform-native, engaging, and aligned with brand voice.
- Guide creators on content direction, ensuring outputs are authentic, on-brief, and optimized for performance.
- Review and provide feedback on content to ensure quality, consistency, and effectiveness.
- Align content outputs with campaign objectives and KPIs, ensuring clarity on success metrics.
- Analyze performance data and contribute insights to optimize future content and engagement strategies.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 3–5 years of experience in influencer marketing, creator marketing, or digital/social campaign management.
- Hands-on experience managing creator campaigns from strategy through execution and reporting.
- Strong understanding of the influencer landscape, platforms, and creator economy dynamics.
- Experience with influencer tools, platform ad managers, and campaign reporting.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong attention to detail and organization.
- Strong communication and relationship management skills, with confidence working with clients and creators.
- Experience managing budgets, contracts, and campaign logistics.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work cross-functionally and support team development.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented thinker with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid schedule (2 days per week in office), up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness spending, RRSP matching, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Learning & Development-focused (Salt Days), top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary Company trips, social events, and Salt Swag.
- Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses and exclusive lifestyle perks
- Culture of Belonging: Flexible accommodation policies, active Employee Resource Groups, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $70,000–$85,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT’s total rewards program.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Welcome to The Kitchen by Kraft Heinz – the in-house agency taking marketing into a new era. With bases in Toronto and Chicago, we're not just a team; we're culinary pioneers blending culture, creativity, and collaboration. Join our 100+ member crew of Creatives, Strategists, Producers, Designers, and Content Creators. Together with our brand partners, we unlock creativity at the speed of culture, turning brands into icons with breakthrough social and digital ideas. Come be part of a team where passion meets innovation, crafting experiences that leave a lasting impression—one spicy idea at a time.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
The Senior Strategist at The Kitchen is responsible for serving as the day-to-day strategic lead across multiple brands. We seek someone who thrives in a fast-paced, creative environment. This role demands a unique blend of strategic thinking, cultural curiosity, and, above all, a passion for social media. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing strategies for brand activations and overseeing the content development for organic social. We seek someone with a proven track record of successful campaigns, strategic brief development, and framework building. The ideal candidate understands the full marketing funnel and ecosystem and how social media fits in. They will lead and coach a team of Social Media Managers, ensuring the team is inspired to deliver great content and brand activations that move at the speed of culture.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- STRATEGIC THINKING: Maintain a deep understanding of the brand, audiences, business priorities, competition, and industry trends. You will work on creative briefs, comms plans, campaign rollouts, and thought leadership, among other things, ensuring strategic thinking is incorporated in all aspects of the agency’s work.
- CULTURAL STRATEGY & CREATIVE BRIEF DEVELOPMENT: Translate the events, trends, and conversations surrounding our brands into inspiring creative opportunities and proactive briefs that allow these brands to participate in culture quickly and effectively. Identify the passion points and topics a brand should engage in, delivering insights that will inspire creative teams and meaningfully impact businesses.
- COLLABORATION WITH CREATIVE TEAMS: Work closely with the Creative team to brainstorm, generate thought starters, and actively help them hone their work.
- PASSION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA: Stay updated on the latest social media platforms and trends, ensuring that Creatives and Brand Partners understand how to operate in a constantly changing social media landscape.
- UNDERSTANDING OF PAID MEDIA: Understand ad units, media opportunities, and post content options in a complex multi-platform online environment to make strategic recommendations for creating and amplifying work that reaches the right audience, with both paid and owned media.
- SOCIAL PLAYBOOK DEVELOPMENT: Oversee social media playbook development with an eye for solid brand DNA, voice, and platform strategy.
- SOCIAL LISTENING: Translate social listening data and media insights into strategic recommendations that help inform brand activations and social content.
- PRESENTATION SKILLS: Strong communication skills, excellent writing ability, and enthusiastic presentation skills. Translate big and complex ideas clearly and effectively into simple, compelling stories and presentations to help get ideas approved by Brand Partners.
- TEAM MANAGEMENT: Work with a pod structure consisting of Creatives, Social Copywriters, and Content Creators, and directly manage two Social Media Managers. Help your Social Media Managers develop planned and reactive social briefs, deploy daily content, and manage the relationship with Brand Partners.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
- 5+ years of experience in a brand, creative, or social strategy role.
- Proven track record of managing brands with a significant following, ideally for a CPG or lifestyle brand.
- History of working with Creative teams, providing expertise and influencing creative ideas.
- Proficiency in creating presentations (PowerPoint, Google Slides).
- Ability to translate research and data into meaningful insights that inspire big ideas.
- Solid understanding of the tools and frameworks that support strategy development (e.g., social listening).
- Love and deep understanding of culture and social trends.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills in a group environment.
- A university or college diploma in marketing, advertising, or a related field is preferred.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $100,000–$120,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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ROLE: SENIOR EVENT PRODUCER - CONTRACT
TERM:
TEAM: ACCOUNTS
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We’re looking for an Event Producer with a passion for large-scale, high quality B2B event experiences. As a B2B Event Producer at Salt XC, you will spearhead the planning and execution of live B2B events for our clients.
This role is for candidates with a passion for planning and logistics and an unwavering attention to detail. In this position, you'll be the linchpin of our event production team, where precision meets creativity. We're looking for an individual who thrives in meticulously orchestrating every aspect of event logistics, from the initial planning stages to the final execution and stage production. Your day-to-day will involve a delicate balance of managing complex timelines, coordinating with multiple stakeholders, and ensuring every element is flawlessly executed. Beyond just logistical prowess, we seek a creative problem solver – someone who can think on their feet and provide innovative solutions to unexpected challenges. Your ability to blend methodical planning with creative thinking will not only be appreciated but celebrated as a vital component of our team's success in delivering extraordinary event experiences for Salt XC and our clients.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the planning and execution of various live B2B events, including but not limited to conferences, seminars, product launches, and corporate gatherings
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with clients, vendors, and other stakeholders, ensuring their needs are met and expectations exceeded
- Serve as the primary point of contact during events, managing client requests and resolving operational issues effectively
- Coordinate all aspects of event production, including staffing, public safety, facility arrangements, and operational logistics
- Ensure compliance with health and safety standards, alcohol management policies, customer service excellence, and labor management
- Prepare event venues in line with contract specifications and client expectations.
- Support in building and managing budgets through internal and external stakeholders
- Manage venue operations and act as the primary liaison with venue management teams to ensure all contractual, operational, and production requirements are executed seamlessly
- Develop and oversee complex load-in and load-out schedules, ensuring efficient coordination across production, staging, vendors, and venue stakeholders
- Coordinate and manage union labour vendor, including scheduling, staffing allocations, adherence to collective agreements, and on-site labour supervision
- Oversee back-of-house operations and production logistics to ensure efficient event flow, stakeholder communication, and operational excellence
- Ensure compliance with venue regulations, permitting requirements, insurance documentation, and operational safety standards for all vendors
- Perform additional responsibilities as required to ensure the success of each event
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum 6-8 years lived event production experience, or experience in a related discipline with B2B experience being considered an asset
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with clients, industry partners, and internal teams.
- Strong decision-making skills and capacity to work well under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Flexibility to work an event-based schedule, including weekends, late nights, extended hours, and potentially extended workweeks.
- Proven experience managing venue operations for large-scale live events, conferences, exhibitions, or corporate experiences
- Strong understanding of complex event logistics, including load-in/load-out scheduling, dock management, freight coordination, and production timelines
- Experience working with unionized labour environments and managing labour crews within venue and production settings
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple vendors, supplier relationships, and production partners simultaneously
- Familiarity with venue regulations, health and safety standards, and operational compliance requirements
- Ability to thrive in high-pressure, fast-paced live event environments while managing multiple priorities and stakeholders concurrently
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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ROLE: Account Manager
TEAM: Accounts
LOCATION: Toronto (Hybrid)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As an Account Manager, you’ll lead the execution of high-impact marketing programs that bring brands to life across channels in a fast-paced, client-facing environment. You’ll own the day-to-day details across production, content, and communications, ensuring every deliverable is managed with accuracy, urgency, and impact.
You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams, including creative, strategy, media, digital, and production, while managing timelines, approvals, and budgets with confidence and control. Building on your experience, you’ll also play a critical role in strengthening client relationships by anticipating needs, solving problems proactively, and keeping expectations clear.
Whether you’re coordinating a campaign, preparing a client presentation, or overseeing a live activation, you’ll thrive under pressure and bring clarity, energy, and leadership to every touchpoint.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Project & Operational Management
• Independently manage small to mid-sized projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery across all phases of execution.
• Own timelines, approvals, and cross-functional coordination to keep integrated campaigns on track.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and delivery quality.
• Maintain professionalism and composure under pressure, ensuring integrity in decision-making and delivery.
Vendor & Partner Management
• Select and recommend vendors based on project needs, managing contracts, negotiations, and performance.
• Maintain strong partnerships with suppliers, freelancers, and partners to ensure accountability and quality delivery.
• Provide clear direction and oversight to the team (e.g., Coordinators, Executives, Brand Ambassadors).
• Coach and support junior team members, contributing to team morale, growth, and positive team culture.
Financial Acumen
• Build and manage budgets, including estimates, scopes, and rationales, with accuracy and accountability.
• Monitor costs and variances throughout the project lifecycle and proactively propose tradeoffs or solutions.
• Partner with Finance to reconcile budgets, ensure compliance, and deliver timely financial reporting.
• Demonstrate reliability and integrity by maintaining accurate records and transparent financial practices.
Client Growth
• Execute campaigns with excellence, keeping client goals top of mind at every stage.
• Communicate clearly with clients and internal teams to align needs and deliverables.
• Prepare for and actively contribute to client meetings with research, recaps, or recommendations.
• Gather insights pre- and post-programs to measure performance and inform future work.
• Proactively identify client needs, risks, or opportunities, adapting approach to strengthen relationships and deliver solutions.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
• 3–5 years of experience in account management, client services, or integrated production—preferably in a creative or experiential agency environment.
• Proven ability to independently manage small to mid-sized projects and campaigns, aligning deliverables to client goals with accuracy and accountability.
• Strong track record leading end-to-end brand experiences, from cross-functional planning to on-the-ground execution.
• Experience managing B2B programs, VIP experiences, or shopper marketing campaigns (Retail, B2B, or IMC specialization an asset).
• Demonstrated financial acumen with experience in building estimates, monitoring costs, reconciling budgets, and driving financial efficiency.
• Excellent communicator, able to simplify complexity, adapt tone and deliver to stakeholders, and build trusted client relationships.
• Calm, collaborative, and confident in managing shifting priorities and fast-moving programs, with the ability to coach and support junior team members to build morale and growth.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
• Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
• Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
• Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
• Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
• Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $60,000–$82,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT/The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XC- Lead the strategic direction across multiple clients and creative pods
- Define and uphold the quality bar for strategic thinking and output
- Ensure strategy consistently identifies the real business problem and human tension
- Guide the development of insights, strategy narratives and opportunity territories
- Translate complex inputs into clear, simple strategic direction
- Ensure all work connects human behaviour, cultural relevance and commercial impact
- Act as a senior strategic partner to Creative leadership
- Develop creative strategies and briefs that inspire great ideas
- Help shape ideas from concept through execution
- Provide strategic feedback that strengthens the work, not slows it down
- Champion work internally and externally by grounding ideas in human truth and strategic clarity
- Serve as a senior strategic voice in client relationships
- Lead high-level strategic conversations with senior client stakeholders
- Present compelling strategy narratives that connect insight, idea and business impact
- Help clients reframe challenges and uncover new growth opportunities
- Lead the development of behaviour-led connections strategies
- Define channel roles, consumer triggers and influence points across the journey
- Ensure strategy integrates media, creative, commerce, retail and experiential
- Guide teams in mapping how ideas travel across platforms and moments
- Collaborate with a team of senior strategists
- Foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, creativity and strategic rigor
- Be part of a team known for clarity of thinking, strong briefs and inspiring insights
- Encourage experimentation and new approaches to strategic thinking
- Lead strategy on new business pitches and opportunities
- Identify areas for organic client growth and expanded partnerships
- Contribute to the evolution of Salt’s Experiential Commerce™ strategic offering
- Help position Salt as a strategic thought leader with clients and in the industry
- 7-10+ years of experience in strategy, planning, connections planning, or integrated marketing
- Experience leading strategy across complex, integrated marketing programs
- Proven ability to turn insights and human truths into inspiring creative strategy
- Strong experience connecting culture, behaviour and commerce
- Deep understanding of media ecosystems, consumer journeys and modern marketing channels
- Strong creative briefing and idea development experience
- Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills
- Experience leading senior client relationships and strategic conversations
- Experience collaborating and mentoring high-performing strategy teams
- Ability to simplify complexity into clear strategic direction
- Finds the real problem rather than accepting the assignment
- Is relentlessly curious about people, culture and behaviour
- Thinks in ideas and opportunities — not just analysis
- Believes strategy should inspire creativity, not constrain it
- Has the confidence to make decisions and take a point of view
- Is comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity
- Brings both creative instinct and commercial pragmatism
- Raises the ambition of the work while helping teams focus on what matters most
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
Ready to apply?
Apply to SALT XCPOSITION DESCRIPTION
ROLE: B2B, Account Supervisor
TEAM: Accounts
LOCATION: Toronto (Hybrid)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As an Account Supervisor, you’ll oversee a portfolio of mid-sized client accounts or multiple brands within a larger partnership, operating in a fast-paced, client-facing environment. You are both a trusted advisor to clients and a day-to-day leader for your team, balancing hands-on delivery with coaching and oversight.
You’ll manage relationships, budgets, and cross-functional execution, ensuring every campaign phase delivers measurable value against client goals. You’ll proactively identify opportunities, risks, or efficiencies, bringing clarity and structure to complex, multi-channel programs.
With a balance of strategic thinking, sharp communication, and calm problem-solving, you’ll lead integrated teams through shifting priorities with confidence and composure. Whether guiding junior colleagues, managing vendors, or preparing client strategies, you’ll bring initiative, adaptability, and integrity to every interaction, helping teams deliver great work from idea to execution.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
B2B & Technical Event Leadership
• Lead B2B programs, corporate events, and large-scale experiential initiatives, confidently navigating high-stakes, business-focused production environments.
• Oversee technical production workflows including show flow, run of show, rehearsals, load-in/load-out, and on-site execution to ensure seamless delivery.
• Manage union venue environments with an understanding of labor regulations, scheduling requirements, staffing structures, and cost implications.
• Partner with technical directors, AV teams, venues, and fabricators to coordinate scenic builds, staging, and custom installations from concept through execution.
• Negotiate and manage production vendors and venue contracts, including insurance and corporate compliance requirements, ensuring financial accuracy and risk mitigation.
• Anticipate and proactively resolve operational and production challenges while maintaining client confidence and aligning execution to business objectives and KPIs.
Project & Operational Management
• Independently manage a portfolio of projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery across all phases of execution.
• Own timelines, approvals, and cross-functional coordination to keep integrated campaigns on track.
• Lead internal meetings, project schedules, and operational activities across the account lifecycle.
• Anticipate needs and proactively address risks, adapting plans to shifting priorities while maintaining composure.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, delivery quality, and team effectiveness.
Vendor & Partner Management
• Recommend and select vendors based on project needs, scope, and quality expectations.
• Manage contracts, negotiations, and performance to ensure accountability and high-quality delivery.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with suppliers, freelancers, and agency partners to strengthen long-term collaboration.
• Provide oversight, direction, and coaching to team members and on-site staff, fostering morale and professional growth.
Financial Acumen
• Build and manage budgets, including estimates, scopes, and rationales, with accuracy and accountability.
• Monitor costs and variances throughout the project lifecycle, proactively proposing trade-offs or solutions.
• Partner with Finance to reconcile budgets, ensure compliance, and deliver timely financial reporting.
• Manage account financials, including invoicing, billing, and payments, in collaboration with internal teams.
• Provide strategic budget guidance to clients, including scenario planning and cost-justified recommendations.
• Uphold integrity, transparency, and professionalism in all financial practices.
Client Growth
• Act as the day-to-day client lead, managing relationships and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality work.
• Build trusted client partnerships by communicating with clarity, adapting tone and delivery to stakeholder needs.
• Develop a deep understanding of the client’s business, brand, and objectives to proactively support their goals.
• Prepare for and actively contribute to client meetings with insights, recaps, and recommendations.
• Gather and share pre- and post-program learnings to connect results to client KPIs and inform future work.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for organic growth, expanded partnerships, and new business proposals.
• Client briefs, and strategic proposals to support new business and retention efforts.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
• 5–7 years of experience in the marketing industry, including 5 plus years in account management or a related client-facing role within a creative, experiential, or integrated agency.
• Proven leader with strong people management skills, including mentoring, coaching, and supporting team morale and professional growth.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple mid-sized accounts or brand portfolios, managing complex campaigns with accuracy, clarity, and accountability.
• Experienced in vendor selection, contract negotiation, and partner management, with a track record of building trusted, long-term relationships.
• Skilled in financial management, including budget building, monitoring variances, reconciling program-level financials, and contributing to team P&L oversight.
• Excellent communicator and confident presenter, able to adapt tone and delivery to clients, teams, and stakeholders while simplifying complexity.
• Strategic thinker with a passion for marketing, brand partnerships, and business growth, able to proactively identify client opportunities and risks.
• Highly organized, adaptable, and calm under pressure, thriving in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you, wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
• Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
• Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
• Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
• Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart always.
Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $78,000–$100,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT XC total rewards program.
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Role: Sales Representative
Hours: 20 hours per week
Location: Best Buy location 11 Washmill Lake Dr. Halifax, NS + events as required
Company Overview
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital, and media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention.” We are built to find, develop, execute, and amplify ideas that resonate with our clients’ audiences. We are structured to connect perspectives, work across mediums, and focus on delivering meaningful and effective results.
We value people who are collaborative, humble, and hardworking. We believe the right talent and culture help us do what is right for our clients.
Role Overview
Salt is seeking a results driven Sales Representative to represent a leading tech client within a retail environment at Best Buy. This role is ideal for someone passionate about technology, confident in sales, and comfortable in a customer facing setting.
This role is scheduled Thursday through Sunday each week for a total of 20 hours.
As a Sales Representative, you will be responsible for driving product sales, maintaining strong retail relationships, and ensuring in store presence is executed to the highest standard. You will act as a brand expert, educating customers while supporting retail partners through strong communication, organization, and execution.
This position requires a self motivated professional who can work independently, build rapport quickly, and consistently deliver measurable results.
Core Responsibilities
Relationship Management
• Operate independently while professionally representing both Salt and the client
• Act as a brand ambassador within assigned retail locations
• Build and maintain positive relationships with retail managers and store associates
• Serve as the primary in store contact supporting program objectives
• Communicate feedback, insights, and opportunities to management and client teams
• Ensure brand standards and program expectations are consistently upheld
Sales, Reporting and Compliance
• Execute program fundamentals including sales execution and retail compliance
• Consistently achieve or exceed individual sales targets
• Track daily performance metrics and customer engagement outcomes
• Maintain accountability for execution quality and reporting accuracy
• Complete daily reporting and administrative requirements on schedule
• Support promotional initiatives and in store product focus periods
• Ensure planogram compliance and accurate product placement
• Maintain displays to ensure visibility, cleanliness, and brand accuracy
Adaptability and Availability
• Operate with a high degree of independence and accountability as the regional program lead
• Stay informed on new product launches, updates, and training materials
• Demonstrate strong decision making judgment while maintaining structured communication and reporting
• Maintain flexibility including evenings, weekends, and travel as required
• Comfortable working remotely while managing field responsibilities
Experience and Skills
• Previous sales experience required, retail sales experience preferred
• Proven ability to meet or exceed sales targets
• Strong communication and relationship building skills
• Confident presentation, selling, and objection handling abilities
• Passion for technology, computers, or PC gaming is an asset
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask independently
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Reliable transportation to and from assigned retail locations
• Daily access to internet and email for reporting and communication
• Smartphone required for reporting and program communication
What We Stand For
• Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart
• Do What’s Right: We choose integrity over ease every time
• Earn Your Salt: We work hard, drive results, and celebrate the journey
• Make Things Better: We look for solutions and smarter ways forward
• Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels thinking and inclusion drives impact
The anticipated rate for this position is $22-$26/hour. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID ONSITE)
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Welcome to The Kitchen by Kraft Heinz – the in-house agency taking marketing into a new era. With bases in Toronto and Chicago, we're not just a team; we're culinary pioneers blending culture, creativity, and collaboration. Join our 140+ member crew of Creatives, Strategists, Producers, Designers, and Content Creators. Together with our brand partners, we unlock creativity at the speed of culture, turning brands into icons with breakthrough social and digital ideas. Come be part of a team where passion meets innovation, crafting experiences that leave a lasting impression—one spicy idea at a time.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
In this role as Content Creator, you work alongside a team of Creatives and a Producer to plan, shoot, edit and optimize a wide range of content. From clever TikToks shot natively on device to deliciously staged food photography, you will work to create a range of still and video assets for some iconic brands. You’re an expert in social content – with a deep understanding of the platforms and what kind of content audiences expect on each. You enjoy the creative process and you’ll be part of a team that makes the kind of ideas, brand acts, and social content that gets people talking.
You’ll use your experience as a Content Creator to plan, shoot, edit, and design content at the speed of culture. You are on top of the latest trends and are well-versed in creating content for all platforms – you know what works on Instagram, twitter, and just how different both those platforms are from TikTok. You are a storyteller and use all your skills every day to create content that sets us apart from other brands online.
Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.
RESPONSIBILTIES:
- SOCIAL EXPERTISE: You can identify trends and opportunities as they emerge in social and quickly ideate and present concepts for content that will stay true to our brands but participate in the online dialogue.
- SOCIAL STRATEGY: Work with the team to ideate on planned content monthly and quarterly to ensure an always-on social approach. Research and proactively recommend ideas, solutions and new content for the brands
- CONTENT CREATION: You use a robust skillset from photography to videography, design, and platform native tools to create a wide range of content that suits the moment and the idea. From quick social posts to beautiful shoots, you have the range and the ability to switch quickly between styles.
- STORYTELLING: You’re able to ideate, build, shoot, and edit effective stories that match the quality of each social platform.
- COLLABORATION: Work collaboratively with a large team of creatives from ideation to execution – helping to ensure ideas are created and brought to life faithfully.
- WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT: Can manage multiple priorities and assignments. Execute with rapid turnaround times for real-time moments, capture trending moments, editing quickly and efficiently to deliver high-quality work, on-time and with accuracy.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 1 to 3 years of experience in a design or content creation role where you have made a wide range of content.
- A high-quality portfolio displaying a range of quality social content, ideally produced in a creative agency environment.
- Understanding of design programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and After Effects, including best practices for all social channels.
- Demonstrated ability to make relevant content across all platforms with extraordinary skills in visual storytelling, videography, and video editing. Graphic design experience is a plus.
- A passion, curiosity, and experience in making creative content on social media platforms - Instagram visuals, TikTok videos, YouTube edits, and more.
- Proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite and eager to continue to learn and evolve in other ways to make social-first content.
- Experience creating high-quality content for clients with high standards of quality and excellence.
- Ability to problem solve and recommend production/design-appropriate solutions.
- Highly organized with an ability to work under tight deadlines and shift priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for food that enhances the authenticity and appeal of brand marketing in the culinary industry.
- A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $65,000–$85,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: SOCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYST
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global ‘In-House Agency of The Year’, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special - a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry - we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing! We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Performance Analyst is an insights-driven strategist who transforms data into ideas that shape creative, strategy, and brand decisions. This is not a traditional reporting role—you are a key partner in the creative process, helping teams understand not just what is happening, but why it matters and how it can inform what come next.
You bring together cultural awareness, platform expertise, and analytical thinking to uncover strategic and creative opportunities. You’re highly collaborative, curious by nature, and skilled at translating complex data into clear, compelling narratives that drive better work.
Working closely with the Analytics team, you will act as a day-to-day partner to cross-functional teams, guiding how performance insights inform briefs, content, and campaign direction across Influencer, organic and paid social.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
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INSIGHTS & STORYTELLING (PRIMARY FOCUS)
- Turn data into strategic and creative insights, not just reporting, connecting performance, audience behavior, and cultural context to inspire what comes next
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable narratives tailored to creative, strategy, and brand teams
- Identify patterns across content, campaigns, and conversations to unlock new opportunities for creative development and brand growth
- Contribute to briefs, playbooks, campaign planning, and post-campaign analysis with forward-looking recommendations, not just recaps
COLLABORATION & INTEGRATION
- Act as a core partner to creative, strategy, and account teams, embedding insights into the workflow, not delivering them after the fact
- Facilitate conversations that help teams understand performance and apply insights to improve ideas and execution
- Provide ongoing guidance and support on social tools, data interpretation, and measurement approaches
SOCIAL & CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
- Stay ahead of platform trends, cultural moments, and emerging behaviors, connecting them back to brand opportunities
- Bring a point of view on what’s happening in social and why it matters for the work
- Contribute to thought leadership by identifying and sharing relevant shifts in the digital landscape
- Bring a strong understanding of the creator and influencer landscape, including how content, audiences, and platforms intersect to drive performance
MEASUREMENT & ENABLEMENT
- Help build and maintain dashboards that are useful, intuitive, and aligned to business priorities
- Ensure data accuracy and streamline reporting workflows through automation where possible
- Analyze performance across content, campaigns, and channels, delivering timely insights (monthly, quarterly, campaign-based)
- Partner with strategy teams to define KPIs, benchmarks, and measurement frameworks that reflect real success
INNOVATION
- Continuously evolve how success is measured by identifying new KPIs and better ways to track impact
- Push beyond standard reporting to explore new tools, methodologies, and ways of thinking about performance
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 2+ years relevant experience in agency performance analytics, digital strategy or SMM role
- Proven ability writing in-depth, actionable insights based on data, translating insights into actionable recommendations for brands, creative and strategy teams
- Experience reporting on following channels Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, Twitter
- Familiarity with reporting tools (i.e. Khoros, Talkwalker, etc.)
- CPG experience desired but not required
- Preferred hands-on experience in Google Analytics, Search Console, paid social business manager accounts & Google Ad accounts
- High attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Preferred exposure to all facets of the digital marketing space: CRM, SEO, SEM, programmatic, social, mobile, video
- Demonstrated creative and innovative thinker, with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive projects through to completion
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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TEAM: Finance
LOCATION: Toronto - hybrid onsite 3x/week
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Tracxtion is a next-generation hybrid agency network built for the evolving landscape of customer experience and brand engagement, helping brands navigate a world where traditional media and marketing boundaries have blurred. By blending strategy, creativity, media, digital, and AI-enabled execution, Tracxtion drives measurable results through a commitment to hybrid collaboration that seamlessly integrates human talent with cutting-edge tools and partnerships. From AI-powered advertising and content creation to media planning, experiential events, and in-store retail solutions, Tracxtion partners with leading brands to deliver impactful, innovative, and scalable omnichannel experiences that resonate in the modern marketplace.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As Payroll & Accounts Payable Manager, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and efficiency of payroll and accounts payable operations across Canada and the United States.
Sitting within the Finance team, this role is responsible for overseeing payroll processing and full-cycle accounts payable operations, ensuring compliance, strong internal controls, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with People & Culture, department leaders, and external vendors to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time, and vendors are paid in accordance with contractual terms.
This role is ideal for a detail-oriented, process-driven finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in building reliable systems that support organizational growth.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Payroll Management (Canada & USA)
- Oversee end-to-end payroll processing in partnership with People & Culture and external payroll providers (e.g., ADP, Gusto).
- Review and approve payroll inputs, including new hires, compensation changes, bonuses, terminations, and leave adjustments.
- Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing in compliance with federal, provincial/state, and local regulations.
- Lead payroll reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end payroll reporting.
- Ensure remittances (taxes, CPP, EI, 401K, benefits premiums, garnishments, etc.) are processed accurately and on time.
- Own payroll compliance, documentation, audit support, and reporting requirements.
- Continuously improve payroll processes, controls, and documentation to enhance accuracy and scalability.
- Partner with People & Culture to ensure proper segregation of duties and data integrity across systems.
Accounts Payable Management
- Oversee full-cycle accounts payable operations across the organization.
- Manage vendor onboarding, including documentation, payment terms, and compliance requirements.
- Review and approve invoices for accuracy, coding, proper authorization, and alignment with budgets and contracts.
- Ensure timely processing of payments (EFT, wire, credit card, cheque) in accordance with established terms.
- Reconcile vendor statements and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Oversee expense management processes, including employee reimbursements and corporate credit card reconciliations.
- Maintain accurate AP records and ensure appropriate documentation for audit readiness.
- Drive continuous improvement in AP workflows, automation, and internal controls.
Financial Controls & Reporting
- Maintain strong internal controls across payroll and AP processes.
- Prepare supporting schedules for month-end and year-end close.
- Assist with external audits and compliance reviews as required.
- Partner with Finance leadership to provide payroll and AP reporting insights, forecasts, and accruals.
- Identify risks and implement process enhancements to ensure operational integrity and compliance.
Team & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as the primary point of contact for payroll and AP inquiries.
- Partner closely with People & Culture on compensation updates, benefits deductions, and leave adjustments.
- Collaborate with department leaders to ensure timely invoice approvals and budget alignment.
- Support and mentor junior team members (if applicable), fostering a culture of accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 5+ years of progressive experience in payroll and accounts payable
- Hands-on experience managing Canadian payroll; U.S. payroll experience strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, statutory deductions, and remittance requirements across Canada (U.S. knowledge an asset).
- Experience with payroll systems (e.g., ADP, Gusto) and accounting/ERP platforms.
- Strong understanding of full-cycle accounts payable processes and internal controls.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial reconciliation processes.
- Exceptional attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Discreet and trusted with confidential payroll and financial information.
- Asset: Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) or Certified Payroll Manager (CPM) designation.
- Background and credit check required.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture — we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you — wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal development opportunities.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $100,000–$130,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of Traxction's total rewards program.
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ROLE: Account Supervisor
TEAM: Accounts
LOCATION: Toronto (Hybrid)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As an Account Supervisor, you’ll oversee a portfolio of mid-sized client accounts or multiple brands within a larger partnership, operating in a fast-paced, client-facing environment. You are both a trusted advisor to clients and a day-to-day leader for your team, balancing hands-on delivery with coaching and oversight.
You’ll manage relationships, budgets, and cross-functional execution, ensuring every campaign phase delivers measurable value against client goals. You’ll proactively identify opportunities, risks, or efficiencies, bringing clarity and structure to complex, multi-channel programs.
With a balance of strategic thinking, sharp communication, and calm problem-solving, you’ll lead integrated teams through shifting priorities with confidence and composure. Whether guiding junior colleagues, managing vendors, or preparing client strategies, you’ll bring initiative, adaptability, and integrity to every interaction, helping teams deliver great work from idea to execution.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Project & Operational Management
• Independently manage a portfolio of projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery across all phases of execution.
• Own timelines, approvals, and cross-functional coordination to keep integrated campaigns on track.
• Lead internal meetings, project schedules, and operational activities across the account lifecycle.
• Anticipate needs and proactively address risks, adapting plans to shifting priorities while maintaining composure.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, delivery quality, and team effectiveness.
Vendor & Partner Management
• Recommend and select vendors based on project needs, scope, and quality expectations.
• Manage contracts, negotiations, and performance to ensure accountability and high-quality delivery.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with suppliers, freelancers, and agency partners to strengthen long-term collaboration.
• Provide oversight, direction, and coaching to team members and on-site staff, fostering morale and professional growth.
Financial Acumen
• Build and manage budgets, including estimates, scopes, and rationales, with accuracy and accountability.
• Monitor costs and variances throughout the project lifecycle, proactively proposing trade-offs or solutions.
• Partner with Finance to reconcile budgets, ensure compliance, and deliver timely financial reporting.
• Manage account financials, including invoicing, billing, and payments, in collaboration with internal teams.
• Provide strategic budget guidance to clients, including scenario planning and cost-justified recommendations.
• Uphold integrity, transparency, and professionalism in all financial practices.
Client Growth
• Act as the day-to-day client lead, managing relationships and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality work.
• Build trusted client partnerships by communicating with clarity, adapting tone and delivery to stakeholder needs.
• Develop a deep understanding of the client’s business, brand, and objectives to proactively support their goals.
• Prepare for and actively contribute to client meetings with insights, recaps, and recommendations.
• Gather and share pre- and post-program learnings to connect results to client KPIs and inform future work.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for organic growth, expanded partnerships, and new business proposals.
• Client briefs, and strategic proposals to support new business and retention efforts.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
• 5–7 years of experience in the marketing industry, including 5 plus years in account management or a related client-facing role within a creative, experiential, or integrated agency.
• Proven leader with strong people management skills, including mentoring, coaching, and supporting team morale and professional growth.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple mid-sized accounts or brand portfolios, managing complex campaigns with accuracy, clarity, and accountability.
• Experienced in vendor selection, contract negotiation, and partner management, with a track record of building trusted, long-term relationships.
• Skilled in financial management, including budget building, monitoring variances, reconciling program-level financials, and contributing to team P&L oversight.
• Excellent communicator and confident presenter, able to adapt tone and delivery to clients, teams, and stakeholders while simplifying complexity.
• Strategic thinker with a passion for marketing, brand partnerships, and business growth, able to proactively identify client opportunities and risks.
• Highly organized, adaptable, and calm under pressure, thriving in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you, wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
• Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
• Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
• Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
• Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart always.
Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $78,000–$100,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT XC total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: ART DIRECTOR
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID)
ABOUT THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
The Kitchen is where creativity, culture, and speed collide. We bring together creatives, producers, data analysts, and social experts to deliver ideas that live across everything from social to TV. Built to move at the speed of culture, we respond to trends and real-world moments as they happen—creating work that transcends platforms, earns attention, and gets people talking.
Recognized on the global stage, our team has been celebrated by Cannes Lions, The One Show, and named Campaign’s Global In-House Agency of the Year. We’re ambitious, fast, and unapologetically driven to make work that defines the moment.
At The Kitchen, you won’t just be making ads—you’ll be shaping conversations. You’ll work alongside a team that’s hungry to create award-winning work and redefine what an in-house agency can be.
Now, we’re looking for an Art Director who’s ready to push boundaries and help shape what comes next. If you’re ready to lead, experiment, and create ideas that break through culture, we want to hear from you.
OVERVIEW
You're not just an Art Director, you’re a cultural observer, a visual storyteller, and a creative problem solver. You’re energized by the pace of modern creativity and thrive in environments where ideas need to happen now. You care deeply about craft, but you’re just as passionate about relevance and impact.
You’re ambitious, not just to make great work, but to make work that gets recognized, shared, and remembered.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Concept and execute breakthrough creative ideas across social, digital, film, and integrated campaigns.
- Partner with a writer to bring ideas to life, and work closely with strategists, and producers and your creative director.
- Translate cultural trends and real-time moments into compelling, brand-relevant creative.
- Lead the visual direction of projects from concept through execution, ensuring high craft and consistency.
- Present ideas clearly and persuasively to internal teams and stakeholders.
- Collaborate across disciplines to create work that earns attention, drives engagement, and delivers results.
- Stay ahead of emerging platforms, tools, and creative trends.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 3+ years of experience in an Art Director or conceptually creative role.
- A strong portfolio showcasing concept-driven, culturally relevant work across multiple channels.
- Proven ability to generate original ideas both within and beyond the brief.
- Deep understanding of social-first thinking and how ideas travel across platforms.
- Exceptional design sensibility, typography, and visual storytelling skills.
- Ability to work at speed without compromising craft.
- A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills.
- Curiosity about culture, trends, and what people care about right now.
- Experience working in fast-paced agency or in-house creative environments.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $73,000–$90,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: CREATIVE TEAM (ART DIRECTOR & COPYWRITER)
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID - 2 DAYS ONSITE)
ABOUT THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
The Kitchen is where creativity, culture, and speed collide. We bring together creatives, producers, data analysts, and social experts to deliver ideas that live across everything from social to TV. Built to move at the speed of culture, we respond to trends and real-world moments as they happen—creating work that transcends platforms, earns attention, and gets people talking.
Recognized on the global stage, our team has been celebrated by Cannes Lions, The One Show, and named Campaign’s Global In-House Agency of the Year. We’re ambitious, fast, and unapologetically driven to make work that defines the moment.
At The Kitchen, you won’t just be making ads—you’ll be shaping conversations. You’ll work alongside a team that’s hungry to create award-winning work and redefine what an in-house agency can be.
Now, we’re looking for an Art Director who’s ready to push boundaries and help shape what comes next. If you’re ready to lead, experiment, and create ideas that break through culture, we want to hear from you.
OVERVIEW
You're not just an Art Director, you’re a cultural observer, a visual storyteller, and a creative problem solver. You’re energized by the pace of modern creativity and thrive in environments where ideas need to happen now. You care deeply about craft, but you’re just as passionate about relevance and impact.
You’re ambitious, not just to make great work, but to make work that gets recognized, shared, and remembered.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Concept and execute breakthrough creative ideas across social, digital, film, and integrated campaigns.
- Partner with a writer to bring ideas to life, and work closely with strategists, and producers and your creative director.
- Translate cultural trends and real-time moments into compelling, brand-relevant creative.
- Lead the visual direction of projects from concept through execution, ensuring high craft and consistency.
- Present ideas clearly and persuasively to internal teams and stakeholders.
- Collaborate across disciplines to create work that earns attention, drives engagement, and delivers results.
- Stay ahead of emerging platforms, tools, and creative trends.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 3+ years of experience in an Art Director or conceptually creative role.
- A strong portfolio showcasing concept-driven, culturally relevant work across multiple channels.
- Proven ability to generate original ideas both within and beyond the brief.
- Deep understanding of social-first thinking and how ideas travel across platforms.
- Exceptional design sensibility, typography, and visual storytelling skills.
- Ability to work at speed without compromising craft.
- A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills.
- Curiosity about culture, trends, and what people care about right now.
- Experience working in fast-paced agency or in-house creative environments.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $73,000–$90,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: SOCIAL COPYWRITER
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global In-House Agency of The Year, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special, a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry, we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing. We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
In this role as a Social Copywriter, you are part of an agile social team that is constantly looking for inspiration in the world, culture, and on the internet to find the next opportunity for a breakthrough social content. You are the voice of your brands online and therefore are responsible for shaping the brands’ personalities every day with the words and ideas you create for social. You have a deep understanding of your audience, and your brands’ passion points to be able to identify opportunities for social content. You have the creative ability to craft the clever responses, humorous posts and meaningful brands act on social that define how your brand comes to life.
You will interface with the community every day, through the lens of earning attention and starting a conversation. You’ll collaborate with a content creator and social media manager to ideate and create content for social, and you’ll work with an Art Director/Copywriter team to elevate great social ideas into brand acts and elevated content. You help create and steward the playbooks that define the personality of these brands, from their passion points to their tone of voice. You will help ensure that each brand lives up to its unique place in a constantly evolving dynamic world of social media.
Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- SOCIAL COPYWRITING: You’re a versatile writer who will write a range (from funny to inspiring) content for social and digital channels, helping to build consumer love for your brand and establish cultural relevance
- CONTENT CREATION: You will write, edit and publish engaging posts for various social networks
- SOCIAL OPTIMIZATION: You will optimize social media posts (language, tone, message) based on our target audience’s behaviours and established brand tone and voice
- COLLABORATION: You will work with a Content Creator on images and videos to complement text, and co-create a wide range of social post types and concepts
- BRAND PRESENCE CREATION: You’ll manage/update social media pages, profiles with on-tone descriptions and news
- AD COPYWRITING: You will coordinate with internal teams to create advertising concepts
- COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT: You’ll respond to questions and comments on our social media pages in a timely and accurate manner or transfer to the social care or escalations team for customer service-related issues
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 1+ years of experience in a social team or creative department in a related role
- Advertising portfolio required
- A proven track record of writing for brands with a significant following, ideally for a CPG or lifestyle brand
- A university or college diploma in marketing, advertising, or a related field is preferred
- A history of being able to work with creative teams and strategists, providing expertise and influencing the brand’s strategy
- A love and deep understanding of social culture and trends
- Experience with a social media management platform (i.e. Sprout, Sprinklr, Khoros) is required
- Excellent presentation skills and communication skills in a group environment
- A passion for food and food marketing
- A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $57,000–$65,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: PRODUCER
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID 2-3 DAYS ONSITE)
ABOUT THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global ‘In-House Agency of The Year’, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special - a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry - we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing! We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
In this role as a Producer, you’ll use your experience as a production expert to bridge ideas and reality to create breakthrough creative work. You’ll collaborate with creative teams and project managers to source solutions and plan the creation of content. You’ll use your network of partners and suppliers to create work that’s better than what’s already been done, or to help identify how to do what has never been done before. You and your team will find ways to make great content and experiences at the speed of culture.
Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.
For the right candidate, this job offers the best of all worlds – a chance to work with incredible brands at a world-class company, a chance to be an active contributor of ideas to a creative culture, a chance to grow your production skills as part of a collaborative team, and a chance to create timely stories for timeless brands with opportunities that will inspire you.
Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- PRODUCTION SCOPING: You quickly and reliably scope ideas during the creative process to help manage and shape the idea during development.
- PRODUCTION PLANNING: You understand how to leverage suppliers and other creators to find ways to plan and execute a range of ideas. You will find and source partners and experts who can help you make just about anything come to life.
- SHOOT MANAGEMENT: You will leverage your experience to plan and execute a range of shoots & projects from large scale content shoots (TV, Digital) to small scale photography and sound recording sessions. You understand how to run a production schedule and manage many creators on site.
- EVENT MANAGEMENT: You are responsible for organizing and managing small-scale, social led events, from planning to execution. This includes venue selection, vendor management, logistics planning, and on-site coordination.
- CLIENT MANAGEMENT: You will create confidence-inspiring pre-production presentations that anticipate brand partner feedback and proactively address concerns.
- BUDGET MANAGEMENT: You will manage the costs and processes involved with a large budget production, preventing scope creep and cost-overruns.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 5+ years of experience in a production department at a traditional, social, or experiential agency that produces social content.
- A proven track record of successful shoots and complex executions.
- A university or college diploma, or other education related to content production.
- A history of being able to work with creative teams, helping to faithfully bring their ideas to life.
- Experience producing a variety of project types including social content & assets, campaign production, video, motion graphics and digital banners.
- Experience with experiential production and event management is a plus.
- A history of executing integrated productions including overseeing large multi-discipline teams, vendor procurement and management, and ensuring overall quality of work with multiple deliverables and multiple workstreams.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of USA and Canada Entertainment Laws.
- Experience in partnering and developing relationships with non-traditional production vendors.
- A demonstrated proficiency in project management and leading client conversations.
- You have an established roster of suppliers, technology partners, directors, and other skilled creators that can help you create great work.
- Experience managing expense, paying invoices, and financial processes.
- Excellent presentations skills and communication skills in a group environment.
- A passion for food and food marketing.
- A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $70,000–$85,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: SOCIAL COPYWRITER
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global In-House Agency of The Year, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special, a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry, we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing. We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
In this role as a Social Copywriter, you are part of an agile social team that is constantly looking for inspiration in the world, culture, and on the internet to find the next opportunity for a breakthrough social content. You are the voice of your brands online and therefore are responsible for shaping the brands’ personalities every day with the words and ideas you create for social. You have a deep understanding of your audience, and your brands’ passion points to be able to identify opportunities for social content. You have the creative ability to craft the clever responses, humorous posts and meaningful brands act on social that define how your brand comes to life.
You will interface with the community every day, through the lens of earning attention and starting a conversation. You’ll collaborate with a content creator and social media manager to ideate and create content for social, and you’ll work with an Art Director/Copywriter team to elevate great social ideas into brand acts and elevated content. You help create and steward the playbooks that define the personality of these brands, from their passion points to their tone of voice. You will help ensure that each brand lives up to its unique place in a constantly evolving dynamic world of social media.
Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- SOCIAL COPYWRITING: You’re a versatile writer who will write a range (from funny to inspiring) content for social and digital channels, helping to build consumer love for your brand and establish cultural relevance
- CONTENT CREATION: You will write, edit and publish engaging posts for various social networks
- SOCIAL OPTIMIZATION: You will optimize social media posts (language, tone, message) based on our target audience’s behaviours and established brand tone and voice
- COLLABORATION: You will work with a Content Creator on images and videos to complement text, and co-create a wide range of social post types and concepts
- BRAND PRESENCE CREATION: You’ll manage/update social media pages, profiles with on-tone descriptions and news
- AD COPYWRITING: You will coordinate with internal teams to create advertising concepts
- COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT: You’ll respond to questions and comments on our social media pages in a timely and accurate manner or transfer to the social care or escalations team for customer service-related issues
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 1+ years of experience in a social team or creative department in a related role
- Advertising portfolio required
- A proven track record of writing for brands with a significant following, ideally for a CPG or lifestyle brand
- A university or college diploma in marketing, advertising, or a related field is preferred
- A history of being able to work with creative teams and strategists, providing expertise and influencing the brand’s strategy
- A love and deep understanding of social culture and trends
- Experience with a social media management platform (i.e. Sprout, Sprinklr, Khoros) is required
- Excellent presentation skills and communication skills in a group environment
- A passion for food and food marketing
- A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $57,000–$65,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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Apply to SALT XCPOSITION DESCRIPTION
ROLE: RECRUITER
TEAM: TALENT
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Recruiter will partner with the Director of Talent to lead full-cycle hiring for Salt XC. From Creatives and Community Managers to Media, Design, and Digital roles, you’ll help source and secure the talent that drives our work forward.
You’ll be hands-on in every part of the process: finding top candidates, building strong pipelines, and elevating how we show up in the market. You’re a natural relationship builder with a sharp eye for talent and a drive to make things better. You think fast, act with purpose, and bring fresh ideas to every search.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Talent Acquisition and Sourcing
- Run full-cycle recruitment for assigned departments, from intake to offer.
- Build proactive pipelines through research, outreach, referrals, communities, and events.
- Write inclusive, compelling job postings and calibrate success profiles with hiring managers.
Candidate Experience and Employer Brand
- Maintain timely, transparent communication with all candidates.
- Prepare teams for structured, competency-based interviews and close the loop with clear feedback.
- Support employer brand efforts through events, content, and partnerships that showcase Salt.
Recruitment Analytics and Optimization
- Maintain accurate ATS data; keep stages, notes, and statuses current.
- Track and share funnel metrics such as time-to-fill, source effectiveness, and conversion.
- Surface insights to improve speed, quality of hire, and process efficiency.
Strategic Partnership and Stakeholder Influence
- Consult with hiring managers on role scope, JD language, interview plans, and assessment.
- Align searches to headcount plans and hiring priorities; set expectations on pace and pipeline health.
- Communicate progress, risks, and recommendations clearly and proactively.
Early Talent and Engagement Programs
- Own outreach and logistics for intern and early-career programs in partnership with People & Culture.
- Support campus and community engagement; track conversion and retention outcomes.
- Provide feedback to improve programming, onboarding, and development pathway
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 3–5 years recruiting experience, ideally in a creative or integrated agency environment.
- Full-cycle recruiting proficiency across diverse roles (Creative, Digital, Media, Operations) with evidence of quality hires and manager satisfaction.
- Sourcing depth using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, communities, and events; comfort building proactive pipelines.
- ATS fluency with disciplined data hygiene and reporting; able to translate funnel data into actionable insights.
- Stakeholder partnership skills: consultative intake, expectation setting, structured interview planning, and offer negotiation.
- Candidate experience excellence: clear, timely communication; respectful feedback; advocacy for inclusion.
- Process rigor: organized, detail-oriented, and consistent in documentation, compliance, and handoffs to onboarding.
- Communication and influence: strong writing and presentation; able to advise with empathy and objectivity.
- EDI mindset: curiosity, fairness, and commitment to broadening access and representation.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off & winter holiday shutdowns.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $65,000–$90,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT XC’s total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, COPY (Junior-Level ACD)
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global In-House Agency of The Year, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special, a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry, we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing. We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As an Associate Creative Director (Copy) at The Kitchen, you’ll support the creative director to help lead a team of talented creatives to craft and write culturally resonant campaigns. Working alongside another ACD (Art Director), you’ll collaborate with a diverse group of experts to craft ideas that move people and generate buzz. Whether it's a quick-turn trend activation or a thoughtfully crafted TV spot, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping work that captures attention, earns media, and inspires action.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creative: Development and execution of campaigns, ensuring ideas are fresh, culturally relevant, and aligned with client objectives.
- Team Management: Mentor and inspire a team of jr. art directors, copywriters, and content creators, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Trend Responsiveness: Stay attuned to cultural and social trends, leveraging insights to deliver timely, impactful campaigns.
- Collaboration: Partner with producers, strategists, data analysts, and social media experts to craft ideas that work seamlessly across platforms.
- Client Engagement: Present concepts to clients with clarity and passion, building trust and enthusiasm for the work.
- Craft Excellence: Ensure the highest standards of creative execution across all deliverables, from social-first content to integrated campaigns.
- Award Ambition: Drive the team to produce award-worthy work that sets industry benchmarks.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience: 7+ years of experience in a creative role within an agency or in-house team, with a track record of producing high-quality, award-winning work.
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire creative teams.
- Cultural Fluency: Deep understanding of social media platforms, cultural trends, and the ability to translate them into impactful campaigns.
- Creative Thinking: A portfolio showcasing big ideas, sharp insights, and flawless execution across a range of media.
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to align creative concepts with client objectives and strategies.
- Presentation Skills: Confident and persuasive communicator, capable of presenting ideas to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Agility: Thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to pivot quickly and deliver under tight deadlines.
- Passion: A genuine love for creativity, culture, and storytelling
The Kitchen and Kraft Heinz are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for the ACD (Jr) position is $115,000–$130,000. Individual compensation within the base salary range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. The base salary range listed does not include variable pay or other elements of the total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCPOSITION DESCRIPTION
ROLE: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SPONSORSHIP
TEAM: SPONSORSHIP
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As an Associate Director, Sponsorship, you are a leader who helps translate sponsorship strategy into clear recommendations, strong client relationships, and high-quality output across Salt’s sports and entertainment focused business.
You will partner with Senior Directors, Managers, and cross-functional teams to lead sponsorship work across the full lifecycle, from evaluation and strategic development through recommendation and execution. You bring strong judgment, commercial thinking, and client-ready storytelling to the work, while helping guide teams and accounts with a high degree of independence.
In this role, you will lead day-to-day client business, shape recommendations using data and market context, and direct teams to deliver smart, polished work with clarity and confidence. Your leadership will help bring structure to complexity, strengthen client trust, and create meaningful leverage for senior leadership.
You are also curious about new tools and ways of working, including how AI can be applied thoughtfully to improve the quality, speed, and effectiveness of strategy, analysis, and presentation development.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Client Leadership & Partnership Management
- Lead day-to-day client business across assigned sponsorship accounts and workstreams with a high degree of independence
- Build trusted relationships with clients, internal teams, agency partners, and external stakeholders through strong communication, sound judgment, and consistent delivery
- Develop a strong understanding of client sponsorship goals, business priorities, and brand positioning
- Lead meetings, manage follow-ups, and create clarity around priorities, timelines, and next steps
- Bring thoughtful counsel and clear recommendations to clients, while helping create momentum and confidence across the business
Sponsorship Strategy & Portfolio Planning
- Develop sponsorship strategies, recommendations, and points of view aligned to client objectives
- Translate business goals, market context, audience insights, and partnership opportunities into actionable plans
- Support annual planning, opportunity prioritization, partnership reviews, and broader portfolio thinking
- Help ensure recommendations balance commercial rigor with cultural relevance and practical execution
- Contribute to the ongoing development of Salt’s sponsorship approaches, tools, and ways of working
Measurement, Valuation & Analytical Thinking
- Apply sponsorship measurement and valuation thinking independently across client work, including property and asset evaluation
- Derive insights and considerations from available data, comparing against client priorities and market realities
- Identify where additional information or analysis is needed to strengthen recommendations
- Participate in and help lead client and stakeholder discussions related to sponsorship value, effectiveness, and opportunity
- Use data, analysis, and judgment to shape recommendations that are clear, defensible, and commercially credible
Partnership Structuring, Negotiation & Rights Management
- Support sponsorship evaluation, negotiation strategy, asset review, and partnership planning across the full lifecycle of the work
- Translate partnership rights, assets, and contractual realities into clear business implications and recommendations
- Help structure partnership value in a way that is actionable, practical, and easy for clients to understand
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and missed value within partnership structures and help shape stronger solutions
- Bring a thoughtful understanding of how rights, entitlements, and activation realities affect overall value
Strategic Storytelling & Recommendation Development
- Lead the creation of strong, client-ready presentations from outline through final delivery
- Build clear narratives that connect data, insights, and recommendations in a persuasive way
- Turn complex information into concise, well-structured storytelling
- Bring structure and clarity to complex sponsorship challenges, translating ambiguity into smart, defensible recommendations
- Maintain a high standard of clarity, polish, and strategic rigor across all deliverables
- Support senior leadership in selling in ideas, strategies, and recommendations through compelling presentation development
Cross-Functional Leadership & Program Delivery
- Direct day-to-day workstreams across Managers and cross-functional team members
- Provide clear briefs, direction, and feedback to support strong output and efficient delivery
- Lead internal meetings and working sessions to keep projects organized and moving
- Improve workflow, communication, and quality across projects by creating clarity and accountability
- Help develop more junior team members by strengthening their strategic thinking, storytelling, and client management skills
- Stay curious about emerging tools, technologies, and ways of working, including AI, and explore how they can be used responsibly to strengthen strategic output and improve efficiency
Commercial Acumen & Business Growth
- Support account health across budget, scope, timelines, and resourcing decisions
- Help manage financial reconciliation, delivery discipline, and overall operational effectiveness across assigned business
- Support the identification of organic growth opportunities within existing client business
- Contribute to pitch materials, proposals, and new business opportunities as needed
- Strive to uncover opportunities where Salt can add incremental value for clients through new services, projects, or strategic support
- Bring sound commercial judgment to recommendations and delivery decisions, understanding how they affect client value and business performance
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 8+ years of experience in sponsorship, partnerships, account leadership, or related strategic marketing roles
- Strong experience in sponsorship strategy, partnership evaluation, asset review, negotiation support, and account management
- Previous experience working across sports, entertainment, culture, or lifestyle-driven properties and partnerships
- Proven ability to independently lead client relationships and day-to-day account business with a high degree of confidence and ownership
- Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to connect business goals, market realities, and actionable recommendations
- Strong sponsorship valuation and analytical capability, with the ability to turn data and research into defensible recommendations
- Proven ability to build strong presentations and tell a clear, compelling strategic story
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex sponsorship challenges, and translate ambiguity into smart, practical solutions
- Strong project leadership and experience managing multiple workstreams at once
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong organizational abilities and attention to detail
- Confidence leading meetings and presenting to clients and internal teams
- Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, and an interest in applying them thoughtfully to improve workflow, sharpen thinking, and elevate the quality of client work
- Passion for sponsorship, partnerships, and the evolving sports and entertainment landscape
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you, wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We aspire to be good people. People who are humble, hardworking, honest, and kind to one another. People who are fun to work with, who trust and are respectful of each other.
- Do What’s Right: We don’t believe in taking shortcuts. We believe in doing what is right, not what is easy or expected.
- Earn It: We believe in rolling up our sleeves and not being afraid of hard work. We want to earn the respect of others, the results we deliver and the praise we receive.
- Make Things Better: We aspire to leave things better than we found them and are always looking for a better way. Great ideas come from anywhere, they come from being curious, passionate, solutions-oriented people who care deeply about what we do.
- Seek Different Perspectives: We believe in embracing difference, the perspective it brings, how it challenges us, how it spurs creativity, and its ability to make us better.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $90,000–$125,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: Account Executive
TEAM: Accounts
LOCATION: Toronto (Hybrid)
Contract Date: May 4 to Aug 28, 2026
Company Overview
Salt XC is an agency driven by the philosophy of Experiential Commerce™, our unique framework for designing better consumer experiences that earn attention and drive action. We take an integrated approach that connects a brand’s consumer online and offline experiences through data, media, and the memorable moments that drive brand transactions.
Role Overview
Account Executives support the account management team by overseeing small to medium-sized programs and/or contributing as part of a larger team on large-scale programs.
Successful Account Executives are skilled communicators, nimble producers, and flexible, creative problem solvers who can lead onsite execution teams when required. You are organized, passionate about client relations, and focused on producing high-quality work.
Responsibilities
Client Relationships
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Execute with excellence on behalf of clients.
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Support program execution, which may require in-field or office-based work depending on program needs.
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Communicate with clients to understand their needs, relay information to the team, and execute accordingly.
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Maintain an up-to-date understanding of client products and services.
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Identify and share relevant industry trends.
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Collect and analyze consumer data before and after programs.
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Act as an extension of the client throughout planning, execution, and wrap-up.
Team
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Collaborate with your team to fulfill client needs.
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Work closely with partners and suppliers to ensure they have the tools and information required.
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Support the development of a team of executors when needed.
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Train, lead, and manage Brand Ambassadors and/or Coordinators (program dependent).
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Keep your manager updated regularly to ensure alignment and proper support.
Financial
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Develop experience with Salt’s pricing model and client-specific budget tools.
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Build small to medium-sized budgets.
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Own components of large program budgets.
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Reconcile budgets of all sizes and work closely with finance.
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Manage purchases on behalf of the client and company, ensuring accurate and timely expense reconciliation.
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Review small to medium budgets with clients and provide rationale with support from your manager.
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Support business growth efforts to achieve objectives.
Business Operations
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Identify challenges and propose process improvements.
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Support internal teams and committees to contribute to culture and help test or implement new processes and policies.
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Assist with ancillary projects that support the client or Salt.
Experience & Skills
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2–5 years of marketing industry experience with client-facing program execution.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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Strong adaptability and problem-solving abilities.
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Ability to manage program budgets.
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Excellent active listening and time management.
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Ability to build rapport internally and externally.
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Strong organizational skills.
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Understanding of consumer behaviour and industry trends.
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Proficiency with O365, social, and digital media.
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Passion for marketing and partnerships.
Salt’s Values
Salt of the Earth – Humble, hardworking, honest, kind, fun to work with, and respectful.
Do What’s Right – No shortcuts; we do what is right, not simply what is easy.
Earn It – We roll up our sleeves, work hard, and earn respect, results, and praise.
Make Things Better – We leave things better than we found them and continuously seek improvement.
Seek Different Perspectives – We embrace difference for its impact on creativity, challenge, and growth.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $50,000 - $68,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT total rewards program.
Ready to apply?
Apply to SALT XCROLE: XM ACCOUNT TEAM LEAD (BILINGUAL)
TEAM: ACCOUNTS
LOCATION: QUEBEC
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are hiring an experienced in-field regional field manager to support a leading Canadian coffee brand and serve as an XM Account Team Lead. This role is focused exclusively on field execution, leadership and commercial vehicle operations.
You will lead mobile activations, manage drivers and brand ambassadors on site, and oversee the safe operation of commercial assets across your region. This is a hands on leadership position for someone confident operating large vehicles, managing technical equipment, and representing the brand in live environments.
You will operate with a high level of independence while maintaining structured communication and reporting to the Senior Manager.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Field Leadership & Execution
- Lead the full execution of mobile and tent based activations from setup to teardown
- Supervise brand ambassadors, and on site team leads
- Act as the primary escalation point for operational or personnel issues in the field
- Ensure all activations meet brand, safety, and quality standards
Fleet & Commercial Vehicle Operations
- Confidently operate 18 to 35 ft commercial box trucks or similar large vehicles and portable generators
- Safely maneuver vehicles and trailers in urban, event, and high traffic environments
- Conduct vehicle inspections and maintain logbooks in compliance with provincial regulations
- Travel regionally and support multi location programs as required
- Maintain basic mechanical awareness and troubleshoot minor vehicle issues when needed
- Follow all safety procedures when working with fuel, power, and mobile equipment systems
Asset & Inventory Oversight
- Ensure mobile assets are clean, stocked, and event ready
- Support inventory tracking across vehicles and storage locations
- Coordinate asset movement and basic maintenance requirements
Reporting & Communication
- Deliver daily field and post event reports
- Track performance metrics including attendance, sampling, and team execution
- Maintain proactive communication with internal leadership regarding program updates
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
Leadership and Field Management
- Previous experience leading or supervising teams, ideally within experiential, events, or field marketing
- Proven ability to train, coach, and manage brand ambassadors in fast paced environments
Operations and Logistics
- Strong experience managing event operations, mobile assets, or large scale field programs
- Comfortable with physical work including lifting, loading, and extended standing
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage schedules, staffing needs, and regional coverage
- Comfortable working independently and owning responsibilities end to end
Communication and Relationship Building
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident acting as the main point of contact for vendors, infield staff and internal management
- Strong relationship builder with a collaborative and solutions focused mindset
Driving, Reporting, and Compliance
- Valid full G driver’s license
- Experience driving commercial vehicle
- Willingness to complete daily travel and driving logs
- Ability to provide a clean driver’s abstract if selected
Adaptability and Availability
- Flexible and available for extensive regional travel
- Available ASAP through the end of December 2026
- Comfortable working remotely from the field
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $50-55K. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT total rewards program.
Ready to apply?
Apply to SALT XCROLE: XM ACCOUNT TEAM LEAD
TEAM: ACCOUNTS
LOCATION: ALBERTA
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are hiring an experienced in-field regional field manager to support a leading Canadian coffee brand and serve as an XM Account Team Lead. This role is focused exclusively on field execution, leadership and commercial vehicle operations.
You will lead mobile activations, manage drivers and brand ambassadors on site, and oversee the safe operation of commercial assets across your region. This is a hands on leadership position for someone confident operating large vehicles, managing technical equipment, and representing the brand in live environments.
You will operate with a high level of independence while maintaining structured communication and reporting to the Senior Manager.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Field Leadership & Execution
- Lead the full execution of mobile and tent based activations from setup to teardown
- Supervise brand ambassadors, and on site team leads
- Act as the primary escalation point for operational or personnel issues in the field
- Ensure all activations meet brand, safety, and quality standards
Fleet & Commercial Vehicle Operations
- Confidently operate 18 to 35 ft commercial box trucks or similar large vehicles and portable generators
- Safely maneuver vehicles and trailers in urban, event, and high traffic environments
- Conduct vehicle inspections and maintain logbooks in compliance with provincial regulations
- Travel regionally and support multi location programs as required
- Maintain basic mechanical awareness and troubleshoot minor vehicle issues when needed
- Follow all safety procedures when working with fuel, power, and mobile equipment systems
Asset & Inventory Oversight
- Ensure mobile assets are clean, stocked, and event ready
- Support inventory tracking across vehicles and storage locations
- Coordinate asset movement and basic maintenance requirements
Reporting & Communication
- Deliver daily field and post event reports
- Track performance metrics including attendance, sampling, and team execution
- Maintain proactive communication with internal leadership regarding program updates
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
Leadership and Field Management
- Previous experience leading or supervising teams, ideally within experiential, events, or field marketing
- Proven ability to train, coach, and manage brand ambassadors in fast paced environments
Operations and Logistics
- Strong experience managing event operations, mobile assets, or large scale field programs
- Comfortable with physical work including lifting, loading, and extended standing
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage schedules, staffing needs, and regional coverage
- Comfortable working independently and owning responsibilities end to end
Communication and Relationship Building
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident acting as the main point of contact for vendors, infield staff and internal management
- Strong relationship builder with a collaborative and solutions focused mindset
Driving, Reporting, and Compliance
- Valid full G driver’s license
- Experience driving commercial vehicle
- Willingness to complete daily travel and driving logs
- Ability to provide a clean driver’s abstract if selected
Adaptability and Availability
- Flexible and available for extensive regional travel
- Available ASAP through the end of December 2026
- Comfortable working remotely from the field
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $50-55K. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT total rewards program.
Ready to apply?
Apply to SALT XCROLE: SENIOR STRATEGIST
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: TORONTO
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Welcome to The Kitchen by Kraft Heinz – the in-house agency taking marketing into a new era. With bases in Toronto and Chicago, we're not just a team; we're culinary pioneers blending culture, creativity, and collaboration. Join our 100+ member crew of Creatives, Strategists, Producers, Designers, and Content Creators. Together with our brand partners, we unlock creativity at the speed of culture, turning brands into icons with breakthrough social and digital ideas. Come be part of a team where passion meets innovation, crafting experiences that leave a lasting impression—one spicy idea at a time.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
The Senior Strategist at The Kitchen is responsible for serving as the day-to-day strategic lead across multiple brands. We seek someone who thrives in a fast-paced, creative environment. This role demands a unique blend of strategic thinking, cultural curiosity, and, above all, a passion for social media. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing strategies for brand activations and overseeing the content development for organic social. We seek someone with a proven track record of successful campaigns, strategic brief development, and framework building. The ideal candidate understands the full marketing funnel and ecosystem and how social media fits in. They will lead and coach a team of Social Media Managers, ensuring the team is inspired to deliver great content and brand activations that move at the speed of culture.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- STRATEGIC THINKING: Maintain a deep understanding of the brand, audiences, business priorities, competition, and industry trends. You will work on creative briefs, comms plans, campaign rollouts, and thought leadership, among other things, ensuring strategic thinking is incorporated in all aspects of the agency’s work.
- CULTURAL STRATEGY & CREATIVE BRIEF DEVELOPMENT: Translate the events, trends, and conversations surrounding our brands into inspiring creative opportunities and proactive briefs that allow these brands to participate in culture quickly and effectively. Identify the passion points and topics a brand should engage in, delivering insights that will inspire creative teams and meaningfully impact businesses.
- COLLABORATION WITH CREATIVE TEAMS: Work closely with the Creative team to brainstorm, generate thought starters, and actively help them hone their work.
- PASSION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA: Stay updated on the latest social media platforms and trends, ensuring that Creatives and Brand Partners understand how to operate in a constantly changing social media landscape.
- UNDERSTANDING OF PAID MEDIA: Understand ad units, media opportunities, and post content options in a complex multi-platform online environment to make strategic recommendations for creating and amplifying work that reaches the right audience, with both paid and owned media.
- SOCIAL PLAYBOOK DEVELOPMENT: Oversee social media playbook development with an eye for solid brand DNA, voice, and platform strategy.
- SOCIAL LISTENING: Translate social listening data and media insights into strategic recommendations that help inform brand activations and social content.
- PRESENTATION SKILLS: Strong communication skills, excellent writing ability, and enthusiastic presentation skills. Translate big and complex ideas clearly and effectively into simple, compelling stories and presentations to help get ideas approved by Brand Partners.
- TEAM MANAGEMENT: Work with a pod structure consisting of Creatives, Social Copywriters, and Content Creators, and directly manage two Social Media Managers. Help your Social Media Managers develop planned and reactive social briefs, deploy daily content, and manage the relationship with Brand Partners.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
- 5+ years of experience in a brand, creative, or social strategy role.
- Proven track record of managing brands with a significant following, ideally for a CPG or lifestyle brand.
- History of working with Creative teams, providing expertise and influencing creative ideas.
- Proficiency in creating presentations (PowerPoint, Google Slides).
- Ability to translate research and data into meaningful insights that inspire big ideas.
- Solid understanding of the tools and frameworks that support strategy development (e.g., social listening).
- Love and deep understanding of culture and social trends.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills in a group environment.
- A university or college diploma in marketing, advertising, or a related field is preferred.
The Kitchen and Kraft Heinz. are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $100,000–$120,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: SENIOR 3D DESIGNER
TEAM: DESIGN, SALT XC
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Senior 3D Designer, you bring together creative leadership, design excellence, and advanced 3D expertise to deliver impactful, brand-driven experiences. You lead the development of creative concepts and translate them into visually compelling outputs across digital, social, and experiential environments — with a strong focus on spatial and immersive design.
Balancing hands-on execution with mentorship and strategic thinking, you guide both 2D and 3D design direction while ensuring the highest standards of craft, storytelling, and brand consistency. You have a deep understanding of design systems, composition, and environmental storytelling, using these to elevate creative work across all touchpoints.
The ideal candidate has a strong track record in both design leadership and 3D experiential work within fast-paced creative environments, combining aesthetic rigor with technical expertise to bring bold, effective ideas to life.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Brand-Aware Design Systems & Execution
- Lead the creation of brand-aligned visual systems across digital, print, and experiential platforms, including 3D environments.
- Translate strategic and creative briefs into scalable design frameworks and immersive spatial concepts.
- Oversee multiple projects from concept through delivery, ensuring timelines, priorities, and output quality are met.
- Ensure cohesion between 2D and 3D outputs across integrated campaigns and experiences.
- Review and refine work from Designers and Junior Designers to uphold brand standards and creative excellence.
- Partner with Creative Directors and Art Directors to evolve design systems and experiential outputs that strengthen client brands.
3D Design Execution & Experiential Conceptualization
- Lead the creation of high-quality 3D environments, renders, and visualizations for campaigns, events, and brand experiences.
- Translate strategy, briefs, and 2D assets into spatially dynamic, human-centered designs.
- Develop innovative visual approaches that align with brand tone, audience needs, and experiential goals.
- Apply strong storytelling through lighting, materials, composition, and spatial flow.
- Ensure technical accuracy, file organization, and consistency across all 3D deliverables.
Presentation & Stakeholder Communication
- Develop compelling presentations, mockups, and visual decks that clearly communicate creative intent and experiential vision.
- Present work confidently to internal teams and clients, articulating both design rationale and technical execution.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Strategy, Accounts, and Production to ensure alignment with client goals, timelines, and budgets.
- Support pitches and client engagements with polished visual storytelling and immersive concepts.
- Provide mentorship and constructive feedback to junior team members, fostering growth and creative excellence.
Strategic Design Thinking
- Connect design decisions to brand strategy, audience insights, and campaign objectives.
- Lead and contribute to brainstorms, workshops, and concept development sessions with both visual and spatial thinking.
- Identify opportunities to enhance storytelling and impact across both 2D and 3D touchpoints.
- Use design thinking to solve creative challenges, balancing aesthetics, usability, and feasibility.
Visual Craft, Innovation & Quality
- Deliver exceptional work demonstrating mastery in layout, typography, color, composition, motion, and 3D visualization.
- Uphold and elevate design standards across all outputs, ensuring work is polished and presentation-ready.
- Stay current with emerging tools, rendering techniques, and experiential design trends.
- Explore new technologies and workflows to push creative boundaries and improve efficiency.
- Bring innovation and craft to every stage of the process — inspiring confidence, creativity, and excellence within the team.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 5+ years of professional experience in design and 3D visualization within a creative, marketing, or agency environment.
- Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, 3D Design, Architecture, or related field preferred.
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
- Advanced knowledge of 3D software (Cinema 4D, Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine, or similar).
- Strong understanding of brand systems, typography, digital design, and experiential storytelling.
- Demonstrated ability to lead or mentor designers and provide actionable feedback.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in fast-paced environments.
- Strong spatial design sensibility with expertise in lighting, materials, and environmental composition.
- Experience with motion design, interactive content, or real-time rendering is an asset.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with client-facing experience.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and collaborative mindset.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off and winter holiday shutdowns
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $65,000–$100,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT’s total rewards program.
Salt is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to SALT XCROLE: ACCOUNT MANAGER
TEAM: ACCOUNTS
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Salt XC is an agency driven by the philosophy of Experiential Commerce™, our unique framework for designing better consumer experiences that earn attention and drive action. We take an integrated approach that connects a brand’s consumer’s online and offline experiences through data, media and the memorable moments that drive brand transactions.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Account Managers are responsible for overseeing small to large size programs, and the cross-functional teams that contribute to program development & execution. The Account Manager acts as a client advocate and works with internal departments to ensure that client needs are understood and satisfied. You may assist with selling-in programs, day-to-day program management, overcoming client challenges, collecting and analyzing data, and improving the overall client experience.
To succeed in this position, you should have exceptional communication and problem-solving skills. You should be resourceful, analytical, adaptable, and organized, with the ability to build rapport with clients.
This is currently a Hybrid work opportunity with 2 days in office required at our Salt Toronto Head Office.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
B2B & Technical Event Leadership
- Lead B2B programs, corporate events, and large-scale experiential initiatives, confidently navigating high-stakes, business-focused production environment's
- Oversee technical production workflows including show flow, run of show, rehearsals, load-in/load-out, and on-site execution to ensure seamless delivery
- Manage union venue environments with an understanding of labor regulations, scheduling requirements, staffing structures, and cost implications.
- Partner with technical directors, AV teams, venues, and fabricators to coordinate scenic builds, staging, and custom installations from concept through execution.
- Negotiate and manage production vendors and venue contracts, including insurance and corporate compliance requirements, ensuring financial accuracy and risk mitigation.
- Anticipate and proactively resolve operational and production challenges while maintaining client confidence and aligning execution to business objectives and KPIs.
Client Relations
- Building relationships with clients based on trust and respect
- Producing and executing on behalf of clients with excellence
- Production & execution may require work to be performed in-field, or in the office, and will vary on a program-by-program basis
- Communicating with clients to understand their needs and deliver this information back to your direct manager and/or team
- Maintaining updated knowledge of client products and services
- Identifying and informing on industry trends
- Collecting and analyzing data to learn more about consumer behavior, before the program and afterward
- Acting as an extension of your client throughout the planning, execution, and wrap-up phases – always keeping your client top of mind.
Team
- Collaborate with internal Salt departments to facilitate client need fulfillment
- Work with your manager to develop a team of executors to support you where/when required
- Training, leading and managing Brand Ambassadors, Coordinators and/or Account Executives (program & team dependant)
- Liaising with your manager on a regular basis, ensuring they are aware of your activities, informed on client updates, and can support you as required
Financial
- Understanding agency pricing model
- Building small, medium & large sized program budgets
- Reconciling all sizes of program budgets; staying in close contact with the finance team as required
- Staying on budget in all circumstances, and ability to recognize when a budget may not be sufficient and communicating this to your manager
- Ability to review budgets with clients, providing detailed overview of budget breakdown and pricing rationale
- Supporting with driving business growth in an effort to reach objectives
Business Operations
- Overcoming challenges and making suggestions to improve processes
- Supporting teams and committees within Salt to create positive culture and test/implement new policies, processes and procedures
- Supporting your team with ancillary projects that support either the client or Salt on a daily basis
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 4 - 5 years’ experience in the marketing industry, with experience executing programs on behalf of a client
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Adaptability and strong problem-solving skills
- Experience managing program budgets
- Excellent active listening skills
- Experience presenting in front of internal and external teams
- Ability to build rapport and collaborate with others both internally and externally
- Proven organizational skills
- Understanding. Of consumer behaviours and industry trends
- Strong foundational technology skills – familiarity with O365, social. & digital media
- Passion for marketing and partnerships
SALT’S VALUE
- Salt of the Earth: We aspire to be good people. People who are humble, hardworking, honest and kind to one another. People who are fun to work with, who trust and are respectful of each other.
- Do What's Right: We don’t believe in taking shortcuts. We believe in doing what is right, not what is easy or expected.
- Earn It: We believe in rolling up our sleeves and not being afraid of hard work. We want to earn the respect of others, the results we deliver and the praise we receive.
- Make things Better: We aspire to leave things better than we found them and are always looking for a better way. Great ideas come from anywhere, they come from being curious, passionate, solutions-oriented people who care deeply about what we do.
- Seek Different Perspectives: We believe in embracing difference; the perspective it brings, how it challenges us, how it spurs creativity, and its ability to make us better.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $65,000–$80,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT's total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCPOSITION DESCRIPTION
ROLE: Payroll & Benefits Specialist (Salt & Tracxtion)
TEAM: People & Culture
LOCATION: Canada
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Tracxtion is a next-generation hybrid agency network built for the evolving landscape of customer experience and brand engagement, helping brands navigate a world where traditional media and marketing boundaries have blurred. By blending strategy, creativity, media, digital, and AI-enabled execution, Tracxtion drives measurable results through a commitment to hybrid collaboration that seamlessly integrates human talent with cutting-edge tools and partnerships. From AI-powered advertising and content creation to media planning, experiential events, and in-store retail solutions, Tracxtion partners with leading brands to deliver impactful, innovative, and scalable omnichannel experiences that resonate in the modern marketplace.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Payroll & Benefits Specialist, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our employees across Canada and the United States experience seamless, accurate, and well-communicated payroll and benefits programs.
Sitting within the People & Culture team, this role is focused on operational excellence and employee support. You’ll administer payroll, benefits, compensation changes, and leave programs with precision, care, and confidentiality — partnering closely with Finance and external vendors to ensure established programs are executed smoothly and compliantly. This role owns payroll and benefits data input accuracy, while payroll processing, approval, and reconciliation remain with Finance in accordance with segregation of duties.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives on details, enjoys supporting employees, and takes pride in keeping complex processes running flawlessly behind the scenes.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Payroll Administration (Canada & USA)
- Support payroll data input and validation using ADP and Gusto, in close partnership with Finance.
- Prepare and validate payroll inputs, including new hires, compensation changes, leaves, terminations, and bonuses.
- Ensure payroll inputs are accurate, complete, and delivered on time for Finance processing each cycle.
- Respond to employee payroll inquiries with professionalism, discretion, and empathy.
- Maintain payroll records, approvals, and documentation to support compliance and audits.
Compensation Administration
- Administer approved compensation changes related to salary reviews, promotions, job or level changes, and market adjustments.
- Ensure all compensation updates are accurately documented, approved, and communicated to employees.
- Support compensation cycles by preparing materials, tracking approvals, and coordinating communications with People and Finance partners.
Benefits & Perks Administration (Canada & USA)
- Administer benefits and perks programs, including GroupSource, MyHSA, Medcan and Gusto Benefits (Cigna, Principal)
- Coordinate employee enrollments, changes, and terminations in benefits programs.
- Ensure benefits premium deductions, eligibility changes, and taxable benefit forecasts coordinating closely with People and Finance.
- Update employee-facing benefits materials, including presentations, decks, and one-page summaries.
- Deliver benefits onboarding and education for employees in Canada and the U.S.
- Administer wellness initiatives, perks, and value-added programs.
- Coordinate RRSP registrations through the Group RRSP provider.
- Coordinate 401K support through guidelines
Leaves, Time Off & Accommodations
- Administer leave-related processes, including parental leave, sick leave, statutory leaves, and time-off programs.
- Coordinate parental leave elements such as baby gift cards, baby gifts, RESP-related items, and associated communications.
- Support employees and leaders with leave documentation and process guidance.
- Ensure leave status is accurately reflected across payroll, benefits, and People systems.
- Coordinate short term disability employer applications for maternity leave in USA through principal.
- Coordinate workplace accommodations in alignment with legal requirements and People policies.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 2–3 years of experience in payroll, benefits administration, HR operations, or a related People function.
- Hands-on experience supporting payroll processes and working with payroll systems (ADP and Hibob experience an asset).
- Strong understanding of benefits administration and employee lifecycle processes across Canada (U.S. exposure an asset).
- Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple processes and deadlines accurately.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly and empathetically to employees.
- Highly organized, discreet, and trusted with confidential employee information.
- Comfortable partnering cross-functionally with People, Finance, and external vendors.
- Asset: Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) designation (or actively working toward it) and/or Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation (or actively working toward it).
- Background and credit check required
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture — we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you — wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal development opportunities.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
Non-Bonus-Eligible Role
Pay Transparency Statement (Base Salary Only)
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $62,000–$72,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT/Tracxtion's total rewards program.
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ROLE: CREATIVE RESOURCE MANAGER
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID - 2-3 DAYS ONSITE)
ABOUT THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global ‘In-House Agency of The Year’, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special - a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry - we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing! We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
OVERVIEW
As a Creative Resource Manager, you are responsible for understanding the inner workings of the entire creative department — who makes up the team, the roles they play, each person’s strengths and opportunities, how they work, and who is best suited for a particular assignment.
You will play a critical role in organizing and managing resourcing across a dynamic creative department of 55+ people. You are resourceful, highly organized, and a natural connector. You are passionate about creative work and understand the process behind producing great content, campaigns, and social work.
Working closely with creative leadership and cross-functional teams, you will help ensure projects are properly staffed, timelines are clearly communicated, and the team has what they need to deliver high-quality work efficiently and effectively.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional agency teams and creatives to outline schedules and deliverables for projects.
- Keep track of each phase of projects, ensuring the creative team has the right resources in place to complete their work successfully.
- Manage creative resourcing across the department, balancing workload, capacity, timelines, and shifting priorities across individuals and teams.
- Maintain accurate resourcing data in monday.com across multiple projects and workstreams.
- Review and process all incoming creative requests with support and sign-off of the Sr. Resource Manager
- Ensure incoming requests are submitted with all necessary information, assets, and alignment to agency process.
- Ability to proactively identify when to engage freelance support to meet project demands without compromising timelines or team sustainability.
- Build strong relationships with peers and partners across the agency.
- Help create the conditions for creatives to do their best work by improving visibility, communication, and workflow across the department.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 5+ years of experience in the advertising industry in project management, resourcing, traffic, or a related function.
- Experience with project management or resourcing software (monday.com)
- Strong ability to build rapport and collaborate with internal and external partners.
- Confident communicator comfortable working in fast-paced, changing environments.
- Strong foundational technology skills, including familiarity with Microsoft 365, social, and digital media platforms.
- Adaptable, proactive, and solutions-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple schedules, deadlines, and competing priorities.
- Passionate about creative work and the process behind bringing ideas to life.
- Organized and systems-oriented, with experience establishing timelines and identifying information and asset requirements needed to keep projects moving.
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $95,000–$105,000 USD. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of
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TEAM: ACCOUNTS
LOCATION: ONTARIO
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are hiring an experienced in-field regional field manager to support a leading Canadian coffee brand and serve as an XM Account Team Lead. This role is focused exclusively on field execution, leadership and commercial vehicle operations.
You will lead mobile activations, manage drivers and brand ambassadors on site, and oversee the safe operation of commercial assets across your region. This is a hands on leadership position for someone confident operating large vehicles, managing technical equipment, and representing the brand in live environments.
You will operate with a high level of independence while maintaining structured communication and reporting to the Senior Manager.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Field Leadership & Execution
- Lead the full execution of mobile and tent based activations from setup to teardown
- Supervise brand ambassadors, and on site team leads
- Act as the primary escalation point for operational or personnel issues in the field
- Ensure all activations meet brand, safety, and quality standards
Fleet & Commercial Vehicle Operations
- Confidently operate 18 to 35 ft commercial box trucks or similar large vehicles and portable generators
- Safely maneuver vehicles and trailers in urban, event, and high traffic environments
- Conduct vehicle inspections and maintain logbooks in compliance with provincial regulations
- Travel regionally and support multi location programs as required
- Maintain basic mechanical awareness and troubleshoot minor vehicle issues when needed
- Follow all safety procedures when working with fuel, power, and mobile equipment systems
Asset & Inventory Oversight
- Ensure mobile assets are clean, stocked, and event ready
- Support inventory tracking across vehicles and storage locations
- Coordinate asset movement and basic maintenance requirements
Reporting & Communication
- Deliver daily field and post event reports
- Track performance metrics including attendance, sampling, and team execution
- Maintain proactive communication with internal leadership regarding program updates
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
Leadership and Field Management
- Previous experience leading or supervising teams, ideally within experiential, events, or field marketing
- Proven ability to train, coach, and manage brand ambassadors in fast paced environments
Operations and Logistics
- Strong experience managing event operations, mobile assets, or large scale field programs
- Comfortable with physical work including lifting, loading, and extended standing
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage schedules, staffing needs, and regional coverage
- Comfortable working independently and owning responsibilities end to end
Communication and Relationship Building
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident acting as the main point of contact for vendors, infield staff and internal management
- Strong relationship builder with a collaborative and solutions focused mindset
Driving, Reporting, and Compliance
- Valid full G driver’s license
- Experience driving commercial vehicle
- Willingness to complete daily travel and driving logs
- Ability to provide a clean driver’s abstract if selected
Adaptability and Availability
- Flexible and available for extensive regional travel
- Available ASAP through the end of December 2026
- Comfortable working remotely from the field
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $50-55K. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT total rewards program.
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TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID)
Company Overview
The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It’s a team of creatives, producers, data analysts and social experts working together to deliver remarkable ideas that live in a variety of mediums, from everything from social to TV. This team moves at the speed of culture. It is built to respond to trends and events as they happen, coming up with the ideas that transcend social media to capture the spirit of the moment, earn media impressions, and get the country talking.
Are you ready to join an award-ambitious team that's making waves in the advertising industry? Our incredible team has been recognized internationally by industry giants like Cannes, One Show and was named Campaign's Global ‘In-House Agency of The Year’, further solidifying our position as a leader in the industry. Join us and be a part of something truly special, a team that's dedicated to creating ground-breaking work and pushing limits.
At The Kitchen, we're not just looking for individuals who want to be a part of the advertising industry, we're looking for trailblazers who are ready to lead the way to the next big thing. We want individuals who are passionate about producing award-winning work and have an innate drive to their craft and are eager to generate innovative ideas both within and outside of the brief.
Role Overview
As a Social Media Manager in The Kitchen, you are a platform expert: you use your knowledge of social media, and the audiences that engage with content online to ensure that our brands create work for the right channels and platforms, and at the right moments. You ensure that work is inspired by, and made for the right audiences, and you listen to the conversations online to help inform the work that we do. Every day, you keep your finger on the pulse of online conversations to identify reactive social opportunities that fit each brand’s values and personality. You understand each brand’s seasonality and passion points to make recommendations for proactive social content. You work with the team’s Social Media Strategist to ensure that we have well thought out purpose, strategy, and tone, for our social media presence.
For the right candidate, this job offers the best of all worlds – a chance to work with incredible brands at a world-class company, a chance to be an active contributor of ideas to a creative culture, a chance to grow your social strategy skills as part of a collaborative team, and a chance to create timely stories for timeless brands with opportunities that will inspire you.
Core Responsibilities
• SOCIAL STRATEGY: Create briefs/Content kick-off documents in partnership with strategy, media and creative partners
• SOCIAL PLAYBOOK OWNERSHIP: Collaborate in the creation of, and own the day to day use and refinement of your brand’s social playbook.
• SOCIAL PLANNING: Create and maintain social media content calendars based on your brand’s relevant passion points and cultural moments.
• DEPLOYMENT: Upload legal-approved content to social channels and/or supports trafficking process
• COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT: work with the social writer to oversee the brand’s social channels for strategic communications opportunities, and reviews inbound comments, questions and risks
• SOCIAL INSIGHTS: Complete social media audits and competitive reports to help our brands stay ahead of our competitors
• MEDIA INTEGRATION: Work with our media partners (P57) to own the paid-media relationship for your brand(s). Recommend media optimizations (in partnership with P57) as necessary, synthesize media data into actionable insights for future briefings
• SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERTISE: You are a platform expert who ensures that the creatives, strategists, and brand partners around you understand how to operate in a constantly changing world of social media platforms, trends, and memes. You will collaborate with creative to ensure creative product is best in class, on brief and platform-appropriate
• REPORTING: Collaborate with insights partner to create insightful and actionable social media reports
Experience & Skills
• 3+ Years experience in a community management, social strategy, or creative department in a related role.
• A proven track record of managing brands with a significant following, ideally for a CPG or lifestyle brand.
• A university or college diploma in marketing, advertising, or a related field is preferred.
• A history of being able to work with creative teams and strategists, providing expertise and influencing the brand’s strategy online.
• Proficient in creating presentations (PowerPoint or Keynote). Experience with one or more insights tools and services. Social listening experience is an asset.
• A love and deep understanding of social culture, memes, and trends.
• Experience with a social media management platform (i.e. Sprout Social) is required.
• Excellent presentations skills and communication skills in a group environment.
• A passion for food and food marketing
Commitment to Diversity
The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
Pay Transparency Statement (Base Salary Only)
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $77,000-$85,000 . Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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ROLE: ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: TORONTO
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Welcome to The Kitchen by Kraft Heinz – the in-house agency taking marketing into a new era. With bases in Toronto and Chicago, we're not just a team; we're culinary pioneers blending culture, creativity, and collaboration. Join our 90+ member crew of Creatives, Strategists, Producers, Designers, and Content Creators. Together with our brand partners, we unlock creativity at the speed of culture, turning brands into icons with breakthrough social and digital ideas. Come be part of a team where passion meets innovation, crafting experiences that leave a lasting impression—one spicy idea at a time.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Account Executives support the Accounts team by overseeing small to medium sized programs and/or working as part of a larger team on large-scale programs.
Successful Account Executives are skilled communicators, efficient project planners and flexible and creative problem solvers that can manage projects with excellence from start to finish. The ideal Account Executives are organized, passionate about client relations, and focused on superior project management.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Kraft Heinz Relations
- Communicating with brand teams as required to understand their needs, deliver information back to your direct manager and team, and execute accordingly
- Timeline and communication management, and booking internal meetings/reviews on your projects to brand teams
- Maintaining updated knowledge of brand teams’ business and business objectives
- Identifying and informing on industry trends
- Acting as an extension of your brand team throughout planning, execution and wrap up – always keeping your brand team’s needs top of mind
- Team
- Collaborating with your direct team to facilitate brand team needs and provide feedback/direction
- Working closely with partners to ensure they have all the tools & information required to support your business
- Working with your manager to develop and support you where/when required
- Liaising with your manager on a regular basis, ensuring they are aware of your activities, informed on brand team updates and can support you as required
- Financial
- Reconciling all sizes of program budgets; staying in close contact with the finance team as required
- Staying on budget in all circumstances, and ability to recognize when a budget may not be sufficient and communicating this to your manager
- Ability to review small to medium budgets with clients, working with your manager to provide detailed overview of budget breakdown and pricing rationale
- Project Management
- Master all details within a project to ensure it is run smoothly
- Working with all departments (creative, production, strategy) and our project management software to develop timelines, ensure projects are tracking against it successfully and any changes or updates are communicated to teams and brand partners as they occur
- Proactively identify process improvement opportunities and work with team on agile problem solutions
- Supporting teams and committees within The Kitchen to create positive culture and test/implement new policies, procedures, and processes
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 1-2 years’ experience in the advertising industry
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Adaptability and strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent active listening & time management skills
- Ability to build rapport and collaborate with others internally and externally
- Strong organizational skills
- Keen interest in consumer behaviours and industry trends
- Strong foundational technology skills – familiarity with O365, social & digital media
- Passion for advertising & social media
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $$57,000 - $65,000 . Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT/The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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LOCATION: Best Buy Burlington (1200 Brant St) - ONTARIO
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Salt is seeking a results driven Sales Representative to represent our leading tech client, within a retail environment (Best Buy). This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about technology, confident in sales, and thrives in a customer facing setting. This role works Thursday-Sunday each week. (20 hours)
As a leading tech Sales Representative, you will be responsible for driving product sales, maintaining strong retail relationships, and ensuring their in-store presence is executed to the highest standard. You will act as a brand expert, educating customers on products while supporting retail partners through strong communication, organization, and consistent execution.
This position requires a self-motivated professional who can work independently, build rapport quickly, and consistently deliver measurable sales results.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- Operate independently while representing both Salt and leading tech company professionally
- Represent leading tech company as a brand ambassador within assigned retail location(s)
- Build andmaintainpositive relationships with retail managers and store associates
- Act as the primary in store contact supporting program objectives
- Communicate feedback, insights, and opportunities to management and client teams
- Ensure brand standards and program expectations are consistently upheld
SALES, REPORTING & COMPLIANCE
- Execute program fundamentals including sales execution and retail compliance
- Consistently achieve or exceed individual sales targets
- Track daily performance metrics and customer engagement outcomes/feedback
- Maintain accountability for execution quality and reporting accuracy
- Complete daily reporting and administrative requirements on schedule
- Support promotional initiatives and in store product focus periods
- Ensure planogram compliance andaccurateproduct placement
- Maintain displays to ensure visibility, cleanliness, and brand accuracy
ADAPTABILITY & AVAILABILITY
- Operatewith a high degree of independence and accountability as the regional program lead
- Stay informed on new product launches, updates, and training materials
- Demonstrate strong decision-making judgment, balancing autonomy with structured communication and reporting
- Flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and travel
- Comfortable working remotely while managing field operations and teams
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- Previous sales experience, retail sales experience preferred
- Proven ability to meet or exceed sales targets
- Strong communicationand relationship building skills
- Confident presentation selling and objection handling abilities
- Passion for technology, computers, or PC gaming considered an asset
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask independently
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Reliable transportation to and from assigned retail locations
- Daily access to internet and email for reporting and communication
- Smartphone required for reporting and program communication
WHAT WE STAND FOR:
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated rate for this position is $22-$26/hour. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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DEPARTMENT: CREATOR
LOCATION: TORONTO - HYBRID
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
OVERVIEW
The Specialist, Creator Marketing is a proactive, collaborative, highly organized, and results-driven individual with agency experience who will execute world-class creator marketing programs for Salt and its clients. A digital native with a passion for social media marketing, user-generated content, trend analysis, and influencer culture, this person will be a vital part of a high-performance team. They will mentor account coordinators, collaborate with content creators to tell brand stories, drive awareness, and foster conversion through innovative tactics and tools. This role is ideal for a motivated, solutions-oriented individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and excels at problem-solving.
As the main point of contact between clients and Salt’s content creators, the Specialist, Creator Marketing will develop deep expertise in Salt’s processes and technology. From creator selection, onboarding, campaign management, tracking, amplification, reporting, and mentoring, this role is crucial in ensuring that client creator programs are successful and fully optimized.
This is a hybrid role with 2 days in-office at Salt's Toronto Head Office.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Creator Management
- Lead the management of scaled and curated creator programs.
- Source and vet creators, ensuring they are the right fit for each campaign.
- Build and nurture long-term relationships with content creators.
- Negotiate contracts and manage payments and invoicing for creators.
- Review creator assets and provide detailed feedback to ensure alignment with client needs, campaign briefs, and established KPIs.
- Organize creator assets for internal and client approval and manage media trafficking with Salt's media team or external partners.
- Collaborate with coordinators to draft and communicate campaign briefs to creators.
- Lead onboarding calls to align creators with campaign briefs and expectations.
- Ensure creator accounts are set up for amplification and oversee campaign execution.
- Mentor junior team members, developing their skills in creator marketing.
Research & Reporting
- Support the development of creator strategies through research, creator search, and trend analysis.
- Monitor campaign performance and contribute to mid- and final-stage reporting.
- Provide recommendations on content performance, amplification, and usage across marketing channels.
- Execute and continuously improve influencer gifting campaigns.
- Ensure Salt delivers top-tier insights and recommendations across industries through trend research.
Business Operations
- Analyze campaign data to uncover trends in creator activations.
- Stay updated on influencer, social media, and affiliate marketing trends.
- Stay compliant with relevant laws and best practices regarding influencer marketing and disclosures.
- Manage various administrative tasks, such as maintaining content libraries, influencer contracts, and tracking campaign performance.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 2-3 years of experience working in influencer marketing at an agency, media vendor, or talent firm.
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, or related field.
- Retail and CPG experience preferred but not required.
- Strong presentation, communication, and relationship management skills.
- Experience with influencer discovery and management tools is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, is essential.
- Hands-on experience with Facebook Business Manager, TikTok for Advertisers, Snap, and similar tools is a plus.
- High attention to detail and time management skills.
- Google Certifications are a plus.
- Knowledge of CRM, SEO, SEM, programmatic, social, mobile, and video marketing is a bonus.
- Creative, hardworking, and motivated to take smart risks.
SALT'S VALUES
- Salt of the Earth: We are humble, hardworking, honest, kind, and fun to work with.
- Do What's Right: We do what is right, not what is easy.
- Earn It: We believe in rolling up our sleeves and earning the respect and results we achieve.
- Make Things Better: We strive to improve everything we touch.
- Seek Different Perspectives: We embrace diverse perspectives to challenge us and foster creativity.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and attracting and retaining top talent, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability.
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TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO (HYBRID - 3 DAYS ONSITE)
Position Overview
The Group Strategy Director is a leadership role within The Kitchen -Kraft Heinz’s integrated creative function- uniquely embedded into the Kraft Heinz business, responsible for driving strategic excellence across a designated business unit comprising 4-8 consumer-facing brands. This individual will serve as a strategic consult for their business unit, connecting brand objectives to actionable insights and creative direction for The Kitchen. Reporting to the Head of Strategy in The Kitchen, the Group Strategy Director will lead a team of strategists, collaborate with creative and communication leads, and act as a strategic partner to senior marketing leadership within their business unit.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership
- Lead the strategic planning process for your assigned brands in The Kitchen, identifying opportunities for growth, innovation, and market differentiation.
- Learn these brands, inside and out. Provide thought leadership to help elevate brand positioning, messaging, and consumer engagement strategies.
- Help develop and maintain the long-term creative strategic vision for the business unit, ensuring alignment with overarching company objectives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as the primary strategic partner for Brand Communication and General Manager counterparts, ensuring alignment across creative, as well as owned, earned, and paid media channels.
- Embed into the business’ standing meetings and routines to ensure 360 understanding of the business.
- Collaborate closely with creative, insights, and analytics teams to translate data into actionable strategies.
- Serve as the voice of creative strategy in senior-level business unit meetings, representing The Kitchen with professionalism and expertise.
- Team Management
- Manage and mentor a team of Pod Strategists and Social Managers within The Kitchen, contributing to a culture of collaboration, creativity and high performance.
- Ensure integration and understanding of strategic insights into creative briefs and campaign planning across Kitchen work.
- Drive accountability by setting clear goals, performance metrics, and professional development plans for Kitchen team members.
- Consumer Insights & Market Trends
- Stay ahead of market trends, cultural shifts, and consumer behavior to proactively inform brand strategies.
- Partner with Consumer Insights specialists to leverage research and analytics in building data-driven strategies.
- Identify and capitalize on emerging opportunities for the business unit’s portfolio of brands.
- Operational Excellence
- Ensure all Kitchen strategic deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and of the highest quality.
- Proactively address challenges, bottlenecks, and resource needs across the business unit.
- Contribute to the broader strategic vision of The Kitchen as part of its leadership team.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in brand strategy, creative strategy, or marketing roles, preferably within a Fortune 500 CPG company or top-tier creative agency
- Proven track record of leading strategy for multiple brands or a portfolio of products, demonstrating success in driving business growth and brand differentiation
- Experience in leveraging data-driven insights, market trends, and consumer behavior to inform long-term brand strategies
- Demonstrated expertise in building and implementing integrated strategies across owned, earned, and paid media channels
The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. We’re a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. While Kraft Heinz is co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.
We fuel deliciousness around mealtime with our iconic brands, including Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Heinz, Philadelphia, Lunchables, Velveeta, Maxwell House, Jell-O, Capri Sun, Ore-Ida, Kool-Aid, Primal Kitchen, and Classico, among others.
No matter the brand, we’re united under one vision: To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. Bringing this vision to life are global teams of 39,000+ food lovers, creative problem solvers, and dynamic leaders worldwide. Together, we help provide meals to those in need through our global partnership with Rise Against Hunger.
We also stand committed to responsible, innovative and sustainable practices that extend to every facet of our business, our consumers, and our communities. Every day, we’re redefining the food industry with innovative thinking and unprecedented results. If you share our passion – and are ready to create the future, build a legacy, and lead as a global citizen – there’s only one thing to do: join our table and let’s make life delicious!
New Hire Base Salary Range: $150,000 - $170,000
Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.
Benefits: Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.
You’ll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:
- Physical – Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
- Social – Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
- Emotional – Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
- Financial – 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability
Location(s)
Chicago/Aon Center
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ROLE: ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA
LOCATION: CHICAGO
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Welcome to The Kitchen by Kraft Heinz – the in-house agency taking marketing into a new era. With bases in Toronto and Chicago, we're not just a team; we're culinary pioneers blending culture, creativity, and collaboration. Join our 90+ member crew of Creatives, Strategists, Producers, Designers, and Content Creators. Together with our brand partners, we unlock creativity at the speed of culture, turning brands into icons with breakthrough social and digital ideas. Come be part of a team where passion meets innovation, crafting experiences that leave a lasting impression—one spicy idea at a time.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Account Executives support the Accounts team by overseeing small to medium sized programs and/or working as part of a larger team on large-scale programs.
Successful Account Executives are skilled communicators, efficient project planners and flexible and creative problem solvers that can manage projects with excellence from start to finish. The ideal Account Executives are organized, passionate about client relations, and focused on superior project management.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Kraft Heinz Relations
- Communicating with brand teams as required to understand their needs, deliver information back to your direct manager and team, and execute accordingly
- Timeline and communication management, and booking internal meetings/reviews on your projects to brand teams
- Maintaining updated knowledge of brand teams’ business and business objectives
- Identifying and informing on industry trends
- Acting as an extension of your brand team throughout planning, execution and wrap up – always keeping your brand team’s needs top of mind
- Team
- Collaborating with your direct team to facilitate brand team needs and provide feedback/direction
- Working closely with partners to ensure they have all the tools & information required to support your business
- Working with your manager to develop and support you where/when required
- Liaising with your manager on a regular basis, ensuring they are aware of your activities, informed on brand team updates and can support you as required
- Financial
- Reconciling all sizes of program budgets; staying in close contact with the finance team as required
- Staying on budget in all circumstances, and ability to recognize when a budget may not be sufficient and communicating this to your manager
- Ability to review small to medium budgets with clients, working with your manager to provide detailed overview of budget breakdown and pricing rationale
- Project Management
- Master all details within a project to ensure it is run smoothly
- Working with all departments (creative, production, strategy) and our project management software to develop timelines, ensure projects are tracking against it successfully and any changes or updates are communicated to teams and brand partners as they occur
- Proactively identify process improvement opportunities and work with team on agile problem solutions
- Supporting teams and committees within The Kitchen to create positive culture and test/implement new policies, procedures, and processes
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 1-2 years’ experience in the advertising industry
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Adaptability and strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent active listening & time management skills
- Ability to build rapport and collaborate with others internally and externally
- Strong organizational skills
- Keen interest in consumer behaviours and industry trends
- Strong foundational technology skills – familiarity with O365, social & digital media
- Passion for advertising & social media
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $$57,000 - $65,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT/The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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TEAM: CREATIVE, SALT XC
LOCATION: TORONTO, ON (HYBRID)
*Open to Copy or Art Direction backgrounds*
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As an Associate Creative Director, you are a creative leader who bridges concept and craft to bring bold, insight-driven ideas to life across integrated and XM campaigns. You balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, shaping work that resonates culturally, connects across channels, and delivers measurable impact.
You will partner with Creative Directors and cross-functional teams to lead concept development, elevate execution, and ensure creative excellence from idea to delivery. You understand how to integrate storytelling across digital, social, film, experiential, and emerging platforms to build cohesive brand narratives.
In this role, you will mentor and guide creative teams, inspire collaboration, and uphold Salt’s standards of creativity, innovation, and effectiveness. Your leadership will help transform ideas into work that moves audiences, strengthens brands, and reflects the agency’s commitment to Connected Creativity.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Creative Ideation & Development
- Lead and contribute to the creation of integrated campaign ideas, including experiential, that are strategically grounded, culturally relevant, and built to perform across multiple platforms.
- Translate brand and strategic insights into inspiring creative concepts that connect emotionally and drive measurable results.
- Champion collaboration within creative teams, encouraging the exploration of unconventional ideas and innovative storytelling.
- Contribute to new business opportunities through concept development and creative presentations.
Creative Execution
- Oversee the craft and quality of creative output across channels including digital, social, experiential, print, and film.
- Provide direction and hands-on support through all stages of production to ensure fidelity to concept, brand voice, and quality standards.
- Partner with producers, designers, and writers to refine and execute ideas with precision and attention to detail.
- Ensure creative work adheres to brand guidelines, accessibility standards, and production best practices.
Creative Direction
- Manage and mentor cross-disciplinary creative teams, providing clear feedback, guidance, and support to elevate ideas and performance.
- Create an environment that balances creative freedom with accountability, empowering teams to deliver their best work.
- Ensure all creative output aligns with the agency’s creative vision, brand strategy, and client objectives.
- Support department leadership in shaping creative culture, process, and operational excellence.
Presentation & Client Partnership
- Partner with Account and Strategy teams to ensure ideas are aligned with business goals and brand positioning.
- Confidently present work to clients, articulating the creative rationale and strategic thinking behind the ideas.
- Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, demonstrating understanding, empathy, and expertise.
- Manage feedback collaboratively, maintaining creative integrity while responding constructively to client input.
Creative Strategy
- Collaborate with Strategy and Planning teams to identify cultural, audience, and brand insights that inspire creative ideas.
- Apply data and research to guide creative decision-making and strengthen storytelling.
- Understand market and category dynamics to ensure creative solutions are distinctive and effective.
- Contribute to campaign measurement and creative optimization post-launch.
Creative Administration (Finance & Operations)
- Support project scoping and resourcing in partnership with Creative Operations and Production.
- Ensure creative time and resources are used efficiently while maintaining quality and creative ambition.
- Contribute to budget planning and vendor management during production phases.
- Model operational discipline through strong time management, responsiveness, and attention to process.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 8–12 years of creative experience within integrated, XM, or full-service agencies, developing and executing cross-channel campaigns that demonstrate conceptual strength and craft excellence.
- Proven ability to lead creative ideation and development across multiple touchpoints including digital, social, experiential, and traditional channels.
- Strong creative direction skills with demonstrated experience mentoring and managing teams to deliver exceptional work that meets both creative and business goals.
- Deep understanding of the creative process from insight to execution, with the ability to guide concept development, oversee production, and maintain high standards across all deliverables.
- Strategic thinker who connects creativity to client objectives, translating insights into ideas that drive performance, engagement, and brand equity.
- Exceptional presentation and communication skills, capable of articulating creative ideas with clarity, confidence, and persuasion to both internal and external audiences.
- Collaborative, solutions-oriented partner who thrives in integrated, cross-disciplinary environments and contributes to a culture of trust, inclusion, and creative ambition.
- Strong production knowledge across content, experiential, and digital formats, with the ability to manage vendor relationships and make informed creative production decisions.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities while maintaining creative quality and meeting deadlines.
- Culturally curious and future-focused, consistently exploring new technologies, trends, and audience behaviors to inform and inspire creative innovation.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $95,000–$135,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT's total rewards program.
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LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)TEAM: CREATIVE, SALT XC
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention,” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that matter to our clients’ audiences. We are structured to do what’s right for our clients — connecting perspectives, operating across mediums, and ensuring meaningful, effective creative solutions.
We live the values in our name. “Salt of the Earth” reflects how we work: collaborative, humble, and hard-working. We believe talent and culture create great work — so we're looking for people who are as smart as they are kind.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Design Director at SALT XC, you are an expert craftsperson and emerging creative leader who drives design excellence across digital, social, experiential, and brand-led projects. You combine hands-on design mastery with the ability to guide others, owning key workstreams and ensuring the quality, clarity, and consistency of every creative output.
You translate strategy into thoughtful visual solutions, elevate concepts through refined execution, and collaborate closely with Creative Directors, Strategists, and cross-functional partners. You are a trusted partner in bringing creative ideas to life — ensuring design systems, brand standards, and visual storytelling are executed at the highest level.
This role is ideal for someone who is ready to step into larger leadership responsibilities while still deeply connected to craft and creation.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Brand-Aware Design Systems & Execution
- Develop and refine brand-aligned design systems that support consistency and creative impact across channels.
- Translate brand guidelines into scalable frameworks, toolkits, and templates for use by the broader creative team.
- Lead day-to-day design execution for key projects, ensuring outputs meet creative expectations, brand standards, and production-ready requirements.
- Provide guidance and feedback to Designers and Senior Designers; support quality control across visual deliverables.
- Collaborate with Associate Design Directors and Creative Directors to evolve visual approaches, design processes, and creative methodologies.
Presentation & Stakeholder Communication
- Present design work and visual rationale with confidence to internal teams and client stakeholders.
- Lead internal reviews for assigned workstreams, offering clear, actionable feedback rooted in design principles and strategic objectives.
- Work collaboratively across Account, Strategy, Production, and Creative to ensure alignment on objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
- Support strong communication channels between creative and client teams, reinforcing clarity of vision and consistent expectations.
Strategic Design Thinking
- Transform insights, briefs, and brand positioning into breakthrough design concepts that drive connection and engagement.
- Contribute to ideation sessions, bringing fresh visual thinking while staying connected to audience, brand, and business goals.
- Partner with Strategy and Creative leadership to ensure design thinking is integrated early in concept development.
- Encourage a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and problem-solving within the design team.
Visual Craft & Attention to Detail
- Set a high bar for design craft, acting as a go-to expert in typography, layout, composition, motion, and visual storytelling.
- Maintain hands-on involvement in high-impact deliverables that require elevated design precision.
- Ensure files and deliverables are production-ready, accurate, and optimized for digital, print, and experiential outputs.
- Stay immersed in design innovation, AI tools, production techniques, and industry trends to introduce new thinking to the team.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- 10+ years of professional design experience in digital, social, brand, and/or experiential design.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, design excellence, and multi-channel versatility.
- Proven ability to take ownership of design execution with precision, creativity, and strategic alignment.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); familiarity with motion or AI-driven tools is an asset.
- Strong communicator with experience presenting creative to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior designers, with an interest in growing leadership skills.
- Post-secondary degree or diploma in Graphic, Communication, Packaging, or related design field preferred.
PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART
We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:
- Work-Life Flexibility: Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off, winter holiday shutdowns, and dog-friendly office vibes.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.
- Growth-Driven Culture: Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.
- Celebration-First Mentality: Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.
- Real Rewards: Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.
- Culture of Belonging: DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $100,000–$125,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT’s total rewards program.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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Role: Sales Representative
Hours: 20 hours per week
Location: Best Buy 779 McCallum Dr. Victoria, BC + events as required
Company Overview
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital, and media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention.” We are built to find, develop, execute, and amplify ideas that resonate with our clients’ audiences. We are structured to connect perspectives, work across mediums, and focus on delivering meaningful and effective results.
We value people who are collaborative, humble, and hardworking. We believe the right talent and culture help us do what is right for our clients.
Role Overview
Salt is seeking a results driven Sales Representative to represent a leading tech client within a retail environment at Best Buy. This role is ideal for someone passionate about technology, confident in sales, and comfortable in a customer facing setting.
This role is scheduled Thursday through Sunday each week for a total of 20 hours.
As a Sales Representative, you will be responsible for driving product sales, maintaining strong retail relationships, and ensuring in store presence is executed to the highest standard. You will act as a brand expert, educating customers while supporting retail partners through strong communication, organization, and execution.
This position requires a self motivated professional who can work independently, build rapport quickly, and consistently deliver measurable results.
Core Responsibilities
Relationship Management
• Operate independently while professionally representing both Salt and the client
• Act as a brand ambassador within assigned retail locations
• Build and maintain positive relationships with retail managers and store associates
• Serve as the primary in store contact supporting program objectives
• Communicate feedback, insights, and opportunities to management and client teams
• Ensure brand standards and program expectations are consistently upheld
Sales, Reporting and Compliance
• Execute program fundamentals including sales execution and retail compliance
• Consistently achieve or exceed individual sales targets
• Track daily performance metrics and customer engagement outcomes
• Maintain accountability for execution quality and reporting accuracy
• Complete daily reporting and administrative requirements on schedule
• Support promotional initiatives and in store product focus periods
• Ensure planogram compliance and accurate product placement
• Maintain displays to ensure visibility, cleanliness, and brand accuracy
Adaptability and Availability
• Operate with a high degree of independence and accountability as the regional program lead
• Stay informed on new product launches, updates, and training materials
• Demonstrate strong decision making judgment while maintaining structured communication and reporting
• Maintain flexibility including evenings, weekends, and travel as required
• Comfortable working remotely while managing field responsibilities
Experience and Skills
• Previous sales experience required, retail sales experience preferred
• Proven ability to meet or exceed sales targets
• Strong communication and relationship building skills
• Confident presentation, selling, and objection handling abilities
• Passion for technology, computers, or PC gaming is an asset
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask independently
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Reliable transportation to and from assigned retail locations
• Daily access to internet and email for reporting and communication
• Smartphone required for reporting and program communication
What We Stand For
• Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart
• Do What’s Right: We choose integrity over ease every time
• Earn Your Salt: We work hard, drive results, and celebrate the journey
• Make Things Better: We look for solutions and smarter ways forward
• Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels thinking and inclusion drives impact
The anticipated rate for this position is $22-$26/hour. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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LOCATION: Best Buy Pointe-Claire - QUEBEC
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Salt is seeking a results driven Sales Representative to represent our leading tech client, within a retail environment (Best Buy). This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about technology, confident in sales, and thrives in a customer facing setting. This role works Thursday-Sunday each week. (20 hours)
As a leading tech Sales Representative, you will be responsible for driving product sales, maintaining strong retail relationships, and ensuring their in-store presence is executed to the highest standard. You will act as a brand expert, educating customers on products while supporting retail partners through strong communication, organization, and consistent execution.
This position requires a self-motivated professional who can work independently, build rapport quickly, and consistently deliver measurable sales results.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- Operate independently while representing both Salt and leading tech company professionally
- Represent leading tech company as a brand ambassador within assigned retail location(s)
- Build andmaintainpositive relationships with retail managers and store associates
- Act as the primary in store contact supporting program objectives
- Communicate feedback, insights, and opportunities to management and client teams
- Ensure brand standards and program expectations are consistently upheld
SALES, REPORTING & COMPLIANCE
- Execute program fundamentals including sales execution and retail compliance
- Consistently achieve or exceed individual sales targets
- Track daily performance metrics and customer engagement outcomes/feedback
- Maintain accountability for execution quality and reporting accuracy
- Complete daily reporting and administrative requirements on schedule
- Support promotional initiatives and in store product focus periods
- Ensure planogram compliance andaccurateproduct placement
- Maintain displays to ensure visibility, cleanliness, and brand accuracy
ADAPTABILITY & AVAILABILITY
- Operatewith a high degree of independence and accountability as the regional program lead
- Stay informed on new product launches, updates, and training materials
- Demonstrate strong decision-making judgment, balancing autonomy with structured communication and reporting
- Flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and travel
- Comfortable working remotely while managing field operations and teams
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- Previous sales experience, retail sales experience preferred
- Proven ability to meet or exceed sales targets
- Strong communication and relationship building skills
- Confident presentation selling and objection handling abilities
- Passion for technology, computers, or PC gaming considered an asset
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask independently
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Reliable transportation to and from assigned retail locations
- Daily access to internet and email for reporting and communication
- Smartphone required for reporting and program communication
WHAT WE STAND FOR:
- Salt of the Earth: We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.
- Do What’s Right: No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.
- Earn Your Salt: We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.
- Make Things Better: We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.
- Seek Different Perspectives: Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.
The anticipated rate for this position is $22-$26/hour. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
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Apply to SALT XCROLE: MEDIA SUPERVISOR
TEAM: MEDIA
LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Salt XC is an agency driven by the philosophy of Experiential Commerce™. Our unique framework for designing better consumer experiences that earn attention and drive action. We take an integrated approach that connects your consumer's online and offline experiences through data, media, and the memorable moments that drive brand transactions.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Media Supervisor is a data driven, insights led media strategist and platform expert with hands on analytics reporting and management experience. The best candidate for this role would be a natural collaborator, with strong presentation, organizational and strategic thinking skills. They have a strong comprehension of the media landscape and a proactive nature combined with a high level of attention to detail. The Media Supervisor is on top of current and emerging trends in the world of digital media and ideally the CPG & Sports betting industries, as this role will be working primarily in this exciting space.
The Media Supervisor will serve as a primary, daily point of client contact pertaining to media, including but not limited to Paid Social, Video, OOH, TV and Content. The role will require the right candidate to be highly proficient in media planning, implementation, reporting and analysis. This includes understanding online user journey optimizations, a very solid understanding of Google Analytics and online tracking and measurement. The successful candidate will need to develop strong trust-based relationships with both the client and agency team members.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Working directly with the Media Director, supporting planning and leading implementation, optimization & reporting for all key clients
- Supporting the preparation, writing and presentation of integrated media plans, proposals and analysis that satisfy client objectives and that go beyond the brief
- Maintain stewardship and accountability of the media plan, regularly evaluating and monitoring execution
- Review & QA in platform setup across multiple platforms and campaign types
- Ensure campaigns are properly setup against KPI's, targeted properly and using the correct budget
- Oversee the work of junior team members, supporting in the management of workload and prioritization across multiple clients & campaigns
- Liaise and foster knowledge-sharing with other disciplines internally, partner agencies and other departments to ensure that media and client knowledge is current
- Ensure that all media plans adhere to the agency's values, philosophies, and processes
- Lead the preparation and presentation of evaluations of media opportunities, media trends and issues of interest to clients
- Develop reporting process for each client alongside the media director & ensure timely delivery reports based on the aligned on process
- Awareness of client KPIs and objectives, ensuring that tracking is in place for check-ins as required
- Accurately and effectively manage client’s day-to-day planning requirements, with a strong understanding of client’s business objectives and KPIs
- Inform leadership of potential challenges and opportunities as it relates to client and/or people management
- Influence decision making by encouraging appropriate strategies and benefits of offerings to clients
- Participate in additional agency/team projects and new business presentations as required
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- Minimum 3-4 years working at a media agency, in a senior media planner or digital strategy role
- Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Marketing, Communication or Advertising required
- Prior hands-on experience in Google Analytics, Search Console, paid social business manager accounts & Google Ad accounts (essential)
- Demonstrated creative and innovative thinker, who doesn’t mind rolling up their sleeves and getting the job done
- Strong presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- High attention to detail
- Prior hands-on experience with Google Data Studio / dashboard visualisation tools (essential)
- Traditional media experience creating omni channel amplification strategies (desired)
- Hands on management - planning, implementing, optimising & reporting for Fortune 50 brands
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed and sometimes involved instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Knowledge in all facets of the digital marketing space: CRM, SEO, SEM, programmatic, social, mobile, video
- Experience with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Magento, Big Commerce are an asset
- Working knowledge of basic HTML, CMS Platforms such as WordPress are an asset
SALT’S VALUES
- Salt of the Earth: We aspire to be good people. People who are humble, hardworking, honest, and kind to one another. People who are fun to work with, who trust and are respectful of each other.
- Do What's Right: We don’t believe in taking shortcuts. We believe in doing what is right, not what is easy or expected.
- Earn It: We believe in rolling up our sleeves and not being afraid of hard work. We want to earn the respect of others, the results we deliver and the praise we receive.
- Make things Better: We aspire to leave things better than we found them and are always looking for a better way. Great ideas come from anywhere, they come from being curious, passionate, solutions-oriented people who care deeply about what we do.
- Seek Different Perspectives: We believe in embracing difference; the perspective it brings, how it challenges us, how it spurs creativity, and its ability to make us better.
Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $85,000–$95,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT/The Kitchen’s total rewards program.
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Apply to SALT XCCraft & Commerce (C&C) is an integrated media agency that connects growth science, media strategy, and modern measurement to help our partners create greater marketing impact and grow with confidence.
C&C is purpose-built to bring a marketer’s mentality to today’s dynamic media landscape. The result is an expert, senior-level team that approaches media not as an agency, but as a business stakeholder committed to one thing: helping our partners outshine the competition through smarter, more agile planning and buying. Our secret sauce is the marriage of marketing effectiveness science and business impact measurement, together guiding us in balancing brand and performance, and translating data into actionable media strategies and hands-on campaign management.
We are seeking an experienced Retail Media Search Specialist to manage and optimize paid search campaigns across retail media platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Walmart Connect, Roundel Media Studio and Amazon Ads sponsored product and sponsored brand advertising, along with deep knowledge of keyword strategy, campaign pacing, and reporting. A Skai Certification is required, demonstrating advanced skills in retail search management and optimization.
And—at C&C—we treasure a candid, ask-the-right-questions, get-it-done attitude that’s at the heart of our fast-moving and collaborative team culture. We’re a flexible, balanced, self-driven workplace. The right candidate will join us remotely from a place that makes you happy.
Responsibilities
Strategic Planning & Activation
- Develop retail media and growth plans tied to client goals and category trends.
- Build media and operational tactics based on those plans, launching campaigns across Walmart, Target, and Amazon.
Campaign Execution & Optimization
- Lead hands-on campaign management: daily budget pacing, keyword bidding, placement adjustments, and bid-strategy refinements.
- Use consumer behavior data and top-of-search tactics to refine paid search strategies.
Reporting & Insights Delivery
- Deliver regular performance reporting—monthly, quarterly, and mid-year—highlighting key business trends and category influences.
- Distill insights from data using Excel or Google Sheets to craft optimization recommendations for e-commerce outcomes.
- Monitor marketplace events (e.g. holiday trends, category promotions) and track their impact on campaign performance.
Client Engagement & Coordination
- Present campaign trends and strategy to clients; participate in calls and internal alignment meetings.
- Maintain clear project prioritization and ensure all deliverables are coordinated and on-time.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners (analytics, creative, account management) to sync search efforts with broader media strategy.
Requirements
- 3+ years of direct experience managing paid search campaigns for Walmart Connect, Target Roundel, and Amazon Ads (Sponsored Products + Sponsored Brands).
- Skai Certification is required.
- Proficient in Excel/Google Sheets—able to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and present findings.
- Strong communication skills with proven ability to simplify insights for clients and internal stakeholders.
- Organized multitasker—capable of prioritizing and managing workflows across multiple campaigns.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Advertising, or related field preferred.
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