Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

Staff Designer

As the embodiment of design thinking, you bring ideas to life, extending visual language into functional mediums. You turn clients’ stories, visions, and voices into something tangible and real. With the strength of your conceptual thinking, your creations show us how problems can be solved, simplified, and then go on to succeed. You’ve got the whole form/function thing down pat, and you’re down to join a team that embraces Design in everything they do.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities. (Other duties may be assigned)

• Assist with the creation of visual designs, typography, visual concepts, logos, and icons working under the direction of a Creative Director or Associate Creative Director.
• Brainstorm creative concepts with the project team (cross-discipline) and help develop original campaigns.
• Integrate ideas across multiple mediums: print, digital and beyond.
• Ideally, you will get direction and run with it. We look for self-starters, go-getters, and other hyphenated-type characters.
• Sell your work—not just to clients, but to your peers and colleagues, too.
• Working on projects and assignments in accordance to established timelines and project briefs and expectations.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 2-3 years of proven experience in the agency space.
• A bachelor’s degree in Design or a portfolio school education focused on Design/art direction.
  • You’re a conceptual creative problem solver, strategically applying ideas across all channels and you’re dedicated to the craft of design (kerning matters!).
  • You are curious by nature and have interest in expanding your knowledge and skills across animation or digital. Bonus: If you already have experience in either of these.
  •  You know your way around both the Adobe Suite and Figma.
• You are collaborative, hardworking, adaptable, with strong initiative.
• You are rational but innovative and have a naturally curious mind and a passion for applying pixel-perfect design to creative concepts.
• You’re ready to spitball and spit-shine ground-breaking ideas with a phenomenal, hardworking group of people.
• You’re receptive to constructive feedback, a quick learner and continuously looking for ways to grow.
• No huge egos. Or even medium-size egos. In fact, no ego is better. Okay maybe like a teeny-tiny ego (because you ARE human after all*).

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

Staff Designer

As the embodiment of design thinking, you bring ideas to life, extending visual language into functional mediums. You turn clients’ stories, visions, and voices into something tangible and real. With the strength of your conceptual thinking, your creations show us how problems can be solved, simplified, and then go on to succeed. You’ve got the whole form/function thing down pat, and you’re down to join a team that embraces Design in everything they do.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities. (Other duties may be assigned)

• Assist with the creation of visual designs, typography, visual concepts, logos, and icons working under the direction of a Creative Director or Associate Creative Director.
• Brainstorm creative concepts with the project team (cross-discipline) and help develop original campaigns.
• Integrate ideas across multiple mediums: print, digital and beyond.
• Ideally, you will get direction and run with it. We look for self-starters, go-getters, and other hyphenated-type characters.
• Sell your work—not just to clients, but to your peers and colleagues, too.
• Working on projects and assignments in accordance to established timelines and project briefs and expectations.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 2-3 years of proven experience in the agency space.
• A bachelor’s degree in Design or a portfolio school education focused on Design/art direction.
  • You’re a conceptual creative problem solver, strategically applying ideas across all channels and you’re dedicated to the craft of design (kerning matters!).
  • You are curious by nature and have interest in expanding your knowledge and skills across animation or digital. Bonus: If you already have experience in either of these.
  •  You know your way around both the Adobe Suite and Figma.
• You are collaborative, hardworking, adaptable, with strong initiative.
• You are rational but innovative and have a naturally curious mind and a passion for applying pixel-perfect design to creative concepts.
• You’re ready to spitball and spit-shine ground-breaking ideas with a phenomenal, hardworking group of people.
• You’re receptive to constructive feedback, a quick learner and continuously looking for ways to grow.
• No huge egos. Or even medium-size egos. In fact, no ego is better. Okay maybe like a teeny-tiny ego (because you ARE human after all*).

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Summary:

About you:

You’re a writer’s writer. You read books. You love words. You care about punctuation and the
rhythm and feel it gives a sentence, and you appreciated the em dash long before AI made
people second guess themselves for using one.

When it comes to copy, you’re equal parts strategist and stylist. You care deeply about what the
copy says and obsess over saying it in the most compelling way possible.

You’re curious, with an award-winning attitude. No matter how long you’ve been doing this,
you’re still eager to learn as much as you can from everyone you meet.

You love collaborating with smart, hardworking people who love the craft and hold themselves
to the highest standards of excellence.

Speaking of people, you care a lot about bringing humanity into everything you do.

You are genuinely interested in all kinds of businesses and want to understand how they
operate.

You know the difference between an idea and an execution.

You’re passionate about building great brands and creating the advertising that powers their
growth.

You have a lot of range. If you were an actor, you wouldn’t be the kind that plays the same role
every time. No, not you—you’d adapt, you’d adjust, and you’d bring something new to every
performance.

If this sounds like you, we want to hop on a Zoom as soon as possible.

The Associate Creative Director, Writing is expected to:

• Lead the development and definition of the “voice” for a client, program or
  individual project.
• Establish and/or interpret brand positioning, tone and attributes.
• Think visually as well as verbally, contributing from the outset to the structure, concept,
  look and feel of a client project.
• Work closely with strategists, designers, and other team members to create and refine
  content and/or build campaign concepts
• Quickly identify gaps in knowledge and take initiative to fill them
• Participate in new-business development, contributing to RFP responses, pitches and
  spec creative
• Meet and manage to deadlines
• Foster a working environment that promotes and embraces independent and creative
  thinking, diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Ideally, you bring the following qualifications:

• 6 to 9 years of experience in branding, marketing, advertising, business,
  communications or a related field.
•  An undergraduate degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Advertising or
  Integrated/Strategic Communications.
• Experience in a client-facing role in a professional services environment.
• A portfolio that demonstrates the skills listed above.

This is a contract-to-hire position with the intent to transition to a permanent, full-time role pending performance and mutual fit.

Group General Counsel

Meet The People (MTP Group)
United States & Canada | Fully Remote

About Meet The People

Meet The People, LLC ("MTP") is a PE‑backed collective of independent, entrepreneurial businesses, employing more than 750 professionals across North America. Our platform brings together highly specialized agencies under a single structure, enabling clients to access integrated capabilities across the full marketing lifecycle—from brand strategy and creative development to media activation, analytics, and in‑store execution.

Across the United States and Canada, MTP’s growing portfolio includes:

• VSA Partners – brand strategy, creative, and experience design
• True Media – media strategy, planning, and buying
• Coegi – media strategy, media buying, social marketing, and analytics
• Swell Media – performance media
• Radar Analytics – marketing analytics and data insights
• Public Label – commerce and experiential marketing
• Saltwater Advertising – integrated advertising and campaign development
• Match Marketing/Transact – retail engagement, merchandising, and field marketing execution

The portfolio and ownership structure includes 13 operating companies and several holding companies. Entrepreneurship, accountability, and collaboration are core to MTP’s culture. Our operating companies maintain strong individual identities while benefiting from shared infrastructure, capital, and leadership support.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Group General Counsel to lead the legal function across MTP’s North American operations and serve as the primary legal advisor to executive leadership and boards across the companies in the United States and Canada.

This is a senior, highly visible, fully remote role suited to a pragmatic, business‑minded legal leader who thrives in fast‑paced, entrepreneurial environments. The Group General Counsel will play a critical role in enabling growth, supporting innovation, structuring complex commercial relationships, and managing risk across a diverse, technology‑driven marketing services ecosystem.

Role Overview

The Group General Counsel oversees all legal matters across the MTP organization, including commercial contracting, corporate governance, employment, litigation management, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, data protection, and risk management. The role spans multiple business models including advertising, media, analytics, retail execution, and retail telecommunications operations.

Operating within a lean legal model, this role balances hands‑on execution with strategic leadership and partners closely with agency presidents, executive leadership, HR, Finance, IT, and operations across a distributed organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to MTP executive leadership and agency management across the U.S. and Canada
• Manage legal support across a high volume of concurrent matters spanning multiple agencies and business models
• Lead and manage all commercial contracting activities across the platform (e.g. MSAs, SOWs, media insertion orders, licensing and intellectual property agreements, SAAS agreements, influencer and talent agreements, sponsorship agreements)
• Support business teams and compliance for executing client engagements (e.g., IP clearances and licensing, marketing content compliance)
• Oversee employment‑related legal matters in collaboration with HR
• Oversee commercial insurance program and requirements
• Manage litigation, disputes, and claims, including coordination with external counsel
• Advise on corporate governance and compliance obligations
• Provide guidance on intellectual property strategy and risk
• Lead data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance initiatives, including advising on technology, data use, and AI-related risks in client contracts, RFPs, etc.
• Support M&A, investments, and other strategic initiatives
• Develop pragmatic legal frameworks, templates, and playbooks
• Manage relationships with external counsel and legal service providers

Qualifications & Experience

• 10–15+ years of legal experience, including substantial in‑house experience; prior GC or Assistant GC experience preferred
• Strong transactional background with deep experience in commercial contracting
• Demonstrated experience managing litigation and dispute resolution
• Background in advertising, media, marketing technology, or related industries strongly preferred
• Experience advising multi‑entity organizations or agency networks
• Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (Canadian familiarity a plus)

Key Capabilities

• Exceptional commercial negotiation and drafting skills
• Working knowledge of technology contracts, cybersecurity expectations, and data‑use considerations
• Familiarity with AI tools and emerging legal risks associated with generative AI and technology platforms
• Ability to manage a high volume of matters across multiple business units
• Strong business judgment with a practical, solutions‑oriented legal approach
• Comfort operating in a lean, fast‑moving environment supporting entrepreneurial companies
• Flexible U.S. location with periodic travel to offices across the U.S. and Canada

Why Join MTP

• Opportunity to build and shape the legal function of a growing, PE‑backed platform
• High‑impact role with direct exposure to founders, CEOs, and boards
• Diverse portfolio across marketing, media, data, and retail businesses
• Fully remote role offering flexibility, autonomy, and trust
• Base salary range: USD $250,000 – $300,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility

Additional Information

This is a fully remote position with occasional travel across North America. Meet The People is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Senior Designer

As the embodiment of design thinking, you bring ideas to life, extending visual language into functional mediums. You turn clients’ stories, visions, and voices into something tangible and real. With the strength of your conceptual thinking, your creations show us how problems can be solved, simplified, and then go on to succeed. You’ve got the whole form/function thing down pat, and you’re down to join a team that embraces Design in everything they do.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist with the creation of visual designs, typography, visual concepts, logos, and icons.
• Brainstorm creative concepts with the project team and help develop original campaigns.
• Integrate ideas across multiple mediums including TV, print, and digital.
• Ideally, you will get direction and run with it. We look for self-starters, go-getters, and other hyphenated-type characters.
• Sell your work—not just to clients, but to your peers and colleagues, too.
• Working on projects and assignments in accordance to established timelines and project briefs and expectations

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• 4-7 years of proven experience in the agency space.
• A bachelor’s degree in Design or a portfolio school education focused on Design/art direction.
• You’re a conceptual creative problem solver, strategically applying ideas across all channels.
• Bonus: you have a strong interest and/or experience specific to print production and packaging.
• You are collaborative, hardworking, adaptable, with strong initiative.
• You are rational but innovative.
• You have a naturally curious mind and a passion for applying pixel-perfect design to creative concepts.
• You’re ready to spitball and spit-shine ground-breaking ideas with a phenomenal, hardworking group of people.
• You’re receptive to constructive feedback, a quick learner and continuously looking for ways to grow.
• No huge egos. Or even medium-size egos. In fact, no ego is better. Okay maybe like a teeny-tiny ego (because you ARE human after all*).
• You are, right? You must be human. That is definitely a requirement.

Summary:
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple projects and/or supporting senior-level project managers on a given client, potentially across multiple clients. They are charged with the overall health of the projects, including day-to-day project communications, financial management, resources, risk mitigation, and both internal and external relationships.

The Senior Project Manager is expected to:

● Project Management

• Oversee and direct multiple projects at a time or support senior-level project managers on a given client/program, or across multiple clients/programs.
• Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations, including being on time and on budget.
• Interface heavily with senior marketing, technical, and executive management at the client to ensure the solution is understood and addresses the customer’s business
  requirements.
• Contribute content and presentation of key client deliverables as needed to ensure relevancy, strategy, quality, timeliness, and adherence to SOWs.
• Manage and control project scope and the change control process to ensure that projects are executed according to agreed-upon scope, schedule, and budget.
• Supervise and raise awareness of all project issues and risks, working with appropriate team members to develop solutions.
• Communicate relevant project information to the client, such as status, risk, issues, or deliverables.
• Contribute to, review, and manage creation of client SOWs, ensuring accuracy and legal and financial compliance.
• Collaborate with the project team to drive the approach, deliverables, schedule, and tools to deliver the project within established constraints; ensure accurate financial
  management of projects.
• Coordinate activities of the project team and ensure project tasks, including scheduling and facilitating project-related team meetings (i.e., kickoffs, status, internal/client
  reviews), conveying action steps to the team, and delivering weekly status reports to project team, the client, and management.
• Work with Accounting to manage project billing schedules, including reviewing invoices and tracking fees and expenses.
• Develop, maintain, review, and/or disseminate project documentation, including status reports, invoices, change orders, project timelines, budgets, and sunset reviews.
• Ensure project documentation is produced in the standard format, follows internal documentation processes, and is reviewed and approved.
• Work with Resource Management to ensure projects are appropriately staffed, including both employee and contract resources.
• Partner with, manage communications, and execute project scope requirements with sister agencies within contract parameters.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

The Senior Project Manager has the following education, experience, and licenses:

• 5-7 years of demonstrated ability coordinating brand, marketing, campaign and digital projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in project management, advertising/marketing, or related field.
• Experience using project management methodology, including the ability to develop and track scopes of work, identify and resolve issues, mitigate risk, develop detailed task-based project plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and lead team meetings.
• Experience with project life cycles, print and digital production processes, and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components, advertising projects, brand strategy, and research projects.
• Experience managing deliverables against a media plan is a plus.

To succeed, they must have the following skills, abilities, and knowledge:

• Ability to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the client’s business, needs, expectations, and requirements.
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the following: web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and technology components, advertising, digital marketing, print, strategy, and research.
• Strong digital literacy in MS Office/Google Suite (particularly Excel/Sheets), email, project, and team communication software (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, Slack, DoneDone).
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong team player; ability to assist with facilitating teams and clients.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner, maintaining effective communication—both written and spoken.
• Ability to be highly organized, accurate, and timely; able to prioritize.
• Adaptability, flexibility, persistence, versatility, and ability to handle multiple projects and changing priorities.
• Ability to organize information, pay attention to detail, accurately follow procedures, maintain confidential information, and remember important pieces of information.
• Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in collaborative environments.

Additional information:
Some evenings and weekend work may occasionally be required to meet deadlines.

Summary:
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple projects and/or supporting senior-level project managers on a given client, potentially across multiple clients. They are charged with the overall health of the projects, including day-to-day project communications, financial management, resources, risk mitigation, and both internal and external relationships.

The Senior Project Manager is expected to:

● Project Management

• Oversee and direct multiple projects at a time or support senior-level project managers on a given client/program, or across multiple clients/programs.
• Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations, including being on time and on budget.
• Interface heavily with senior marketing, technical, and executive management at the client to ensure the solution is understood and addresses the customer’s business
  requirements.
• Contribute content and presentation of key client deliverables as needed to ensure relevancy, strategy, quality, timeliness, and adherence to SOWs.
• Manage and control project scope and the change control process to ensure that projects are executed according to agreed-upon scope, schedule, and budget.
• Supervise and raise awareness of all project issues and risks, working with appropriate team members to develop solutions.
• Communicate relevant project information to the client, such as status, risk, issues, or deliverables.
• Contribute to, review, and manage creation of client SOWs, ensuring accuracy and legal and financial compliance.
• Collaborate with the project team to drive the approach, deliverables, schedule, and tools to deliver the project within established constraints; ensure accurate financial
  management of projects.
• Coordinate activities of the project team and ensure project tasks, including scheduling and facilitating project-related team meetings (i.e., kickoffs, status, internal/client
  reviews), conveying action steps to the team, and delivering weekly status reports to project team, the client, and management.
• Work with Accounting to manage project billing schedules, including reviewing invoices and tracking fees and expenses.
• Develop, maintain, review, and/or disseminate project documentation, including status reports, invoices, change orders, project timelines, budgets, and sunset reviews.
• Ensure project documentation is produced in the standard format, follows internal documentation processes, and is reviewed and approved.
• Work with Resource Management to ensure projects are appropriately staffed, including both employee and contract resources.
• Partner with, manage communications, and execute project scope requirements with sister agencies within contract parameters.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

The Senior Project Manager has the following education, experience, and licenses:

• 5-7 years of demonstrated ability coordinating brand, marketing, campaign and digital projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in project management, advertising/marketing, or related field.
• Experience using project management methodology, including the ability to develop and track scopes of work, identify and resolve issues, mitigate risk, develop detailed task-based project plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and lead team meetings.
• Experience with project life cycles, print and digital production processes, and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components, advertising projects, brand strategy, and research projects.
• Experience managing deliverables against a media plan is a plus.

To succeed, they must have the following skills, abilities, and knowledge:

• Ability to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the client’s business, needs, expectations, and requirements.
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the following: web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and technology components, advertising, digital marketing, print, strategy, and research.
• Strong digital literacy in MS Office/Google Suite (particularly Excel/Sheets), email, project, and team communication software (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, Slack, DoneDone).
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong team player; ability to assist with facilitating teams and clients.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner, maintaining effective communication—both written and spoken.
• Ability to be highly organized, accurate, and timely; able to prioritize.
• Adaptability, flexibility, persistence, versatility, and ability to handle multiple projects and changing priorities.
• Ability to organize information, pay attention to detail, accurately follow procedures, maintain confidential information, and remember important pieces of information.
• Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in collaborative environments.

Additional information:
Some evenings and weekend work may occasionally be required to meet deadlines.

VSA’s Design Practice applies design thinking, visualization and experience to take on problems and bring life to our clients’ stories, visions and voices. We bring together multidisciplinary talent to make the most sophisticated ideas tangible and meaningful for the audiences that matter most. The Director, Production Design is responsible for the execution and/or the oversight of the execution of assignments. This person is accountable for the quality level their work and/or all work produced by the team and the overall success of teams assigned projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create and oversee the production of design elements for marketing campaigns and projects, including digital, print, and other media.

• Collaborate with creative directors, art directors, and other designers to develop to execute concepts that meet the needs of clients and their target audiences.

• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of brand guidelines and apply them to all design work.

• Manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that deadlines are met and projects are completed to the highest standard.

• Develop and maintain relationships with printers, vendors, and other external partners to ensure that production processes are efficient and cost-effective.

• Develop and maintain an organized system for archiving and managing design files, ensuring that they are easily accessible to team members and clients as needed.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior designers, helping them to develop their skills and grow in their roles.

• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in corporate/agency/design firm or similar.
• Possession of an undergraduate degree in related field.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative suite with an emphasis in InDesign and Illustrator.
• Ability to articulate VSA's Creative Services team capabilities.
• Excellent ability to find creative solutions in the face of technical challenges.
• Ability to quickly grasp and apply design intent.
• An organized, detailed problem solver.
• Extreme attention to detail.
• Adept at preemptively identifying problems and devising solutions.
• Excellent design, color and typographic skills.
• Excellent time and resource leadership skills.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner maintaining effective communication, both written and spoken.
• A dedication to high quality work.
• Ability to maintain positive and productive relationships with all - clients, team members, peers, and managers.
• Skills in sophisticated problem solving, judgment, critical thinking and decision-making.
• Ability to be versatile and balance multiple projects, coordinate information, prioritize, have attention to detail, accurately follow procedures, maintain self-motivation and to work independently.

About VSA Partners

VSA Partners is a leading brand and marketing agency within the Meet The People network. We help businesses create meaningful connections with their audiences through strategy, design, and technology. Our integrated approach combines creativity and media expertise, enabling clients to navigate complexity and achieve measurable impact. Collaborating with partners like True Media Services, we deliver holistic solutions that align brand, marketing, and media strategies. As an independent agency, we offer the agility, transparency, and speed today’s clients demand with the culture of collaboration and accountability our people value.

Role Overview & Context

As Associate Partner, Head of Strategy, you will lead strategic thinking across client engagements and new business opportunities while serving as a steward of VSA’s strategic voice internally, with clients, and in the market. Strategy at VSA elevates insight, simplifies complexity, and drives accountability through measurement. This role is pivotal in shaping brand direction, driving growth, and ensuring integrated solutions that connect creativity with media. You will collaborate with creative teams, media specialists, and senior leadership to deliver strategies that advance measurement and accountability, anticipate industry shifts, and champion the thoughtful use of AI.

Expanded Responsibilities

• Drive Growth & New Business Impact: Partner closely with VSA’s Head of Growth to sharpen and express the agency’s strategic POV in pitches and shape strategic narratives through compelling storytelling.
• Lead & Evolve the Strategy Practice: Set the vision for VSA’s strategy practice across brand, marketing, experience, and communications. Build strategic capability and evolve frameworks, tools, and ways of working.
• Elevate Measurement, Media & Effectiveness: Establish and strengthen measurement practices tied to outcomes and impact. Champion closer alignment of media, creative, and measurement.
• Apply AI Thoughtfully & Effectively: Champion responsible use of AI in research, insight development, ideation, and optimization. Help the team build fluency with emerging tools while maintaining strategic rigor.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and articulate brand and marketing strategies for diverse clients.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders.
• Lead strategic development for pitches and new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with True Media Services to align creative and media strategies.
• Advance measurement practices tied to outcomes and impact.
• Champion responsible use of AI in research, insight, and optimization.
• Mentor and inspire a team of strategists, fostering excellence.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and bring innovative thinking to client work.
• Shape strategic narratives expressed through compelling storytelling.
• Ensure integration of creativity, media, and measurement for holistic solutions.

Core Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in brand or marketing strategy leadership roles.
• Proven track record of driving strategic initiatives for major brands.
• Expertise in integrated marketing and media collaboration.
• Experience establishing measurement and effectiveness frameworks.
• Fluency in AI and emerging technologies as strategic tools.
• Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills for C-suite audiences.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to challenge conventional thinking.
• Strong leadership and team development capabilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of integrated marketing, including creative and media.
• Comfortable engaging with senior client stakeholders and C-suite executives.
• Experience in agency settings with a focus on growth and innovation.

Why This Role, Why Now

VSA is at an inflection point, with clients navigating unprecedented change and strategy evolving due to new tools and complexity. This role offers the opportunity to shape how strategy drives growth and innovation for clients and the agency, positioning VSA as a leader in integrated brand, campaign and media solutions.

Creative Director, Campaign Copywriting

Are you a writer’s writer and a big idea generator? If so, we’d love to talk. 

We’re looking for a smart, strategic creative director of writing to join our campaign team. As our new CDW, your job is to lead a team of badass writers, designers and art directors to find a great idea, clean it up, and get it gleaming into one of those WHABAM creative solutions that makes clients’ eyes light up (after, of course, you’ve used your excellent communication skills to help them See the Light). 

In this role, you’ll work on every kind of campaign, from the digital- and social-first to the big 360s. And don’t worry about getting pigeon-holed: You’ll work on a variety of industries, from Big Tech to small consumer brands, and a lot in between. 

You’re a great fit if:

• You’re a conceptual thinker who can spot an idea with legs from a million miles away. 
• You’re a leader and a doer—someone who can nurture junior talent and also write your own scripts. 
• You’re also a serious-attention-to-detail person. You care about craft and delivering work that’s thoughtful, well edited, and considered. 
• You are truly a writer and communicator at heart. 
• You love getting to know new clients and new challenges—and pitching new ideas that you and the team want to make.
• You love design, learning about new industries, and being part of a tight-knit team that moves fast
• You’re energetic, optimistic, and excited to do great things 
• You play well with others—and appreciate working with really, really nice people and clients

Here's a breakdown of the key aspects of this role: 

Core Responsibilities:

Creative Leadership:

• Enthusiastically develops and executes high-impact, persuasive and compelling content for integrated campaigns. This includes print, social media, paid search, video advertising, influencer marketing and more.
• Establishes and maintains the overall creative direction, ensuring a consistent message across client projects.
• Serves as a leader in the creative process, guiding teams through ideation, design, and execution.

Collaboration & Teamwork:

• Works closely with copywriters, designers, strategists, project managers and the production team to ensure the cohesive creative direction of content that delivers on the creative brief.
• Leads brainstorming sessions and provides constructive feedback to ensure high-quality work.
• Acst as a liaison between the creative team and internal stakeholders, facilitating clear communication and idea flow.

Client Engagement & Communication:

• Eagerly engage in client content to best understand the client’s vision, business goals, and their products and services and then translating these into compelling creative deliverables.
• Present creative concepts and campaigns to clients and internal teams, articulating decisions and the strategic rationale behind them.
• Identify growth opportunities within existing accounts and collaborate with client-facing teams to nurture and expand client relationships.
• Represent the creative team in new business presentations and pitches, showcasing VSA’s copywriting capabilities and approach to campaign work.
• Help identify new business opportunities and contribute to the agency’s growth strategy.

Project Management & Execution:

• Coordinate across teams to ensure that all deliverables meet deadlines and production quality standards.
• Oversee multiple campaigns, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across platforms and media.

Mentorship & Development:

• Support the development of junior staff by providing mentorship and feedback to foster their growth as needed.
• Identify tools, resources, and processes that improve creative efficiency and team performance.

Skills and Experience:

• Copywriting Expertise: 10+ years of creative writing experience, preferably in an agency setting.
• Strong Portfolio: A robust writing portfolio of integrated campaign work that spans from print to digital to experiential for B2b and B2C brands.
• Leadership & Team Management: 3+ years of managing teams. Proven ability to lead and inspire creative teams, providing direction and feedback while fostering a collaborative environment.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to synthesize client briefs, strategic objectives, and market insights into innovative campaign executions.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills for client presentations, team coordination, and internal collaboration. Comfort with sophisticated writing assignments, styles, and subject areas.
• Project Management: Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously, with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Software Proficiency: Familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Slack, Google Suite and Workamajig).

About us

VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and creative agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in the world. VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a founding agency of Meet The People, a family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM. 

Creative Director, Campaign Design

Are you an art director by trade, a designer at heart, and a person with a passion for great advertising? If so, we should talk. 

We’re looking for a smart, strategic creative director to join our campaign design team. In this role, you’ll work on every kind of campaign—from the digital- and social-first to the big 360s—creating beautiful, impactful visuals that draw viewers in (and make our clients stand out). 

You’re the perfect candidate if:

• You love being on a tight-knit team that works hard and moves fast, but also just really likes each other
• You have an uncanny ability to translate ideas into visuals that move people
• You truly love design and bring an elevated aesthetic to all of your work
• You want to help sell big, bold ideas that break through
• You have a healthy appreciation for deadlines 
• You like working in a variety of industries, from Big Tech to small consumer brands
• You’re energetic, optimistic, and excited to do great things 
• You play well with others—and appreciate working with really, really nice people and clients

Still with us? Good! Check out a few more of the responsibilities below. 

Core Responsibilities:

Creative Leadership:

• Enthusiastically develops and executes high-impact, visually compelling concepts for integrated campaigns
• Brings deep production experience 
• Is fluent in full-funnel digital marketing, including trends in social media, paid search, video advertising, influencer marketing and more
• Establishes and maintains the overall art direction, ensuring a consistent visual language across client projects.
• Serves as a leader in the creative process, guiding teams through ideation, design, and execution.

Collaboration & Teamwork:

• Works closely with copywriters, designers, strategists, project managers and the production team to ensure cohesive creative direction that delivers on the creative brief.
• Leads brainstorming sessions and provides constructive feedback to ensure high-quality work.
• Acts as a liaison between the creative team and internal stakeholders, facilitating clear communication and idea flow.

Client Engagement & Communication:

• Eagerly engages in client content to best understand the client’s vision, business goals, and their products and services and then translating these into compelling creative deliverables.
• Presents creative concepts and campaigns to clients and internal teams, articulating design decisions and the strategic rationale behind them.
• Identifies growth opportunities within existing accounts and collaborates with client-facing teams to nurture and expand client relationships.
• Represents the creative team in new business presentations and pitches, showcasing VSA’s design capabilities and approach to campaign work.
• Helps identify new business opportunities and contribute to the agency’s growth strategy.

Project Management & Execution:

• Coordinates across teams to ensure that all deliverables meet deadlines and production quality standards.
• Oversees multiple campaigns, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across platforms and media.

Mentorship & Development:

• Supports the development of junior staff by providing mentorship and feedback to foster their growth as needed.
• Identifies tools, resources, and processes that improve creative efficiency and team performance.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Visual Design Expertise: 10+ years of experience in design. Strong command of design principles, typography, layout, and color theory to execute top-tier, visually impactful campaigns.
• Strong Portfolio: A robust portfolio of integrated campaign work that spans from print to digital to experiential for B2b and B2C brands.
• Leadership & Team Management: 3+ years of managing teams. Proven ability to lead and inspire creative teams, providing direction and feedback while fostering a collaborative environment.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to synthesize client briefs, strategic objectives, and market insights into innovative campaign executions.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills for client presentations, team coordination, and internal collaboration.
• Project Management: Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously, with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Software Proficiency: Advanced skills in design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.) and familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Slack, Google Suite and Workamajig).

About us

VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and creative agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in the world. VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a founding agency of Meet The People, a family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM.