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.

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.

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.