San Francisco Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Associate Podcast Producer

ABOUT BLACK LOVE, INC.

Black Love, Inc. is a Black-owned media company devoted to providing diverse representation of love in the Black community through film/tv, original digital content, audio, live events and social media. Known for creating the BLACK LOVE docuseries which launched as the most viewed unscripted series in the history of the Oprah Winfrey Network, we are committed to offering content and experiences that affirm, educate, and entertain the Black Millennial audience. In addition to the docuseries, Black Love, Inc. properties include the Black Love+ App, Black Love Podcast Network, a monthly social media reach of over 75M+ monthly, the annual Black Love Summit and BlackLove.com. We have partnered with brands including: Target, Neutrogena, Amazon Studios, BET Networks, Bravo Networks, JP Morgan Chase, Shea Moisture, Lexus and Frito-Lay.

The Role

In this role, you will assist the Podcast Producer and Director of Podcasts to produce multiple shows for Black Love, Inc.’s growing award winning podcast network. You should have a background in audio production and digital media. You will be hands-on during all stages of production such as creating rundowns, production meetings, ideating segments, producing talent, post production, and writing show copy. The ideal candidate is an avid podcast, audio streaming and/or radio listener with a passion for Black media & culture.

Responsibilities

• Setup and operate podcast studio and remote environment 
• Field produce remote podcast sessions
• Ideate discussion topics and create show rundowns
• Conduct detailed pre-show and guest research for talent
• Pre-produce elements to be played back during taping sessions
• Publish completed episodes using podcast distribution CMS

Requirements

• Ideally 1-3 years of experience in podcasting, audio streaming and/or radio.
• Ability to produce at least 3-5 podcast episodes weekly.
• Proficient in audio post-production including mixing and sound design.
• Proficient in Adobe Audition
• knowledge of Black media & culture.
• Willing to work outside of standard work hours when necessary.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Thrives in a lively teamwork environment.

Black Love has adopted a hybrid work model for our entire staff. We believe that the best work is done in a hybrid capacity as it combines the flexibility of working from home with in-person collaboration. We are ideally looking for Los Angeles based candidates, or candidates willing to relocate within the first 3 months of accepting an offer.

Please email resume & relevant experience: careers@blacklove.com

Black Love, Inc.

Job Title: Casting Director

Type: Full-time (Los Angeles)

Reports To: VP of Casting

Company Overview:

Podium Audio is the fastest-growing audiobook publishing company in the US. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive environment where talented professionals can thrive and bring their creativity to life. We work with bestselling authors and emerging voices to produce exceptional audiobooks.

Job Description:

Casting top voice talent on Podium’s stories, with a focus on specialty genre fiction. Leading talent acquisition and scouting—particularly new and diverse talent—participating in industry events, and assisting in the training of new department members.

Key Responsibilities:

o  Identify top voice talent for authentic casting

o  Contribute to workflow ideas and standardization within the Podium system

o  Participate and represent Podium at industry events

Qualifications:

o  Theater, audiobook industry, voice-over, or equivalent background

o  Successful track record in audiobook casting, coaching or directing

o  Strong communication and organizational skills

o  Self-motivated and committed to diversity and inclusion

o  Passion for storytelling and voice-over

o  Preferably 2+ years experience in the audiobook industry

Benefits and Compensation:

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), paid parking, paid parental leave, paid holidays, a generous vacation policy, and the ability to work from home on Monday and Friday. This role is remote two days per week and in office T-Th in El Segundo, California. Salary: $60-$75k base

To Apply:

If you are passionate about audiobooks or voice-over, and are excited about this opportunity to join a growing team, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs-casting@podiumaudio.com.

Podium Audio is an audio-first entertainment studio and independent audiobook publisher that finances, develops, produces and distributes world-class immersive audio content. We stay on the bleeding edge of what’s trending in the audio world, and as an industry leader in the realms of science fiction and fantasy, we don’t shy away from the extraordinary.

Podium Audio is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.

Podium Audio

Who is Moontide?

We are agents of change. Moontide (moontide.agency) thrives on big ideas – ours, and our clients. More than an agency, we are a growth partner for brands with bold aspirations. Our client roster includes companies with big missions, like making zero-emission airliners, ending the world’s plastic waste problem and creating the sustainable city of the future.

Based in California, Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, and New York we are a full-capabilities agency that serves our audiences and partners with integrity and passion. Moontide is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Golden State Company (thegoldenstatecompany.com) which was founded in 2006. An interconnected house of brands, The Golden State Company also operates and innovates across different digital media and e-commerce businesses, making it a unique place for out-of-the-box creativity.

Summary

Our Creative Director is a roll-up-the-sleeves, enterprising business leader responsible for inspiring and leading integrated creative that translates across a 360-degree marketing ecosystem. The Creative Director is masterful in consistently crafting engaging and intuitive experiences and is well-versed in championing creativity.

For our clients and client prospects, the Creative Director will be collaboratively solving business problems across industries and identifying opportunities for competitive cut-through. The Creative Director is responsible for envisioning scalable concepts and then ensuring top-notch creative execution that can be achieved within the realities of budgets and timelines. Best-in-class pitching and presentation skills are a must.

For our internal team, they’ll foster a collaborative, inspiring environment that welcomes all relevant channels to connect with our target audiences holistically. The role involves collaboratively narrowing and refining creative options with a solutions orientation that ultimately supports the production/execution of approved ideas by the integrated team.

Our Creative Director…

• Is a professional listener who deeply understands our clients’ and partners’ businesses;
• Collaborates with our cross-discipline experts and Executive Committee to deliver creative for internal Moontide initiatives, agency clients, and prospects;
• Partners with client managers and project management to align creative solutions with business logic;
• Is versatile enough to jump from leading a complex website design system to collaborating on brand identity territories to ideating campaign concepts
• Demonstrates practical knowledge of technology and delivery platforms and can be relied upon for vetting solutions to ensure feasibility;
• Collaborates with CD of Information Design, to jointly ensure the Moontide brand and all client brands are expressed elegantly in assets;
• Understands paid media and earned media platforms and how to bring to life optimal creative solutions for the channels and communities;
• Leads by example in empowering, mentoring, and inspiring direct reports’ and supporting their career progression.
• Upholds best practices and internal process standards, including creative accountability and proactive support of staff resourcing and financial stewardship
• Exhibits intentionality when respectfully pushing the envelope in terms of design, delivery, platforms, and integrated solutions to achieve competitive differentiation.
• Brings a track record for gaining client trust in creative solutions for their businesses, especially at the client organizations’ leadership levels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent and 10+ years’ creative leadership experience at an ad agency, brand firm, media company, start-up or client-side organization.
• A portfolio that extends across mediums, target audiences, and a diverse range of clients at various stages of business growth
• Experience managing a creative team, external creative agencies, and production partners.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and other discipline-specific tools experience.
• Must be based in the headquarters office in El Segundo, CA with requirements for in-office hours 2 days a week. Travel to client locations and other Moontide remote locations on an as-needed basis (approximately 15-25% of the time)

REPORTS TO: Partner & Managing Director, Moontide

Moontide Agency

About the Job

The Art Director is responsible for touching every piece of the creative process and helping develop culture-cracking work across campaign, experiential and digital assignments. From conception to production, you’ll be a steward of storytelling for our brand partners, bringing ideas to life through myriad formats and styles. The ideal candidate understands the fundamentals of design and strives to make beautifully original things, all while collaborating with teammates across functions and departments, working most closely with a Writer partner. We’re looking for someone who is dedicated to making innovative work that stirs shit up, across the advertising industry and culture at large.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a Writer partner to ideate and create work that delivers on client goals, both strategically and creatively.
• Work hand in hand with Writer to create presentations for approval by Associate Creative Directors and leadership. This includes the ideas as well as the design and layout of decks, pulling mood imagery, and comping bespoke visuals to sell the concepts.
• Once a concept is approved by our client, work alongside Associate Creative Director team to actually make the work — overseeing and collaborating with the Production Department to keep the integrity of the creative.
• Present the work to creative leads and internal teams whenever needed.
• Be client-facing and be able to present work to clients, clearly verbalizing the essence of the ideas.
• Organize workload so that no assignments are lost in the shuffle and all assignments are completed, delivered and approved on time.
• Become acquainted with your clients, understanding their marketing approach, the environment in which they sell, and the type of work they’re interested in making.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in Art Direction and conceptual creative work, ideally in an advertising agency
• Strong understanding of graphic design, photography, illustration, and typography
• First successes in “big idea” generation for client brands
• Familiarity with and passion for conceptual thinking, campaign development, and cross-channel creative execution
• Advanced understanding of Adobe Creative Suite applications
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• Digitally connected, passionate about technology and innovation with an insatiable curiosity for how it applies to our industry
• Experience working with Google Suite (Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets) a plus

The anticipated salary range for this position is $80,000 – $100,000. Salary is determined based on a wide range of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, job duties, and geographic location. For this role, we also offer programs such as medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and various other benefits and perks.

Giant Spoon

As an Executive Producer at Metajive, you will have the opportunity to work on transformational accounts for our fast-growing agency. In your role you will strive to improve efficiency and effectiveness, guiding the growth and processes of the business. As a successful Executive Producer, you will understand how to shape the big picture for accounts through building relationships, leading and managing projects, guiding and mentoring producers, forecasting and planning. At times you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to run the day-to-day project management operations on key client engagements while also being a leader within the project and account management functions at Metajive. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Manage and mentor a team of producers on projects overseeing scoping through completion, creating project plans, scheduling project teams, assigning tasks, motivating staff, tracking progress, and reporting status. 
• Manage project risk through the development and implementation of appropriate mitigation plans and diplomatic communication. 
• Lead and guide project scope—developing SOWs, documenting project requirements and/or objectives, determining impacts on schedule and budget, generating change requests, and keeping management team informed of potential project risks.  
• Key point of contact for key accounts; showing leadership, professionalism and sensitivity in dealing with clients, while understanding the business problems we are solving for them. 
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Qualifications: 

• Minimum 7 years of project management experience in an agency setting.  
• Experience leading and mentoring team members. 
• Collaborative, flexible, diplomatic, and professional – and while a sense of humor is not a requirement, it sure will help you excel! 

Metajive

We’re looking for a Creative Producer for an Eyewear Design company based in Downtown Los Angeles. Fit, feel and quality are the core pillars behind their vision and their goal is to deliver new designs while integrating traditionally luxury details inspired by classic architecture, car design and fine jewelry.

**YOU MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE PRODUCING FACEBOOK VIDEO AD’S**

Responsibilities:

• Creates the video from scratch (source location, videographer, editor, models , strategy, storyboarding, etc.)
• Mainly be producing videos for Facebook with a length of at least 1-3 minutes.

Requirements:

• Must have an experience in creating ad videos for Facebook.
• Must be LA based; should be able to come to Culver City office a couple times per week but mostly working in the field.
• Should speak the language of digital marketing and know how to convert.
• Previous experience as a Creative Producer and a portfolio is needed.

Hire With Jarvis

*open to LA or NY*

Company Overview:

We are Social is seeking a Experience and Events Creative Director to join our growing team! We create people-centric, brand experiences that drive results. We always think ‘bigger’. we aim for the buzz. We aim for the chatter. We filter every thought through a subculture lens. We make authentic connections. We spark real conversation. on, and offline. We do not create culture. people create culture. We just amplify it. We are designers, copywriters, PR practitioners, Influencers and so much more. Our campaigns are groundbreaking and culture shifting. We’re people focused and very passionate about the work we do. If this sounds interesting, we look forward to connecting soon.

We’re on the lookout for a Creative Director with significant Experiential and Event experience (8 – 11 years).

What you’ll do:

You will lead the conceptualization and visualization of event and activation ideas (informed by briefs provided by the account and brand experience teams) by participating in brainstorms and developing presentations on your own. You’ll develop compelling visuals to bring concept decks to life, including mood boards, floor plans, mock-ups, spatial studies and renderings. Once the creative vision is sold in, you’ll work through each phase of the development process, partnering with internal and external design, production and fabrication teams to bring that vision to life.

• You will be responsible for the conceptualization and execution of creative programming for a wide variety of events and brand activations.
• Work closely with the Account, Creative and Brand Experience teams to brainstorm, refine and select creative directions for each project.
• Oversee proposals and creative presentations including but not limited to: presentation deck design, spatial design, printed and digital collateral, event builds, mock-ups and more.
• Lead creative presentations to clients, effectively selling through concepts via video conference or in-person meetings
• Build floor plans using AutoCAD
• Create 3D renders utilizing Rhino and Vray (or similar)
• Manage external
• Work with the Brand Experience team and external vendors to ensure that all design and fabrication elements can be produced safely, efficiently and within the specified budget.

What your experience looks like:

• Strong portfolio of experiential creative work
• Excellent visual storyteller using conceptual ideas, innovations, and contemporary marketing trends while using all the tools & design programs of the trade
• Helps evaluate, refine, and approve creative briefs for teams
• Genuinely creative, overflowing with ideas for all types of media from digital to experiential
• Strong ability to receive and assess constructive feedback and adjust designs appropriately
• Experience leading teams, managing more junior creatives and work flows
• Deft communication with clients, and an ability to guide constructive meetings & reviews
• Calm under pressure, while maintaining a sense of humor & urgency
• Reinforces a culture of constructive feedback, clear communication, and creative direction that yields consistent, conversation-starting work
• Ability to prioritize, delegate, and maintain timelines, budgets, and resourcing needs
• Not afraid to speak up, ask questions, and drive the work forward
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, 3D programming and the Google Suite
• Strong graphic and typography design skills
• Solid knowledge of print production and fabrication
• Highly organized and deadline oriented
• Adept at working independently on multiple projects simultaneously
• Great taste and the ability to work high/low: you understand the luxury market but also understand hypebeasty cultural moments
• Experience working directly with clients
• Great “in the room,” and comfortable leading pitches and proposals
• Ability to travel on-site to select activations

Why work for us?

We Are Social is a global, award-winning creative agency with a network of 15 offices worldwide staffed by 1000+ social experts.

We think you’d like it here!

• Hybrid Work (combination in-office and remote)
• Flexible Vacation Days
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

We Are Social

Skybound is looking for a visually inventive Art Director to help lay the foundations of a new, unannounced project, building and leading an art team to deliver amazing characters, spectacular environments and stunning visual effects in a customized UE5 engine. The Art Director will define the unique look of our game, lead a team of multi-disciplined artists, and help build and manage relationships with multiple external partners.

As Art Director, you will lead the creation of an inspiring and distinctive visual style. You will help translate a well-known and much-loved property to games as it has never been seen before. You will own the look, end-to-end, driving visual development development, character design, amazing environments and effects, and advanced rendering and lighting techniques. We will help you build your cross functional dream team, and together we will turn concepts and prototypes into awe inspiring experiences for our players.

Reports: This position will report to the Executive Producer of Skybound Game Studios

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Define and champion the artistic vision of our game externally
• Work across disciplines to ensure a consistent vision
• Define performance standards and functional requirements
• Oversee outsourcing and concept materials
• Lead production of style guides and support materials
• Pilot new methods and advanced techniques to produce amazing characters and environments
• Ensure assets are optimized for target platforms while retaining artistic integrity
• Provide estimates, manage time, and hit deadlines to stay on track with deliverables
• Inspire, manage, and develop a team of artists

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in console or PC games as an Art Lead or similar role, with at least one shipped title
• Has shipped multiple games in an art-focused role: concept, character, environment, etc.
• Proficient in the creation of high-quality assets using Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop and Substance Painter
• Experience creating visuals in stylized and physical based materials
• Strong technical art skills with the ability to troubleshoot a game pipeline
• Proven experience with successfully interpreting 2D concepts into 3D assets
• Exceptional communication skills
• Ability to uphold high quality standards and honor commitments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building characters and environments in Unreal Engine
• Familiarity with asset tracking tools like Perforce and JIRA
• Experience with real-time, physically-based lighting
• Experience reviewing and providing feedback to internal teams and outsourcer vendors
• Passion for video game development, combat-oriented games and Skybound IP

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Salary Range: $140,000-180,000

• Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc.
• The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees
• Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each role

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement. This role may also qualify for a possible discretionary bonus annually.

Company Overview

Skybound is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. We are home to critically-acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible.

Skybound Games produces, publishes and distributes video and tabletop games across all genres, including the multi-million-unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. In addition to our wholly-owned franchises, we work with independent developers to foster and create original games with compelling characters and worlds, strong creator and artistic focus, and innovative approaches to engaging genres.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Skybound Entertainment

In 2010, we started making sun care products to protect ourselves, our families and our friends from the damaging rays of the sun. Since then, we’ve grown and expanded into hair care and lip care products, and even launched Baby Bum, our rad plant-based baby skin care line. Along the way, we’ve been building an amazing, like-minded global community of friends that encourage us and help us be better. Today, we are looking for a few more talented and passionate people to join our crew – not for the money or the awesome location to live and work, but for the opportunity to change the world a little with us.

Summary

We are looking for an Art Director with a witty, quirky, funny, and a little edgy personality that can reflect the simple, free of concern, and socially conscious voice of the irreverent and iconic Sun Bum brand. And in doing so will help us take Sun Bum to the next level of global brand awareness and market disruption.

The Art Director will be responsible for leading the development of campaigns both large and small for digital and traditional platforms. These include but are not limited to motion, photography, animation, and print. Our ideal candidate will be able to create original work across a variety of mediums with exceptional skills in visual storytelling.

The person in this role will be responsible for delivering original design concepts while also maintaining the creative integrity and brand continuity of Sun Bum. They will collaborate closely with other members of the creative, brand, and social teams. They should be able to thoughtfully present their decision-making and also apply the direction given by team leaders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Passionate about creating skillfully crafted ideas across the web, mobile apps, social media, and traditional platforms.
• Ability to create pitch decks to communicate ideas that excite and sell to marketing and partner teams.
• Strong experience across a range of mediums including digital, social, integrated, and traditional.
• Concept and produce brand and product visual communications delivering final executions on deadline.
• Strong verbal and written skills, and the ability to present new ideas or seasonal concepts to small and large groups.
• Skillfully leads and maintains relationships with external partners including animators, filmers, artists, photographers, and producers ensuring content is on brand.
• Responsible for maintaining global brand consistency across all visual communications.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge of current trends in color, technology, communications, art, and other cultural design influences.
• Have knowledge and passion for film, photography, design, animation, logo design, illustration, typography, color theory, and web design.
• Ability to build and edit files using Adobe programs including Premier, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• Perform high-level oversight on certain specified projects by providing day-to-day feedback for designers in coordination with the Creative Director and VP of Marketing.
• Guide the team towards appropriate solutions based on the overarching creative vision (and business objectives).
• Mentor and inspire less experienced members of the team. Work actively with them to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Passion for surf/ skate culture and beach lifestyle
• Experience with agency process
• Perform research for projects in various aspects
• Provide support as workflow dictates and is assigned

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies

• 7-10 years of relevant experience in graphic design and art direction
• Possess a strong graphic design background, including having an excellent understanding of color theory, light logic, typography, iconography, layout, fundamentals, and composition
• Extensive proficiency with Mac OS
• Extensive proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: Premier, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Must have an understanding of working with brands and branding strategies
• Must work well within a fast-paced environment and keep your cool while juggling multiple projects
• Ability to work within the provided structure and handle direction with attention to production schedules
• Must have great verbal communication skills, a positive attitude, and be an overall team player
• Other duties as reasonably directed
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

$140,000-$160,000 is the salary range for this position. It represents a portion of the overall package, and there is flexibility based on the candidate’s qualifications.

Sun Bum

The City of West Sacramento is seeking a Director of Parks and Recreation. The Director of Parks and Recreation plans, organizes, and administers a comprehensive program of community services and plans and directs the development, use, and maintenance of City parks and park facilities. This is an at-will position that is appointed by and sits at the pleasure of the City Manager. The Director of Parks and Recreation performs work that is highly complex and includes responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Parks and Recreation Department as well as department strategic planning and goal setting. Duties are administrative/managerial in nature, and the incumbent has extensive contact with public officials, state, federal and local agencies, other public and private organizations, and the general public, and is responsible for developing, proposing, and implementing programs designed to provide quality parks, recreation-related health, eldercare and after school educational programs and services while maintaining excellent customer service within the Department’s service area. The classification of Director of Parks and Recreation is distinguished from other Parks and Recreation management classifications by its level and degree of responsibility for broad oversight of all Department functions.

City of West Sacramento