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Entertainment Assistant, Music/Entertainment

We need an expert eye for detail and exceptional organizational talents to help manage schedules and dive into the details of our work in music and entertainment. You are business-oriented, think outside the box, and you confidently communicate at all levels. The successful candidate will seek to work in an environment where freedom and responsibility are equally valued, and where passion and curiosity are mandates.

Responsibilities:

Maintain complex calendars, including scheduling of meetings, internally and externally, with multiple parties across multiple time zones.

Answer phones, coordinate conference calls and roll calls for a very busy desk.

Coordinate travel arrangements (domestic and international).

Process travel and expense reports.

Support various music aspects of the team’s day to day.

Identify and help uncover ways to streamline information flow and workflow.

Requirements:

3+ years as an entertainment assistant (experience with music is a plus but not required).

Get to know the team so well, you can do their thinking for them in an administrative capacity.

Must be able to manage a demanding and hectic schedule, staying on top of heavy email flow and rolling calls.

Must be comfortable speaking and corresponding with demanding clients.

Team player who operates in a fast paced setting.

Understanding of how to prioritize and respond accordingly.

Have clear, concise communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, creative thinking, and the ability to multitask.

Ability to be discrete and maintain confidential information.

Excellent computer skills including Word, Outlook, etc. Technical aptitude highly preferred.

Must handle personal requests and must be flexible on work hours and be willing to work overtime.

The Successful Candidate Will Also:

Be able to work proactively, independently and reliably on multiple projects under tight time frames in a fast-paced environment with a positive and energetic attitude. They must be a self-starter who is bright and highly motivated.

The ideal candidate is excited to dive in head first and enjoys a fast-paced environment.

The candidate must have good judgment and be able to work independently with little direction at times.

Have experience working across a diversity of cultures, time zones, and languages.

Have unparalleled organizational skills and unwavering attention to detail. Must be able to multitask and understand the urgent need of client requests.

Be curious and eager to tackle matters outside area of expertise.

Tech­-savviness,

Speak multiple languages (not required).

Have a great sense of humor!

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Los Angeles Area: Casting now! 25 Words or Less! 

Union or Non Union submissions for males & females to portray dancer types, age 20’s – all body sizes .

You will not be dancing but you will be wearing backup dancer style clothing. 
Rate: 200/8 for both SAG and Non Union
Covid Test on Weds 2/15 in Culver City before 1:30pm
Costume Fitting in Santa Clarita 
Covid Test on Sunday 2/19 in Culver City before 1:30pm 
Shoot on Tuesday 2/21 in Hollywood 

Must be registered with Central Casting. 

Covid test on Tuesday 2/14 in Studio City 
Shoots on Thursday 2/16 in Los Angeles 
Union submissions for males & females with newer cars years 2017 to 2023.

No black, red or white cars please. Portray age 25 to 40’s.

JOB SUMMARY: As a full-time Art Director on the Firestone Walker Brand Design team, you’ll lead the strategic development and execution of multichannel creative initiatives for 805 beer ad campaigns (including, but not limited to), social/digital, packaging, film, retail, experiential, product branding, and marketing projects from start to finish. You’re a conceptual problem solver and design leader with fluency in creating visual concepts and storytelling to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and engage with consumers. You will own the creative process and visual ID for key brand categories working with the Head of Creative, marketing partners, and external creative teams to develop innovative creative material for 805 beer products and marketing campaigns.

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

Specifically, the responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following activities:

• Develop world class creative and produce 360 multi-channel campaigns that get results
• Gather cross functional alignment and sell-in concepts to leadership
• Oversee production and execution of all creative aspects in collaboration with production teams and external partners across all formats and deliverables
• Develop and execute design projects across all channels
• Direct and manage photoshoots, video and film productions
• Contribute to elevating and advancing the overall 805 aesthetic that meets band guidelines
• Cross-functional relationship building and partnership to ensure strategic progression, improvement and consistency
• Translate product positioning, data, and marketing strategies into strategic ideas and design solutions
• Maintain creative experience for digital and CRM to ensure creative alignment, usability, engagement, and growth
• Stay up-to-date on cultural and design trends as well as potential creative partners who are pushing the look and capabilities of what’s current
• Cultivate team growth through mentorship and leading by example
• Collaborate with all team members to ensure progression, improvement and consistency
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 6+ years in a marketing or related field
• Proven track record in creating world class creative campaigns
• Highly collaborative approach, with experience in a fast-paced and cross-functional focused environment
• Strong ability to strategically include outside functional expertise and performance data into your creative solutions
• Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite with focus on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, and a familiarity with and understanding of video editing
• Experience leading photo shoots, video shoots, and all associated pre-production components
• Experience managing and delivering multiple projects in parallel
• Hands-on creative who is willing to make as well as lead projects
• Finger on the pulse of current design and youth culture trends including graphic and motion design, photography, music, sports, art, and fashion
• Must be driven to bring big ideas to life and passionate for the brand

What Firestone Walker Offers

• Competitive pay rate for an experienced individual with the right skills
• An excellent benefits package including:
• 100% paid premiums for employee including medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Accrued PTO (rate of 13 days per year)
• Accrued Sick Leave (1 hour for every 30 hours worked)
• 401(k) retirement plan including company paid profit sharing & 4% matching
• 9 paid holidays per year

Please submit your cover letter and resume with your work experience when applying. Firestone Walker is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company

Our client, a global broadcast media and entertainment company, is actively looking for an Art Director to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

This role requires candidates be in the office Tuesday-Thursday so local candidates are required.

***This is a 3 month initial contract with the opportunity to extend or convert***

This Art Director will be responsible for leading art direction across multiple games and digital content in the company’s portfolio. The ideal candidate will have direct experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped products-ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops.

Responsibilities

• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfills team, studio, and company goals
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

Required Skills & Experience

• Degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• 7+ years of experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product-ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Experience shipping multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UX/UI and technical art challenges
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in game concept prototypes
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Motion Recruitment

Cogs & Marvel, an award winning experiential agency, seeks an Art Director with a passion for design to join our growing team of creative talent. This role reports to the Creative Director in our San Francisco office, aligning on company goals and vision to push our work into new and constantly innovative directions. We’re looking for an exceptional visual storyteller who understands the power of narrative, live, and digital experience design.

Paramount in this role is an artistic design eye with multidisciplinary creative thinking. You should be comfortable ideating with your team and stakeholders to come up with fresh, conceptual content, from the big idea to the supporting details. What matters most is that you start with a story and imagine ways to bring that spirit to life in the most compelling way, across physical, digital, video—or all three. Cogs and Marvel is agnostic in terms of platforms and media. Our stories go where their audience lives, and we don’t constrain how an experience might express itself.

Headquartered in Ireland, our agency grew alongside the tech boom in Dublin, producing the biggest global activations for Google, Facebook, Twitter and other luminary companies. Now, with offices in San Francisco and London, we are growing our team and our capabilities, with an eye toward serving retailers, luxury and consumer lifestyle brands, arts organizations, and more. Help us visualize our dreams and turn artful ideas into extraordinary activations.

What you’ll do

• Ideate within a team to come up with fresh, immersive conceptual content, from the big idea to the supporting details
• Apply design thinking to live environments through brand activations, wayfinding, signage and other dimensional deliverables
• Bring concepts to life with key visuals (from sketches to 3D)
• Concept and design ideas for a range of demographic audiences, tailoring aesthetics with subtle nuances accordingly
• Lead projects, working with a team of artists and designers to bring original concepts to life
• Present and sell the work to clients with confidence
• Visually communicate original ideas that catch attention and pack an emotional punch
• Build decks that sell the idea through research, moodboards, cultural context, and effects
• Articulate the work’s meaning and resonance, from a cultural perspective
• Conceive ideas that deliver on specific strategic goals
• Oversee creative projects from ideation through execution, with an eye toward detail, quality and seamless production
• Demonstrate aesthetic that reflects a fluency with popular cultural references, but also stands out for its unique perspective

The ideal candidate should have

• Minimum five years of professional experience in design with a broad knowledge of branding, environmental, print, video, and digital, with at least two years working in a comparable position
• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding conceptual and design work
• Experience managing junior designers
• A strong foundation in design and typography (Experience with motion design, 3D, illustration, or packaging would be a plus)
• Must have a Design degree or work experience equivalent
• Demonstrable taste level in aesthetic approach
• Exceptional communication skills and confidence working within a multidisciplinary creative team
• Experience presenting concepts to team and external stakeholders
• General understanding of physical and spatial design
• A collaborative, diplomatic approach to teamwork
• A commitment to the rigor of the creative output
• Cultural curiosity
• A global mindset. Experience working in a diverse environment
• A demeanor of humility, respect, and optimism. No ego
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

Cogs & Marvel embraces diversity and celebrates our differences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Flexible PTO
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k
• Commuter benefits
• Mobile Phone Stipend
• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Abundant opportunities that come with a dynamic and fast-growing organization!

Cogs & Marvel

Primary Skills: Product Design, Creative Producer, Marketing, Content Creation, Product Design/Development

Contract Type: W2

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Los Gatos, CA

PayRate: $55.34-59.86/hr

NOTE: Role open to Women Back to Work candidates with a career gap

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TALK to a recruiter NOW: CONTACT Sahil @ 408-512-2354

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Work for the best in the industry!

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Collaborating with content creators and production teams to identify merchandise opportunities.
• Conceptualizing and developing new product lines and merchandise collections and overseeing product design and development, from prototyping to mass production.
• Working with licensing partners to secure rights for product development and distribution.
• Collaborating with marketing teams to create effective campaigns and promotions for merchandise and staying up-to-date on industry trends and consumer behavior, and incorporating these into product development.
• Managing budgets, schedules, and timelines for merchandise projects and to be successful in this role, you should have a strong background in product development and design.

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Call NOW: Contact Sahil @ 408-512-2354

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ABOUT AKRAYA

Akraya is an award-winning IT staffing firm and the staffing partner of choice for many leading companies across the US. Akraya was recently voted as a 2021 Best Staffing Firm to Temp for by Staffing Industry Analysts and voted by our employees and consultants as a 2022 Glassdoor Best Places to Work.

Akraya, Inc.

Title: Art Director

Duration: 3 Plus Months (Possible Extension)

Location: Universal City, CA 91608 (Hybrid)

3 Days Onsite & 2 Days Remote

Shift Time: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Job Description:

Required

* 7yrs Exp (open to 4-5 w/solid understanding of 2D & 3D)

* Building a new Team- great opportunity long term – HM is believer of mentorships

* Must have worked on IP and provide feedback on * Web 3/ NFT/ Metaverse – helping support the digital side

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product—ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Shipped multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UI/UX and technical art challenges
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Receptive to critique and feedback
• Solid project management skills and excellent knowledge of various project management methodologies and practices
• Strong process knowledge, attention to detail, organizational skills and timely follow-up
• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring artists
• Good cross-disciplinary communications experience between engineering, production, design, and art
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Desired:

• A degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in-game concept prototypes.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead art direction across multiple games and digital content in the Client portfolio
• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfils team, studio, and company goals.
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

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