ROKKAN

ROKKAN is looking to hire a Creative Director to be a part of our talented and growing New York office. He or she will be responsible for driving the overall creative vision for all of our client projects as well as mentoring the agency’s next generation of kick-ass art directors and visual designers. The Creative Director must possess impeccable client-facing skills and be able to represent the agency’s creative and ideation process at all stages of the engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Produce compelling, creative, and user-focused solutions that align with clients’ business objectives.
• Build, foster, and develop client relationships.
• Persuasively and passionately present concepts to both existing and potential clients.
• Act as a creative lead, and oversee and mentor a team of art directors and designers.
• Continually ensure award-winning consistency and quality across all client projects.
• Manage the creative process from concept to production and making sure that the creative team adheres to brand guidelines and style.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of working in a digital agency with proven experience in a creative leadership role.
• Experience in participating in new business pitches.
• Fast, efficient, and able to manage creative budgets and resources.
• Must possess the ability to successfully cross-collaborate with user experience, strategy, technology, and project and account management.
• A true visionary digital artist– established design background in driving ideation and execution across various types of digital platforms, including: website, e-commerce, mobile, social media, rich media, and video.

Please e-mail your resume, portfolio samples, and cover letter with “CREATIVE DIRECTOR” in the subject line. No phone calls, please.
Apply to: jobs@rokkan.com
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ROKKAN is looking for an Art Director to join our Creative Team. The ideal candidate is someone looking to further their career as an Art Director from a current Senior Design position. You will be working closely with our strategy, creative, technology and user experience teams as well as interfacing with clients across multiple projects.

Requirements:

• 5+ years (combined) digital agency experience as Senior Designer and/or Art Director
• Ability to produce works from concept to delivery, working closely with a Creative Director
• Proven portfolio comprised of campaign, e-commerce, experiential and portal works for major brands
• Strong conception, presentation, and client-facing skills
• 3D/motion sensibility
• Creation of and designing within style guides
• Well-versed in Web technologies, best practices, emerging trends in media, and marketing
• Experience in new business and pitching
• Fast and efficient
• Must be a team player and outgoing. Personality is paramount.

Please e-mail your resume and portfolio with “ART DIRECTOR” in the subject line.
Apply to: jobs@rokkan.com
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ROKKAN is looking to hire a talented Senior Designer to add to its award-winning creative team in New York. The Senior Designer will be working closely with Art Directors and Creative Directors in creating designs that are ready for development. The Senior Designer will also be collaborating with User Experience Architects, Producers, and Developers to ensure that designs are well polished and visually and strategically compelling.

Requirements:

• 3-4 years digital agency experience.
• Ability to produce works from concept to delivery.
• Ability to translate high-level concepts into production-ready designs.
• Proven portfolio comprised of interactive work.
• Strong conception skills.
• Strong design, compositing, and illustration (hand-drawn/digital) skills.
• 3D/motion sensibility.
• Clean and well-notated PSDs.
• Well-versed in Web technologies, best practices, emerging media, and marketing.
• Fast and efficient.
• Must be a team player and outgoing. Personality is paramount.

Apply to: jobs@rokkan.com
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ROKKAN is looking to hire a smart, accomplished experienced architect with a passion for solving large, complex problems.  The right candidate is a self-starter with a track record of delivering high-quality sites and/or applications and strong leadership skills.  Successful applicants will join a team in building and working with the rest of the User Experience team on large-scale projects, as well as collaborating with designers and developers throughout the project lifecycle.  You should have at least 4-5 years of architecting websites and have experience developing complex business rules, wireframes, and userflows. This is a client-facing position, so presentation and communication skills are paramount.

Responsibilities:

• Providing site concepts that take into account both client and user needs
• Developing high-level site flow diagrams and use cases
• Competitive research and analysis
• Participation in and moderation of usability studies
• Creation of mid- to high-fidelity wireframes
• Working closely with client and project teams to translate client objective into working documents and a fantastic user experience
• Presentation of wireframes and other deliverables to clients

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Minimum 4-5 years of experience
• Portfolio of successful site launches
• Exceptional organization and analytical skills
• Strong prioritization and multi-tasking skills when faced with tight deadlines
• Keen eye for design and good understanding of design principles
• Demonstrated proficiency in UI programs such as Visio, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint and Acrobat
• Familiarity with mobile and tablet platforms andknowledge of the challenges involved in designing for different mediums
• Solid understanding of content strategy as wellas how sites and applications fall into a larger business and marketing strategy
• Experience writing use cases is a plus

Please e-mail your resume, portfolio samples, and cover letter with “SENIOR EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT” in the subject line. No phone calls, please.
Apply to: jobs@rokkan.com
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At ROKKAN, Account means something different than at more traditional organizations. We see ourselves as half cutting edge digital agency and half strategic consultancy, helping our clients successfully navigate the digital environment to align their core business strategy, and to capitalize on not only marketing but operational, organizational and strategic opportunities.
The Account team plays a pivotal role in the agency in two ways, first and foremost, we roll up our sleeves and dig deeply into our clients businesses and organizations to intuitively understand their organizations and competitive environments and to provide clarity and strategic direction that leads to success. Second, and no less important, we are also the client’s direct link to the agency and we are the ones who connect clients to our projects, our work, and our thinking. We represent their interests, brand and vision, and promote a healthy tension with internal stakeholders as we fight for what’s in our clients’ best interests.

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple large-scale client relationships and engagements. Ensuring that the account and production teams on those accounts and projects are driving towards a singular vision and are equipped with all the information, tools and support necessary to execute best-in-industry digital strategies and experiences.
• Taking on new client engagements from inception, helping clients wade through complex, and at times, overwhelming amounts ofbusiness data while defining key trends and patterns and leveraging deep digital expertise and leadership to provide a roadmap for success.
• Managing an Account support staff while leading an interdisciplinary team of creative, UX, technology, and strategy specialists to collaboratively solve client challenges, and design and build complex multiplatform digital experiences.
• Providing overall account leadership both to junior Account staff and in defining the role and vision for Account at ROKKAN.

Requirements:

• Digital. This is a must, you’ve got to be a rockstar and understand digital platforms, technology, and best practices. It’s that knowledge that you’ll have to tap when solving client challenges.
• 6-8 years of work experience within digital having helped businesses develop and implement impactful digital strategies.
• Building relationships from scratch and developing one time engagements into long-term partnerships.
• Leading interdisciplinary teams through complex business problems.
• Worked at a cutting edge digital agency or at a strategy consultancy having helped clients overcome complex business challenges and having helped clients to have leveraged digital to create real business value.
• Experience managing large scale digital projects across multiple channels (.com, mobile, social)
• Staying calm and rational when no one else is.
• Earned a bachelor’s degree. Advanced degree desirable, MBA would be a plus.

Please e-mail your resume and portfolio with “ACCOUNT DIRECTOR” in the subject line. No phone calls, please.
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The Senior Social Strategist helps define the overall vision, key opportunities, and objectives for a client’s online presence across all social and digital platforms. Four main areas of focus are 1) Digital Strategy Planning 2) Social Community Management 3) Content Creation & Distribution 4) Research & Analytics.

In a nutshell, The Strategy Group at ROKKAN provides inspiring, insightful and actionable recommendations. The process is 1) By unearthing patterns (looking at market research, performance analytics, customer insights, social listening) 2) connecting the dots (meeting with clients, assessing the competitive landscape, keeping on top of digital trends, content creation) 3) Applying paid and earned distribution tactics across YouTube Channels, bloggers, influencers and 4) Tracking, Measuring and reporting.

As a key team lead, the Senior Social Strategist stays on an account throughout design phase to help generate concepts and insure the ideas aligns with the strategic vision.

In addition to account work, the Senior Social Strategist supports new business development and marketing efforts. They are considered a thought leader in the organization and should share insights with staff regularly. They are a go to for industry trends.

Responsibilities

•Lead and activate the social and digital strategies for assigned clients.
•Develop strong relationships with senior level Client(s) responsible for development of social media and digital advertising programs establishing regular communication to ensure expectations are met.
•Anticipate Client needs, keeping the Agency in the position of leading rather than following.
•Engage and activate both internal team members and the Client to maximize effectiveness.
•Clearly and persuasively communicate strategic recommendations to internal and external audiences.
•Gather data and research to support recommendations, utilizing proprietary and third-party tools as necessary.
•Keeping a pulse on the clients’ owned channels, but also analyzing data and intelligence from blogs, tweets, online conversations.
•Explore ideas within the online video space, especially content creation and distribution.
•Meet with startups and emerging media companies who offer new tools for storytelling (Storify, Percolate, etc.)

Desired Skills and Experience

•5+ years working as in Strategic Planning providing strategic brand and business counsel to senior Fortune 500 clients; 3+ years creating opportunities for brands in social media.
•Trusted by clients as a source for ongoing digital counsel and social education.
•Proven success in developing relationships with executive-level marketers.
•History of pitching and winning business from new and existing clients.
•Demonstrated ability for delivering strategic solutions AND rolling up your sleeves to bring those solutions to life
•Proven experience managing cross-functional teams to come up with ideas far better than anyone could ever do alone and to foster a shared sense of ownership and success.
•Research using third-party listening and reporting tools such as Social Radar, Sysomos, HootSuite ,YouTube Facebook Analytics.
•Experience in producing quantitative and qualitative reports.
•Partner and counselor to creative teams to help them develop better work.
•Constantly looking for ways to evolve the capabilities of the strategy group.

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This person acts as the frontline brand manager by interacting with customers and fans in real time on various web platforms. Duties also include acting as a liaison across the Internet; participating in minute-by-minute online conversations by answering questions, offering solutions and mediating conversations; and creating content for feeds and sparking discussion on various social networking sites. The right candidate will have excellent verbal and writing skills, the ability to work with cross-functional teams, a knack for research, a sharp wit and a willingness to work during nonstandard business hours.

Duties

• Manage the day-to-day activities for clients on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social sites
• Build relationships with clients in order to become an extension of each client’s team
• Help clients integrate social media into marketing initiatives
• Research and write content for clients’ social media sites. Maintain editorial calendar
• Track, monitor, and analyze performance of campaigns and social media activities
• Develop testimonials and case studies from clients and present internally
• Coordinate fulfillment of projects for clients
• Monitor the evolution of social media, including the latest reports, sites, case studies, and happenings, and share with the internal team
• Maintain a personal presence in the offline social media and digital world of events and conferences

Desired Skills & Experience

• 1-2 years of digital agency social media experience required, preferably in a community management role
• Bachelor’s degree required with a major in marketing, communications, advertising, or public relations preferred
• A proactive approach to projects and the ability to take initiative and self-start is a must!
• Excellent written communication skills as well as editing and proofreading skills
• Research and discover new content is prudent
• Effective time management skills, a keen eye for detail and organization
• Able to juggle multiple projects and deadlines with ease and comfort
• Proven critical and analytical thinking skills
• Ability to make a judgment call, act swiftly, and be responsible for the results
• Superior relationship-building skills
• Creative thinker and idea-generator; not afraid to take chances
• Experience with client and project management software

Apply to: jobs@rokkan.com
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ROKKAN is looking for a bright, collaborative, forward-thinking individual with an affinity for numbers to add to our talented and growing New York office. This person will help lead our agency’s financial discipline.

Responsibilities

Contract Management

• Assists in developing financial and billing terms for client contracts. Reviews contracts in conjunction with director.
• Ensures Agency is in compliance with current contractual guidelines for each client.

Client Profitability

• Provides analysis of key client P&L issues via monthly meeting.

Forecast/Planning

• Develops annual/quarterly client plans and full P&L forecasts for Rokkan to ensure delivery of annual targets.
• Prepares and reviews periodic revenue forecast for reasonableness and ensures forecasts are submitted in accordance with monthly calendar.

Close Process

• Prepares and ensures monthly journal entries to ensure proper revenue recognition and that they are executed in conjunction with close schedule. Ensures all revenue is recorded in compliance with revenue recognition guidelines.
• Analyzes and ensures meaningful revenue and CD variance explanations are provided.
• Prepares monthly P&L and short term forecast.

Trade Working Capital Management

• Reviews WIP and A/R aging reports on an on-going basis.  Identifies areas for working capital improvement on specific group of accounts. 

Client Audits

• Coordinates the execution of client audits. Oversees document collection process and reviews all background documents compiled for audits. Works across agency departments on audits.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned.
• 5+ yrs. of experience
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent organizational, analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong managerial skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Finance/Accounting degree

Please e-mail Michele with your resume and cover letter.

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ROKKAN is looking to hire for a full-time client-facing Producer for its New York office. Candidates should be highly organized with substantial project management experience in digital. Positive attitude, strong passion, and ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment are crucial.

Experience and confidence in working with clients and managing the following types of projects are preferred:

• High-profile large-scale site builds
• Social Media experiences
• Mobile
• Rich media/video projects
• Online banner ads

Responsibilities

• 2-4 years of Interactive Producer experience, both managing web initiatives and teams.
• Experience developing large-scale sites including heavy transaction based sites.
• Experience working with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Strong client management and client-facing communication skills.
• Well-versed and solid understanding of web development processes.
• Ability to clearly identify and manage scope, with past experiences in writing in-depth Scope of Work documents.
• Ability to estimate and develop yearly budgets for Clients that consist of multiple projects.
• Ability to develop and manage complex timeline.
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Please send a cover letter and resume to jobs@rokkan.com with “Producer” in the subject line.