The New York Head of Business Development will be bright, creative, quick on their feet and recognized as a strategic leader in branding. This role will be focused heavily on new business but it is not your typical sales job. In fact, our ideal fit is likely to be a strategy or account director who will naturally jump into business development as a door opener and relationship builder.
The right candidate truly understands branding, has the credibility (with our internal leadership team and with clients) and can win the client over with the expertise they bring into the new business conversation and pitch.
Bottom line: history of being a practitioner in brand strategy is going to be the key to earning the respect and credibility necessary to hold such conversations and articulate our point of view.
Winning work with ambitious clients who want to do big things is the lifeblood of our business. We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of brand strategy who believes in our point of view on the world and the impact we strive to make. You must share our creative and strategic vision and follow through to galvanize and inspire our teams and our clients. The Head of Business Development must understand what constitutes the right opportunity for Wolff Olins, can brilliantly articulate what makes us special and has smart ideas for how to help us engage more strategically and effectively with the world.
This individual will take charge of both identifying and capturing new lines of business and lead the process together with the strategic and creative groups to orchestrate distinctive and effective pitches to potential clients.
If this sounds like you, please send your resume and cover email to PeopleNewYork@wolffolins.com with the subject: New Biz 2013.
We’re looking for an enthusiastic marketing intern to join the Wolff Olins marketing team in New York City. Working closely with the content and PR managers, you’ll work on a range of company projects, gain a strong grasp of the elements of marketing communications and the ways Wolff Olins shares and showcases its work, thinking and people.
You’ll get to support:
Internal Communications, by compiling internal and external newsletters and media monitoring reports.
Employee Communications, by feeding, sharing and nurturing our internal social network.
Marketing Calendars and Tools creation and upkeep, including media lists, speaker’s and awards bureaus and press and company editorial calendars.
Web Production and Content Creation efforts including assets requests and delivery, copy editing, blogging and using our content management systems.
Project Management and Administration, through meeting recaps and logistics.
We’re looking for someone who is:
A hands-on individual with a high degree of initiative and ability to multi-task.
Resourceful, proactive thinker—always reaching out to learn more, do more or volunteer more.
Curious, enthusiastic and eager to learn and take full ownership of projects.
A strong communicator – both written and verbal. (experience writing for the web is a big plus)
Obsessed with news and pop culture happenings.
Familiar with the usual social networks like Yammer, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.
Adept in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PPT, Excel).
Experienced in marketing communications and a genuine interest in content creation, community management, and public relations.
Curious about the world and passionate about brands.
We’re looking for an energetic account management intern to work with our team in New York City. You’ll work on a range of client projects; gaining a real perspective on the many ways we help clients achieve their business and brand goals.
You’ll get to:
Creatively problem solve a diverse range of challenges
Collaborate closely with an eclectic group of experts in design, strategy and production
Manage the many, many details that need to come together to create big impact
We’re looking for someone who is:
Enthusiastic and always maintains a positive attitude
Eager to learn + take responsibility/ownership of tasks
Proactive and always reaching out to learn more, do more or volunteer more
Strong written & verbal communication skills
Extremely strong in Excel (Word and PPT knowledge also a must)
A captain of a team/group or is a leader/helper who started or revived a campus organization
Other Details: Timing: Full-time, starting in June, ending in August (approx. 2.5 months in duration) Location: New York City Compensation: This is a paid internship. Who can apply? Undergrad college students
Deadline: Your application must be received by March 29th
About the internship: We’re looking for a superstar strategy intern to work with our team in New York City. You’ll work on a range of internal and client projects, experiencing firsthand how brands are created and evolved.
You’ll get to: Contribute to the development of brand strategies Research and analyze markets, technologies and trends Develop new business pitches and proposals
We’re looking for someone who is: A clear + analytical thinker Curious about the world + passionate about brands Digitally savvy + tech forward Energetic + proactive A great storyteller + determined to get to the heart of an issue Articulate + organized A strong writer + researcher Collaborative + fun
We’re also interested in what you find interesting (beyond the bottom of your resume!) so if you have a portfolio, blog, Twitter feed, or something else of that nature to share we’d love to see it!
Other Details: Timing: Full-time, starting in June, ending in August (approx. 2.5 months in duration) Location: New York City Compensation: This is a paid internship. Who can apply? Undergrad college students
Deadline: Your application must be received by March 29th
We’re looking for two crazy, innovative, digital savvy Design interns. One will work with our team in New York City and the other with our team in San Fran.
There are no “junior” designers at Wolff Olins. Even our interns require a certain instinct and raw skill from the start. The work we aim to deliver is bold, ambitious and different. The primary role for the designer is to explore. This is the creative position freest from other responsibilities that come with longer tenure or seniority at Wolff Olins. Designers should see this as an opportunity to learn and grow through collaboration and exposure to others on their teams.
We’re looking for someone who has:
You must have strong graphic design and typography skills and experience in Adobe Creative Suite. Experience in After Effects is a huge PLUS
You’ll get to:
Experiment and contribute to design solutions for a number of different clients.
We’re looking for someone who is:
Really, really, creative!
Curious about the world and passionate about brands
Energetic and enthusiastic
Collaborative and fun
Strong skills in motion (animation, 3D, film/editing) and/or digital prototyping a PLUS
Winning work with ambitious clients who want to do big things is the lifeblood of our business.We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of brand strategy who believes in our point of view on the world and the impact we strive to make. The Head of Business Development must understand what constitutes the right opportunity for Wolff Olins, can brilliantly articulate what makes us special and has smart ideas for how to help us engage more strategically and effectively with the world.
This individual will take charge of both identifying and capturing new lines of business and lead the process together with the strategic and creative groups to orchestrate distinctive and effective pitches to potential clients. History of being a practitioner in brand strategy is KEY to earning the respect and credibility necessary to hold such conversations and articulate our point of view.
Just a few of the key responsibilities are:
·Build relationships with the right potential clients to open up new business
·Help conversations develop into projects
·Work w/ senior team to identify, approach & convert new potential clients
·Close liaison with the NY and global marketing team
·Develop best practices and frameworks on how to initiate new relationships with new people i.e. make those first meetings happen!
The Head of New Business will be bright, creative, quick on their feet and recognized as a strategic leader in business development within the branding world.In addition, they must also share our creative and strategic vision and follow through to galvanize and inspire a team.
A few requirements:
·Bachelor’s Degree with 12+ years combined experience in business development, marketing and strategy within the branding world.
·Experience as practitioner within the branding world: branding strategist, consultant, or related role
·Ability to inspire teams across disciplines and gain leadership credibility on the strength of his/her strategy and branding knowledge and network relationships
·Creative, out-of-the-box thinker who is intellectually curious with an in-depth knowledge of brand, strategy and business development.
·Thrive in an open, creative and team-oriented culture (fitting into our culture is just as important as your skill set!)
·Authorized to work in USA
To be considered:
If we described you above, email your resume to us at peoplenewyork@wolffolins.com with “BizDev 2013”as the subject, and tell us “why Wolff Olins” and “why you” in the email.
We’re looking for an individual who can bring animation and design together, someone who has the skills of a full time animator with the sensibilities of a designer. Our Motion Designer needs very strong 2D & 3D animation skills, the ability to shoot and edit video and a strong sense of typography/design.
The Motion Designer will work closely with Designers to integrate Motion and Video into the architecture of a brand.You will produce 2D/3D animated content and a variety of video content - from conception to final asset delivery.
Required Skills:
·Producing 2D/3D animated content and a variety of video content from concept to delivery
·Use of the full Adobe suite (emphasis on After Effects), Cinema 4D (or other comparable 3D software) and Final Cut Pro (or Adobe Premiere)
·Understanding brand and branding, keen typography and graphic design skills
·Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently, balancing time constraints while maintaining quality
·General production skills for video and animation (encoding, workflow, etc.)
Only those with a MOTION Portfolio will be considered for this position.
We can’t respond directly to all candidates. If we think you may be the right person based on your motion portfolio, we will contact you directly to set up meeting.
In a context of financial turmoil and a student debt crisis, Pave is a new business that believes that if ambitious young people have the right direction and resources behind them, they will be happier and more successful in life.
Founded this year by Sal Lahoud, Oren Bass and Justin Mitchell Pave’s pilot launches today. Wolff Olins is thrilled to have been their partner in bringing the brand to life.
The pilot program features 8 Prospects and 24 Backers. Prospects get funding and support to help pursue their true calling. Backers, as they are called on the platform, pay forward their own success by super-powering a career and investing in the next generation of Americans. The prospects then share in their success by rewarding those who supported them early on in their careers with a small percentage of their earnings over the next ten years.
Pave came to us this fall with the ambition of creating a start-up brand that was both democratic and credible as a serious financial product. We worked together to focus their strategy of creating a community and product that is truly for everyone. We also developed their brand identity and logotype.
Together, we created a Pave brand that is democratic, open, optimistic and active. Since Pave is reacting to a major crisis of culture and presenting a new model, it was crucial that it didn’t seem generic or too machine-like, which meant a focus on people, stories, photography, and narrative – more of an editorial paradigm than a web 2.0 one.
Pave is a start-up, but in the sense of a cultural movement—not in the sense of a new app. Letting the real people who make up the community and their individuality shine through was key to our strategy.
If you’ve got what it takes to be a backer or prospect or have someone in mind who might, visit their website to sign up for rolling applications to the pilot program. Pave plans to launch their fully functional public site in early 2013.
While reconnecting with friends and family over food are the actions we best associate with Thanksgiving, let’s not forget about what the second-to-last Thursday of every November is really about: Giving thanks to the people, opportunities, and experiences that have brought us to where we are today. Being thankful is only the first step, of course. The next step is to ask how you might spread your thanks, and give back to those less fortunate.
After an early “Thanksgiving” meal at our New York office last week, we donated all of our leftovers and other supplies & food to those whose lives were uprooted by Hurricane Sandy. Here’s Emine Fornelius, our head of people & culture, reflecting on her weekend of giving and thanks.
I took a car on Friday night and loaded up our extra trays of untouched food and all the donations everyone brought in for the last two weeks.
All the side dishes and the donated supplies went to Camp Bulldog a group started initially by one woman who was determined to help the local communities for the devastated south parts of Lindenhurst and neighboring towns. A high school friend, Ernst Mutchnik, told me about the great work being done by Camp Bulldog and the many individuals and other organizations that are contributing their efforts to help rebuild communities affected by Sandy. One of these groups is Adopt A House, which connects volunteer families to families in need.On Saturday Camp Bull Dog fed 2000+ meals to people and families that have little or no access to hot meals. All supplies were organized by type so these families could select the items they needed most. Extra trays of food and supplies were driven by volunteers to similar but smaller sites in other local towns.
People were so appreciative. I brought my 4 year olds with me and it was truly heartwarming to see them connect with other kids who lost so much themselves. There were plenty of smiles, laughs and even some dancing that helped these children and their families forget for a couple hours that their houses were destroyed.
We even delivered a wrapped hot meal to an 81 year old who is living in one room of a six room house because it’s the only one inhabitable right now. She was so excited that she was going to take her first shower that evening after 14 days without! She had just gotten hot water back on Friday and there was a volunteer crew there Saturday fixing her heat.
On Sunday, I brought the rest of the food to a woman in Amity Harbor who despite having suffered herself from Sandy and the recent loss of her mom, has taken to cooking and heating donated food to feed as many people as possible in her neighborhood.
The last picture is of a town park and play area. It’s now serving as a dump. They needed to get the remains of the houses (appliances, furniture, clothes, toys, you name it) out of the streets so people could actually get around again. Sobering to realize that thousands of homes were destroyed and families are displaced or trying to live among the ruins and even the mold.
Yet another reminder that we should all be extremely thankful during this holiday and continue to do our best to help others. Even donating a little bit of our time or supplies goes a long way to lift people’s spirits and helps them move on with their lives.
I’m also hearing a lot of stories about children who are having a hard time understanding why all their toys had to be thrown out (destroyed by water or mold). My boys have already decided that they are going to fill big bags with their toys to give these kids, “just like Santa.”
Be thankful for friends, family, community.
Emine Fornelius is the head of people & culture at Wolff Olins New York.
Advertising agency Droga5 recently visited the NY office for our weekly Share. Chief Strategy Officer Jonny Bauer shed a little light on how Droga5 operates: they’re creatively led, strategy driven, tech-friendly, and most importantly humanity obsessed. (Sounds familiar?!)
Jonny showed us several campaigns, which all left us either deeply moved (watch part of “Day One,” a retirement campaign for Prudential above) or in laughing fits. A personal favorite was the work they did for Newcastle, the “No Bollocks” campaign, which plays into some predominant beer marketing stereotypes.Check out that advert below:
