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VMM – MDC’s DSP is Hiring
One of our firms Varick Media Management – our demand side platform is hiring, you can reach out to Darren or myself bberger@mdc-partners.com:
Talent Needs: Job Opportunities | Darren Herman
Talent Needs: Job OpportunitiesPosted by Darren on Aug 11, 2010 • (Comments)
One of the most amazing things about starting a business is being able to provide career opportunities for people at all stages of their life. I’ve listed a few opportunities below and if you or someone you know is interested in one of these, please do not hesitate to reach out. The company is Varick Media Management which is the demand side platform and infrastructure for MDC Partners agencies and brands directly. The team is located at 160 Varick Street in New York City. I will refer all qualified candidates to the HR coordinator and the respective designee at VMM.
Investment Manager (Top Line Revenue Growth Driver): Looking for someone with 1-3 years of experience to evangelize and drive top line growth of VMM to agencies and brands. We are looking for someone who has experience in making the complex very simple; someone who is extremely personable; and who can present themselves well to a group. Compensation is based off of a package of competitive base salary + performance + benefits. If you are interested, please contact me.
Chief Marketing Officer (Strategic Sales): We are looking for someone with 10-25 years in the business who has sold into strategic accounts ($10MM+/yr) for the past 5+ years. Will be responsible for driving the direction of the Strategic Accounts as well, as, overall company marketing and identity. Candidate may have an immediate open-to-hire for junior marketing coordinator to help with internal and external marketing efforts. Responsibilities will be to drive top line revenue growth for the direct to brand channel and will have a new client goal quota. Re-iterating that this person will be responsible for targeting specific clients (directly) and signing a specific number each year. Compensation is based off of a package of competitive base salary + performance + benefits. If you are interested, please contact me. Looking for someone who has played a similar role at former ad agencies, research firms, ad networks, and top tier publishers.
Infographer: We are looking for someone who is a master of data manipulation and visualization. We’d like to bring someone on board who can tell stories once given a data set. The ideal candidate will be able to recognize patterns within data, illustrate complex scenarios in simplistic forms, and create visuals that are easy to comprehend. Visuals will be used both internally and also sent to clients to illustrate a particular problem or solution. This role with support marketing, account, trading, and investment management. Compensation is based off of a package of competitive base salary + performance + benefits. If you are interested, please contact me. Ideal background would be a mathematician + design.
VP Client Services (title to be figured out): We are looking for someone who wants to run the Client Services team and work closely with Investment Management. Should have 10+ years experience within market research firms, agency brand planning or account management, or account management at complex advertising technology solution houses (ad networks, exchanges, etc). Must be unbelievably personable, academic curiosity, a born leader, and detail oriented. If you are interested, please contact me.
Announcing Boulder Digital Works
MDC PARTNERS ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF NEW DIGITAL PROGRAM, BOULDER DIGITAL WORKS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER
New York, New York, June 18, 2009– MDC Partners, together with the University of Colorado at Boulder, announced today that they have partnered to create a new kind of school focused on the digital arts and sciences. It’s called Boulder Digital Works, and it will offer a multi-disciplinary, project-based learning program designed to provide the skills needed by future digital leaders and entrepreneurs. The school is based in Boulder and is a part of the University of Colorado Extension Division. The faculty of Boulder Digital Works will provide a unique array of expertise, including educators from the University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the College of Engineering, as well as acclaimed practitioners from leading digital companies throughout the U.S. and the world. Sweden’s Hyper Island, one of the most highly regarded digital learning programs in Europe, will also be a partner in the program providing exchange programs for teachers and students.
“Boulder Digital Works was created to provide real world skills and capabilities for people who want to be a part of the digital revolution,” said Chuck Porter, Co-Chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Chief Strategist of MDC Partners. “The most effective digital leaders are collaborative with a broad base of skills. It’s not easy to create a traditional curriculum that addresses this, but at the University of Colorado we met people with the vision and flexibility to make it happen. The Boulder Digital Works learning model is adaptive, integrated and practical, and it covers the spectrum of digital disciplines and media. Students learn to be multi-disciplinary thinkers and problem solvers, and they learn to change the world.”
“Even in this economy there’s a critical shortage of digital talent,” said Miles Nadal, CEO and Chairman of MDC Partners. “Virtually every enterprise needs digital thinkers who are versatile, smart, and connected, and who can move comfortably and intelligently across the disciplines of technology, creative and business. At MDC Partners, our fundamental philosophy centers on the importance of talent and creativity. We can think of no better investment than the future digital talent of our industry.”
Initially, Boulder Digital Works will offer a 60-week Certificate Program in Digital Arts and Sciences. The Certificate program will begin this Fall with applications due by August 15. Beginning in late July, the school will also offer 36-hour, intensive immersion Executive Programs in digital fluency for working professionals.
“We knew that if we wanted to have a true impact on the world through digital education, we needed to do more than offer courses in digital. We needed to fundamentally rethink the learning environment as well as the content offered in higher education,” said David Slayden, Professor of Advertising at the University of Colorado and the Executive Director of Boulder Digital Works. “Our research has surprised us and challenged our assumptions about education, including the insight that most people interested in digital work don’t care about a graduate degree. What they care about is being digitally savvy and connected to the best work out there and the best people doing it. Students graduating from this program will leave prepared to make an impact in the fastest growing medium in the world.”
About MDC Partners Inc.
MDC Partners is a leading provider of marketing communications solutions and services to clients in North America, Europe and Latin America. Through its partnership of entrepreneurial firms it provides advertising, specialized communications and consulting services to leading brands. MDC Partners’ philosophy emphasizes the utilization of
Strategy and Creativity to drive growth for its clients. “MDC Partners is The Place Where Great Talent Lives”. MDC Partners Class A shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol “MDCA” and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “MDZ.A”.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky Officially Opens in Europe – Yahoo! Finance
We acquired the brilliant digital agency Daddy in Sweden to expand CP+B into Europe. A couple key things that I am most proud of with this global expansion is that we are Leading with Digital by aquiring a digital firm, and like all things that CP+B does its highly creative and in a completely different market than most agencies expand into. Its a huge opportunity, looking forward to much success with it.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky Officially Opens in Europe – Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B), an MDC Partners firm, announced today that they are expanding their European base of operations with the acquisition of renowned Swedish digital agency, Daddy. Currently CP+B has service offices in London, Spain and Germany but will now count Gothenburg, Sweden as its first creative hub and factory within Europe. This is a true launch of CP+B Europe with Gothenburg as the center of European operations. The move strengthens CP+B’s global presence and allows them to better serve their current global clients, Burger King and Microsoft, as well as pursue new business with global demands.
“We have been privileged to work globally with Burger King, Microsoft and others over the years and the addition of a creative factory in Europe will further contribute to our momentum in these markets. Daddy feels like the perfect foundation on which we can grow. Our cultures are similar and they are eager to help us build our vision of a CP+B factory in Europe,” said Jeff Hicks, CEO, CP+B.
Founded in 2000 and based in Gothenburg, Daddy has gained global recognition for their innovative approach to interactive design and development. The firm specializes in interactive brand building and business development, visual identity creation and digital strategies. Their high profile client list includes Scania, Ciba Vision, Heinz, SAS, Philips, Capio, TeliaSonera and Autodesk.
“We believe that digital is at the center of everything going forward,” said Alex Bogusky, Co-Chairman, CP+B. “We’ve made digital the focus of our US business, and with the acquisition of Daddy, it will now be the center of CP+B Europe as well. We’ve worked with Daddy a bunch over the past three years and are continually amazed at how smart they are.”
“We are fully committed to attracting, acquiring and retaining best in class thinking in our digital capabilities, as we did earlier this year when we acquired texturemedia, and now with Daddy,” said Chuck Porter, Co-Chairman of the agency. “Without being a digital agency, we’ve won digital agency of the year at Cannes two times in the past three years – it just proves to us where the business is going. And we plan to stay in front of it – all around the world.”
“There is really only one agency in the world we can imagine being a part of. That agency is CP+B,” said Gustav Martner, Executive Creative Director and founding partner, Daddy.
About CP+B
Based in Boulder and Miami, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, a member of the MDC Partners network, has a client list that includes Burger King, Microsoft, Volkswagen, Domino’s Pizza, Best Buy, Old Navy, Coke Zero, Guitar Hero and Geek Squad. The agency has the unprecedented distinction of winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival in five separate categories – Sales Promotion, Media, Cyber, Titanium and the coveted Film category. This year in an amazing run, the agency was named “Agency of the Year” by Advertising Age, Adweek and Creativity magazine. Prior to this, CP+B had been named “Agency of the Year” nine times in the trade press, as well as twice being named “Interactive Agency of the Year” at Cannes. Their work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Newsweek, Advertising Age, Creativity and Archive.
About MDC Partners Inc.
MDC Partners is a leading provider of marketing communications solutions and services to clients in North America, Europe and Latin America. Through its partnership of entrepreneurial firms it provides advertising, specialized communications and consulting services to leading brands. MDC Partners’ philosophy emphasizes the utilization of Strategy and Creativity to drive growth for its clients. “MDC Partners is The Place Where Great Talent Lives”. MDC Partners Class A shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol “MDCA” and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “MDZ.A”.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which may cause the actual results or objectives to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among other things, the Company’s financial performance; changes in the competitive environment; adverse changes in the economy; ability to maintain long-term relationships with customers; financing requirements; and other factors set forth in the Company’s Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and subsequent SEC filings.