Senior Communications Designer

IMPACT! – you care deeply about the impact you have on our clients, their customers, our community, the media landscape and our world at large.

IMAGINATION – your ability to imagine and bring to life the ideas, solutions, and the future of Initiative, makes us THE create media agency in the world.

· Experience in an integrated planning role in media, publisher/vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content)

· Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills

· Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, colleagues, and vendors

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family.

The salary range for this position is posted below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position, market considerations, budgetary considerations, tenure and standing with the Company (applicable to current employees), as well as the employee’s/applicant’s skill set, level of experience, and qualifications.

As Senior Communications Designer, you are an important part of the creation of the most appropriate communications plan for your client to achieve their business goals. You are responsible for helping to strategize, produce and make sense of the key media, consumer and market intelligence required to your clients’ connections plan. You have a passion for brands, media and ideas, and within the team are considered the go-to-person on the latest news and innovations going on in media. You are an important part of the idea design, and the development of the communications architecture and tactics.

In this role, you produce and analyze consumer, brand and marketing intelligence for the communications plan development. You have a good understanding of the communications planning process, and are able to help mine through tools like MediaTools and audience and competitive data from MRI, client and desk research, and Kantar, to set the most appropriate communications goals for a given task, and understand the right channels and approaches to take. However, you don’t stop at the fundamentals, and are also able to use social listening data, search trends, wider audience trend information and other ideas as dynamic inputs to the communications approach.

· Contribute to impactful communications plan development to meet client needs and deliver communications idea

· Responsible for accurate ongoing management and team dissemination of client owned and shared asset audit to enable true OESP planning

· Provide communications and audience intelligence and data inputs through the application of syndicated and proprietary systems for communications design goal setting and decision making