Plugin Talent

Plugin Talent has been contracted by another growing Detroit based firm to hire 4 people !

Here they are:

Backend Developer:
Needs to have experience in .Net, SQL Server, Java/jQuery, CSharp
Freelancer - 4 to 6 assignment (on and offsite - Detroit)

Digital Producer:
Need someone in LA and Detroit!!
managing digital projects, e-learning, ipad, mobile and site!
Perm openings
3-5 yrs experience

iPad Developer:
Perm, Detroit based role!
developing mobile site, mobile apps, iPad apps
must have prior experience and samples

Apply:
sgutholm@plugintalent.com

Plugin Talent has been hired to find a Project Manager for an established firm who sees the growth and potential with Detroit. They have a presence with a major automotive client in which they are embedded.They provide an integrated communications connectivity platform that serves a major automotive client as a valued partner to high-performing organizations, our client’s proprietary software-as-a-service based platform drives increased customer retention, improves sales and lowers costs.
The Project Manager will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining a structure to manage the multiple priorities for the Client .

Duties and Responsibilities
• Acts as the daily client contact for assigned projects, developing relationships with clients and working closely with them to learn their business and communication needs
• Works closely with all staff to develop and implement strategic project plans
• Has a thorough understanding of the planning and production processes
• Proactively gathers the necessary information to plan and implement each client project
• Provides timely issuance of all documentation: proposals, project initiations, creative briefs, estimates, time-lines, meeting summaries, and status and budget reports
• Manages time and financial resources to ensure client projects are on time and on budget.
• Manages project schedules
• Produces client budgets and estimate updates
• Ensures project deliverables are delivered on time and on budget
• Manages internal and external resources
• Manages client project internal and external communication and documentation
• Works in a proactive manner to provide client campaigns with the greatest amount of added value through communications
• Gathers and assembles background information and analyses as needed in development of briefs, etc.
• Receives client briefings
• Analyzes client input, together with background knowledge, research, field feedback, etc., to produce full communications plans
• Keeps apprised of all relevant client, industry and market developments
• Coordinates and authorizes quotations for client approval.
• Coordinates project timing and budgets with all relevant agency personnel.
• Continuously works to upgrade knowledge and skills through available reading, courses and seminars
• Maintain a highly responsive service orientation in all transactions

Requirements:
• Candidates must be able to use MS Excel.
• Candidates must also exhibit a strong track record in CRM, software or Agency with proven ability to plan and organize major programs
• PMP Certification is required
• Ability to Travel to Toronto frequently
• Minimum 3-7 years experience in a project management role. Agency experience a plus.
• Must be EXTREMELY organized, detailed and accurate
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced work environment, working well under pressure juggling multiple projects and deadlines
• Responsive to both internal and client needs in a timely, professional manner
• Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion
• Strong business writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Proactive, self-starter who can work as part of a team primarily and independently when needed
• Project and account foresight
• Experience or knowledge of creative and/or technical development process
• Highly skilled in building and managing project schedules and timelines
• Ability to oversee programs through project lifecycle, ensuring deliverables are met on time
• Solution oriented, problem-solving approach
• Ability to grasp complex concepts easily
• Ability to operate in a systematic and logical manner, with use of good judgment
• Candidates must be able to use MS Excel.
• Candidates must also exhibit a strong track record in CRM, software or Agency with proven ability to plan and organize major programs

To Apply:
email resume to Sgutholm@plugintalent.com

Plugin Talent is a talent agency that specializes in finding and placing talent in digital positions, as well as roles in various creative industries. We also consult companies on how to effectively attract and retain talent and how to create the cultural change needed to appeal to the next generation of workers.

We are in search of a PR freelancer in the Detroit area to take on a very important client of ours. They are one of the many growing companies in Detroit and need your help to spread the good word both nationally and locally! I you have those types of media connections, understand both digital and traditional PR and can build both the “big story ideas” and execute them then this is the client for you!

Job Description:
• Outreach – Social – Follow up
• Building big story ideas / strategy and implementation and delivery
• Story/Press Development
• Pitch/Support Documents
• Build relationships with the right media contacts (WSJ, Time, AdAge) that are both local and national in reach. These contacts should be in the Tech and Advertising space as well. Established relationships preferred.
• Push stories beyond traditional media (bloggers, social web, etc)
• Press Releases – have the ability to take them beyond just getting hits on Google alerts
• Be in the know on events/functions, etc that client should have involvement in.
• Make “personnel hire” announcements exciting and relevant. Take them beyond just an announcement.
• Take coverage beyond. Our client is in the TV/ Video industry and would need exposure in those channels
• Monitor coverage and adjust strategy accordingly

Qualification:
• Must have prior experience and success stories to support experience. Be prepared to showcase them as well as samples
• Established media contacts in traditional and digital
• The ability to freelance and meet with client weekly onsite
• Be innovative!
• Be excited about Detroit’s growth and be a part of it!

To apply:
Email resume short summary of success stories and samples to sgutholm@plugintalent.com

MRM Worldwide is committed to being the most relevant, effective, indispensable marketing agency in the digital world. We employ the most innovative talent in the industry to meet each client’s unique challenges with positive, measurable results.

Our strategic, creative, and technological expertise - including deep experience with segmentation, targeting, and analytic tools and methodologies - deliver the most effective marketing programs and platforms in the world

We are actively recruiting for a major Automotive client in the Detroit area.

Job Description:

The Content Management System (CMS) Coordinator is responsible for collecting, loading, verifying and communicating the status of content required for creation of one or more brand websites.  The CMS Content Coordinator supports the planning of content delivery with the creative agency, receives content and loads it to the Content Management System, verifies the content in preproduction, issues JIRA Trouble Tickets as necessary to resolve content issues, and communicates status regarding the completion of loading their content.

Skills / Qualifications:

• Ability to identify specific content issues and communicate steps to resolve
• MS Office (Word, Excel) required
• Experience in web content development preferred
• One year of experience in marketing brand site content development and working with either commercial or open source content management systems preferred.
• 1+ years of experience in advertising, marketing or related fields

Responsibilities:

• Support web content delivery planning with the creative agency
• Receive and maintain status of required web content
• Load web content to the Content Management System (CMS)
• Verify web content in a preproduction environment
• Identify issues in web content pertaining to content, layout and presentation
• Issue JIRA Trouble Tickets as necessary to resolve content issues
• Communicate status regarding the completion of loaded web content and outstanding web content to be delivered.

MRM Worldwide strives to be a multicultural employer of choice in our industry and strongly supports equal employment opportunity.

Apply: careers@mrmworldwide.com

MRM Worldwide is committed to being the most relevant, effective, indispensable marketing agency in the digital world. We employ the most innovative talent in the industry to meet each client’s unique challenges with positive, measurable results.

Our strategic, creative, and technological expertise - including deep experience with segmentation, targeting, and analytic tools and methodologies - deliver the most effective marketing programs and platforms in the world

Qualifications:

·         Digital Client facing  – someone who possibly works in one of the local agencies selling websites to new customers

·         OLA Analyst – this is a skill set that would be ideal for rounding out our team

·         Digital Project Managers with a desire to get into analytics

·         Financial Analyst who interacts with web based applications

·         Experience in or interest in analyzing consumer behavior on websites, email, search  and online media as well as offline CRM and events

·         Understanding of core statistical concepts on sample size, statistical validity, regression analysis, standard deviation, etc.

·         Experience in presenting data and analysis to medium-to-large groups

·         Well organized, with excellent follow-through, an ability to work well under pressure, to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously, and an ability to consistently meet deadlines

·         Must be able to multitask client projects, work well under pressure and function in a cross-stakeholder environment

·         Efficient in developing reports and analysis

·         Ability to or aptitude to learn interpret analytics from the following: research, search, social, media, or mobile in addition to email and web

·         2+ years experience working in marketing

·         Omniture is a plus, Webtrends, DART, Google Analytics, CoreMetrics or other web analytics platform experience

Description:

·         Structure insights generation and dissemination processes across relevant stakeholders

·         Conduct data analysis leveraging the web data to generate insights

·         Engage with multiple stakeholders and analytics/insights experts across the organization to synthesize insights

·         Isolate drivers of campaign performance for individual efforts

·         Provide cross-divisional, cross-platform analysis on digital and traditional marketing based on data

·         Work closely with key stakeholders to generate actionable recommendations and drive optimization

·         Provide strategic consultation to key stakeholders based on insights

·         Responsible for interfacing with the client and client organizations, including:  divisional teams, global teams, GMIA, and retail planning teams

·         Responsible for participating in and presenting at client meetings

·         Responsible for timely monthly reporting on website performance – includes brand sites, email, online media and sites in support of retail events

·         Responsible for working with and keeping Development Analysts informed in a timely manner on what trying to address and what tagging may be necessary

·         Work with other agencies supporting web or email initiatives in communicating program results

·         Setting up criteria for, and interpretation of results from, multi-variant testing for the purpose of content optimization

MRM Worldwide strives to be a multicultural employer of choice in our industry and strongly supports equal employment opportunity.

     Email : careers@mrmdwide.com

 Description

This Account Manager role is primarily responsible for supporting the client and my client’s internal creative, brand and digital teams.  The Account Strategy Manager must quickly develop a strong understanding of the client’s business, industry, economic model, organizational trends and customer needs in order to respond quickly to client requests from a strategic point of view.  The Manager is responsible for directing and supervising client communications, managing individual maintenance and production requests, budget tracking and reporting. This person will act as the client advocate and make them feel like they “have someone on the inside” 

Client

My client is a growing agency that is delivers a competitive edge by forging deep thinking with cutting design. They are a creative partner helping companies shape, express their business strategy. Headquartered in Rochester, Michigan, this agency works with Business-to-business and business-to-consumer brands to  define and design the best direction forward

 Essential Job Function

•  Practice Development
• Proactively seek to understand the methodologies and processes of the business and assist in delivering solutions utilizing those standards
• Passionate about delivering the best thought leadership, insights, creative and technology, by finding creative ways of executing smaller requests that does not jeopardize schedule or budget

Client Delivery

• Work with established Account Strategists in Brand, Digital and Creative to understand client’s business and marketing objectives
• Deliver strong and compelling communications (including presentations) providing context and rationale for the client
• Approve & oversee assigned projects and deliverable on the account, ensuring that they deliver on-brand, on-strategy and that the client understands the context and rationale
• Establish good internal working relationships among peers to ensure the best solution for the client by knowing and communicating plan, budget and objectives
• Manage client relationships and set appropriate expectations
• Assist in managing billing process for the account
• Serves as the primary day to day contact for clients regarding production execution as needed; crisis management
  

Business Development

• Identify and communicate new business opportunities with existing and new clients by understanding opportunities in client’s business, consumer and brand objectives
• Proactively review the SOWs with clients to ensure that they understand their responsibilities to the success of the project
• Works on new business efforts to ensure proper estimating and assumptions are made throughout the proposal/SOW process. Ensures multiple approaches are presented if needed
• Be intuative

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated business development and team management skills: be able to prepare a case study of previous engagements
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of creative, digital and brand marketing
• 1-3 years of proven project leadership experience on small to medium size and moderately complex projects within an interactive agency, web, brand, or Mobile Digital environment.
• Working knowledge of project management concepts, methodologies and tools.
• Ability to lead well under pressure and to lead a project team to ensure deadlines and budget are met while exceeding clients’ expectations
• Ability to effectively create project plans based on the needs of the project
• Ability to tailor communications approach based on the situation
• Must possess decision-making skills for problem identification and solution recommendation
• Communication skills with the ability to present information in verbal, written or visual form to a variety of audiences, from the internal team to client executives
• Experience communicating directly with external clients
• Experience managing marketing, creative or technology projects

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ years of marketing strategy experience (brand management or agency experience preferred)
• Experience developing project plans using MS Project
• Experience developing Statements of Work , case studies
• Familiarity with creative, digital and brand development life cycle and various development methodologies

TO APPLY: email resume to sgutholm@gmail.com

My client has a growing social media team! They are looking to add to this team and this person must live and breath social media and have a true passion for it as well as professional experience!  I am searching for a  Community Moderator for this team, This person will be responsible for monitoring and managing an individual’s or organization’s online presence, reporting and providing insights on the results. They will report directly to and fully support our Social Media Strategist. This is an entry level position with huge potential for someone who has a passion for digital and an analytical mind.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting comprehensive social media strategies for our clients’ brands and specific programs
• Assisting Social Media Strategist in identifying specific methods to generate awareness
• Social media monitoring and reporting
• All aspects of engaging, responding and communicating within communities

Working closely with pulic relations and interactive teams, the Community Moderator will help manage social media activities for channels and branded communities to help to generate exposure and opportunities for our clients.

The ideal candidate will be highly active in the social media space and has the potential to be a rockstar in building communities and engaging users online., This individual should have outstanding written and verbal skills and can easily demonstrate this in work that they have done. Skill sets and expectations include:

• Assist in developing and be responsible for implementing social media strategies for our clients’ brands and specific programs, leveraging the major social networks (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, etc.), blogs, video, stand-alone social networks, social commerce and more
• Strong analytical skills and have an amazing ability to easily information online quickly
• High level of comfort with technology including use of search, blogging, social media and standard office applications.
• Demonstrated ability to completely understand the social media space through their own presence in them. (we will be looking at candidates spaces)
• Strong ability to execute research online and document findings in a highly professional, presentable way
• Document and distribute regular client reports regarding campaign status and social media metrics
• Expert in all things digital, including: blogging/microblogging, podcasting, video sharing and streaming, widgets and gadgets, viral campaign management, mobile marketing, social networking, etc.
• Previous experience using analytical / monitoring is a super huge plus.

Position Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience in social media by having a strong personal presence
• Attention to detail, client management skills and the ability to research and coordinate information with prompt turnaround
• Creative aptitude
• Familiar with all major forms of social media with your own actively cultivated network on at least one of the social media channels
• Potential to be an outstanding communicator in the online and offline space
• Ability to multi-task, maintaining focus under the pressure of deadlines

To be considered  for this role you MUST:

email resume and Social Web profile url’s and url’s of any professional Social Media campaigns you moderated or created

sgutholm@gmail.com