Associate Producer, Campaign - Athena Global Advisors

About Athena

Athena is a marketing consultancy where great ideas take flight. With a blend of strategic thinking, creative vision, and hands-on execution, we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For over ten years, we’ve delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports. 

Our people make Athena, Athena. They’re what help set us apart from traditional ad agencies and consultancies. As a 2023 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.  

About the Position 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Associate Producer to join our dynamic creative team. The Associate Producer/Project Manager, should be equal parts creative story teller, nimble producer, effective project manager, and industry aficionado. The ideal person has experience and passion for social media and is dual-minded: highly creative but also efficiently coordinated and possesses the ability to translate complex ideas into compelling stories in a fast-paced environment. And while focus will be on social media, we see the role as broader - supporting our digital production team holistically from end to end in a highly collaborative environment.

Our ideal candidate has the following:

• Work with Creative Group leaders, Producers and Project Managers to support the team in all project related tasks across mediums.
• Manage team of Art Directors, Copy Writers, and Motion Designers to ideate and create rich and engaging content in a variety of formats for use across our social media platforms, including Twitter, Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok all in a fast-paced setting.
• Lead end to end process from briefing creative team through delivery to internal client groups and everything in between. Act as liaison between creative and client teams.
• Provide support retrieving critical information from the business to ensure accuracy in content produced along with producing photo/video shoots in partnership with a broader producing team as needed.
• Maintain operations to ensure the creative team is prepared to meet/exceed expectations and client groups are informed and needs are met. Effectively following up on assigned tasks.
• Manage interdisciplinary teams to execute creative concepts into clear sets of deliverables. Assist producers with project scope, timelines, and resource planning.
• Proactively monitor and research industry conversations, competition and trends to understand the landscape and to generate fresh ideas for digital storytelling.
• Work with the data and analytics team to pull creative insights and recommendations that will allow our brand to continuously improve engagement and reputation
• Other project support as needed including financial aspects of a project such as budget entry, setting up vendors in payment portals.

Requirements

And should have the following experience and skills:

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years relevant social media production experience.
• Deep understanding and expertise on all social platforms with a demonstrated ability to produce platform specific content.
• Demonstrated ability to tell brand stories and understand brand reputation work.
• Strong project management skills with ability to supervise multiple projects and workflows.
• Strong portfolio of digital storytelling experience including the ability to translate complex ideas into compelling stories.
• Ability to work effectively in both a quick-turn newsroom-like atmosphere as well as part of longer range produced projects.
• Ability to produce effective content quickly and extremely detail-oriented.
• First person experience with video, photography and/or or visual design mediums — shooting, editing, motion graphics, illustration, art — and/or can point to numerous projects where you worked side by side with nimble creative teams to execute quickly.
• Detail-oriented, deadline driven, and able to handle a high-volume workload.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account
• Matching 401K
• Generous PTO policy
• Substantial Parental Leave Policy
• Hybrid Work Environment

Curious about your career path at Athena? This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel, produce great work, have an immediate impact on Athena’s creative product culture and growth.

Oh, and our application process is open, easy, as transparent as we can make it, and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Let’s get started.

Athena is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at 866.299.6040