The Working Assembly is a creative-led agency specializing in brand design, campaign development, and production. Our clients range from emerging startups to Fortune 100 companies — as a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work across a range of projects and industries.

We are currently expanding our Brand Management team and are seeking a full-time Brand Manager to join our team. At The Working Assembly, members of the Brand Management team are responsible for managing projects, driving timelines, and cultivating strong working relationships across the internal and client teams alike.

As a Brand Manager, you will be responsible for supporting Brand Directors on key pieces of business, and holistically managing your own projects from start-to-finish. The ideal candidate has experience working with cross-functional agency teams through the advertising, creative development, and production processes — and has an appetite to further their experience managing brand design projects.

At The Working Assembly, we look for an entrepreneurial spirit and flexibility to step up beyond a specific job title to help keep the process moving.

The salary range for this role is $70k -$130k.

Key Characteristics:

• This person is a driving force for the team, with significant experience in building strong client partnerships; managing internal and external expectations; and delivering excellent work.
• You are an excellent communicator both internally and externally, ensuring that stakeholders are well informed.
• You have foresight of potential roadblocks within the project and ability to raise up to respective leadership.
• You have a solid understanding of marketing strategy and are eager to develop this further.
• You project calmness and authority, creating the foundations that are required for the whole team to succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive small to medium projects from start to finish, with minimal oversight from a Senior Brand Manager or Brand Director — including the dissemination of feedback and management of timelines and deliverables.
• Assist the Strategy team with the development of respective creative briefs, and participating in briefing process.
• Manage internal resourcing for your respective projects to ensure teams are efficiently and properly allocated.
• Manage client expectations of timelines, deliverables, and adherence to scope of work.
• Support brand team on daily tasks and client communication for larger brand projects.
• Reviewing and/or managing updating of internal/external documents, and sending out weekly status updates.
• Oversee project resourcing is up to date with weeks in advance of foresight.
• Developing an in-depth and strategic understanding of the client’s business and competitive landscape, in order to ensure that the output of the agency is always in pursuit of the client objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience at an advertising or design company, in a client service role
• Solution-oriented with a positive attitude
• Proactive team player
• Demonstrated ability to own and work on multiple projects at once
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, vocal
• A passion for creativity, design, advertising, brands, and culture - iterative, not precious
• A passion for creativity, design, advertising, brands, and culture
• Flexible to evolving responsibilities and last-minute changes
• Experience creating integrated campaigns across multiple media types and managing the production process a plus

Perks of the position:

• Flexible remote work first with Manhattan office access for in-person collaboration
• Competitive salary
• 401k and profit-sharing
• Comprehensive company-paid health benefits (including full dental and vision coverage)
• 40+ company-wide vacation days and 10+ flex vacation days
• Continuing education and conference stipend
• Weekly team meals and monthly outings
• Free Citi-bike membership and pre-tax commuter benefits

The Working Assembly is committed to the safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For NYC, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.

The Working Assembly is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, culture, ethnicity, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, appearance, opinions, beliefs and more.

We are open to applicants anywhere in the US but applicants located in the NYC area are preferred for occasional in-person team collaboration.

Does this sound like a good fit? We’d love to meet you! Send us a resume and some work samples to [email protected] with the job title you’re interested in in the subject line.

The Working Assembly is a creative-led agency specializing in brand design, campaign development, and production. Our clients range from emerging startups to Fortune 100 companies — as a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work across a range of projects and industries.

We are currently expanding our Brand Management team and are seeking a full-time Brand Director to join our team. At The Working Assembly, members of the Brand Management team are responsible for managing projects, driving timelines, and cultivating strong working relationships across the internal and client teams alike.

As a Brand Director, you will be responsible for overseeing the Brand Managers and Brand Team as a whole on key pieces of business, and holistically managing your own projects from start-to-finish. The ideal candidate has experience managing and working with cross-functional agency teams through the advertising, creative development, and production processes.

At The Working Assembly, we look for an entrepreneurial spirit and flexibility to step up beyond a specific job title to help keep the process moving.

The salary range for this role is $100k-175k

Key Characteristics:

• This person is a driving force for the team, with significant experience in building long-term client relationships by providing strategic leadership and creative insight as well as managing internal and external expectations, delivering excellent work.
• You are an excellent communicator both internally and externally, ensuring that stakeholders are well informed.
• You have foresight of potential roadblocks within the project and ability to raise up to respective leadership
• You have a solid understanding of marketing strategy.
• You project calmness and authority, creating the foundations that are required for the whole team to succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive small to medium projects from start to finish, with minimal oversight from a Senior Brand Manager or Brand Director — including the dissemination of feedback and management of timelines and deliverables
• Work closely with the Strategy team with the development of respective creative briefs, and participating in briefing process
• Manage internal resourcing for Brand Team projects to ensure teams are efficiently and properly allocated.
• Manage client expectations of timelines, deliverables, and adherence to scope of work
• Provide guidance, oversight and direction to teams developing project plans and leading strategies to execute against project plans.
• Ability to share perspective and potential approaches to brand building in new business settings.
• Oversee and support Brand Team on daily tasks and client communication for larger brand projects.
• Reviewing and/or managing updating of internal/external documents, and sending out weekly status updates
• Oversee project resourcing is up to date with weeks in advance of foresight
• Developing an in-depth and strategic understanding of each client’s business and competitive landscape, in order to ensure that the output of the agency is always in pursuit of the client objectives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience at an advertising or design company, in a senior client service role
• Solution-oriented with a positive attitude
• Proactive team player.
• Demonstrated ability to own and work on multiple projects at once
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, vocal.
• A passion for creativity, design, advertising, brands, and culture - iterative, not precious.
• Flexible to evolving responsibilities and last-minute changes
• Experience creating integrated campaigns across multiple media types and managing the production process a plus

Perks of the position:

• Flexible remote work first with Manhattan office access for in-person collaboration.
• Competitive salary
• 401k and profit-sharing
• Comprehensive company-paid health benefits (including full dental and vision coverage)
• 40+ company-wide vacation days and 10+ flex vacation days
• Weekly team meals and monthly outings
• Continuing education and conference stipend
• Free Citi-bike membership and pre-tax commuter benefits

The Working Assembly is committed to the safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For NYC, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.

The Working Assembly is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, culture, ethnicity, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, appearance, opinions, beliefs and more.

We are open to applicants anywhere in the US but applicants located in the NYC area are preferred for occasional in-person team collaboration.

Does this sound like a good fit? We’d love to meet you! Send us a resume and some work samples to [email protected] with the job title you’re interested in in the subject line.