Elizabeth Bennett

Managing Director - Creative & Marketing : Milwaukee, WI : Permanent

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:00:03 EDT

Aquent Studios provides Better Brand Execution to the world’s marquee brands, providing customized tactical execution solutions that support strategic goals and reduce overall creative and marketing spend. By segmenting strategic initiatives from tactical execution, Aquent Studios clients get agency quality deliverables at non-agency prices.

The Managing Director is a leader for the Studios teams and a subject matter expert for our clients. The main objectives for this role are Service Delivery and Solution & Implementation Development.

Service Delivery responsibilities include managing the Studios creative teams (people, process, technology) to build client satisfaction, increase efficiency, meet established quarterly metrics, and grow the business by looking for new opportunities to build and scale new solutions for existing customers.

Solution & Implementation Development responsibilities align with sales efforts to advance new prospects by providing marketing operations and decoupling expertise to advance new prospects to clients. This involves assessing the client’s current situation, determining how our service offerings match the client's needs, defining the specific delivery model and leading the implementation of solutions with the new client.

To be successful in this position you must have the following skills and abilities :

Experience in a business development or account management role in an agency, corporate or consulting environment.
Expertise in marketing operations, agency management, or decoupling marketing solutions.
BS/BA degree in marketing, communications, business or related field with an in-depth knowledge and a minimum of five years of combined marketing communications, professional services, or agency business development experience.
Demonstrate strategic understanding of emerging channels like social media, mobile, and digital.
Proven ability to make a professional and positive impression with senior management within potential client organizations
Successful track record at building and presenting concepts/programs for clients and new business opportunities
Direct management experience of team comprised of 10 or more
Proven track record of showing improvement in cost, quality and cycle time metrics in a creative environment
Understands components, cycle times and production and distribution requirements of print, web and video/multimedia deliverables.

The Managing Director will work from an Aquent office or from home, but must live within two hours of Milwaukee and travel there frequently for meetings.

Please apply through our web site. If you experience technical difficulties in applying, please e-mail ebennett[at]aquent[com].

Project Manager - Digital Marketing Strategy : Philadelphia, PA : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:00:29 EST

We are looking for a high energy, passionate individual to support the digital marketing efforts of a major pharmaceutical client. In this role, you will bring together digital promotions with closed loop marketing strategy, specifically for the iPad. You will also be responsible for collaborating with client partners acting as an expert consultant in digital development, implementation and mostly deployment.

This is a contract position funded through June of 2013 with a high likelihood of extending through the end of the year. The digital marketing project manager will work on-site at the client’s offices in North Wales, PA. Aquent Studios offers excellent medical/dental benefits at affordable rates.

Responsibilities :

Collaborate with client partners to ensure that digital strategy and content for use on iPad/tablet are compliant with Corporate objectives and guidelines
Define, document, and disseminate industry best practices for successful iPad, implementation, and deployment
Manage relationships and proper communication with key stakeholders across teams
Assist in defining and aligning needs of markets with available capabilities for each eResource platform
Meet with colleagues where necessary to help with the communication of decision, standards, and events so that other work streams understand the context of decisions made
If necessary, assist in reaching out to other parts of the organization – local and/or global – to ensure alignment of needs

Skills and Experience required for success in this position:

4+ years’ relevant work experience in digital marketing and project management
2+ years’ experience in closed loop marketing in life science companies or other regulated industries
Experience managing digital content development and/or application development for tablet
Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external parties across different teams to form and nurture strategic relationships
Ability to continuously recognize, document, and disseminate best practices
Bachelor Degree (BA/BS) in Business, Marketing, Computer Science or other related discipline

Please apply through our web site. If you experience technical difficulties in applying, please contact ebennett [at] aquent.com

Systems Engineer : Seattle : Temporary

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:30:03 EST

Aquent is looking for an experienced and motivated Systems Engineer to join us in taking IT Operations to the next level.

Do you have a strong Linux background and like to engineer & implement solutions? Do you like to troubleshoot and solve IT puzzles? Do you think in scripting languages? Do you have excellent written and verbal communications skills? Are you self-motivated and like to work both independently and as part of a team?

If so, come work with a small systems engineering team to design and implement state-of-the-art automated dev-ops leveraging Amazon AWS EC2 and VMWare ESX with both cloud and physical servers.

Candidates must possess a strong knowledge of all aspects of Linux Operating Systems and have proficiency using tools and utilities to assess, troubleshoot and solve problems as well as recommend, design and implement solutions. Strong candidates will demonstrate their ability to write and modify scripts using a scripting language such as Bash, Perl, Python, or other common scripting language.

As a member of the Engineering and Operations Team typical responsibilities include:

Fulfill the role of Linux subject matter expert on the Systems team
Support a diverse global enterprise IT infrastructure with many disparate systems
Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve systems, network, and applications issues
Recommend, design, engineer and implement heterogeneous solutions as determined and assigned by the ongoing business requirements of the enterprise
Perform ongoing systems administration
Maintain thorough documentation for all servers and configuration histories
Assist team with managing and maintaining 24/7 system infrastructure
Assist Disaster Recovery Team on creating, testing, and updating disaster recovery plans

Technical Skills Required:

Strong hands on Linux Administration experience with CentOS or other RHEL based distributions
Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of Linux kernel services and tuning; file system (ext2, ext3, XFS), NFS, security, installation, networking, postfix, mdadm, cryptsetup, etc.
Demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of corporate networking protocols; TCP/IP, DNS, LAN’s, WAN’s, VLANS’s, Wireless, VPN, firewalls, etc.
Demonstrate strong knowledge of systems operations; CPU threading, process ID’s, memory utilization, disk I/O, file system security (Windows and Linux), etc.
Ability to write and modify scripts using a common scripting language (Bash, Perl, etc.)

Technical Skill Desired:

Microsoft Active Directory experience
Cisco router and switch experience
Previous experience with Amazon AWS services, especially AWS API scripting
Previous hands on experience supporting Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Puppet
Previous experience with VMWare ESXi, especially high availability clustering
Standard industry certifications

Other Qualifications Required:

Self-motivated with ability to work independently with remote supervision
Ability to work and contribute as part of a team
Demonstrate professional interpersonal and communications etiquette and skills
Ability to lift and move heavy equipment, such as servers, in a confined datacenter environment, minimum weight 50 pounds
Occasional travel as needed to support IT services