The next Silicon Valley Brand Forum will take place at:

Spend a morning learning about best practices in:

Brand Engagement in Social Media

Managing the Brand Experience in a Seemingly
Unmanageable World

Companies work very hard to maximize the impact of a brand experience. They want to be sure that customers have a positive brand experience at every touchpoint. In the world of social media, where communities are run by people with no allegiance to your brand, brand managers are facing new challenges for managing that experience. We’ll hear from brand leaders who have tackled this challenge, and we’ll get a deeper understanding of managing brands in social media.  

The Event will begin with a presentation from Lorie Lowe, CEO of Eccolo Media, on the connection between engaging audiences through brand content in social media and building your brand.

We’ll also have a panel discussion with a group of brand professionals sharing best practices and challenges from both the client and agency perspective.

Sponsors

Jeremiah Owyang from the Altimeter Group opened the event with a presentation that encouraged us all to approach social media with a methodical growth strategy starting with a solid internal foundation and rising to a holistic model where social media is completely integrated into the organization and everyone is completely informed of the corporate guidelines. Without this approach, he warned, organizations will be entrenched in crisis management, or “social media sanitation.”

An interesting point Jeremiah made that was reiterated throughout the day, is that people will no longer refer to Social Media in 5 to 10 years, as it will be so pervasive that it will just be considered an integral part of all business. We don’t see many people these days referring to themselves as Internet marketers. Your first question would be, “As to what? A non-Internet marketer? How do you do that?”  It won’t be long before people will ask social media marketing managers, “What other kind of marketing managers are there?”

Mark Wilson from Sybase had one of the most tweeted data points in his presentation on mobile marketing: There are about 2.5x the amount of mobile phones in the world as there are toothbrushes. The statistic accompanied a wonderful photo of a man with disastrous teeth holding a cell phone to his ear.

Attendees tweeted interesting points throughout the day at #DEliveSF. It was an amazing collection of presenters leaving all of the attendees with lots to think about. And maybe it was the last  event that will use the term Social Media so pervasively. Perhaps next time they’ll just call it “communications.”

Director Of Client Development

Brief Description

One word: Closer. Are you one? Do you have the leadership qualities it takes to win over clients, sell good work, and ultimatley drive the agency’s business to reach and surpass its next goal? The DCD is an integral member of the Leadership team and must be able to sustain and maintain growth under all conditions. In essence, you must be able to work a room, then take over the room, then deliver on what you promised the room. The DCD is The Closer. This position can be in Portland or San Jose.

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Director Of Client Services
Brief Description

Can you build and nurture client relationships? Will you tirelessly motivate and drive your team to success? Are you about delivering results, sharing learnings, and going out and digging deeper? Superman/woman tendencies? If you answered yes to those, keep reading. We need you at Liquid Agency.  Our team needs a leader, one with digital experience. This position can be in Portland or San Jose.

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Senior Project Manager, Temp To Perm
Brief Description
Do you know what a brand is, and all its essential ingredients? Have you managed jobs from strategic messaging platforms to the development of brand identitiesh, all the way down to website or app build-outs? Can you deliver realistic schedules and estimates to our clients, with no surprises along the way? Sure, we expect a lot from our Senior Project Managers. But if you’re the right fit, you wouldn’t expect anything less.

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Account Manager

1185 Design is a full service, award-winning, design and multimedia agency of 25 creative professionals with expertise in design, brand strategy and programming in Palo Alto, CA. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in services, consumer, technology, institutions and biotech. Our culture is one of collaboration with multidisciplinary teams working with our clients to create a framework to build memorable brands.

The candidate will be an integral part of a small team of account people in a dynamic design setting. A successful candidate is one who thrives under pressure and works effectively in a fast paced design agency, has disciplined experience in the design/marketing industry, preferably with agency experience; and the ability to simultaneously prioritize multiple projects including client expectations and schedules.

This client-facing role manages 1185 client relationships by pitching new business, leading internal project management, managing the client day-to-day needs and ensuring project continuity.

Activities

• Work directly with clients to initiate and oversee management of individual projects and accounts

• Lead client planning meetings from project inception

• Proposal writing, including responsibility for ensuring proper documentation of contract terms and conditions, budget acceptance, etc.

• Internal and external resource planning/coordination and budget preparation/negotiation

• Produce creative briefs for review by project team and client

• Ensure that proposals coincide with project scope, plan, budget, goals, and objectives

• Ensure that proper communication is maintained within project team

• Research and develop content and create presentations using InDesign

• Handle billing and receivable discussions and achieve resolutions, keeping management informed of status of all outstanding issues

• Maintain knowledge of client industries and familiarity with competitive landscape

Requirements

• College degree in communications, business or marketing

• Project management experience

• Excellent interpersonal dynamics

• Superior verbal, presentation, written & organizational skills

• Meticulous focus on details and deadlines

Preferred Experience 

• Design agency experience

• Print and web technology understanding

• Proficiency with Adobe CS and MS Office for the PC or Mac

• Creative web strategy capabilities

Onsite Contract-to-hire

Please submit resume with samples and salary history to: resume@1185design.com

No phone calls please.