About the Role

The Senior Designer is responsible for establishing and overseeing design across various Enso projects. This will include a spectrum of brand identity work, infographics, digital, advertising and collateral. In addition, we see the Senior Designer participating at the creative concept level with the creative directors and creative teams across our deliverables on various projects. The position requires a strong ability to translate narrative and conceptual ideas into powerful and innovative visual language. A mastery of graphic design, typography, 2D layout and interactive design for websites, mobile and social platforms is essential. A commitment to meaningful work and positive social impact is also a must.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Creative Directors, Copywriter(s) and Art Director(s) to concept visual directions for creative projects
• Establish the overall design of a project or campaign
• Manage Designer(s), and Studio Designer(s) throughout all phases of projects
• Report to Creative Director(s) to maintain enso standards of design across all projects
• Work closely with Project Managers and Partnership & Strategy team to ensure project needs are being met in a timely manner
• Keep up to date with popular culture and current trends in the design, creative, advertising, and social impact industries

Requirements

• Have the strong desire to conceive and develop large and game-changing creative concepts and social innovations
• Alignment with enso’s mission to unite business success with positive social impact
• 6-8 Years of experience in design for digital, print, broadcast and other media
• Extensive working knowledge of digital tools, Flash (animation and action scripting) and motion design as well as visual/interactive/motion design trends
• Strong skills in typography, layout, general and interactive design
• An understanding of and passion for the social innovation/social entrepreneurship space
• The ability to articulate creative concepts and rationale internally and to clients
• The capacity to juggle multiple projects

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network. We’re a new agency with a small, diverse team based in Santa Monica, CA.

About the Role

Enso is seeking a digital producer to lead on digital and transmedia projects that create positive impact at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead all digital projects and growth of enso’s digital department by participating in sales pitches, talent recruiting, creating best practices, and establishing creative and production digital processes.
• Manage digital projects from inception to delivery guaranteeing global delivery and launch of all campaigns on time and within budget.
• Partner with strategy and creative teams to determine projects feasibility and provide direction on industry best practices and latest technology trends.
• Determine and assign resources to digital projects, guaranteeing they are correctly planned and executed.
• Advise clients on the best media and technologies in the digital space to execute digital campaigns: Websites, mobile apps, web applications, social media, online banners and email blasts.
• Establish and continually improve an efficient and productive digital workflow that ensures consistently high quality deliverables, as well as effectively managing creative resources.
• Create and communicate projects technical documentation: Wireframes, information architecture as well as functional and non-functional requirements specifications.
• Establish and review partnerships and processes for production, ensuring projects are communicated in full detail with the proper specifications.
• Establish coding best practices and enforce they are followed by selected vendors and freelance staff.

Requirements

• Has 4+ years in digital or transmedia production
• Has a robust network of developers and digital shops
• Is open and flexible to wearing many hats, is a proactive self-starter who is passionate about making things better, and has a great sense of humor
• Has a deep passion for social impact, having worked or volunteered intensively on projects that improve the world

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About the Role

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network. We’re a new agency with a small, diverse team based in Santa Monica, CA.

Responsibilities

• Become the “trusted advisor” for clients by being the lead brand manager and key client contact for all projects
• Manage accounts on a project level basis and strategic brand level
• Lead enso project teams to achieve our client’s business success and social impact
• Become the “go to” person due to detailed knowledge of brand, business and social impact opportunity
• Lead multi-pronged engagement campaigns consisting of video, print and digital development projects
• Ensure successful delivery of all client projects on time, within budget and in accordance with Enso process
• Manage all elements of team assignments including but not limited to: Strategic documents, coordination of project management/operations & production, and overseeing financial health of projects
• Contribute to Enso’s positive and collaborative culture internally and with our clients and partners
• Manage and mentor coordinators to ensure knowledge transfer, growth, development, and, when applicable, smooth executions of project assignments

Requirements

• Highly entrepreneurial, with a deep passion for social impact, having worked or volunteered intensively on projects that improve the world
• Has 4+ plus years of experience working in a fast paced environment or small start-up
• Has agency, consulting, or project-based work experience (preferable but not a mandatory)
• Is open and flexible to wearing many hats, is a proactive self-starter who is passionate about making things better, and has a great sense of humor

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About the Role

We’re a new agency with a small, diverse team based in Santa Monica, CA, and are currently looking for a bright, entrepreneurial, and passionate person to join our team as a Strategic Partnerships Fellow. This person will work closely with the Strategic Partnerships Manager and Director to coordinate account relations across key campaigns, while overseeing the production of some discrete campaign elements (e.g. print, video, web development etc.).

Ideal Start Date: 1/13/14, 10 week fellowship

Paid/unpaid: Paid

Responsibilities

• Help coordinate day-to-day client relations and project management
• Contribute to strategy/planning work
• Contribute to production processes
• Manage select vendor relationships
• Manage fact checking and other due-diligence

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial spirit, with a deep passion for social impact, having worked or volunteered intensively on projects that improve the world
• Has 1+ plus years of experience interning or working in a fast paced environment or small start-up
• Is open and flexible to wearing many hats, is a proactive self-starter who is passionate about making things better, and has a great sense of humor

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About the Role

Enso is looking for a talented designer to join our team on a freelance basis. This will include a spectrum of brand identity work, infographics, digital, advertising and collateral. This person will participate on the creative concept level with the creative directors and creative teams across our deliverables on various projects. The position requires a strong ability to translate narrative and conceptual ideas into powerful and innovative visual language. A mastery of graphic design, typography, print layout and interactive design for websites, mobile and social platforms is essential. A commitment to meaningful work and positive social impact is also a must.

Responsibilities

• Conceive and develop large and game-changing creative concepts and social innovations
• Work with the Creative Directors, Copywriter(s) and Art Director(s) to concept visual directions for creative projects
• Establish the overall design language of a project or campaign
• Report to Art Director(s) and Creative Director(s) to maintain enso design standards across all projects
• Work closely with Project Managers and Partnership & Strategy team to ensure project needs are on strategy and are met in a timely manner
• Keep up to date with popular culture and current trends in the design, creative, advertising, and social impact industries

Requirements

• Alignment with enso’s mission to create positive impact at scale
• 4+ years of experience in design across all major media
• Extensive working knowledge of digital workflow. Motion design experience a plus
• Strong skills in typography and layout
• The ability to articulate creative concepts and rationale internally and to clients
• Diligent about organizing versions and files
• Capacity to juggle multiple projects

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network.

About the Role

Enso is looking for a freelance project manager with creative agency experience and ability to manage multi-disciplinary campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Manage creative projects across digital, video and print
• Evaluate needs of each project and propose appropriate approach/plan
• Proactively manage timelines and budgets, maintain effective communication with team, maintain agency processes and offer recommendations for continued improvement
• Evaluate impact of project schedule changes and scope adjustments on agency-wide resources and workstreams
• Work with Operations Director to evaluate resource needs
• Risk assessment and contingency planning
• Be creative, figure things out, help things get made

Requirements

• 5 years project management experience, at least 2 within a creative agency environment. Experience with project based budget management plus.
• Solid understanding of all aspects of a project from strategy through production
• Able to manage projects through multiple iterations and course corrections
• Strong presence and leadership, able to run project focused meetings with the full team and keep on task
• Possess formal project management knowledge with the ability to re-shape project plans on the fly, and with willingness to work differently if a project requires it
• Good judgement, calm demeanor, reliable, flexible, accountable, nice to be around.

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network.

About the Role

A copywriter will develop innovative and effective creative solutions for interactive, TV, video, print, direct response, and other media and promotional channels. They are responsible for managing the overall copywriting efforts for a specific client while researching, conceptualizing, writing, and editing original content and digital experiences.

A writer will collaborate with a diverse team, including art directors, strategists, designers, interaction designers, and producers. They will be passionate about the mission of enso, and eager to make work that creates positive impact at scale.

Responsibilities

• Conceive and develop large and game-changing creative concepts and social innovations
• Write comprehensive long-form copy, effective headlines, taglines, and engaging calls to action
• Exhibit a range of styles for a variety of industries, clients and executions
• Develop executions and content strategies for various social media platforms
• Work with the team to deliver on time and on brief

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-8 years copywriting experience
• A deep understanding of and passion for the social innovation/social entrepreneurship space
• The ability to articulate creative concepts and rationale internally and to clients
• The capacity to juggle multiple projects

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network.

About the Role

Video Producer with experience working within an agency and/or production setting.

Responsibilities

• Working with internal creative and project management personnel to create exceptional work
• Creating, tracking, and maintaining video budgets from development through post
• Sourcing, engaging and managing quality outside vendors to collaborate on our projects

Requirements

• Experience overseeing scripted, documentary, and animated projects
• Able to work as a local in the Los Angeles-area
• Valid passport and willingness to travel for extended periods

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network.

About the Role

An art director will develop innovative and effective creative solutions for interactive, TV, video, print, direct response, and other media and promotional channels. Particularly, the art director’s responsibility is to oversee all visual aspects of the work from concept to design to production.

The art director should possess the ability to work with clients in different industries and must be able to work comfortably with people from different disciplines and with different creative teams. They should also be able to collaborate effectively with copywriters, strategists, technologists, producers, account managers, and others outside the immediate creative team (e.g, Digital Studio, production vendors). They will be passionate about the mission of enso, and eager to make work that creates positive impact at scale.

The art director should should also be able to collaborate effectively with copywriters, strategists, technologists, producers, account managers, and others outside the immediate creative team (e.g, Digital Studio, production vendors). They should also have the ability to work with clients in different industries. They will be passionate about the mission of enso, and eager to make work that creates positive impact at scale.

Responsibilities

• Conceive and develop large and game-changing creative concepts and social innovations
• Concept and collaborate with a team, including copywriters, strategists, designers, interaction designers, and producers.
• Strong foundation in design and typography. Well versed sensibility for photography and film. Strong working knowledge of current digital media from web to mobile.
• Be fluent in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Exhibit a range of conceptual and aesthetic styles and for a variety of formats.
• Develop executions and content strategies for social media platforms
• Work with account managers and strategists to ensure creative concepts, tactics, and designs are on brand and strategically sound.
• Work with the team to ensure concepts and art direction is delivered on deadline and in accordance with clients’ criteria.

Requirements

• Alignment with enso’s mission to create meaningful things by powering the good in all of us.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks.
• Marketing sense and an interest in helping to develop campaign platforms that can work across channels.
• Well-developed communication skills, including the ability to articulate creative concepts and rationale for client and team
• Keeps up to date with popular culture and trends
• Stays abreast of current trends in creative work produced within the advertising industry

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network. We’re a new agency with a small, diverse team based in Santa Monica, CA.

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Build ad and print ready mechanicals, including layout and typography for production
• Prep files for web production
• Comp quality image retouching and composition
• Basic graphic design and illustration as directed by AD/CD
• Proof all production files for accuracy
• Prepare and compress files for posting to FTP sites and servers
• Work with Production and Creative to establish and maintain studio best practices including workflow, quality assurance, font management and digital asset management.
• Work with IT to maintain studio hardware, software, servers.
• Other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Studio Techniques or Graphic Design, or equivalent work experience
• A solid understanding of color management, proofing, prepress and mechanical file construction and disk release
• Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat
• Must possess excellent typographical and layout skills
• Understanding of the pre-press and print production process
• Must be familiar with image compression, file correction and optimization techniques
• Able to turn around projects quickly and accurately
• Meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and adjust priorities to meet deadlines
• Highly organized approach to problem solving and project management
• Flexibility and the ability to handle constructive criticism are essential
• Work well in a team setting

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network. We’re a new agency with a small, diverse team based in Santa Monica, CA.

About the Role

Enso is looking for a creative and resourceful art buyer/producer for an approximately 3 month long project beginning mid to late July. Planning stages of project may only require part time availability, shoot production and delivery would require heavier time commitment.

Responsibilities

• Source photographer, negotiate fees and usage
• Troubleshoot and manage production including schedule, shoot logistics, travel arrangements, budget, shot list etc
• Secure rights and clearances as needed
• Manage photography delivery and post production
• May require travel to 3 international locations

Requirements

• Experience managing shoots in international locations
• Understanding of conventional approach, with the ability to work completely unconventionally
• Ability to understand the end goal, to plan for it, to accommodate inevitable challenges and direction changes while keeping the project and team on goal.

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About enso

Enso is a creative, strategy, and community activation agency uniting business success with positive social impact. Our mission is to create impact at scale. We work across departments at Google (Policy, Brand Reputation Management Team, Google Fiber, etc.), and Omidyar Network. We’re a new agency with a small, diverse team based in Santa Monica, CA.

About the Role

Enso is looking for a creative and resourceful art buyer/producer/researcher for an approximately 2 to 4 month long project beginning early August.

Responsibilities

• Research UGC, stock photography
• Source photographers experienced in ‘real people’ shoots
• Set up shoots, help with casting and props
• Secure rights and clearances as needed
• Maintain established review and approvals workflow
• Manage research/shoot schedule as determined by editorial calendar

Requirements

• Experience acquiring and managing high volume of images
• Understanding of conventional approach, with the ability to work completely unconventionally
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams at once

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Are you passionate about social impact, and interested in working with us on a freelance basis? Let us know you’re out there by filling out our form, and we’ll reach out to you when the right project comes up.

Here are some of the freelance roles we hire for:

• Animator
• Art Director
• Copywriter
• Designer
• Developer
• Digital Strategist
• Director
• Planner
• Producer
• Project Manager
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategist
• UX Designer

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