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This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

No experience required

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane.

Salary: $70,000 - $95,000

As a Digital Manager, you will be the heartbeat of the team and the main point of contact for clients, managing their paid digital media investment. You’ll be the one putting together the most appropriate digital strategy for each client and making sure KPIs are met. You’ll also be the bridge between digital and the other areas of the agency, making sure digital is being included in all relevant media plans and the best solutions are presented to the clients.

You’ll also work close to the Digital Director to make sure the team is well-resourced and happy, and enhancing the digital product for the agency.

You will be in charge of leading and managing a team across Strategy and Planning, Investment and Digital to produce integrated recommendations across all media channels. You’ll be focusing on dynamic, fast moving and innovative client account.

Responsibilities of the role:

As a Digital Manager, you’ll be working towards:

• Ability to take client briefs and translate into a detailed digital media plan.
• Works closely with Client Lead in understanding comms goals and help deliver those in a campaign.
• Understands the role of channel and competence in planning all digital channels.
• Actively manages and owns detailed plans
• Analyse and interpret digital results and make sure digital campaigns are optimised to client KPI’s
• Oversees the management of campaign optimisation, ensuring the best results are being achieved according to clients’ goals.
• Implement best practice processes for optimising digital marketing campaigns
• Provide product management with strong knowledge of campaign needs and the implementation of processes created to support them
• Manage and maximise value of clients’ budgets in all media negotiations, by setting and monitoring negotiation/buying targets for team members
• Work effectively as a team player within Ikon and support others in their roles
• Participate in culture-based initiatives and encourages team members to participate as well
• Demonstrates knowledge of the digital media market and a specialist in the product area
• Lead the implementation and QA for all campaigns
• A curious mind that keeps abreast of the changing landscape and confidence to put new ideas in front of clients with absolute conviction
• Ensure the team hit and exceed client targets and expectations
• Work with the Communications Director to keep the team happy, motivated and positive
• Prioritise the workload of the Digital team and is involved with training and development of Digital Analysts
• Provides on the job coaching and mentoring for Digital Analysts within the team
• Implement and manage Digital strategies alongside client teams to ensure they are integrated, brilliant and deliver upon client objectives
• Consult with publishers to ensure campaigns are delivered in the best possible way for the client
• Aligns Digital and traditional activity to allow for complete integration
• Work with publishers on implementing new Beta tests
• Provide reporting insights for clients into performance drivers
• Ensures attention to detail for all tasks and accepts accountability for any errors that occur
• Responsible for meeting and exceeding all client needs from a Digital perspective (and beyond, whenever possible)
• Ensure clients remain up to speed with the changing Digital landscape and opportunities that the channel presents.
• Develop excellent client relationships to ensure clients are comfortable about all recommendations
• Consult with Communications Managers and Digital Managers to ensure Digital concepts are aligned with overall campaign
• Provide reporting insights for clients into performance drivers
• Ensures attention to detail for all tasks and accepts accountability for any errors that occur

What you will need:

• Ad serving and ad operations
• Knowledge of advancements in online media planning, buying and algorithmic optimisation
• Continuous knowledge of the Digital product and changes in the market
• Embrace the speed and diversity in which we operate
• Be open minded to new possibilities
• Strive for progression and personal development
• Energetic and creative optimist who is always looking to do and try things differently.

Summary of role requirements:

• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role

This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

No experience required

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,000.00 to $140,000.00 /year

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane.

We are looking for a talented Designer to join us!

The Role:

In this role, you will play an essential role in the strategy, conception, and design of beautiful ideas, products, and services. You will bring exceptional creative thought and craft output, developing and delivering projects from brief to end user.

The Designer will work both independently and collaboratively with the Design Team - to evaluate design options, develop and push to find ‘big ideas’ based on design strategy and the creative brief.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures all correspondence, materials, presentations, proposals, etc., seen by prospective and existing clients are error-free, of the highest quality, and always relevant to the client’s issues
• Partners effectively with all departments to ensure delivery of on-time, high-quality deliverables that address all relevant prospective clients requirements
• Communicates findings and recommendations in a clear and compelling manner in all written and oral presentation forms
• Keeps abreast of current design trends, remaining continuously curious
• Participates in meetings and critiques; explains and substantiates existing or potential design direction
• With input from Senior Designers and Design Directors, further explores specific design concepts, begins refinement of concepts.
• Plans and conducts design research

What we are looking for:

• Someone who can ensure projects and tasks are delivered on time and on budget, and to the highest quality.
• Someone who can ideate and co-design with peers and clients in a positive and collaborative manner
• A candidate who can provide design solutions across various touchpoints
• Someone who can present design work confidently to stakeholders, and build trusting relationships

You’ll need to:

• Have experience within a dedicated digital or specialty design role (agency or client-side)
• Have exceptional design aesthetics with a portfolio to demonstrate
• Have strong communication skills.
• Be proficient in user-centered design methodologies and design thinking
• Stay up to date with the latest design and technology trends

Summary of role requirements:

• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role

Please apply using the link below. Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

No experience required

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $70,000.00 to $120,000.00 /year

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane.

We are looking for a BA who has demonstrated experience in business and data analysis alongside project delivery. You’ll be confident working across functional teams and will be able to join our team on a Full-time basis within one of our agencies.

As a Business Analyst, you are responsible for leading the written recommendations and documentation required throughout the project lifecycle working closely with Clients and our Project Management Office, Technical Development, Design and User Experience teams.

Who are we looking for?

• 2 years agency experience
• High attention to detail
• Confidence in presenting to wide range of Stakeholders.
• Ability to think analytically and solve data problems
• Understand various concepts and terminologies, including highly technical content, and express them in a clear and concise manner
• Excellent analytical and research skills with the ability to collect and analyse complex material and data, and present it in accessible and clear/simple formats
• A person who can grow in to a more senior role in 18 months

You’ll need to be:

• Passionate, energetic & proactive
• Strong in organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload and multitask
• A team player
• Personable – with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients
• Highly motivated
• Someone with strong written & verbal communication skills
• Someone who has a “can do” attitude

Summary of role requirements:

• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role

Please apply using the link below. Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

No experience required

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $90,000.00 to $160,000.00 /year per candidate

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane where this role can be performed out of. Please note that some interstate travel may be required.

WPP AUNZ are searching for a Creative Team (Art Director & Copywriter) or a talented ‘single’ to join our fantastic team.

Here are things you’ll need to do and be good at:

Art Director

• Think conceptually and solve business problems presented by the client.
• Execute ideas flawlessly - paying particular attention to design, layout, and typography.
• Contribute to the communication of our creative ideas to clients at the highest possible standard.
• Interact with the client and account management to gain a total understanding of the client’s business strategy and the market.
• Provide formal feedback for performance evaluations of team members at the close of a project
• Understand the importance of the “big idea” and how well the work reflects it.
• Understand the marketing objectives and demonstrate an ability to deliver the “message” through design.• Help prepare presentation boards.

Copy Writer

• Think conceptually and solve business problems presented by the client (yep, like the art director).
• Understand the importance of the “big idea” and how well the work reflects it.
• Understand the marketing objectives and demonstrate an ability to deliver the “message”.
• Create and conceptualise multiple concepts for new assignments.
• Write strategically sound creative copy that changes what consumers do.
• Contribute to the communication of our creative ideas to clients at the highest possible standard.
• Interact with the client and account management to gain a total understanding of the client’s business strategy and the market.
• Be a key creative link with the client.
• Support, prepare and present new business development and presentations.
• Contribute to the constantly evolving communication excellence.
• Work with clients and account management to thoroughly understand the business, marketplace, project goals, and specific objectives

What you’ll need:

You'll need a book full of ideas from both traditional and digital media that make us want more, as well as a passion for the business and a desire to do great work. You thrive on working to deadlines, and you definitely don’t shy away from a challenge.
WPP AUNZ is the leading marketing communications services group in Australia and New Zealand. No other group comes close to our scale and breadth of capability, comprising of 5,500 people working across more than 80 companies in over 170 offices. We know that the most powerful role we can play is to bring together the best knowledge, thinking and talent to meet our clients’ challenges with bigger, better and smarter ideas – we call this way of working ‘ Connected Know-How’.

Summary of role requirements:

• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role

Please apply using the link below. Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

No experience required

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $60,000.00 to $95,000 per year

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane.

We are looking for an experienced consultant to join our team on a full-time basis within one of our agencies.

Your responsibilities:

• Build a trusting relationship with the clients you work with, and with the rest of your team
• Manage client expectations – keep them in the loop in terms of work in progress, recognise issues early, and pre-empt them.
• Understand your client’s business - their organisational structure, culture, and politics.
• Contribute to the development of business and marketing plans by understanding the market and consumers.
• Understand trends and influences within the client’s market including competitor activity
• Lead a mixed discipline agency team in delivering high-quality creative solutions.

You’ll need relevant qualifications plus a proven track record of managing client relationships at the most senior level. The ideal candidate has a strong strategic point of view and has a passion for outstanding creative work. A great team leader and mentor, you have a meticulous eye for detail and an ability to always be ahead of the game.

We’re looking for someone who relates well to a variety of people, builds productive relationships, inspires, encourages, and facilitates co-operation. Plus you’ll manage team resources to maximise productivity and contribution.

Who we are looking for?

• Have between 2 – 8 years’ experience that includes project management, leading people, and handling clients.
• Have experience in taking briefs, writing proposals, and writing story led research reports.
• Have experience of working across markets and disciplines.
• Have good commercial skills, always curious to learn and find new things out about the market, clients, and the way insights can be delivered and actioned.
• Bright, eager, optimistic, clear attention to detail, solutions-focused, problem solver.

You’ll need to be someone who:

• Demonstrates strong leadership and client engagement skills for both large, strategic and smaller, tactical research programs.
• Helps to nurture and grow client relationships, ensuring a deep understanding of the client’s business.
• Manages and coaches junior team members.
• Has the ability to get under the skin of clients’ business issues, diagnose business questions, co-create briefs with clients.
• Is willing to go beyond the data to deliver strong insight-led narratives, through workshops and presentations.
• Can Support proposals and pitches, and work with key leads across our expert areas to ensure the best thinking is leveraged to respond to clients’ business questions.

Summary of role requirements:

• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role


Please apply using the link below. Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $65,000 to $120,000 /year

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane. We are looking for an experienced Ad Operations Manager to join our team on a Full-time basis within one of our agencies. We have offices based on Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane, so the role could be based in either of these locations.

The Role:

The Ad Operations Manager role will be responsible for the assistance of day to day leadership and running of the Ad Operations team in one of our agencies. The team consists of specialists who work across multiple clients across each agency to ensure the management and delivery of high-quality digital operations campaigns and products.

A core function of the role includes supporting the team, ensuring that campaigns go live on time and with 100% accuracy. This involves being a digital expert, helping guide and support planners and clients to ensure technical needs of our clients are being met.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Product: Timely and accurate delivery of digital campaign implementation across three Agencies
• People: Lead day to day relationships with media planners and buyers and ensure timelines are adhered to and expectations are managed
• Process: Ensure best in class process and 100% accuracy for all digital campaigns
3 best things about the job:
• Exposure to some of the best clients in the industry across the WPP AUNZ portfolio and beyond
• Becoming a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the technical space, in topics such a Brand Safety, Ad Fraud and Viewability (BAV), Dynamic Creative Optimisation (DCO) and Tag Management Systems (TMS)
• Working with a highly energetic and technical team, to help grow the success of the business

Measures of success:

In three months:

• With unmatched Ad Op skills, Ad Tech know-how and a can do attitude, you’ll be the go to team member for managing and delivering our digital campaigns and acting as the guru for all things ad related.
• You will help set the process and frame work for advertising operations for the business here alongside the Ad Ops Director.

In six months:

• You will be able to competently lead and coach your team to manage and traffic standard display and video campaigns.
• You will solely manage the full campaign planning and implementation for a number of your own clients.

In 12 months:

• Project ownership to increase technical expertise in the industry.
• Coach your team to deliver higher performance areas.

What you will need:

• Experience within an Ad Ops team.
• Strong communication (written and verbal)
• Be highly numerate and organized
• Strong attention to detail
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Highly motivated and passionate individual who is keen to start their career in digital advertising

Summary of role requirements:
• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role


Please apply using the link below. Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

This is a role at VMLY&R Agency which is part of the WPP network.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $85,000 – $110,000

Location: Office location will be determined dependant on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane.

Job Description:

• You’ll work at a senior level with clients to help develop the strategic direction of their business;
• You’ll manage a client portfolio to meet agreed revenue and profit targets.

Your responsibilities:

• Build a trusting relationship with the clients you work with, and with the rest of your team
• Manage client expectations – keep them in the loop in terms of work in progress, recognise issues early and pre-empt them.
• Understand your client’s business - their organisational structure, culture and politics.
• Contribute to the development of business and marketing plans by understanding the market and consumers.
• Understand trends and influences within the client’s market including competitor activity
• Lead a mixed discipline agency team in delivering high quality creative solutions.

You’ll need relevant qualifications plus a proven track record of managing client relationships at the most senior level. The ideal candidate has a strong strategic point of view, and has a passion for outstanding creative work. A great team leader and mentor, you have a meticulous eye for detail and an ability to always be ahead of the game.

We’re looking for someone who relates well to a variety of people, builds productive relationships, inspires, encourages and facilitates co-operation. Plus you’ll manage team resources to maximise productivity and contribution.

Summary of role requirements:
• Flexible hours available
• No experience required for this role
• Working rights required for this role

Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

About the Design Research team 

At Canva, our users are at the heart of everything we do. Our Design Research team plays a vital role in the vision and success of our company. One of the best things about Canva is how much everyone across the business cares about users and improving their experience - you’ll never have to sell anyone on the value of user research.

Our team conducts qualitative and quantitative research to inform design decisions, product strategies, and identify opportunities. We believe that research findings are most powerful when they’re out of reports, and actively being applied and used by product teams. Researchers partner with PMs, designers, engineers, and marketers to help them better understand Canva’s multi-faceted user base, solve complex challenges, and improve the product experience for millions of users worldwide. 

Our research team is diverse, collaborative, and supportive. We each bring unique strengths and interests to the group and encourage each other to grow in our craft every day. 

About the Supergroup
The Teams & Education Supergroup is on a mission to power up design to enable learning, creativity, collaboration, and productivity. Canva’s subscription products including Pro, Teams, Education and Nonprofits are all product led from within the Teams & Education supergroup as well as all core teams experiences such as content management and collaboration. In 2023, we dream of making Canva a household name in every team, with a huge focus on winning teams after seeing huge success of teams growth in 2022. 

So far we’ve launched a range of teams and collaboration capabilities, but this is just the beginning of our journey. As the Design Research Manager for the Teams & Education Supergroup, you will help us deliver a number of critical initiatives to achieve our company-level strategy of driving teams and collaboration in Canva. We want to make Canva the tool that every team - big and small - wants to use to collaborate and communicate every day, from the classroom to the workplace. 

About the role

We’re searching for an experienced Senior Design Research Manager to define and implement the research strategy for our Teams & Education Supergroup. Research projects you’ll oversee directly tie to Canva’s company-wide goals, so increasing user understanding and identifying key product opportunities is of critical importance.  

Your responsibilities include leading a team of 7+ researchers. This role will require you to thrive in a collaborative fast-paced environment, working with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales and everyone else in between. You have deep experience coaching and leading researchers and your communication skills empower you to inspire your teams to dream and achieve crazy big goals.

Your sphere of ownership includes:

• Prioritizing what research is happening across the entire Supergroup, including proactively identifying gaps in knowledge.
• Ensuring all research conducted across the Supergroup is high quality; helping elevate research findings into truly design-inspiring and business-impacting insights 
• Influencing product and business decisions at the founder and senior leadership level, sharing research insights and opportunities, and acting as the voice of the customer. 
• Driving deep understanding and empathy of our diverse users and their needs: users of Canva from kindy to the large Enterprises.

At Canva, we approach management differently than other companies. We call managers “coaches” because this reflects the type of relationship we’d like you to have with your direct reports (“coachees.”). As a UX Research Coach, you’ll work closely with your researchers, unlocking their potential to maximize their own performance. We value autonomy, setting crazy big goals, personal growth, and self-reflection.  

Additionally, our managers are “player-coaches.” This means that you won’t solely be managing researchers. You’ll keep one foot in the craft – this could mean synthesizing findings across previous studies; providing consultative support for designers or PMs conducting research; or even leading your own research projects. 

What you’ll do 

• Build and manage a high-performing team of 7+ researchers. Support them through 1:1 coaching, including shaping research plans, providing constructive feedback, setting career goals, and formal reviews. 
• Develop research roadmaps for the Supergroup, aligned to product and business objectives, and be able to adjust these if/when priorities shift
• Act as a trusted, strategic partner to Supergroup Leads (Design, Product, Engineering, Data) through your team delivering research insights that lead to demonstrable business value. Work closely with Leads to apply research findings and implement them in their short-and long-term strategy. 
• Define the T&E research team’s identity, ways of working, and culture. Create a positive environment of belonging, trust, safety, and inclusion. 
• Working with Canva’s Head of Research and other leaders, contributing to the UX Research team’s overall strategy and goals. Bring your ideas and initiative to level up our collective craft and impact. 
• Creatively build a strong research culture within the Teams & Education Supergroup, including at the leadership level. For example, showcasing research insights in Supergroup-wide presentations and workshops with cross-functional teams and executive, etc. 
• Lead foundational research projects for the Supergroup (which may include leading teams of multiple researchers, vendors, etc.), setting the standard for the high quality of research we strive for. 

Experience you will have:

• The ideal candidate is a qualitative researcher with 8+ years of experience leading research studies: planning, recruiting, executing, analyzing, and activating. We expect to hear examples of how your research influenced product and design team decision-making.
• At least 2+ years of experience coaching researchers - you understand how to make an impact through empowering, growing, and motivating others.
• Experience working with leadership teams; influencing strategic decisions with this audience
• Experience as a Design Research Lead, prioritizing and planning research strategy across multiple projects and researchers. 
• Extremely strong communicator when sharing research insights and user needs, and opportunities/impact. Whether it’s during a workshop, presentation, or even a Slack message - you have an innate ability to rally a team together and inspire change. 
• Deep grasp of qualitative research methodologies. You can flex research plans creatively based on constraints and context, clearly communicating trade-offs to stakeholders. 
• You thrive in a fast-paced work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills, autonomy, and driving forward through ambiguity. You can juggle multiple priorities and handle change. 
• Deep experience closely collaborating with product teams (PM, Design, Engineering, Marketing, and more). You enjoy collaborating with stakeholders throughout projects, and consider bringing them along the journey to be an essential part of the process. 
• Experience helping People Who Do Research (e.g. designers and PMs) become better researchers. For example, providing feedback on research plans, interview technique, or final reports. 
• You always keep your ear to the ground for relevant insights happening across the organization, understanding the implications and opportunities, and bringing it back to your team.
• A track record for proactively identifying opportunities to fix problems - whether for users externally, or internally

Nice to have

• B2B research experience with technical customers in enterprise organizations
• Experience leading ResearchOps programs, such as defining recruitment methods for niche participants