Careers

Account Director, Digital Marketing

Are you are a digitally fluent individual?

Is your passion found within the dynamic world of online and digital marketing?

Does the opportunity to help build our Digital Practice, working with a fantastic team of high energy professionals excite you?

Thornley Fallis is looking for brightest and best to join our growing Digital Marketing practice. A leader with comprehensive knowledge of the digital space and the passion to evangelize everything web, you have the requisite marketing background to understand and deliver bottom-line business objectives that drive client success. You'll lead the charge, developing strategic results-oriented programs with the ability to roll-up your sleeves and continually achieve outstanding results for our clients.

Not only do you use terms like optimization, testing, conversion and analytics - but you know what they mean and can properly apply them. You believe in permission, conversation and community as core principles of new marketing and, can build programs on that foundation.

A well-connected individual, you are involved in the marketing community and love to develop new business. We seek a team player that always brings their "A" game, thinks like an entrepreneur and inspires others by example.

Is this you? Sound like someone you know?

Ideal candidates will have:

• 6 or more years experience in Digital Marketing, agency or client-side
• Demonstrated acumen in Social Media
• Superior business development skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain great client relationships
• A university degree

Responsibilities include:

• Account strategy and management
• Strategic client counsel and project/campaign management
• New business development
• Staff recruitment and mentoring

Thornley Fallis Communications is a Canadian leader in the new world of marketing and communications, combining Public Relations, Digital Marketing and Social Media to provide bottom-line results for our clients. If you think you are ready to help us achieve spectacular results for our clients, please send your CV directly to: fleet@thornleyfallis.com.

Account Director, Health Care

Love health care public relations?
Enjoy the flexibility and team-orientation of an independent agency?
Ready to take on a leadership role?
Let's talk about it.

We are looking for the right person to take on a leadership role in our team. You will have a good knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and the health care system. You are familiar with the emerging power of social media and have an interest in integrating this into traditional PR program elements.

Ideally you will also have:

• 8 or more years experience in public relations consulting, and/or
• Experience in the pharma and/or health care industries, and
• A broad network of friends and associates who trust and depend on your counsel.

Responsibilities include:

• Account strategy and management,
• Strategic communications counsel and planning,
• Staff recruitment and mentoring, and
• New business development.

We have a great team of people, wonderful clients and an innovative and competitive compensation package.

Ready to talk? Contact Jennifer Nebesky (nebesky@thornleyfallis.com), 416/515-7517 extension 340.

Senior Consultant / Account Director - Ottawa

We are recruiting senior public relations / communications professionals for our growing Ottawa office.

Candidates should have a consulting, agency or journalism background and/or significant experience in conceptualizing, planning and executing public relations programs and activities for government organizations, private sector companies and/or national associations.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to:

• Build and lead teams, allocate resources, and manage multiple projects and budgets simultaneously.
• Deploy a broad range of leading-edge communications methodologies and tactics.
• Manage relationships and provide clients with effective strategic advice.
• Integrate new media, web and social media tools into communications programs.
• Develop and close new business opportunities, including proposal development and presenting to clients/prospects.

Candidates must be highly-motivated and thrive in a fast-paced team environment, possess superior communications and exceptional writing skills, and deliver outstanding client service. Bilingualism is a definite asset.

The Thornley Fallis team prides itself on working collaboratively, and we are looking for consultants interested in joining a group of fun, dynamic professionals who are committed to providing clients with the best possible counsel, service and results.

CVs can be submitted to:

Keelan Green
Vice-President & General Manager
Thornley Fallis Communications
55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 730
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6L5
green@thornleyfallis.com

Art Director - 76design, Ottawa

Leadership

• Develop and implement the firm’s creative direction
• Lead and inspire our design team to conceptualize, develop and produce high-end, innovative creative for print, web and multimedia
• Mentor junior creative staff on issues of client relations, design, user interfaces, information design, interactive design, current technology, production coordination
• Resilience in bridging the gap between designer/developer/manager
• Maintain visibility and respect in the online community
• Grow the topline and contribute to the growth and development of our business
• Identify and recruit talent for the group as required
• A compelling communicator with exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills
• Works well within a team environment
• Passion for design and eagerness to mentor and elevate other creative people
• Should be able to present strategy, concepts and ideas to clients in a convincing manner.
• Innate awareness of studio’s strengths and weaknesses, and guts to guide in matters of creativity and design, process, client relations, work environment, and technology as needed

Strategic and Analytical Thinking

• Understanding of fundamentals of new marketing and communications principles
• Gathering, reviewing and validating project requirements
• Validating effort estimates, assumptions, scope, and creative design to assist in developing project schedules.
• Proposal development

Collaborative Creativity

• Ensuring the art assets align with technical and creative requirements
• Managing a diverse team of web designers, artists, writers and animators
• Creation of high-level graphical specifications for web development
• Creation of creative briefs and style guides
• Ensuring quality and continuity of work
• Designing procedures to integrate varying technologies to best meet all of the above requirements
• Contribute to the development of the Studio's culture and quality standards
• Facilitation of brainstorming sessions
• Ability to marry web design to web development

Qualifications

• 6+ years design work (proven in both print and web design),
• presentation of a portfolio demonstrating experience is required
• 1 – 2 years Art Director experience
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Extensive knowledge of colour theory, methodology and practice.
• Must have knowledge of web design and experience working with database driven web sites
• A solid understanding of informational architecture practices
• Experience managing and collaborating with clients
• Enthusiasm and vision to work within a growing company
• A relentless and visible passion for and participation in marketing and community engagement

We offer opportunity for personal and professional development, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package and a fantastic work environment. We tackle writer’s block with X-box, impediments with mini-sticks, and mid-week blues with midday jams.

Communicate with purpose. Let us know you want in now. We have no boundaries. We have nothing but opportunity. (And a beer fridge.)

Contact:

Laura Mindorff
laura@76design.com

Account Director - Toronto

Can you rise above the crowd and demonstrate your ability to surpass client expectations? We're looking for an experienced, senior public relations practitioner to join the Toronto office and add even further strength to our fast-growing technology and social media practice areas. The ideal candidate will possess a mixture of strategic depth and proven ability to execute flawless communications campaigns. We're looking for someone with more than seven years experience in professional communications consulting - perhaps you're a senior consultant in your current role, and ready to make the next career move into an Account Director position?

Responsibilities and duties will include:

• Client account strategy and account team management;
• Strategic communications counsel and tactical planning;
• Outstanding client service and relationship management;
• Contribution to new business development.

Thornley Fallis Communications has already emerged as a Canadian leader in the new world of social media consulting. If you're ready to help us achieve spectacular results for our clients, and drive even more business, we're ready to offer an attractive and comprehensive package of compensation and benefits. Please send your CV to: nebesky@thornleyfallis.com.

Senior Web Designer - 76design, Ottawa

Leadership

• Mentorship and motivation of junior creative staff on issues of client relations, design, user interfaces, information design, interactive design, current technology, production coordination
• Maintain visibility and respect in the online community
• Grow the topline and contribute to the growth and development of our business
• Contribute to the development of the Studio's culture and quality standards

Strategic and Analytical Thinking

• Understanding of fundamentals of new marketing and communications principles
• A solid understanding of informational architecture practices
• Gathering, reviewing and validating project requirements

Collaborative Creativity

• Creation of high-level graphical specifications for web development
• Ensuring quality and continuity of work
• Program development and implementation
• Able to facilitate brainstorms
• A keen sense for strong design and colour
• Strong ability to conceptualize on a high level
  

Qualifications

• 4+ years agency experience
• Desire to work with a growing company
• Presentation of a portfolio demonstrating experience in graphic design is required
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Hand code standards compliant code in XHTML/CSS/Javascript
• PHP knowledge an asset   
• Flash/AS3 knowledge an asset
• Extensive knowledge of colour theory, methodology and practice.
• Must have knowledge of web design and experience working with database driven web sites
• Direct experience with social media tools and platforms, including but not limited to blogging, micro sites, online monitoring, SEO, etc.
• A relentless and visible passion for and participation in marketing and community engagement

We offer opportunity for personal and professional development, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package and a fantastic work environment. We tackle writer’s block with X-box, impediments with mini-sticks, and mid-week blues with midday jams.

Communicate with purpose. Let us know you want in now. We have no boundaries. We have nothing but opportunity. (And a beer fridge.)

Contact

Laura Mindorff
laura@76design.com

Project Manager - 76design, Ottawa

Leadership

• Address client issues effectively and thoughtfully
• Oversee status reports with clients
• Handle measurement reporting
• Maintain visibility and respect in the online community
• Grow the topline and contribute to the growth and development of our business

Strategic and Analytical Thinking

• Active problem solving
• Ability to identify scope creep
• Aptitude for detecting weaknesses and talent for creating solutions
• Understanding of fundamentals of new marketing and communications principles

Collaborative Creativity

• Gift to get creative services and traditional PR to the altar on time
• Knack to drive peers to beat deadlines
• Writing skills

Qualifications

•  Demonstrated ability to motivate, delegate, judge and edit work of peers
• A natural ring leader
• Verified track record of developing and executing successful web development, web design and social media programs
• Direct experience with social media tools and platforms, including but not limited to blogging, micro sites, online monitoring, SEO, etc.
• A relentless and visible passion for and participation in marketing and community engagement
• Facility to move team seamlessly between stages of project
• Proven ability to multitask on an hourly basis

We offer opportunity for personal and professional development, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package and a fantastic work environment. We tackle writer’s block with X-box, impediments with mini-sticks, and mid-week blues with midday jams.

Communicate with purpose. Let us know you want in now. We have no boundaries. We have nothing but opportunity. (And a beer fridge.)

Contact:

Laura Mindorff
laura@76design.com