Junior Research Strategist Intern

This opportunity starts now, in January 2023. This is a hybrid role. We are looking for someone who can work 20-40 hours a week and come into the office some of the time.  We are located in downtown San Francisco.

Research is just the tool, while the thinking is what drives the discovery of powerful insights. Your job is to contribute to the GS&P research strategy discipline through curiosity, empathy and creative thinking.

Characteristics

Strong desire to learn about people and discover what drives them.

Proactive communicator

Collaboration is your default

Scientific brain when it comes to experimentation, rigor and curiosity.

Creativity when it comes to determining the types of questions to ask and the way the answers are interpreted.

Role & Responsibilities

Manage the day-to-day running of research studies. Assist and manage details of ad hoc projects so projects are completed on time and accurately.

Build and maintain solid and professional relationships with our research partners. Manage them when needed to complete projects on time and accurately.

Investigate and ask questions of internal stakeholders (or clients) to tease out research objectives.

Be a keen “fact hunter” – using client info & secondary data – while leveraging your experiences and knowledge to interpret the information.

Pull together top-line reports, while continuously thinking about and experimenting with new ways of visualizing data.

Identify and correct implicit bias, racism or other prejudices in any stage of the research process from design and hypotheses development through analysis

Become an expert on WARC, Mintel and other third-party data sources

Build strong relationships with your teammates

Learn the basic research toolkit:

Quantitative research:

Screener design and set-up quotas

Write questionnaires

Understand the differences between and when to use different scale structures

Understand the fundamentals of advanced analytic tools (for example, statistical testing) and be able to explain the results

Confidently know how to program and pull data in Qualtrics

Qualitative research:

Contribute to a discussion guide design and screener development

Identify key themes coming out of the qualitative research studies

Expectations:

We are in a service industry. We serve both our internal and external clients with exceptional care and professionalism and expect you will do the same.

While we are a fun, creative environment, we are also a highly professional place of business. We expect you to conduct yourself with a high level of professionalism and care in all things you do.

We strive to treat everyone with respect, honesty and empathy. We hope you will do the same.

 

If you have the qualifications we are looking for, we hope you will apply.

Thank you.

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Career Office Hours

Career Office Hours - for "non-creative" candidates

Trying to get a job in advertising? Maybe we can help.
Questions about your resume? Ask us.  
Wondering about your Linkedin profile? We have a point of view.
Bored by your cover letter? We can help.
Concerned about interviewing? Let us give you some advice.

We are Leslie Bee and Dynasty Williams. Together we support the talent funciton at GSP for most of the non-creative functions. We created these office hours as a way to help you get answers to your career questions.

Please join us for our next office hours session on Tuesday, February 7th, from 11:00-12:00pm PST.  

This session is geared to those who are new in their career and/or just starting out. If you are a current college student, recent college graduate and/or trying to break into advertising, we hope you will reach out. (If you are a junior creative, these sessions really aren't geared for you, we are sorry.)

To join, please send us 2-3 questions you'd like us to answer to: jobs@gspsf.com and we'll send you the invite - typically we send the invite a day or two before the session. (Don't worry if you don't hear from us until right before the session - we will get back to you.)

We look forward to helping you.

Leslie Bee & Dynasty Williams
Talent at GS&P

 

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Account Director - in New York

We are looking for an Account Director to join our outstanding Account Management Department in our New York office. This is a great role for someone who has just been promoted to Account Director and is ready to try their skills at a new agency, or someone who feels they are ready to be promoted to the Director level. In other words, this Account Director role is on the junior-side.

As an Account Director we expect that you are no longer managing projects but leading accounts or large pieces of accounts.  Your job is more than helping make the trains run well and on time.  It’s now about helping others make sure this happens.  And, more importantly, it’s about guiding the process and decisions on where to lay new track.  It’s a role that requires equal parts of quality control and leadership.

For us a great Account Director does the following:

1) Clearly defines the client’s business problem and gets people in the Agency excited to work on it.

2) Provides their own point-of-view that is considerate of both the Client’s and Agency’s viewpoints, but not necessarily beholden to either one of them.

3) Serves the needs of the individuals on their team and on the account.

Although you are the most senior person managing a team of people, this is not permission to act above the other people working on the account (especially the account managers).  Instead, you need to work to serve their needs, individual by individual.  This means making time for them – even treating their time as more important than your own. This can’t be emphasized enough.  The directors that people like working with the most seem to be the ones most generous and open with their time.

4.) Constantly set (and if necessary, change) the conditions on the account to allow people to do their best work. 

The salary range we have budgeted for this Account Director is 140-160k. If you have the experience to join us as an Account Director and understand how to help a client get to remarkable work, we look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you.

 

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Account Manager - Permanent and Contract

We currently have two Account Manager openings. One opportunity is salaried and the other is freelance.  We are looking for candidates with three to four years of advertising agency experience.  These are hybrid roles.  Ideally, the right candidate would be able to come into our San Francisco or New York office, three days a week. 

We are looking for a candidate who can do the following:

Pro-actively lead the development process from ideas through execution

Write and present clearly and persuasively

Champion great creative work

Is a well-liked, trusted and empathetic partner to clients

Has the experience to handle client meetings and productions, independently

Negotiate high-pressure situations in a positive, calm, objective, professional way

Take accountability to navigate and communicate timelines and deliverables

Stay positive, and knows how to keeps people motivated

Qualifications: 

You must have prior advertising agency experience, working in account management or project management with client contact.

You have experience with broadcast production - and can manage a shoot.

This is a chance to join an award-winning team and work with some of the best creative minds in the country.

Regarding compensation, the range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as a full-time employee of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

For the temporary/contract position, we will convert the annual salary to an hourly to determine the temp rate for candidate we hire.

$80,000 - $105,000

If you would like to apply, please submit your resume to the link below. 

We look forward to hearing from you.

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