Careers

Our Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for an experienced Business Development Manager to bring in qualified leads and assist in agency growth. Our ideal rep is an effective communicator with strong connections to decision makers at leading brands and within companies that may have never heard of us before, but have a need for our specific service set and industry expertise. Candidates must be proficient in digital marketing and digital business (i.e.websites, apps, etc)

What You’ll Do

• Profile potential prospects via predetermined criteria
• Generate new business opportunities by scheduling capability presentations with qualified prospects
• Meet pre-determined benchmarks based on number of monthly meetings/presentations and quality of agency-prospect match
• Research and strategize an approach to create interest and engage
• Identify and leverage compelling new business entry ways for targeted outreach
• Manage a variety of sales automation and online prospecting tools
• Prioritize and manage the lead queue volume effectively to maximize new opportunities
• Work closely with Account Executives to move prospects through pipeline and closing
• Learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of Ready Set Rocket's portfolio, industry trends and competition

Our Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of business development experience, preferably at a digital agency
• Clear and polished written communication skills
• Excellent speaking/listening skills and ability to engage prospects over the phone, in-person and via email
• Fearless attitude and a hunter mentality – willing to take intelligent risks
• Ability to work in a time-sensitive and high volume environment
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Methodological and organized
• Technically adept and able to use a variety of online and sales automation tools
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and independent
• Prior experience with a CRM and other sales automation tools is a plus

What You'll Do

As a senior front-end developer, you'll take a leadership position in helping create beautiful websites at Ready Set Rocket. You're an ace with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and love to play with emerging technologies to create beautiful, immersive experiences. You're a passionate front-end expert, and have a strong understanding of visual design. Not only can you write the code, but you can translate your technical knowledge and insight with designers, project managers, and clients. You have an incredible, obsessive attention to detail and passion for delivering awesome experiences. You love to collaborate with others, but also love tackling a challenge on your own. Your creativity and entrepreneurial mentality will help shape the strategy for Ready Set Rocket, and you like to dream big.   

Requirements

• 5+ years of front-end development experience
• Demonstrated track record of producing excellent quality work
• Online portfolio showcasing your abilities and recent work on live sites
• Accomplished ability with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and related technologies
• Passion for development with a sharp eye for high-end visual design
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical individuals 
• Excellent attention to detail and passion for quality
• Mobile and responsive design experience

Preferred Skills

• BA/BS in CS, Visual Design, or equivalent experience
• Basic knowledge of integrating with content management systems (Wordpress, SiteCore, etc)
• At least 2 years of agency experience
• Leadership experience, including setting and maintaining of elevated team standards in a fast-paced creative environment
• Basic knowledge of full-stack technologies a plus

Our Ideal Candidate
Ready Set Rocket is looking for an Account Director to step in as the strategic consultant for our clients. The Account Director will be the relationship owner across key relationships, and will act as the client gatekeeper to foster, retain, and grow relationships.Our ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of the digital landscape and best practices. You will work with the client and internal teams to identify and assess the client's business goals and challenges, and identify solutions that move the needle and generate measurable results. You are dedicated, detail oriented, passionate about what you do, and a self-proclaimed people person. As an advocate for both the agency and client, you will have full management responsibilities for the client relationship and associated work.

Ready Set Rocket is looking for a talented, hard-working and ego-free designer to join our growing team. 

Designers at RSR are highly motivated, highly curious individuals with a well-rounded skill-set and the desire to challenge themselves with a range of creative challenges and a high level of personal responsibility. Working with a Creative Director or Art Director, our designers create beautiful, functional visual solutions on a variety of projects for a variety of clients. In any given week, you could find yourself working on anything from integrated marketing campaigns and microsites to native apps, storyboards, social campaigns and much more. 

RSR is a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment, so a great attitude and comfortability working in a team setting is crucial. Our designers are given a high level of responsibility to contribute to the overall end products we produce, so designers who are self-driven and confident have a great opportunity to thrive and quickly expand their role within the team. With the support of the team, each designer is also encouraged to grow in areas of personal interest and develop a strategic understanding of the role of creative in the work they produce.

Responsibilities include:

• Follow a creative or account brief to conceptualize and design a unique look and feel 
• Take an established look and feel, understand the brand system and work from wireframes spider out templates
• Treat the web as a transitional medium, seamlessly integrating responsive layouts and motion into world-class web experiences.
• Design various digital assets including responsive layouts, custom infographics, experiential and informational sites and native applications.
• Design storyboards and set vision for motion projects 
• Establish the visual design for a given project and assist with maintaining the quality of design throughout all phases of the project, including leading the design QA, in-browser collaboration with the development team or revision process with other team members.
• Actively participate in brainstorm meetings with the creative team
• Participate in occasional visual design communication with clients as needed by the Art Director.
• Support the visual creation of internal Ready Set Rocket assets for all presentations, decks, collateral and website assets.

The ideal candidate would have:

• 3+ years working in the industry, preferably with some in an agency environment 
• A killer portfolio demonstrating an editor’s eye and a strong design point-of-view
• Experience designing both beautiful interactive experiences AND killer ads
• An interest in motion and video 
• Mastery of core Adobe Creative Suite products and an interest in learning new tools as needed
• A love of typography and keen eye for the latest developments in UX design
• Strong conceptual skills
• An insatiable desire to learn how everything works
• Serious attention to detail

If you have a passion for stunning visuals, a love of digital and want to be a part of a great team doing great work for great clients, what are you waiting for? We’d love to meet with you!

This position is full-time and NYC-based only. No recruiters please.

Ready Set Rocket is looking for a dynamic, experienced, digital Art Director to join our creative team.

Our Art Directors are the driving force behind all of our creative work and have a hands-on role in every phase of a project—from contributing to creative strategy and defining a creative vision, to presenting work, consulting with clients and working with designers and other creative team members to see the vision through to launch. 

Reporting to a Creative Director, Art Directors will find themselves on any given day working on a killer sports app, immersive microsite, major website redesign, brand strategy, video shoot, or a 360 or social campaign. This position offers a ton of opportunity for personal growth and high-level work across a variety of top-notch clients in spirits, finance, sports, entertainment and more while working with a brilliant, close-knit team in a fast, highly-collaborative (and highly dog-friendly) environment. 

To take on these challenges, we’re looking for a curious, flexible hybrid creative who knows how to translate strategy into compelling big ideas and award-worthy execution. Somebody who knows how to have fun while taking responsibility to deliver consistently high level work. Who knows that good ideas come from everywhere. Who knows that sometimes the best path forward starts at the ping pong table. And who knows that the best work comes from a team, not individuals. 

If that sounds like your kind of jam, let's talk.

Your day-to-day would include:

The Ideal Candidate

Ready Set Rocket seeks a talented writer and ideas person to join its growing creative team as Copywriter. Qualified candidates must show proven experience developing integrated campaigns and marquee brand experiences from concept to completion. 

Our ideal candidate should know how to put consumers-first and bring a brands to life strategically, connect to audiences with storytelling and compelling messages across all interactions, meet tight deadlines and solve on their feet. We’re also looking for someone who remains ahead of industry trends, shows passion for making award-winning work and is completely obsessed with words.

Please submit a portfolio along with your application for consideration. 

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to contribute original and insightful ideas
• Develop the voice, story and experience across a variety of brands
• Write copy for a variety of clients and business needs (i.e. social, web, scripts, online ads, etc.)
• Guide content strategy and development of content systems
• Translate copy/ideas into visual experiences
• Pitch creative work and contribute ideas in client meetings
• Assist with new business pitches 

Our Requirements

• 5+ years agency experience, preferably digital 
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, English, creative writing or similar
• Impeccable written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of content strategy – how it is shaped and supports on-going engagement
• Understanding of the customer journey and ways to communicate at various touch points
• Have a keen eye for detail
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• MS Office, Adobe Suite, Mac OS skills 

The Ideal Candidate
Ready Set Rocket is looking for a Senior Account Manager to step in as a strategic consultant for our clients. The Senior Account Manager will lead account management efforts while contributing to the overall leadership of cross-functional teams to meet client goals. The right candidate will be responsible for assessing client business needs and creating project plans and scopes of work.
Our ideal candidate will understand how to work closely with various departments and clients, acting as an advocate for both the agency and client. You will have full management responsibilities of ensuring client success as well as the growth and quality of our client relationships.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive project plans and timelines
• Manage day-to-day communication across a range of clients and projects
• Develop client proposals and execute Statements of Work
• Identify and present client growth opportunities
• Assist in development of client strategy presentations
• Translate client requests into actionable Account Briefs
• Coordinate with PMs and production teams to create project milestones and deliverable schedules
• Act as primary client contact
• Generate all meeting agendas and responsible for all client deliverables
• Lead client training-related exercises (admins, marketing softwares, etc)
• Manage client milestones and budgets
• Work across departments to ensure work is completed on time and within approved budget
• Perform final QA on major deliverables to ensure all work is delivered to spec against approved SOW or project brief
• Act as an internal and client liaison; facilitating open communication between teams
• Attend internal and client meetings
• Help facilitate growth through ongoing recommendations for improvements to overall project efficiency

Our Requirements

• At least 4 years of digital agency experience in managing relationships required
• Bachelor's degree 
• Solid understanding of account and project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk and run team meetings
• Proven track record in prioritizing a heavy workload
• Able to meet deadlines with accuracy and minimum supervision
• Superb written and communications skills are vital to this role
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented
• Comfortable and confident acting as a product owner
• Professional, friendly demeanor with extremely strong organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to solve problems with keen instincts and organizational experience
• Positive, professional team-player who embraces team 
• Expert knowledge of the entire digital ecosystem across entire landscape (paid, earned, owned media, social, mobile, user experience, analytics, etc.)

What You'll Do

As a member of our team, the Digital Producer leads production efforts on multiple accounts. Responsible for product quality, managing timeline, and profitability — the Digital Producer is the product owner for all assigned projects. This role requires management of the entire process from definition of estimates, scope of work, and comprehensive project plans, through to QA and launch. Working closely with various departments and clients, you will act as a communications liaison to ensure various departments succeed, and client needs and objectives are translated into effective solutions.

What You'll Contribute

• Compile Project Estimates
• Comprehensive project planning
• Weekly profitability reporting
• Weekly resource planning
• Identify strategic growth opportunities
• Manage production calendars
• Manage production budgets
• Work across departments to ensure work is completed on time and within approved budgets
• Gather assets from clients and ensure items are organized and accessible to production resources in a timely manner
• Lead User Acceptance Testing efforts
• Manage deliverable deadlines and internal review processes
• Manage QA process to ensure all work is delivered to spec against approved SOW or project brief
• Act as an internal liaison; facilitating open communication between teams
• Provide status of timeline, profitability and progress on all assigned projects during weekly status meetings
• Manage client and internal weekly status updates
• Set up, plan agendas for, and lead internal team meetings and client-deliverable meetings and provide actionable notes/recaps

Requirements

The ideal candidate will possess the following credentials:

• At least 4 years of digital agency experience in managing web projects required
• Solid understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed project plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and run team meetings
• Proven track record in prioritizing a heavy workload
• Ability to meet deadlines with accuracy and minimum supervision
• Superb written and communications skills
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented
• Comfortable and confident acting as a product owner
• Professional, friendly demeanor with extremely strong organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to solve problems with keen instincts and organizational experience
• Bachelor's degree required
• Positive, professional team-player who embraces team success