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Since 1998, “the WD” has helped some of America’s favorite premium brands grow and excel in their categories by delivering innovative advertising, marketing and public relations solutions. Our award-winning combination of industry veterans and rising stars can provide you with a complete menu of the strategic, research, media planning, PR, Social Media, creative and interactive services your brand needs to truly thrive in the marketplace.
Openings & Applying
Submit Cover Letter & Resume stating the position for which you are applying to the email address below. Potential candidates will be contacted for a phone interview.
Receptionist
The Receptionist provides a welcoming first impression for the agency, greeting visitors and routing calls. The Receptionist ensures that all supplies are ordered and available to agency employees. The Receptionist may be responsible for light accounting responsibilities. The Receptionist executes all tasks to the highest quality standards.
Details
Duties/Responsibilities
- Greets and welcomes all visitors to the agency, displaying a pleasant personality to employees and visitors
- Operates agency telephone system with a pleasant, positive tone, routing calls and taking messages
- Receives, posts, and distributes mail daily
- Maintains the tidiness of the agency to a high standard
- Monitor visitor access and maintain security awareness
- Provide general administrative and clerical support
- Prepares items for mailing
- Coordinates the pick-up and delivery of express mail services (FedEx, UPS, etc.)
- Maintains knowledge of agency calendar, preparing for client visits and knowing when guests are expected
- Prepare conference rooms for client meetings, lunches, etc.
- Organizing catering for in-house meetings and client meetings, as needed
- Prepares lunches for employees per schedule
- Monitors and maintains office equipment
- Arranges courier services, as necessary
- Orders necessary office, kitchen, and mailing supplies regularly
- Performs light accounting responsibilities
- Ensures that plants are watered and healthy
- Filing
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- College hours or higher education
- Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures
- Knowledge of Mac, QuickBooks, Excel, and Word
- Skilled use of computer keyboard
- Skilled management of phone system
- Takes direction well
- Pleasant telephone voice
- Pleasant demeanor toward employees, clients, and visitors
- Ability to adapt quickly
- Self-starter
- Detail-oriented
Key Competencies
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Professional personal presentation
- Customer service orientation
- Attention to detail
- Organization and planning
- Reliability
- Initiative
- Stress tolerance
- Flexibility
- Collaborative
- Accepting of appropriate criticism
Marketing Analyst Intern
The Marketing Analyst Intern will participate in marketing research and management of internal systems and tools. The intern will work closely with team members in using and developing detailed research tools and analyzing data. The intern must exhibit a commitment to pursuing resolutions to challenging projects.
Details
Duties/Responsibilities
- Provide competitive research and analysis support
- Assist with collection, analysis, and synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data sets
- Assist with strategic initiatives, including research and insights
- Maintain awareness of marketing and consumer trends
- Work in Paid Search, but also assist other platforms/teams, as needed
- Work with proprietary tools and database
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- Currently enrolled in university program
- Effectively communicate using all forms of interaction
- Think analytically
- Relational and composed in various settings
- Exercise excellent judgment of agency and client needs
- Capable of prioritizing tasks and managing last-minute requests
- Self-starter; take direction well
- Excellent listening skills
- Lifelong learner
- Ability to adapt quickly
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Mac experience, a plus)
Creative Intern
The Creative Intern works with the Creative team and assists with the development of new design content as well as maintenance of established brands. The Creative Intern experiences opportunities across the spectrum of agency creative work.
Details
Duties/Responsibilities
- Assists in the design and development of layouts for marketing materials, using appealing graphics that are well-organized
- Incorporates current design trends into each unique layout to produce an up-to-date style for custom ads
- Exercises good judgment when interpreting instructions and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions
- Utilizes strong written skills and brings effective visual ideas from concept through to completion
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- Working toward a BA or certificate from a Fine Arts program/Graphic Design School
- Proficient in working with the Adobe Creative Suite and with Mac OS
- Utilizes a keen understanding of typography and layout best practices for web and print
- Possesses working knowledge of CMS (WordPress preferred)
- Functions as a team player and flourishes in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
- Receives constructive criticism and feedback with an eagerness to improve
Web Developer Intern
The Web Developer Intern gains hands-on experience coding websites for a variety of agency clients. The intern will assist the development team with client projects and implementations as well.
Details
Duties/Responsibilities
- Maintain and update current sites, including WD website
- Assist in providing technical consultation and support to team
- Assist with website development, QA, content population, and testing
- Collaborate with other developers to handle client requests
- Develop and publish electronic newsletters
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- Previous experience in HTML5, CSS3 and Adobe Suite
- Knowledge of React, WordPress, Ruby, JavaScript, JQuery or PHP, a plus
- Eagerness to identify, learn, and use new and emerging technologies
- Ability to learn new technologies
- Capable of working in Mac OS
Senior Full Stack Developer
Digital Thrive, the development arm of Warren Douglas Advertising, is looking for an exceptionally well-rounded full-stack developer to help us build intelligent, passion-fueled websites, web apps, and dashboards. The ideal candidate is a naturally inquisitive tinkerer who likes to know how things work; a technology enthusiast looking to apply an established breadth of knowledge and experience in both front-end and back-end development.
Details
As an applicant, you should have a well-established foundation in modern web development, including JavaScript (vanilla, as well as modern frameworks like React, Angular, and Node), HTML, and CSS. You probably also have experience with other languages like PHP and Ruby. You’ve got a GitHub account and you’re passionate about using TDD. As a super candidate, you have a background in defining technical requirements or some other business-centric technical skillset, and experience in DevOps.
Reporting to the Director of Software Development, you’ll use your seasoned skillset to efficiently implement industry best-practices to build easy-to-use solutions for all of our clients’ challenges, and be a mentor to other developers on the team.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with project leads to understand our clients’ requirements, and lead in planning the best technical approach to meet and exceed their expectations
- Work with designers to turn their creative vision into a functional product
- Build and maintain web sites and web apps across various IP projects
- Build APIs to efficiently tap into third-party data sources
- Develop optimized, client-side code for a polished front-end experience
- Help scope new business opportunities, providing technical recommendations and participating in project pitches, as needed
- Lead efforts in optimizing our development workflow
- Mentor and guide developers to help them grow in our company
Who You Are
- You care about the well-being of your colleagues and are excited to contribute as an active and important member of the team
- You feel the allure of both front-end and back-end development: They’re both too good to choose just one!
- You’ve been working in JS/HTML/CSS/etc. for at least five years, and you’ve dabbled in PHP or Ruby on Rails
- You’ve got an eye for design and a good understanding of what makes a thing amazingly usable instead of frustratingly confusing
- You can’t stand the idea of releasing anything less than a top-notch product for your users
- You tinker away on side projects of your own, and have something to show for it
Who We Are
Digital Thrive is a boutique development studio on West 7th St. in Fort Worth, TX, operating as the development arm of Warren Douglas Advertising. From UX strategy and creative design to enterprise application development, we build an expansive range of digital solutions for our diverse roster of amazing clients. We place significant emphasis on delivering high-quality products that beat our clients’ expectations, always ensuring our core values of trust, humility, relevance, innovation, vision, and excellence are at the heart of every project we work on.
Think our hunt for the perfect candidate might be over?
We’re excited to meet you!
Account Executive
The Account Executive exists to create a buffer between the agency departments and the client, serving as a liaison for project completion. The Account Executive keeps projects on track and communicates goals and objectives while managing final deliverables.
Do you have what it takes to join our dynamic team of star players?
Details
Duties/Responsibilities
- Expresses enthusiasm for the agency and for the client
- Employs exceptional problem-solving ability
- Executes project briefs and provides deliverables for the client
- Clearly communicates project goals and objectives, using agency project briefs
- Maintains consistent management of project timelines and budgets
- Initiates and maintains trust with the client, displaying a professional presence in dress, language, and availability
- Holds the client in high esteem, ensuring the client’s sense of importance with the agency
- Proactively directs the agency team in serving the clients
- Negotiates difficult client issues with integrity, ensuring continued client trust in the agency
- Manages multiple personalities and activities
- Develops creative solutions to difficulties
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- 2+ years experience on the agency side of the advertising model
- Articulate in written and oral communication
- Relational and composed in various settings
- Excellent judgment in agency and client needs assessments
- Experience in consumer packaged goods, a plus
- Sales experience, a plus
- Flexibility in working with a variety of clients
- Self-starter
- Excellent communication/listening skills
- Lifelong learner
- Ability to adapt quickly
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Mac experience, a plus)
Marketing Analyst
The Marketing Analyst will work with the Data Science team to analyze data, develop reporting, and create strategic marketing campaigns. This will include working directly on websites, using analytical tools, such as Google analytics, and working inside the Google and Bing suite of tools.
Details
Duties/Responsibilities
- Manages, develops, and coordinates website reporting KPIs
- Creates monthly SEO and SEM reports
- Manages digital campaign loads, builds, and maintenance into Google/Bing
- Fulfills ad hoc reporting requests
- Performs Data Sciences/Marketing Sciences reporting duties related to billing, data, dashboard maintenance, etc.
- Helps set up KPI tracking
- Plans pitches for full digital campaigns that are in multiple swim lanes
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- 1 year of experience working Google Ads
- 1 year of experience working in Google Analytics
- Familiar with Google Search Console and Bing platforms
- Know the basics of SEO
- Mastery of Excel (vlookups, pivot tables, etc.)
- Proficiency in Mac and Word
- Excellent organizational skills
- Punctual
- Pursues understanding of changes in internet and media platforms
- Familiar with mathematical equations