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When a Choice Creative candidate finds the work they want, in the atmosphere they want, at a top-flight company that's thrilled to have them... well, that's what our life is about.

Take a peek below. Click the "Apply" link that follows each job description to email your résumé regarding a particular opportunity. Or, if you'd just like to to see if we've got anything that's a match, you can go ahead and

They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but can you do it in just a few? Can you take Art Director’s concepts and deliver their message in a sentence or less? Copywriter with style and a flare for concepting needed at a convention-breaking ad house. There’s an Art Director, you see, a fabulous Art Director without a copywriter. Full 360 experience or not, you durn well be able to think that way, cowgender. To 50k.

It’s 2010 and our client needs a tech ring master to implement their digital presence. Ability to tame a multitude of persnickity beasts: Strong Flash (animation & coding) skills, as well as being a triple-threat in HTML JavaScript and CSS. And if you can add Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver, and Director to the third ring, our audience would be mighty pleased with the show. Hell, you should also be an accomplished MMA fighter, a sherpa, and have your own drywall stilts. Full time, 70k.

This is a job for those people who don’t mind a little chocolate with their vanilla. A wee bit o’ dog with their kitty. Like French Noir, but take in the occasional Police Academy movie. Yes, there’s some web with your print. Your job: bringing the Art Director’s sketches vibrantly to life through collaboration with colleagues or your own imagination. Advanced skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Must be comfortable with, and able to, prepare all your work for print. Full time, 70k.

Does the light bulb in your head constantly light up? Do people always try to take you spelunking? We have the perfect place to give your bright ideas a home. Agency-with-an-edge is putting down the welcome -mat-with-an-edge for a mid-level art director-with-an-edge to team with their copywriter-with-an-edge. All media thinking, regardless of all media experience. Full time. 70k

Ages 7-11 - and that’s a serious market. Trust me on this. Fabulous British agency seeks American writer/art director team to help extend their colonial influence. They are presently pitching, and need to add to their arsenal of tween-enabled, all-media, 360, integrated (or whatever you like calling being very good at messaging across multiple tactile, nontactile, and varisensory delivery systems) talent. Just rock. As a team. With team experience in the Tween field specifically. Or something so very, very close that if we ask how it directly translates, the answer is grin-inducing. If you’re registered here and you’re teammate is not, get them over here, STAT! (Have them mention you in the subject line as your teammate.)

Wanted: Visually-driven design captain of a really big ship. Your course: navigating the cultural arts into high profile consumer retail waters. Senior-level design director with solid history of pitching success and the ability to lead clients to their creative best. You can’t be afraid of swabbing the decks, as you’ll involved with every project from pitch to design to print production to broadcast, all while managing the artists and art directors who help you make it happen. This is absolutely not for the copy-driven. Full time, ~145k + benefits.

Calling all photoshop artists and entertainment lovers. Westchester-based company needs you on site to work with celebrity photos - compositing ultra cool images for fans, clubs, and stores across the country. Bring your creativity and your photoshop expertise! Full time, 48K, + overtime.

Bustling NYC arm of european advertising geniuses seeks a master of chaos, a juggler of priorities, a person who can be a one-person mechanical studio for a few weeks, then scale up and hire a studio’s worth of freelance help when needed, coordinating the execution of print and OOH ads. QuarkXPress, InDesign, Photoshop, along with Digital PrePress. This is Freelance to Staff. Studio / Small team management experience required!

Flash and After Effects designer wanted from Wednesday through the 23rd. You need a lovely, iterative design sense (the ability to conform to an existing aesthetic, while adding Art-Directed options and flavor... but cleanliness of output in both style and file structure, is superduper key. You’ll be working in CS4 versions of Flash and After Effects, Mac OS X. Onsite, NYC, for one of the nicest companies we know. Seriously. PLEASE include links to your latest Flash work with your response. $35/hr solid.

In town over the holidays? We have just the perfect gift. Junior production artist needed to lend their talents to a clothing company for 6 days this month. Non-creative, non-coding fine tuning work. Mac based, strong knowledge of photoshop, illustrator, acrobat - CS4 versions please. Fast gear switching required. On site, NYC. $24/hr.

$35/hr for solid, Art Directable, technical proficient Flash Designers. You’ll be doing timeline and ActionScript-based animation (known your Tween Classes). Photoshop, a wee bit of illustrator. Offsite with occasional onsite meetings. CS4. Include your latest staged banners with your CV, por favor! (You do stage them somewhere, yes?)

We normally work with individuals, but this time, we’re seeking a duo. (Or, as Lisa says - a dynamic duo - pow!), to add your experience to a pitch, and if won, to the the rollout of a full 360 campaign. This is a established company expanding their East Coast presence. Please include team day rates with your CV/portfolio. Also be sure to let us know which work was executed by the team and be sure to highlight your Tween-directed work.

One of our favorite clients needs you next week for banner work utilizing a clean mix of video and graphic elements. It’s a three day assignment, but could extend. This is a great place to become a “go-to” person for... they’re wonderful people. Production knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, to go with the Flash and AE as well. $35/hr.

Zend Framework experience helpful in this mid-range coding gig. If you’ve done core CMS work on a contact management system, and you’re reliable and nimble-minded, then you’re going to do just fine here. It’s kind of the classic teachers/classes/students programming methodology. Two-to-three-week project after onsite meeting in NYC. The project would be offsite after the meeting, so you must be super-accessible via IM, VM, Email.

Flash Designer and Developer hybrid wanted for freelance-to-staff position at a busy, mid-sized advertising agency that leans towards the pharmaceutical. The level of designer is high-end iterative: able to take an established brand, show, theme, etc., and create multiple versions for various formats. Coding-wise, let us know if you're a timeline kind of animator, or a coder. Whether you've worked with external data, and specifically how.

The ability to understand and synthesize senior-level instructions is really important.

If you’ve done this professionally, you don’t need more explanation than: well-detailed Vectorworks files need to be animated for 3-D presentation. All measurements, textures, timings, scales, and object models provided. Freelance, onsite, manhattan. Please include hourly rate with your response.

Working with nationally known and distributed entertainment properties and celebrities, you’ll be compositing famous people and places into extremely cool and exotic places and images. (No adult-oriented work involved.) This is both a creative compositing job and a highly technical Photoshop gig. Base salary approx 48k, plus overtime.

I’d like to post this job here, but I can’t. I really can’t. So I’m drawing the line. Usually, I can interpret what someone wants, and I’ve spent a career doing it. But this time, I feel like if I actually sent a candidate to this position, the candidate would be in for a horrible, horrible time. I mean, what do candidates come to me for, and what are companies paying us for? I’m not going to randomly push company and candidate together. That would be like stealing. There are lots of companies who are willing to fling resumes around, right? We’re just not one of them.

A client that we know and love, that walks a unique path when appropriate, and work at the highest levels nearly all of the time, is seeking an ACD for its media group. This job is somewhat unique in it’s requirements, as you’ll be driving retainer, new, and internal pitches vs ongoing campaigns. Yes, this is an inside job. Great place, great people. Room to breathe, creatively speaking.

Ages 7-11 - and that’s a serious market. Trust me on this. Fabulous British agency seeks American writer/art director team to include on their pitch bio and help extend their stateside influence. In return, you get to rock the house on the business win. You need to be a master of multi-channel direct - equally comfortable in print, tv, press, direct, specifically in the field of the aforementioned kids. If you’re registered here and you’re teammate is not, get them over here, STAT!

This just came in, details forthcoming. We’re looking for a Flash CS4 pro to take finished art and make banners of various shapes and sizes to cross populate on different TV show sites. If you’re available tomorrow, let us know today. Rate TBD, so include yours. This hasn’t been made official yet, but we wanted to sent out the alarm right away. Thank you!

New York based agency seeks well-rounded, Flash-centered professional with pharmaceutical or medical education experience to work on a broad range of messaging products, including: tablet interfaces for salesforce support, meeting and events presentations and theming, dtc widgets for patient education, all kinds of nifty possibilities. Integrating a bit of video, a range of CS4 skill, some programmatic chops, this job has quite the range. Salary competitive and commensurate, we’ve been asked to submit candidates with their requirements. Please include your latest online portfolio (via URL) with your reply. This is super-required.

4 days a week, ongoing, onsite... this Manhattan ad firm has transatlantic connections that keep the energy flowing and the atmosphere lively. You need to be exceptionally capable with the CS4 Suite for print mechanicals, and able to think in terms of 360 delivery. Design-enabled production, would be a good way to think of this job. 28-30/hr.

Would you describe pounding a 4-pack of Monster Energy Drink while crowding surfing a pack of PO’d bulls in Barcelona - a casual event? Even if not, we need you to bring that eye catching sentiment to the world of logo design. Our sports client needs a hardcore vector logo artist who can create an eye-catching identity for their new brand. Onsite, one week to start. Relevant work a must.

Sometimes an ad can’t be humorous. I mean, what can I write that’s especially witty about banner ad design? ActionScript! HAHAHAHA! No. Maybe I’m off my game. It happens. Excellent, well-nigh legendary agency seeks additional go-to Flash pro for pickup banner work. Ongoing and sporadic, so it’s a good “add to your mix” client. 35/hr. Onsite and off, depending. CS4.

Fine and friendly client is seeking a capable, communicative coder to executive a registration and entry page for an upcoming event. You’ll be given assets and interface specifications. You can work offsite or on. It’s your call, but if you work offsite you must be absolutely available via IM and cell during any billable time. Rate and Time TBD, please include your hourly and daytime offsite availability with your response. Thanks!

Walking, talking, swiss army knife of document production person wanted. Although junior, you’re the kind of person that, when gazed upon, by an Art Director, they see the arc of an illustrious career ahead of you. Equally skilled in iterating print and web work, you’ll quickly pass the three week, $20/hr freelance try-tryout and secure the $40 - 45 k staff position. Must be fearless, team-oriented, yet freethinking. (Edited by Stock)

Can you shepherd work from start to finish in the print and interactive worlds? Do you have hands-on print experience, studio management experience, but are just chompin’ at the bit to translate that experience into the digital world? Now’s your chance. This is a three-week tryout at approx 24/hr, perm at up to 55k.

We have an opportunity that starts as soon as you can get in our client’s door (TODAY). You will be working today,tomorrow and Monday at a successful web development and strategy agency in midtown. Your coding chops for HTML/CSS must be on point and knowledge of Photoshop and Fireworks is a major plus. $35/hr. Job starts ASAP.

We are looking for a Senior Designer to jump on few rad campaigns with a much sought after branding agency. You must have 360-brand experience and be able to cater to the demands of major corporate clients; thinking fast is necessity. You will be working with the AD and CDs to dream up and execute everything from logos to environments. Background in Financial and Tech - a major plus. Pay is $40-50/hr. Freelance.

Our client has several projects coming up, and needs accompanying skillsets. All require fluency in Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3. But! There’s differing middleware connectivity, depending on the platform. There’s some open sourciness (yes. sourciness.) for the PHP/MySQL set, and some ASP.Net for the Microsoft crowd. Please include links, hourly rate, individual expertise, description of coding role with your reply.

Ever designed a nationwide beverage’s label? Do you have the next great beer packaging idea in you? Do you have 16!?!?! Well then I suggest you sober up a little, then send us an email chock full of your wine/liquor/beer labels samples. Starts immediately, freelance, onsite, Manhattan. You’ll be executing your own design using CS3 software on a Mac. $30/hr.

Showbiz, baby! Media-oriented interactive and design company seeks Junior Flash professional to take a world-class Art Director’s ideas and run, run, run! The work is iterative, but there’s loads of room for creative input. Be Flash proficient, including ActionScript 3, and XML-savvy. It’s a freelance gig with staff opportunities, after proving AD-synergy on a major project.

Our midtown client is looking for a dedicated Web Producer who can create HTML + CSS for e-mails and web pages. In this role you will be collaborating with a web manager, strategists and team members to develop e-blasts that hit home. You must know the limitations of an e-mail and have samples to prove it. If this sounds like you, just fax us your resume + e-blast samples. Kidding. No faxes. An email is just dandy. Sorry.

Hangtags, labels, bottle wraps, containers. We’re seeking an experienced packaging designer who has targeted the 24-29/yo segment of the Hispanic market. This isn’t a flash-oriented brand, think non-alcoholic beverages, health-minded food products. HEY. I JUST NOTICED THE JOB NUMBERS HAVE BRACKETS, NOW. WHAT THE?

We love this client. Choice Creative is truly pleased to be filling to freelance IA roles at a whipsmart interactive firm that totally gets it. You’ll be responsible for engaging with all levels of strategy and design teams to ensure that the architecture of the firm’s digital output is efficient, streamlined, reusable, and highly usable. You’ll wireframe, specify, and document. Yummy.

Well then. It would be best to steer clear of this posting. We are looking for the packaging and label designer extraordinaire to help bring to life a Hispanic beverage looking to make it’s debut in America. Experience in multicultural advertising and a background in label design will give you a solid heads up.

You are a Marketing Manager with the tool set for selling it, no matter what “it” is. You have a background in online and publishing. You also know PR, to the effect that you have written so many Press Releases you even end your text messages in “###.“ Sound like you? Send us your CV, and salary requirements for more information.

E-mail coder with iterative design experience wanted to hand-code HTML/CSS emails at a non-profit. Experience interfacing with all levels of management very helpful. Ability to competently comment code, work from style guides, and to structure your work for replication all of equal importance.

We have an awesome full-time design opportunity from one of our favorite hospitality clients. This upscale food & beverage brand seeks a Jr. GD who can handle everything from POS to PowerPoint templates. You will be working under a Creative Director and expected to pass along print-ready materials to their printers. Experience with the usual suspects (e.g., Adobe Design Suite, Stuffit, Macs) is expected. Salary w/ benefits 40k-50k.

Calling all Experiential Marketing pros. Our client is looking for someone who can make an audience not only look, but rather stare, then take pictures and send it to everyone they know. If your work is akin to the Altoid’s steamboat that circled the Hudson, and have reference to things like Christo’s Gates then perhaps this is the job you want. Please explain in detail your experience in, well, experiential when applying. Salary BOE.

Start with a logo. Build a complete identity, including business cards, stationery, web page template, and more. This will be an ongoing series of offsite projects that will, from time to time, continue well into the future.

Likely next week-ish. (And apologies if it doesn’t that's off a it...), but we need a Final Draft expert with proofreading chops to format a 90-page script, onsite, in Manhattan. Thank you!

Although you need to know the capabilities / limits of Flash banner ads, we’re looking for a supersharp Flash designer who also has some AfterEffects chops. No coding required. The project will initially last for 1week. Please include current hourly design rate, as the client is properly economy aware

Cut through the insanity. Seriously. There’s so much hype about social media an almost all of it means nothing. This is an open call for social media strategists who have either worked on, or have excellent, thought-out theories on, monetizing social media as it relates to driving sales of a separate product. This is for a potential position (not definite), but we can also market the living hell out the right candidate. Our passion for this should only be rivaled by yours.

Boutique design firm needs a media programming generalist to take Illustrator and Photoshop flies and bring them to glorious, dynamic life. They’ve given us a bit of a wide area of a wishlist: AS3, Flash, Flex, Ajax, CS3, MySQL, but from our understanding, it’s a Flash site talking to a MySQL database via PHP, so production level capabilities in those three are probably the most important. More details as we get ‘em. 3-4 weeks onsite in Manhattan, plus ongoing maintenance. $50/hr.

E-mail coder with iterative design experience wanted to hand-code HTML/CSS emails at a non-profit. Experience interfacing with all levels of management very helpful. Ability to competently comment code, work from style guides, and to structure your work for replication all of equal importance. $25/hr. Onsite. NYC.

Our NJ client is seeking a fresh crew of PHP programmers of all levels. To be completely on the up and up, this is not for a specific gig, but for a whole slew of upcoming projects on their calendar. They’re looking for program leads, juniors, and inbetweens. Please include experience with specific products, frameworks, APIs, hourly rates, and where in the team you’ve worked (and who’s worked for you!). Well-commented code snippets would be delightful!

Our NJ client is seeking a fresh crew of ActionScript 3 programmers of all levels. Seriously Object-Oriented. To be completely on the up and up, this is not for a specific gig, but for a whole slew of upcoming projects on their calendar. They are looking for program leads, juniors, and inbetweens. Please include experience with specific classes ahd APIs, indlude hourly rates, and where in the team you’ve worked (and who’s worked for you!). Well-commented code snippets would be delightful!

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