Kettle

Role Description Kettle is looking for our first Director, Creative Operations to partner with our Creative, Production, Technology, and Account leaders to help define and optimize the processes that will help us succeed as we continue to grow. In this internally focused role, you’ll establish structure and bring clarity to our team that turns creative ideas into reality in the marketing communications space. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial individual with a passion for and background in problem solving and operations within a creative environment. Qualifications - Significant experience in a digital, creative agency and/or fast-paced creative tech organization - A background in Production, Program Management, Creative Resourcing, Creative Operations, and/or People Operations, preferably in a growth-oriented environment - A problem solver mentality, with the ability to break down complex problems into simple steps and actions, and create streamlined processes - Excellent communication and listening skills, and the ability to influence others at various levels and on cross-functional teams - Experience operating at 10,000 feet, and the ability to sit down with creatives and producers to solve day-to-day challenges - The ability to work West Coast hours, and/or be located in the SF or LA area Requirements - Lead and manage projects in the following areas: - Operations and Resource Management - Oversee the day-to-day operations of the creative team, ensuring resources are allocated effectively, timelines are met, and projects are delivered on time and on budget - Continuously evaluate and refine creative processes to ensure efficiency, scalability, and adaptability across brands and projects - AI implementation and adoption in workflows and process - Create and manage dashboards and data for process analysis and improvement - Document and think critically about ways of working and collaboration - Facilitate and lead the onboarding of new Kettle creatives, optimizing and systematizing that process to set new hires up for success - Team and Culture Building - Help shape and communicate team mission, vision, and values development - Be the champion for team rituals, events, and meetings strategy - With HR and Talent and key discipline leads, develop leveling and career pathways progression and documentation, hiring and onboarding processes, and management standards - Business and Strategy - Participate in quarterly and yearly planning discussions - Understand team financials, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively to meet strategic goals within budget - Contribute to offerings definition and development Benefits - The target range of base compensation for this role is $150k-180k. - Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

Role Description We’re looking for a Recruiter to join our growing team. This role will partner closely with our Director of Talent Acquisition and network recruiters to fill roles for our Creative, Production, Technology, Strategy, and Operations partners. This is a role for someone who loves building relationships with hiring teams and candidates in support of a fast-paced creative organization. Our ideal candidate is a recruiting generalist who brings a thoughtful, can-do attitude, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate fast-moving environments with calm, clarity, and sound judgment. Qualifications - A flexible and proactive attitude with a positive, solution-focused mindset - Exceptional organizational skills and a process-driven mindset - Excellent communication and negotiation skills - Experience closing junior to senior level positions, and the ability to carry the conversation with hiring managers and leadership teams - Comfort managing multiple priorities and pivoting as needs change - Experience sourcing and advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion - The ability to work West Coast hours, or be based on the West Coast - 3-5+ years as a Recruiter in a digital agency or in-house creative environment Requirements - Manage end to end recruitment for assigned roles from hiring manager brief to candidate sourcing and assessment through offer negotiation - Partner closely with hiring managers to understand ideal candidate profiles for current and future business needs - Guide candidates and hiring managers through the recruitment process keeping everyone updated and engaged along the way - Track candidates in Greenhouse to ensure accurate and up to date records - Proactively build a pipeline of candidates for current and future roles - Provide a best in class candidate experience - Source and engage with amazing people by leveraging conventional and unconventional methods to find the best candidates out there Benefits - The target range of base compensation for this role is $85,000 - $115,000, and spans multiple levels. - Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

Role Description We’re looking for a Resourcing Manager to help strategically shape how teams come together across the agency, with a particular focus on creative disciplines. This role will partner closely with Creative, Production, Technology, Strategy, and Operations leadership to thoughtfully staff multidisciplinary teams across a large portfolio of digital work, including the agency’s largest and most complex account. This is a role for someone who loves the operational side of creative organizations. Someone who can balance: - Client needs - Team dynamics - Business priorities - Continuity - Bandwidth - Cost The ideal candidate brings: - Strong operational instincts - Excellent communication skills - The ability to navigate fast-moving environments with calm, clarity, and sound judgment - A passion for solving complex staffing challenges - Experience in building trust across teams - A knack for creating structure in environments where priorities shift quickly While we are a remote organization, this role is required to work PST hours. Qualifications - 5-8+ years of experience in Resource Management, Creative Operations, Production Operations, or Project Staffing within a creative agency, digital agency, or similar environment - Experience supporting multidisciplinary teams across design, copy, motion, technology, strategy, and production - Strong understanding of digital web, app, campaign, and production workflows - Excellent organizational and communication skills, with experience navigating fast-moving priorities and multiple concurrent workstreams - Experience balancing timelines, skillsets, continuity, team dynamics, and workload health when staffing projects - Experience partnering with recruiting and finance teams on freelance staffing and hiring needs - Experience working within resourcing and project management platforms such as Workfront, Notion, Coda, or similar tools - A proactive and solutions-oriented mindset with strong follow-through and attention to detail Requirements - Partner with department and project leadership to thoughtfully staff multidisciplinary teams across a large portfolio of digital work - Maintain visibility into team allocations and proactively identify bandwidth gaps, staffing conflicts, and potential burnout risks - Support quarterly planning efforts and help anticipate upcoming staffing and team needs across projects and workstreams - Partner with recruiting and leadership teams to identify freelance and hiring support needs - Help maintain healthy team utilization while balancing continuity, growth opportunities, and business needs - Adapt resourcing plans thoughtfully as priorities, timelines, and project needs evolve - Help guide staffing recommendations based on project complexity, timelines, and team composition - Build strong cross-functional relationships and operate as a trusted operational partner to teams and leadership - Contribute to improving resourcing workflows, planning frameworks, and operational visibility across the agency - Navigate fast-paced environments with calm, clarity, and strong operational judgment Benefits - The target range of base compensation for this role is $100,000 - $120,000 - Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location

Role Description Kettle is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join one of our largest accounts. In this role, you’ll shepherd the product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. As a Senior Designer, you’ll work across multiple workstreams as part of the larger account, partner with other designers, and work directly with clients to solve their design challenges. Qualifications - Interaction or product design experience in agency or related environments designing iOS native applications and websites - Experience delivering user-focused solutions in high-complexity categories (financial services, telco, consumer tech, etc.) - A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients - Experience working in agile product design/development models - Experience working with AI in your design process, either through side projects or client work - Experience with enterprise-scale design systems a plus Requirements - Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development - Deliver on multiple aspects of design, including visual design, UI, and UX, producing deliverables such as high-fidelity prototypes, production-ready designs, annotations, design systems, wireframes, and other deliverables - Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces - Work independently on projects with the guidance of your design director, owning key features and flows in a workstream - Partner with teammates of different disciplines including product management, production, and development - Work on a client-facing embedded team, building strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer’s experience - Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning - Embrace challenges and proactively ideate with fellow teammates and clients Benefits - The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k-140k - Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. We are looking for a Senior Producer to oversee end-to-end delivery for one of our largest, most complex accounts in the telco space. In this client-facing role, you will manage projects from concept through delivery, ensuring they meet timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Collaborating with interaction designers, strategists, and product teams, you will drive the production of high-quality digital experiences while maintaining strong client relationships. Candidates should have: - 6+ years of experience in digital production and project management at an agency/consultancy or similar, with enterprise‑scale client experience. - Proven ability to manage complex, multi-phase app and website projects from concept to delivery. - Strong understanding of creative, digital production workflows, from concept to completion. - Excellent client relationship management and communication skills. - Experience leading cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and exceed client expectations. - Experience managing interaction design teams and coordinating closely with product and engineering teams - High attention to detail, ensuring quality and accuracy across all deliverables. - Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving project scopes. - Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. - Proficiency with modern PM/roadmapping and documentation tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Notion). We’d like to know that you can: - Lead end-to-end digital project management for large-scale initiatives, ensuring delivery aligns with the brand’s creative standards. - Identify and address critical project challenges, including budget constraints, delays, resource allocation, team morale, output quality, creative direction, and technical obstacles. - Demonstrate exceptional presentation and communication skills, effectively managing client expectations on tasks, deliverables, and final approvals through regular project reviews and interim milestones. - Track project progress, ensuring timelines are met and providing consistent updates to internal teams and stakeholders. - Foster a collaborative and positive team environment, even during challenging phases of large projects. - Ensure quality and consistency by reviewing all deliverables before they are shared with the client, guaranteeing they meet creative and brand standards. - Drive continuous process improvements, identifying areas to optimize workflows and increase efficiency. The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k-$140k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

Role Description Kettle is looking for a Director, Interaction Design (IXD) to join and help lead the Product team. In this role, you’ll set product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. Our Directors are designers and doers, both leading and managing, and contributing directly to the work as the most senior practitioner on the team. Qualifications - Extensive Interaction or Product Design experience in either agency or related environments designing iOS and Android native applications, websites, and internal tools. - Design Leadership experience across the product design lifecycle, including experience leading both UX and UI design workstreams. - A clear communication style, with proven experience collaborating with senior level clients and presenting to executive leadership. - Experience delivering user-focused solutions across a range of categories (Financial Services, Telecomm, Consumer tech, etc.). - Experience working in agile product design/development models. - Experience managing and mentoring Junior to Senior level IxD designers. - Experience designing AI-enabled features, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping. Requirements - Guide high-level strategic decisions around product design and experience. - Contribute to the entire product lifecycle from start to finish — starting with defining IA, user journey, wireframes, to designing user interactions and handoff to development. - Balance leadership of the team with hands-on design work, guiding projects towards design excellence. - Lead the IxD stream of work on projects, understanding how to break larger projects down into smaller tracts to handoff to designers and bring learnings from one work stream to another. - Partner with teammates of different disciplines including Strategy, Production, and Development. - Build strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer’s experience. - Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning. - Manage and mentor designers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow. Benefits - The target range of base compensation for this role is $180k-$215k. - Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Being a Motion Designer at Kettle means playing a pivotal role in shaping experiences that span across departments, bringing creativity, strategy, and innovation together to craft meaningful solutions. Our designers are not just creators—they are collaborators, storytellers, problem-solvers, and visionaries who drive impact through motion. As our Motion Design Intern, you will create, animate, edit, and refine creative concepts in partnership with our visual, product, copy, and strategy teams. - Collaborate and work with design teams to create refined, engaging animations - Implement existing motion concepts into new approaches - Help maintain and implement style guides to ensure consistent experiences - Help shape presentations to communicate concepts that tell a story - Create animated prototypes and content in collaboration with creative teams - Partner closely with creative leads to ensure work meets expectations - Participate in internal creative reviews, and impromptu work sessions - Co-create with other interns on a final Intern presentation based on a previous agency brief and present that work Qualifications - Comfortable working in Adobe Creative Suite; specifically After Effects, Cinema4D and Premiere. Knowledge of Rive, Cavalry, Lottie, Blender a plus - Confident presentation skills, and excellent written and verbal communication - A portfolio or reel with samples of client and/or student work - Familiarity with AI tools, and the ability to explain or demonstrate value gained through AI, and how you use it in your workflow Requirements - You must be entering your senior year of undergraduate studies, a recent graduate, master's student, career changer, reentering the workforce, or switching careers - You must be currently based in the U.S - You must be able to work approximately 40 hours per week for the duration of the program - The salary range for this role is between $20 - $25 per hour based on skill set, education level, location, and experience.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Being a Copywriter at Kettle means playing a pivotal role in defining experiences that span across departments, bringing creativity, strategy, and innovation together to craft meaningful solutions. Our writers are not just creators—they are collaborators, storytellers, problem-solvers, and visionaries who drive impact through copy. As our Copy Intern, you’ll partner with our Creative and Strategy teams to write long- and short-form content, from social posts and website copy, to scripts and pitch decks. - Collaborate and work with the Copy team to write headlines, taglines, social, and product copy across multiple touchpoints - Contribute to internal and client facing pitches and presentations - Help create, maintain and implement copy guides to ensure consistent voice and tone - Partner closely with creative leads to ensure work meets expectations - Participate in internal creative reviews, and impromptu work sessions - Co-create with other interns on a final Intern presentation based on a previous agency brief and present that work Qualifications - Comfortable working in Google Suite and MS Word; additional creative (Adobe, Figma, etc.) or project management software (Notion, Airtable, etc) a plus - Confident presentation skills, and excellent written and verbal communication - A portfolio of work samples that show multiple examples of long- and short-form writing - Familiarity with AI tools, and the ability to explain or demonstrate value gained through AI, and how you use it in your workflow Requirements - You must be entering your senior year of undergraduate studies, a recent graduate, master's student, career changer, reentering the workforce, or switching careers - You must be currently based in the U.S - You must be able to work approximately 40 hours per week for the duration of the program Benefits - The salary range for this role is between $20 - $25 per hour based on skill set, education level, location, and experience.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description This role involves supporting the Brand and Product Strategy teams at Kettle as part of a 10-week paid Summer internship program. - Conduct targeted competitive, market, and business research, and distill relevant information into a strategic takeaway - Work with our Strategy, Creative, and Client teams to analyze consumer trends - Help identify insights that will inform the overall strategy and creative output - Have your finger on the pulse of innovation, campaign creativity and new technology - Support stakeholder interviews, workshops, and brainstorms - Collaborate across disciplines to help develop product requirements and goals Qualifications - Confident presentation skills, and excellent written and verbal communication - A portfolio or work samples that show strategic insight and how it impacted creative output - Familiarity with AI tools, and the ability to explain or demonstrate value gained through AI, and how you use it in your workflow Requirements - You must be entering your senior year of undergraduate studies, a recent graduate, master's student, career changer, reentering the workforce, or switching careers - You must be currently based in the U.S - You must be able to work approximately 40 hours per week for the duration of the program - The salary range for this role is between $20 - $25 per hour based on skill set, education level, location, and experience.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description This role involves participating in a remote, 10-week, paid Summer internship program on our Visual and Product Design teams. - Collaborate and work with design teams to create refined, scalable design solutions - Develop existing design concepts into new approaches - Help create, maintain and implement style guides to ensure consistent experiences - Help shape presentations to communicate concepts that tell a story - Create flat comps and interactive prototypes in collaboration with creative teams - Partner closely with creative leads to ensure work meets expectations - Participate in internal creative reviews, and impromptu work sessions - Co-create with other interns on a final Intern presentation based on a previous agency brief and present that work Qualifications - Comfortable working in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; additional creative software (motion, prototyping, coding) a plus - Confident presentation skills, and excellent written and verbal communication - A portfolio of work samples that show digital, UX and UI design - Familiarity with AI tools, and the ability to explain or demonstrate value gained through AI, and how you use it in your workflow Requirements - You must be entering your senior year of undergraduate studies, a recent graduate, master's student, career changer, reentering the workforce, or switching careers - You must be currently based in the U.S - You must be able to work approximately 40 hours per week for the duration of the program - The salary range for this role is between $20 - $25 per hour based on skill set, education level, location, and experience