Zeus Jones is looking for a Minneapolis-based Creative with 3+ years experience to join our team.
Our creative department specializes in storytelling and cultural connections that build brand meaning. Our creatives have the taste to find culturally informed ideas, the craft to shape and articulate them, and the conviction to bring clients on board. This role will put your skills and natural curiosity to work to build and express brand meaning for clients across industries, categories and cultural niches.
Job Definition
Emotional Storytelling
- Craft and edit creative ideas that build brand meaning
- Bring a brand concept to life in tangible ways: communications, activations, campaigns, content and beyond
Cultural Edge
- Be the embodiment of a cultural sponge, and have an interesting perspective on the world
- Use cultural fluency to find new insights and ideas at the edges of culture
- Collide and synthesize your inputs to create compelling, original concepts and narratives
Meaning and Cohesion
- Craft and present your ideas and stories in a compelling way that makes the work stronger and more valuable
- Represent the creative discipline in the room (Zoom + physical) with client leaders; build your skill at fostering relationships
- Translating ideas into compelling executions across touch points: messages, activations, partnerships and more
Your mindset and approach are equally important to your ability to get the work done.
These qualities are vital to success as a Zeus Jones team member.
- Collaborative. Comfortable working on creative ideas both alone and with others; understands the process of feedback and revision.
- Curious. We are imagining the future and what it means for business.
- Flexible. We follow the potential of ideas rather than rigid processes.
- Ambitious. Wants to solve problems, not just create flashy experiences.
- Intuitive. Able to make and defend decisions from incomplete (or conflicting) information.
- Observant. Constantly listening to what people say — and what they don’t say.
- Emergent. You believe your skills are never done growing. You have some wins under your belt, yet are always looking to challenge yourself.
Essential experience:
- 3-plus years working in creative writing, concepting, experiential services, creative tech, video/film development, journalism, content creation, visual storytelling, or something completely different but relevant to the role
- Strong verbal skills, strong creative skills, and excellent interpersonal relationship-building skills
- Experience working in cross-disciplinary and collaborative teams
- Experience navigating feedback from clients or peers
- Experience creating ideas based on loose or undefined inputs
Salary range is $60,000 - $85,000 depending on experience.
Applications accepted now through 12/15.
About Zeus Jones
This job is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, though the right candidate can be based remotely, with the expectation of company core week travel (quarterly) and likely client travel 1-3 times per quarter. For those based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, we are a hybrid workplace, with Tuesday-Thursday as days in office.
Zeus Jones offers a strong culture, ability to work on a wide range of tough-to-crack but super-fascinating business problems, and opportunity to grow alongside industry-leading colleagues. In addition, we provide medical and dental insurance, 401(k) with employer match, unlimited PTO, short- and long-term disability insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, internet bill reimbursement, and generous paid parental leave.