West coast

Guru’s west coast hub is headquartered within the legendary Record Plant in Sausalito, California, where some of the most iconic albums of the past four decades were made. Many original features of the building remain intact and it is deeply saturated with the creative vibes of the era.

In the same building, and available for use by Guru employees, is a wellness center by day – offering a variety of daily movement classes, infrared saunas, massage and acupuncture – and a social club by night, with a robust event calendar that boasts live music, thought leaders and entertainment.

East coast

Guru’s east coast hub (under construction, as we speak) is headquartered within a dynamic innovation ecosystem of businesses along the shores of Lake Champlain in Burlington, VT where tech companies and agencies co-mingle and collaborate.

Here, Guru employees will be able to enjoy access to a private beach, lunchtime yoga and movement classes, a full service cafe and boating on the lake after work.

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GURU CREW

We are looking for driven and curious individuals to join the Guru crew. If one of the positions below describes you better than you could describe yourself, we welcome you to introduce yourself. Send a cover letter explaining your interest, resume and link to your portfolio (if applicable) to careers@weareguru.com. We will review your information and will contact you if your skills are the right fit for our needs.

Art Director

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced advertising and marketing Art Director (5-7 years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position will work in close partnership with Guru’s creative director, graphic designers, copywriters and strategists to generate creative solutions across channels and mediums for brands who are impacting the world in the most conscious ways. This individual must have demonstrable experience building communications concepts and campaigns, delivering attention-getting ideas, and crafting compelling designs. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Receiving, reviewing and researching a creative brief and discussing its strategy and objectives with a team.
  • Brainstorming original big ideas and creative pathways alone and in collaboration with the creative team.
  • Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to identify key insights to help drive creative programming and ensure all concepts are on brief and align with client objectives.
  • Demonstrate the ability to deliver engaging client presentations and effectively substantiate creative decisions.
  • Understanding and being fluent in the art and science of communications and advertising.
  • Act as a catalyst to generate and embrace a diversity of ideas and thinking across the teams; bring a channel-agnostic approach to creativity, surfacing never-been-done-before concepts to energize our work.
  • Willingness to both think big and craft communications assets down to the detail - including conceptual thinking, art direction and design, and production of specific assets. 

Guru’s Art Directors must possess the following qualities:

  • Be highly creative and imaginative while thinking strategically about communications solutions.
  • Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
  • Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients. 
  • Be able to work under high-pressure deadlines.
  • Have demonstrated experience designing for both web/digital media and print/traditional channels.
  • Exceptional capability with typography, and layout.
  • Have an interest in conscious commerce, popular culture, and new advertising trends and techniques.
  • Proficiency with design software, including Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Proven track record with a compelling portfolio of diverse work.  
  • Possess excellent presentation skills. 

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter, resume and portfolio link or relevant work samples to careers@weareguru.com.

Copywriter

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced advertising and marketing copywriter (3-5 years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position will work in close partnership with Guru’s creative director, art directors and strategists to generate creative solutions across channels and mediums for brands who are impacting the world in the most conscious ways. This person must be well-versed in writing both for web/digital media and print/traditional channels), short-form and long-form content. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Receiving, reviewing and researching a creative brief and discussing its strategy and objectives with a team.
  • Brainstorming original big ideas and creative pathways alone and in collaboration with the creative team.
  • Based on ideas and pathways, write original copy for application across multiple channels and creative assets. Present to both internal client teams and to clients.
  • Researching your ideas and your copy to ensure that all the content being advertised is truthful, accurate and complies with codes of advertising practice.
  • Quickly researching and inhabiting the mindset of new audiences, to assure effective communications. 
  • Being an expert in the art and science of advertising and communications - with the intent of moving specific target audiences. 
  • Handling feedback impersonally and tending to copy editing and revisions in a timely way.

Guru’s copywriters must possess the following qualities:

  • Be highly creative and imaginative.
  • Have exceptional written and interpersonal skills.
  • Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
  • Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients. 
  • Be able to work under high-pressure deadlines.
  • Have demonstrated experience writing for both web/digital media and print/traditional channels, short-form and long-form content.
  • Know how to solidly research and present your ideas and copy.
  • Have an eye for detail and copy editing experience.
  • Have an interest in conscious commerce, popular culture, and new advertising trends and techniques.
  • Proven track record with a compelling portfolio of diverse work.  
  • Possess excellent presentation skills. 

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter, resume and portfolio link or relevant work samples to careers@weareguru.com. 

Project Manager

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced project manager (3-5 years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position is responsible for the healthy day-to-day management of assigned client accounts and the flow of work that takes each project from idea to reality. They act as the primary contact and coordinator of information between the client and the internal team (in partnership with, or under the direction of, the Account Director/Brand Manager, when applicable). The Project Manager is expected to develop effective and collaborative relationships with team members that support both the agency and the client’s goals. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Manage project flows, keeping client work moving in a timely, efficient manner.
  • Serve as the primary representative of Guru to each client, and manage the day-to-day client interactions/relations.
  • Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
  • Manage all project finances by tracking hours and cost against budget, project future expenditures and revenue, and manage project scope changes against budget.
  • Write project briefs and brief agency teams. 
  • Coordinate client approvals, feedback, and all quality assurance processes. 
  • Troubleshoot and problem solve. 
  • Ownership of the details, ensuring Guru’s commitment to quality standards.
  • Manage client billing process throughout the month and at month’s end in collaboration with the accounting team.
  • Write and oversee the completion of reports as necessary.

Guru’s project managers must possess the following qualities:

  • Be highly creative and imaginative.
  • Have exceptional written and interpersonal skills.
  • Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
  • Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients.
  • Have an interest in conscious commerce, popular culture, and new advertising trends and techniques. 
  • Be able to work under high-pressure deadlines.
  • Inspires respect and is respectful of others.
  • Proficient with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and other business applications. 

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter and resume to careers@weareguru.com.

Account Lead

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced account lead/brand manager (3-5 years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position is responsible for providing marketing guidance – both strategic and tactical – to our clients. They act as the primary contact between the clients and our company, and are responsible for maintaining a healthy relationship between the two; acting on behalf of the best interest of both. This position is the first line of strategic thinking and guidance for the client and leads the charge when it comes to bringing smart, creative ideas to the table. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Building meaningful, high-value relationships with clients.
  • Adding value to internal creative and media efforts.
  • Functioning as the key strategic marketing partner for clients.
  • Maintaining thorough knowledge of the client's business to anticipate problems and opportunities.
  • Developing and managing all marketing and branding efforts, working cooperatively with other leaders and groups to ensure an integrated and effective product.
  • Developing strategic briefs and project briefs as needed, sometimes in partnership with a strategist. 
  • Authoring innovative marketing communications strategies and plans, programs and campaigns, implementing in partnership with creative and media teams. 
  • Inspiring great work and collaboration from internal teams and client partners.
  • Maintaining a strong grasp on the current creative, marketing and media landscapes and acts as a resource to both clients and internal teams. 
  • Managing all projects for assigned clients. 
  • Monitoring resources, building scopes of works and budgets, and managing relationships with responsibility for project and client profitability and revenue growth. 
  • Seeking opportunities to develop and expand Guru’s business - both with existing clients and through new business opportunities.
  • Overall, looking out for the well-being of both Guru and their clients, always behaving like a responsible contributor, proactive thinker, and creative problem solver. 
  • Project management experience, with a solid understanding of project management principles and techniques.

Guru’s account leads must possess the following qualities:

  • Excellent interpersonal skills;
  • Analytical and creative; 
  • Organized;
  • Strategic and self-confident;
  • Effective presenter, persuasive; 
  • Flexible, yet takes and defends position based on fact; 
  • Clear, concise business writing; 
  • Team player and leader; 
  • Inspires respect and is respectful of others; 
  • Service-oriented;
  • Thoughtful evaluator of marketing solutions; entrepreneurial
  • Passionate about both marketing and conscious business.
  • Proficient with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and other business applications. 

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter and resume to careers@weareguru.com.

Production Designer

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced production designer to join our full-time staff. This position will work in close partnership with Guru’s creative director, graphic designers, copywriters and strategists to deliver compelling designs that evolve our client's narrative.  This position will be responsible for translating creative ideas and directions into specific assets and tactics, attending to detail and preparing files for delivery to media, printing, and other production needs. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Create multiple assets from concept or master files, ensuring accuracy, quality, and consistency.
  • Coordinate workflow to the internal team, prep files and ensure proper specifications are delivered to vendors.
  • Create final mechanical files for print and digital production.
  • Ensure that quality/resolution of photographs/images, color mode, copy, and size of file for implementation.
  • Manage brand consistency, development and execution of work based on established design systems; an exceptional eye for details in branding.
  • Support teams developing presentations, decks, and internal marketing materials. 
  • Brainstorming original big ideas and creative pathways alone and in collaboration with the creative team.
  • Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to identify key insights to help drive creative programming and ensure all concepts are on brief and align with client objectives.
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with a diverse mix of teams, balancing the needs of stakeholders while ensuring brand standards are upheld.

Guru’s production designers must possess the following qualities:

  • Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
  • Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients. 
  • Be able to work under high-pressure deadlines.
  • Have demonstrated experience designing for both web/digital media and print/traditional channels.
  • Exceptional capability with typography, and layout.
  • Have an interest in conscious commerce, popular culture, and new advertising trends and techniques.
  • Proficiency with design software, including Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Proven track record with a compelling portfolio of diverse work.

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter, resume and portfolio link or relevant work samples to careers@weareguru.com.

Social Media Manager

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced social media manager (3-5 years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position will work in close partnership with Guru’s creative and connections  teams to generate organic & owned solutions across social channels for brands who are impacting the world in the most conscious ways. This person will support the team with tasks related to conceiving, creating, implementing and managing all organic social campaigns in various platforms. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Lead and collaborate to create organic social media strategies that coordinate with marketing, PR and advertising efforts.
  • Lead and collaborate to establish influencer strategies and activation that coordinate with marketing, PR and advertising efforts. This includes identifying appropriate influencers, as well as creating and managing direct relationships and campaigns, both paid and/or owned. 
  • Use social listening tools to understand competition, brand sentiment, relevant conversations and trends.  
  • Create timely and engaging content optimized for platform and intended audience.
  • Manage day-to-day social campaigns across multiple platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, Snapchat.
  • Understand the cutting edge of social media engagement, and bring that knowledge into the agency. 
  • Partner with the connections team to communicate budget recommendations and manage shifts across channels for any paid media Influencer activations.
  • Analyze and report social media results, with an eye toward learnings and optimization. 
  • Brainstorm original big ideas and creative pathways alone and in collaboration with the creative and connections teams.
  • Ignite and connect the entire social engagement landscape, working both digital and IRL.
  • Increase brand and mission awareness for our clients, engagement, and traffic across social and other networks.
  • Conduct social media based research to help guide your own and the agency’s work.
  • Drive innovation and efficiency through automation and leveling-up processes and procedures.

Guru’s social media managers must possess the following qualities:

  • Be highly creative and imaginative.
  • Exceptional communication skills, i.e. written and verbal, to develop a wide range of materials and ability to interact effectively with different target audiences.
  • Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
  • Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients. 
  • Be able to work under high-pressure deadlines.
  • Understanding of the principles of marketing and communications. 
  • Understanding of the digital media industry.
  • Analytical and creative.
  • Inspires respect and is respectful of others.
  • Must possess an in-depth working knowledge of the top social media platforms.
  • Experience creating successful social media ad campaigns, including conversion and retargeting campaigns. 

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter and resume to careers@weareguru.com.

Digital Media Expert

HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable

Guru seeks an experienced digital media professional with experience in paid social and SEM (3-5 years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position will work in our client teams to generate solutions across channels and mediums for brands who are impacting the world in the most conscious ways. Ideally, this person will be able to develop strategy, plan, and buy media across all digital media disciplines (SEM, Display, Paid Social, Native Advertising, etc.) with budget experience for search and display - however, specific expertise in paid social and SEM is a must. 

Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT. 

The priorities for this role include:

  • Responsible for development, management and optimization of paid media programs with an emphasis on paid social and SEM. 
  • Generate new paid search campaigns, copy development, ad groups and develop keyword lists; provide recommendations and execute strategies for keyword opportunities, campaign structuring, display network and other areas of paid search.
  • Leverage insights from analytics platforms to make optimizations to paid campaigns.
  • Generate monthly client reporting.
  • Manage day-to-day trafficking of digital ad campaigns across multiple platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, AdWords and others.
  • Partner with other members of the connections team to communicate budget recommendations and manage shifts across channels.
  • Brainstorming original big ideas and creative pathways alone and in collaboration with the creative team..
  • Ability to use a data-based approach to strategy.
  • Responsible for keyword/audience research inclusive of estimator builds, campaign set-up, trafficking of creative.
  • Working directly with members of the creative team to help craft client’s social engagement strategy.
  • Drive innovation and efficiency through automation and leveling-up processes and procedures.
  • Maintain focus on best practices and emerging trends for all channels 

Guru’s digital media experts must possess the following qualities:

  • Be highly creative and imaginative.
  • Have exceptional written and interpersonal skills.
  • Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
  • Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients. 
  • Be able to work under high-pressure deadlines.
  • Understanding of the digital media industry.
  • Analytical and creative.
  • Inspires respect and is respectful of others.
  • Must possess an in-depth working knowledge of the top media platforms.
  • Experience creative successful social media and SEM campaigns, including conversion and retargeting campaigns. 

Is that you? Please submit a cover letter and resume to careers@weareguru.com.

Guru Media Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Guru complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall,transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Guru expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Guru’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.