DEPT®

Art Director

• Develop visual concepts and creative territories across social, digital, video, experiential, and emerging platforms.
• Partner closely with Copywriters, Strategists, Motion, Visual Design, and Creative leadership to create integrated campaign ideas and audience experiences.
• Lead visual storytelling throughout the creative process, from concept development and presentation through production and final delivery.
• Contribute to pre-production planning, production, and post-production to ensure creative intent is maintained throughout execution.
• Partner with Generative AI Artists to explore AI-assisted visual development and emerging creative workflows.
• Present creative work clearly and confidently to internal teams and clients, articulating the rationale behind visual decisions.
• Mentor and support Associate Art Directors, helping elevate creative thinking, craft, and execution across the team.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities while maintaining a high standard of creative excellence and attention to detail.
• Stay connected to culture, design, technology, and emerging trends to continually push the work forward.

Senior Art Director

Project Manager

• Work with a range of clients on different projects
• Manage end to end media campaigns and projects (SEO, SEA, Programmatic advertisement, Social advertising), you make sure qualitative work is delivered on time
• Be the key contact for clients, an advisor who provides resources, and who addresses problems and solutions
• Assess working methods and processes, and make recommendations for improvement

Senior Project Manager, Media

• Work on one of our biggest client teams, working with multiple PMs and technical specialists.
• Manage end to end media projects (SEO, SEA, Programmatic advertisement, Social advertising), you make sure qualitative work is delivered on time and within budget.
• Be the key contact for clients, an advisor who provides resources, and who addresses problems and solutions
• Assess working methods and processes, and make recommendations for improvement particularly across AI and automation.

Media Project Manager

Backend Engineer

• As a Senior Developer, you understand that there is rarely a single solution to a problem. With your experience, you identify, evaluate, and implement the solution that best aligns with client needs, technical constraints, and long-term sustainability.
• You are confident explaining complex technical decisions in clear, accessible language to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You take ownership of projects from concept to delivery, proactively identifying risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement early in the process.
• You play a key role in shaping architecture, improving internal processes, and ensuring high-quality standards across all deliverables.
• You are also a mentor to other developers, supporting junior and mid-level team members in their growth while fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Alongside working on your own projects, you collaborate closely with front-end developers, designers, and external partners in integrated sprint teams to deliver exceptional digital products.

Senior Django Developer

Account Manager

• Collaborate closely with internal teams to deliver client-first recommendations and programmatic best practices.
• Manage day-to-day campaign execution, optimizations, pacing, and reporting.
• Support the development and presentation of programmatic strategy to improve client performance.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through clear communication and timely updates.
• Identify performance trends, troubleshoot issues, and apply data-driven insights.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to Coordinators, helping them grow in their roles.
• Contribute to a positive team culture by demonstrating our core values.
• Bring forward new ideas, tools, and approaches to push innovation and improve workflow.

Account Manager, Programmatic

• Develop and implement strategic paid search campaigns across retail media networks to drive performance and growth for an enterprise retail account.
• Lead and manage a team of paid search specialists, providing guidance, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to enhance team performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including analytics, creative, and account management, to ensure cohesive and integrated media plans that align with client objectives.
• Analyze campaign performance data to provide actionable insights and recommendations for optimization, ensuring maximum ROI and alignment with client goals.
• Oversee the day-to-day execution of paid search campaigns, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget and quality standards.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in paid search and retail media networks to maintain a competitive edge and drive innovation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, acting as a trusted advisor and ensuring satisfaction with media strategies and outcomes.
• Develop and present performance reports and strategic recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders, highlighting key insights and opportunities for growth.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing to drive continuous improvement.

Account Lead – Retail Search

Strategy

• Nurture and build out our team of talented strategists from every aspect of the marketing discipline
• Lead hands on with one key account to drive the most pioneering work.
• Ensure creative excellence by closely collaborating with the existing creative teams.
• Work closely with wider EMEA and UK and global strategy teams to identify talent and resources and shared processes and tooling
• Lead- and guide a range of (creative) strategic disciplines; We're looking for a modern strategist that is able to stitch together a lot of disciplines and set out a clear trajectory to fix our clients' challenges. Rooted in today's culture and all the touch points we have at hand; from social, to influencer, to TTL
• Innovate our offering working closely with tech, creative, media and analytics to ensure we are delivering market-leading strategic approaches to our clients
• Upping the benchmark of the work and ensuring we are leading the industry by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible while delivering incremental improvements on ROI
• Lead and participate in new business pitches; locally and globally
• Serve as a thought leader across the business and externally on topics of planning, strategy and innovation.

Strategy Director

Performance Marketing

• Lead channel-specific paid social strategy for complex, multichannel accounts, leveraging deep expertise across platforms such as Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snap, and Pinterest, and DEPT’s broader service offerings to drive growth across the funnel.
• Serve as the day-to-day paid social strategist for the largest and most complex paid media accounts, aligning tactics with client objectives, measurement frameworks, attribution models, and spend levels.
• Own the paid social component of client roadmaps, ensuring strategic alignment with client priorities, performance goals, creative strategy, and cross-channel initiatives.
• Maintain accountability for paid social budget management, performance delivery, forecasting, and profitability, recommending strategic pivots as needed to meet or exceed KPIs.
• Establish, enforce, and evolve paid social processes and best practices, ensuring consistent use of tools such as Asana, Qontrol, platform QA frameworks, and internal standards across teams.
• Partner closely with Client Partners and activation teams to deliver cohesive paid social strategies; contribute to and approve paid social content for key client deliverables; and provide strategic consultation throughout deck development and presentations.
• Act as the primary escalation point for paid social within your portfolio, proactively resolving performance challenges, prioritization conflicts, and team coordination issues to ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Build, develop, and lead high-performing teams by overseeing onboarding, driving effective delegation, coaching people managers, and fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high-impact team environments.

Associate Director, Paid Social – B2B Expert

SEO Marketing

• Master the three pillars of traditional SEO: Content, Tech, and Authority
• Learn to navigate advanced data analysis tools, map out robust SEO strategies, and build actionable roadmaps
• Get a head start on the next generation of search with deep dives into AI search and GEO
• Learning by doing is our mantra. Each theoretical module is rounded off with a practical internal assignment. Once you've built a rock-solid foundation, you’ll step right into real client work, collaborating with clever minds for some of the biggest Dutch and global brands.

Trainee SEO

General

• Collaborate with strategists, media planners, and channel consultants to develop media strategies for our clients.
• Dig into media behaviour, performance and client briefs to come up with tactical approaches.
• Conduct competitive and category analysis, deep-diving into the latest trends to inform strategy, planning and execution.
• Help shape tests on media formats, and channel roles, and learn how to translate strategy into clear execution.
• Track and report on channel performance: pulling data from platform and reporting tools, building clear performance overviews, and keeping strategy on track against goals and KPIs.
• Prep and facilitate workshops and presentations, using tools such as Google Slides and Figma.
• Support the Media Strategy team in bringing research and strategy to life for clients.

Media Strategy Intern

• Lead the expansion of the Integrated Planning and Strategy practice, refining best-in-class processes across both B2B and B2C verticals.
• Direct full-funnel, data-driven media strategies for nationally and internationally recognized brands, ensuring every plan moves "hearts and minds."
• Partner with Business Development to spearhead new business pitches and identify proactive growth opportunities within the existing client portfolio.
• Navigate and lead in complex, multi-agency (IAT) environments, ensuring DEPT®'s strategic vision is integrated across all partner workstreams.
• Champion the use of advanced media research tools and data science to drive innovation in audience profiling and channel mix strategy.
• Oversee the quality and consistency of strategic output across multiple account teams, ensuring a high bar for creativity and rigor.
• Mentor and lead a team of Associate Directors and Managers, fostering a culture of "relentless curiosity" and high-performance collaboration.

Director, Integrated Media Strategy – Planning

• Collaborate with strategists, creatives, and designers to develop social and content strategies for our clients.
• Dig into social listening, audience, and platform research to uncover audience and cultural insights.
• Conduct competitive and category analysis, deep-diving into the latest social and content trends to inform strategy, content territories, and positioning.
• Help shape content ideas, formats, and channel roles, and learn how to translate strategy into clear, inspiring creative briefs.
• Track and report on content and channel performance: pulling data from platform and reporting tools, building clear performance overviews, and keeping strategy on track against goals and KPIs.
• Turn performance learnings into creative learnings, spotting what resonates and feeding it back into new content ideas and optimisations.
• Prep and facilitate workshops and presentations, using tools such as Google Slides and Figma.
• Support the Social & Content Strategy team in bringing research and strategy to life for clients.

Social Strategy Intern

Copywriter

• Lead the development of campaign narratives, messaging frameworks, and creative concepts across channels and audiences.
• Partner closely with Art Directors and creative teams to create integrated ideas and audience experiences.
• Present creative work confidently to internal teams and clients, articulating the rationale behind messaging decisions.
• Mentor Associate Copywriters and help elevate the quality of writing and storytelling across the team.
• Leverage AI-assisted creative workflows to accelerate ideation, explore narrative territories, and improve creative effectiveness.

Senior Copywriter – Performance Creative

Manager

• Balance workload across a varied, enterprise-level book of business.
• Own the activation, optimization, pacing, and ongoing management of programmatic campaigns.
• Monitor campaign performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Support campaign architecture, audience strategy, and activation planning to ensure campaigns are structured for performance and scalability.
• Translate campaign performance, testing results, and market insights into recommendations that support broader programmatic strategy and client objectives.
• Partner with and coach Associates to ensure campaign launches, quality assurance, and optimization tasks are completed accurately and on time.
• Troubleshoot campaign delivery, tracking, measurement, and platform issues while partnering with internal teams to drive resolution.
• Support innovation and testing initiatives by identifying new opportunities, platform capabilities, and optimization approaches that drive improved results.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Integrated Media Strategy & Planning, Ad Operations, Data Science & Analytics, Project Management, and other media craft teams to ensure seamless execution and measurement.
• Leverage automation, AI-enabled tools, and process improvements to improve campaign management efficiency, optimization workflows, and overall team effectiveness.
• Embody DEPT®'s values while fostering a collaborative and solutions-oriented team environment.

Freelance Manager, Programmatic

General Counsel

• Drafting, Reviewing, and Negotiating Contracts
• Lead the drafting, review, and redlining of a broad range of commercial agreements — including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, DPAs, vendor, consulting, production, and talent agreements.
• Independently negotiate agreements with counterparties (both clients and vendors) and effectively represent DEPT®’s interests.
• Contract Management and Compliance
• Support contract compliance with established company processes and policies.
• Support and drive the continuous improvement of DEPT®’s contract templates and playbooks to reflect current business and legal considerations.
• Monitor changes in applicable laws, regulations, and best practices relevant to DEPT®’s operations.
• Risk Management and Dispute Handling
• Be able to lead commercial dispute resolution efforts in collaboration with the DEPT® Legal team, providing risk assessments and recommending practical solutions.
• Serve as a trusted legal advisor to company management at all levels, providing timely, actionable, and business-focused guidance.
• Process Improvement and Relationship Building
• Identify process gaps and drive creative solutions in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with business teams to ensure contracts are well-tailored to DEPT®’s needs.
• Coordinate with and manage external counsel and subject matter experts where required.
• AI Tools and Technology
• Leverage AI-powered legal tools — including contract review and analysis platforms and AI-assisted drafting tools — to increase efficiency and throughput across the contract lifecycle.
• Actively identify opportunities to integrate AI tools into legal workflows, while applying sound professional judgment to review, validate, and take responsibility for all AI-generated outputs.
• Partner with the broader organization on AI-related commercial matters, including advising on AI procurement contracts, data processing terms, and IP and liability considerations arising from the use of AI services.
• Leadership and Knowledge Sharing
• Stay at the forefront of developments in legal AI, emerging technologies, and industry standards, proactively assessing their applicability to DEPT®’s legal function and sharing insights with the wider team.
• Mentor junior members of the Legal team and foster a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.