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Advertising is all about the work. Every headline we write is just a starting point. Where we take an idea depends on where we want it to go. In the following examples, you’ll get a small glimpse of how we breathe life into good ideas. And you’ll also discover something else we’ve known for a long time: the better the work, the shorter the case study.

Price of Gold
AARP Driver Safety
Superhero

Great Work. It's what put us on the map.

As our clients’ revenues and brand presence continue to grow, so do we. Which helps us keep our handshake/email ratio exactly where it should be. We’ve got fully staffed offices in key markets all across the country, so we can be there when you need us.
Literally.

Leadership

Our blueprint for success has been simple: how we accomplish our mission is just as important as the mission itself.
It takes brains, talent and passion. Everything this team takes the lead on.

Dave Thomas

Principal, Chief Executive Officer

Sharon Rask

Principal, Chief Operating Officer

Jeff Olsen

Executive Director, Creative Strategy & Client Service

Anne Wood

Principal, President, Chief Marketing Officer

Matt Thomas

Principal, Multimedia Director – Principal, Film and Motion Director

Troy Thomas

Principal, President, Chief Creative Officer

Lance Oscarson

Executive Director, Creative

Tom Scandaliato

Principal, Managing Director, New York

Tom Pratt

Executive Director, Creative and Business Development

Alan Hills

Executive Director, Strategic Performance

Mark Brooks

Executive Director, Technology

Russ Nelson

Chief Financial Officer

Our Specialties

Great work gets you noticed. And great companies notice why. To inspire confidence in our clients, we continually need to hit the mark on a target that’s always moving. And how do we do that? It’s simple.  We evolve. And then deliver our signature product: thought, well executed.

Business Strategy
Creative
Content Marketing
User Experience
Social Media
Research & Analytics
Media Planning
Public Relations
Interactive Development
Branding

A Few of Our Clients

In all our years of advertising, there’s one thing we’ve continually stressed to our clients: you’ll do more for your brand by breaking the rules than by following them.
Listed below are a handful of incredible companies we’ve been fortunate enough to work with—You’ll quickly see why their campaigns are also our latest success stories.

How We Work

Without a good execution, a strategy is only a plan — something you intend to do. We call ourselves problem solvers because that’s what we do. And we’re really good at it. We can spot opportunities where others can’t. And it’s probably because we have more “a-ha” moments per capita than anyone else.

Problem
Problem

Ever wonder why some businesses don’t grow as fast as expected or why their profit margins are so skinny while their competitors are thriving? We sure do. And that’s where we start our focus.

Insight

Once we’ve identified the relevant problem, we spend a lot of time trying to understand it, to gain a new perspective of it. This usually happens after we’ve looked at it from a million different angles and turned it upside down and inside out.

Insight
Validation
Validation

Just like any smart researcher, we do our homework. We run tests. We gather analytics. We test those analytics. We poke and prod and shake our insights to see if there are any holes. And once we’re satisfied, we let the magic happen.

Solution

This is the toughest part of the process. It’s also the most satisfying and rewarding. Arriving at the big idea can transcend any strategy. And that’s what we’re after. Something brand-new and completely unexpected. Something that really moves the needle for our clients.

Solution

Portfolio

It takes artistry and know-how to create a memorable campaign. And of course, just the right amount of magic.

Zions Bank
Honor
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Zions Bank
Playing the Branch
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VSP Vision Care - Insurance
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Superhero
Superhero
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Ken Garff
Hyundai World’s Worst Negotiators
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'A Really Soft Bargain'
'A Really Soft Bargain'
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'Tips By Tots'
AARP Driver Safety
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Tips By Tots
AARP Driver Safety
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Zippy Shell
Zippy Shell
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What can we do for you?

It’s true that good ideas can come from anywhere. But ThomasARTS is a great place to start.

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Our Offices

The teams that know how to win big are the ones who can take it coast to coast. Stop by one of our national offices and say hello.

Utah

UT

240 South 200 West
Farmington, UT 84025
Office: 801-451-5365

California

CA

3070 Bristol St. Suite 340
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Office: 714-375-7800

Washington, D.C.

DC

1300 L St. NW, Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20005
Office: 202-450-1843

New York

NY

55 Broadway, Suite 1801
New York, NY 10006
Office: 646-572-7500

Minnesota

MN

11000 Prairie Lakes Dr., Ste 275
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Office: 952-252-1900

Texas

TX

4400 Post Oak Parkway
Houston, Texas 77027
Office: 281-972-5365

It’s Not a Franchise Without The Players.

Everybody here is in the game. There are no sidelines. If you’re looking for your next big job opportunity, this is it.

Development Manager - Farmington

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The role of Development Manager is to lead the agency’s digital development efforts from client guidance and solution finding to specific management for a team of developers and partners. The candidate will understand the development process and trends for leading the vision in digital best practices. The person will guide a team of developers in creating online/digital products and services.

Duties & Responsibilities

·         Management and mentorship of development team.

·         Create and manage project timelines to ensure projects are completed efficiently, on time and within budget.

·         Conduct resource and requirement gathering meetings with client along with technical director.

·         Identify project scope and write proposals.

·         Management of the relationships with vendors.

·         Act as primary liaison between development team and other agency teams.

·         Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

·         Track project milestones and deliverables.

·         Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.

·         Other duties as assigned.

Skills Required

Prefered Qualifications

·         Five to seven years of project management experience in web development or related environment.

·         BS in Marketing, Advertising, Computer Science or Business equivalent experience.

·         Ability to manage a project from start to finish as well as oversee general production of multiple projects at one time.

·         The ability to coach and transform a diverse and talented team into a high-performing delivery machine.

·         Someone who is downright giddy to work with, learn from and mentor awesome devs every day.

·         Ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing.

·         Adobe Experience Manager experience a plus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, and on the basis of disability.

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Digital Marketing Coordinator/Analytics Lead (Contractor)

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The Digital Marketing Coordinator will work alongside the Digital Marketing team by providing support to manage a broad range of company digital assets from website to online consumer campaigns to social and email programs. Strong familiarity with digital best practices and consumer behavior is important. The individual will have a strong analytics background to provide competitive analysis, website and campaign performance outcomes as well as recommendations for improvements and changes. Project specifications will need to be outlined and communicated in order to meet highly regulated government requirements and company brand standards. The DMC will provide support for the team to facilitate projects for timing and approvals. Health care experience is helpful but not mandatory. Collaboration expertise working remotely is critical.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Project manage numerous digital assets of the company, working towards high season sales opportunities. Projects will include websites, email campaigns with landing pages and microsites, advertising, social media, search programs and analytics. 

• Understand and collaborate on strategy for the sites and campaigns, using campaign experience and knowledge of consumer response. 

• Responsible for coordinating the variety of approvals needed for government regulated work while ensuring quality and communication value succeeds. 

• Provide analysis of metrics and consumer outcomes with recommendations made for improvements in delivery or execution.

Skills Required

• Extremely detail oriented marketing professional with 8+ years of a proven track record in digital work experience and project management 

• Proven expertise in digital familiarity and web best practices for consumer engagement • Ability to manage a variety of digital assets including, but not limited to websites, landing pages, ads, emails, social media, and marketing and competitive analysis 

• 3+ years working with analytics

• Strong metric and analytic experience, aptitude for grasping new concepts and excels in execution and delivery

•Ability to analyze analytic reports and provide senior management with high level overviews and insights 

• Experience with campaign and project management tools 

• Works well in a collaborative, team environment 

• Ability to deliver and execute on projects with minimal direction and oversight 

• Ability to identify gaps and opportunities in current digital assets and oversee process to implement improvements

Prefered Qualifications

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UI/UA Architect (Contractor)

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A User Experience/Information Architect is needed in a healthcare corporate environment to map current state and future state sites to improve overall consumer experience. Person will be responsible for identifying online steps and process in order to document and communicate to development team. Web user experience expertise is essential and familiarity with health insurance purchase process would be valuable.  UIUX, information architect or business analyst previous experience would provide candidate with best experiences to handle this work. This roles first assignment is to map current state information architecture diagram of these sites and to make recommendations on improvements, prioritizing them and communicating to business and marketing leads. Once decisions are finalized this person will work with and communicate plans to our web development team. The second area of responsibility is to visually map online and offline processes, demonstrating the consumers’ end to end user experience for internal discussions and implementation.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Create functional specifications through wireframes and rapid application prototyping, use cases, and process flows to demonstrate current and future state digital capabilities and user experiences.

• Drive optimal user experience for the sites, communicating with business team.

• Create consumer personas; prepare storyboards, taxonomies, and/or user flows.

• Project outcomes for future state experiences, work with business lead to determine metrics and measurements for all web and mobile sites.

• Map future state consumer experience for business leads with documentation and plan for developers.

• Effective communication with business and marketing teams as well as development teams.

Skills Required

• 5+ years experience working as a User Experience/Information Architect.

• Intermediate level or above understanding of user-centered design / web usability best practices.

• Experience with one or more diagramming or prototyping tools (e.g., Visio, or Axure).

• Effectively communicate current/future state ideas visually.

• Experience in all phases of the front end project cycle from concept to wireframes, design and development needed.

• Knowledge of research and evaluation techniques such as card sorting, heuristic review, usability testing and web analytics analysis.

• Knowledge of latest web design standards and interaction models.

• Understanding of site audit processes to achieve optimal results for search rankings.

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Account Manager - Washington D.C.

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ThomasARTS is a dynamic, full-service creative marketing & advertising agency, with locations in California, Utah, Minnesota, New York and Washington, D.C. The Washington, DC office is looking for an incredibly talented and driven Account Manager to manage a growing base of client work. This position is based in our Washington D.C. office.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop campaign or media briefs to direct the internal teams’ work for the client.
  • Work closely with clients to obtain the necessary information, budget approvals or data to provide to the agency service teams to produce the work.
  • Develop or assist in the development of marketing plans or communication plans or budgets.
  • Arrange client meetings and other agency staff, determining the specifications for campaigns and oversight of the project plans. 
  • Assist with the formulation of strategies to grow the client business or for communication plan development.
  • Execute tasks as assigned to monitor the profitability of accounts, analyze and report on results, track estimates and prepare billing.
  • This position may present creative work to clients for approval or modification to meet deadlines and prioritizing tasks.
  • Other duties as assigned

Skills Required

  • Understanding of marketing, business and communications
  • Project management skills
  • Computer proficiency in Word, Excel and Power Point as a minimum
  • Strong ability to organize, follow through and handle multiple projects at one time
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated professionalism

Prefered Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred
  • 3 to 5 years agency experience
  • Experience with outside sales a plus

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