Principal, Strategic Comms/Digital Focused

Precision Strategies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Annual bonus opportunity

Flexible remote/in-office plan

Retirement plan with contribution

Healthcare coverage

Paid vacation and sick leave

Paid parental leave

Professional development stipend

Job summary

A strategic marketing agency located in Washington, DC, is looking for a principal to join their Strategic Communications team. The ideal candidate will lead digital strategy initiatives for various clients, manage multiple projects, and have at least 4 years of experience in digital marketing. The agency emphasizes collaboration across teams and values creativity and detail-oriented individuals. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, including a flexible hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in digital marketing with a focus on executing digital programs.
• Deep understanding of digital, email, and social media strategies.
• Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead client initiatives, ensuring timely execution and results.
• Collaborate with teams on communication strategies and campaigns.
• Manage content development, reporting insights to optimize future campaigns.

Skills

Digital marketing expertise

Excellent communication skills

Content strategy

Project management

Creativity

Tools

Social media platforms

Content management systems

Digital analytics tools

Job description

Precision is an award-winning integrated strategy and marketing agency based in Washington, DC and New York, NY. Powered by data, we bring world‑class experts in each of our service areas to conceive, develop, and run campaigns that help our clients seize opportunities and solve their biggest challenges.

We’re at the center of today’s biggest debates and defining moments, inside the Beltway, across New York’s media and financial worlds, and in state capitals across the country. Our work sits at the intersection of politics, business, and culture, helping leaders and organizations make an impact when it matters most. We hire people who are the best at what they do, and who like to have fun doing it; we don’t just break through. We break new ground.

Our team is seeking a principal to join our Strategic Communications team in New York, NY or Washington DC executing cutting‑edge digital strategy for clients ranging from corporate leaders to advocacy groups.

What You Will Be Doing:

Client Management

• Lead and oversee multiple client initiatives or programs from conception through execution.
• Manages small work streams across multiple client accounts, ensuring timely delivery and coordination.

Digital Specific

• Content Development: Leads content workstreams across platforms, ensuring content strategies align with broader campaign objectives and audience needs. Takes initiative in shaping content direction and frameworks, collaborating closely with strategy, creative, and account leads. Guides junior team members and oversees execution with a focus on consistency, performance, and integration across channels. Begins contributing to content innovation, testing, and reporting insights to inform future campaigns.
• Platform Skills: Build, edit, schedule, and publish content across a variety of email, social, grassroots advocacy, content management systems, and creative platforms. Develop platform‑specific digital strategies and expertise in at least one emerging platform. They proactively identify new opportunities, guide junior staff development within their specialty area, and integrate insights from research and campaigns into Precision’s evolving best practices.
• Reporting: Drive digital reporting for social, email, and web platforms, identify patterns and trends, suggest next steps. Train junior staff on digital reporting strategy.

Collaboration

• Work collaboratively across communications, data, creative, and paid advertising departments on behalf of clients; builds relationships within Precision.
• Well‑prepared for meetings—offers clear updates, anticipates questions, and proposes solutions and next steps.
• Guides junior staff and interns, by reviewing and editing junior team members’ work and providing written and verbal feedback.

Project & Time Management

• Owns assigned tasks (e.g. understanding how work ladders up to the larger goal, meets deadlines without reminders, organizes documents for team sharing, comfortable with a variety of tools and hard skills, can manage multiple projects at once, manages up, if necessary).
• Meets deadlines set by client lead.

Strategy

• Produces clear, persuasive content based on client strategy with minimal guidance; regularly seeks feedback and reviews and edits junior team members’ work.
• Proactively uses available tools and sources to research and apply informed judgment to decisions, ensuring work aligns with strategy and long‑term goals.
• Identifies potential issues or strategy gaps early, recommends adjustments, and supports teams in course‑correcting.

What We Are Looking For:

• 4+ years of experience in digital marketing with a proven ability to create and lead the execution of effective digital programs.
• Deep understanding of digital, email and social media, and a hunger for continuing to innovate as technologies evolve.
• Tactical familiarity with most or all of the following: social media, online advertising, email marketing, content marketing, mobile strategy, digital analytics, web video, social listening, web design.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to work with colleagues in related fields like marketing, PR, analytics, and technology
• Creative, energetic, detail‑oriented and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit.

What We Will Give You:

• Competitive salaries
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Flexible hybrid remote/in office plan
• Retirement plan with automatic 3% safe‑harbor contribution from Precision
• Healthcare coverage - medical, dental and vision with 90% of costs covered by Precision
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend

The salary range for this role is $85,000-105,000.

We are currently working in a hybrid model and require staff to work in the office 50% of working days per month.

Precision is committed to building a diverse team that will positively and authentically impact the communities we serve. Centering our strategies around the authentic voices and cultures of the communities we are engaging with is paramount to our work – and our work can only be as inclusive as our team is representative. We strongly encourage women, Black, Latino, Hispanic, AAPI, and Indigenous people, LGBTQ+, gender expansive or GNC folks, people of all ages, disabled people, and veterans to apply.