Senior Associate, Digital Communications

Bully Pulpit International; Washington; Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Generous time off

$50 monthly phone reimbursement

Unlimited sick time

16 weeks paid leave for new parents

Job summary

Bully Pulpit International in Washington is seeking a Senior Associate to take ownership of deliverables and drive project management. This role involves developing campaign strategies and content, while working closely with creative teams and managing client messaging.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in ad or communications agencies, strong analytical skills, and exceptional writing abilities. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an ad agency, communications agency, nonprofit or corporate communications.
• Experience working with creative teams on briefs.
• Strong analytical skills to communicate results.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of campaign strategy.
• Draft creative campaign briefs.
• Provide first review of content from the creative team.
• Monitor client messaging for campaigns.
• Draft content calendars and paid media briefs.

Skills

Marketing analysis

Creative concept development

Social media marketing

Strong writing skills

Team management

Job description

Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. We have more than 400 team members in six countries and thirteen offices — Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, D.C., London, Los Angeles, New York, Oslo, San Francisco, and Zürich. We apply our unique expertise across strategic communications, public affairs, research, and digital marketing to create sophisticated and customized strategies that make change possible for both American and European clients.

The Impact You Will Make

BPI’s Senior Associate takes on ownership of deliverables and workstreams and drives project management. You have a strong depth of knowledge in your field, are able to proactively serve our clients and create deliverables more independently. You effectively oversee work product and may begin to supervise other client team members. This role typically reports to a Director or Senior Director.

• Location: Expectation to work from one of our offices at least 3 days a week (preference - DC, NYC or Chicago)
• Salary: $77,000 - $85,000

What Day to Day looks Like

• Find meaningful opportunities for clients and help lead the development of a campaign strategy and orchestrate its implementation.
• Drafts creative campaign briefs and leads creative concept development with internal creative team, client and cross functional marketing team.
• Provides first review of content from the internal BPI creative team and coordinates feedback from internal and external stakeholders. In some cases, has first pen on messaging and ad copy.
• Produces and oversees high-quality client work. Manage campaigns and projects with attention to detail, without losing sight of broader strategic goals.
• Digests qualitative and quantitative research findings and ensures they are incorporated into creative work.
• Monitors client messaging for campaigns in market and in development, identifying proactive creative opportunities for the client.
• Manages rapid response creative production ranging from individual video production to large scale cross-channel productions and resize.
• Draft and manage content calendars and other deliverables such as organic and paid social landscape analyses.
• Draft paid media briefs and evaluate paid media plans.

What We're Looking For

• Analyze marketing campaign performance and derive insights; review and suggest optimizations in coordination with media and buying teams; ensure proper budget management without overspending.
• Depth of knowledge and POV on owned and paid channels and landscape.
• 5+ years of experience working in an ad agency, communications agency, nonprofit or corporate communications.
• Experience working closely with creative teams on briefs and creative concept development.
• Knowledge of social media marketing on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram.
• Experience managing and providing clear feedback to team members.
• Extremely strong writing skills with experience developing content strategy and managing social media campaigns.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate results to senior-level audiences, including experience with independently producing documents and reports consumed by senior-level audiences.

BPI offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match up to 4%, generous time off for vacation, $50 monthly phone reimbursement, unlimited sick time, and 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents. BPI’s benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.

We’re looking for all kinds of people.

We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on individual commitment to excellence. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition or genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. BPI is dedicated to building an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging – so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. We consider applications holistically and you may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!

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