Want to break into digital? Get your start with us. Middle Seat is a digital consulting firm working for progressive candidates, political committees, and organizations. We’re looking for a full-time digital strategist to join the email team. Working within a pod, Digital Strategists provide intermediate support to client email programs. This job is an opportunity to hone mid-level skills in the areas of email copywriting and creative development, production, reporting, and client relations. Digital Strategists typically report to Managing Digital Strategists.
- Competitive salaries and great benefits
- We only work for progressive organizations, candidates, and causes
- We’re a proudly unionized team — part of the Campaign Workers Guild
- Get in on the ground floor of a growing operation
Job Responsibilities
- Writes email content (with some supervision)
- Writes content for donation forms and landing pages (with some supervision)
- Collaborates with podmates (and potentially clients) to get content reviewed, edited, and approved
- Uses theories of change in email copy
- Produces and launches emails (with some supervision and few mistakes)
- Learns and uses basic-to-intermediate HTML, CSS, and SQL as needed
- Learns and uses basic-to-intermediate CRM functionalities
- Knows the basics of email testing
- Can contribute testing ideas
- Pulls, reads, interprets, and presents email performance metrics (with some supervision)
- Can set up donation forms and other landing pages (with some supervision)
- Contributes to email reporting (with some supervision)
- Keeps email reports up-to-date
- Sometimes takes part in brainstorms and other internal team meetings
- Attends and occasionally contributes to client meetings (with some supervision)
- Contributes ideas to email calendars
- Occasionally reviews peer work for accuracy, functionality, and alignment with best practices
- Includes proofing test emails
- Occasionally assists with helping onboard new clients
- Can play a role in standing up new CRM and ActBlue instances
- Occasionally contributes to new business proposals
- Occasionally project manages client work (with some supervision)
- Other responsibilities as requested
Requirements
- 1-3 years of relevant experience in email fundraising (or similar)
- Works regularly with 1-2 common CRMs or fundraising platforms (ActionKit, ActBlue,
- ActionNetwork, NationBuilder, etc.)
- Able to manage client projects largely without assistance
- Creative writing chops
- Handle on typical rules of email writing for fundraising
- Solid handle on email formatting and writing
- Proficiency with most of the HTML and CSS needed to run email programs
- Enthusiasm for data and testing fundraising content
- A desire to play a role in fundraising for major political campaigns, nonprofits, and
- causes
- Attention to detail
Benefits
- Salary: $60,086-$67,000
- 100% premium coverage for health, dental and vision
- Zero deductible health plan
- Profit-sharing plan: share in the growth and success of Middle Seat
- Mobile phone reimbursement up to $50 per month
- One Medical health service: video call or chat with doctors, no wait-time appointments
- Health Advocate: the nation’s leading healthcare advocacy and assistance company
- 6% employer match on your 401k retirement account
- 20 paid vacation days off, plus your birthday and your Anniversary at Middle Seat
- Unlimited sick leave
- Commuter benefits for public transportation
- Office Space (WeWork, etc) Stipend for Remote Employees
- 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
- $100 monthly student loan reimbursement
- $350 monthly mental health benefit
- $1,000 annual professional development reimbursement
We are committed to building a diverse and passionate team. We encourage creative-minded individuals with a strong technical aptitude to apply for this position. Women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals are encouraged to apply.
Our firm is values-driven. We are intentional with the decidedly left-of-center clients we work with — and we strive to make our work environment and benefits reflect that, including salary transparency, healthy work-life balance, and consistent employee feedback and communication. We’re happy to talk more about our company culture with prospective applicants.
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