Managing Digital Strategist

Managing Digital Strategists run Middle Seat’s largest email programs for progressive candidates, political committees, and nonprofits. They also manage and mentor junior members of the email team. As an experienced emailer, this job is an opportunity to work on some of the most notable fundraising and advocacy programs in our space. You will take the lead on strategy and execution with some of our most important clients. You will also learn to be an effective manager, mentor, and leader on the email team. This role is roughly 80% client work and 20% team management work.

This role is part of the bargaining unit.

Why Middle Seat

• 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

Job Responsibilities

• Write compelling fundraising and organizing emails
  • Writing embodies the voices and perspectives of our clients, with no edits needed
  • Expertly adapts writing to various calls-to-action
  • Writing always deploys effective theories of change
• Work with clients to get emails edited, approved, and scheduled
  • Coordinates clients to review and finalize email copy
  • Solicits, accepts, processes, and incorporates copy feedback, from both senior team members and clients
  • Provides valuable and constructive copy feedback to more junior team members
  • Plays a role in helping to develop the copywriting skills of junior team members
• Code, produce, target and test mass email communications
  • Email code is complete and accurate, with no errors. Requires no troubleshooting. Can troubleshoot intermediate and complex code issues.
  • Follows our internal testing processes; sends email tests to team members for review and approval
  • Frequently volunteers to review and approve tests for others. Nearly always catches and rectifies errors before they launch.
  • Launches emails to targeted audiences with no mistakes
• Use multiple different CRMs to run email programs (ActionKit, BSD, Action Network, NationBuilder, MailChimp, etc.)
  • Has mastered all CRM(s) used by their client(s)
  • Has become fluent in 1-2 additional CRMs
  • Trains and mentors junior team members on learning new CRMs
• Analyze metrics and report back to clients on performance, best practices, test results
  • Compiles metrics into cohesive, thorough, well-structured reports
  • Analyzes those reports; derives strategic guidance from them
  • Presents reports, analyses, and strategic guidance to …