Senior Strategist, Social Media & Texting

​Want to lead social media, SMS, and digital strategy for progressive candidates and organizations? Social media management and broadcast messaging are both growing and in-demand fields in the world of progressive politics. This job is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a growing team at Middle Seat and take the lead in running client social media & texting programs. We’re looking for self-starters who love to write, raise money online, design graphics, and follow the news of the day.

This role is a 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
• Get in on the ground floor of a growing operation

Job Responsibilities

• Lead client social media accounts and/or texting programs and provide feedback to strategists and coordinators on your accounts
• Crafting and implementing social media management and growth strategies
• Utilize social media to fundraise and build lists for clients
• Creating graphics and short-form videos for social media posts
• Overseeing social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other client social media platforms) posting schedules & texting calendars and ensuring a robust and consistent cadence that is responsive to breaking news and other major moments
• Researching issues relevant to our clients in order to identify salient topics and content for social media posts 
• Remaining plugged in to political news and overall trends in progressive politics, political fundraising, and social media
• Managing and interfacing with clients directly (potentially including Members of Congress and candidates for federal office)
• Draft copy for fundraising and mobilization through texting and develop calendars for client programs
• Manage texting production and develop other assets, such as mobile flows, landing pages, donation pages, and more.
• Propose ideas for testing, segmentation, and optimization.
• Lead list growth strategy from start to finish with multi-layered media plans, including pitching and managing acquisition buys for phone numbers and budgeting campaigns.
• Develop and manage P2P texting campaigns across clients
• Pulling, compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing social media and texting performance metrics into reports and presenting to clients
• Build processes within client teams and within department, with guidance of manager/Department Director
• Contribute to overall department success, such as developing training materials, participating in sales pitches …