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 350 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 Opportunity To Make An Impact
Bully Pulpit International is seeking a Senior Director/Director who will be responsible for driving effective, modern, and strategic electoral and advocacy campaigns. In this role, you will work closely with candidates, campaign managers, and leaders of political organizations to identify their needs or challenges and recommend and execute targeted solutions. This person is a hands-on, strategic leader responsible for delivering messages and creating content that cut through information silos to persuade, motivate, and ultimately win campaigns.
Are you a voracious consumer of political and brand content who has a strong point-of-view about how politicians and causes need to evolve their approach to break through? Do you love to dig into data and identify insights that help inform strategic recommendations? Are you a great writer who is equally adept at writing a memo to a leadership and copy in the voice of a candidate? Do you have the drive to manage and encourage your team, coupled with an ability to engender trust and confidence with your clients? Then you might be the right person to join our growing senior leadership team.
Evolve Campaigns is Bully Pulpit International's media and research agency that creates cross-screen campaigns to actually reach and persuade voters in today's hyper-competitive communications environment. BPI specializes in public affairs, political campaigns, corporate reputation, and social impact. A growing firm with offices in Washington, DC, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, BPI works alongside our clients to bring integrated communications and advertising campaigns to companies and organizations - from strategy to message to media relations to marketing.
Salary range: $150,000 - $165,000
Location: Expectation to work from one of our offices at least 3 days a week
What the Day-to-Day Looks Like
Campaign Management - You will be responsible for driving the strategy and implementation of persuasion, mobilization, advocacy, and modern content distribution campaigns across electoral and advocacy campaigns. You will be expected to interpret research findings, create a strategic approach and then partner with targeting experts, creative, media planners and others to write a sophisticated, integrated campaign plan using paid, earned and owned tactics.
Content Development - Leading creative experts, copywriters, and social media and other specialists, you will oversee the creation of both paid and organic content that stands out from the noise, persuades, and motivates voters and other targets.
Digital Paid Advertising - Leading ad strategists, media planners and buyers, marketing analytics and other specialists to deliver excellence for your clients, you will oversee the development of messaging and digital content for marketing campaigns, as well as review and guide a wide range of deliverables from reports and memos to presentations to social and digital advertising assets.
Client & Account Management - You will be responsible for driving the strategy, deepening the trust of your clients and supporting BPI's Partners and Executive Leadership team on a variety of accounts. You will serve as the main point of contact and oversee the daily management, communication and execution of services for the client, which often include senior management or executive level decision-makers.
Team Management & Communication - You will be responsible for developing members on your team in their fields of expertise and building them to become the next leaders in the agency. You will coach and mentor your team's performance and manage their quality of work to ensure they are efficient and effective in meeting client deliverables. You will work collaboratively and communicate with internal, cross office and cross department team members to ensure timelines and quality expectations for client deliverables are met.
New Business Efforts- You will work with agency partners and other senior leaders to develop and pitch new business opportunities. You are capable of managing the agency's existing clients and establishing new client relationships. In support of new business opportunities, you are comfortable drafting proposals and producing materials for client pitches with minimal direction and oversight from agency Partners.
Requirements
10+ years of experience across electoral and advocacy campaigns and message distribution, whether in traditional paid media, digital media, direct mail or communications
Proven track record of working on complex client accounts (or related issues) and delivering successful advocacy and media campaigns
Comfort in presenting and briefing everyone from candidates and executive directors to 30 cross-functional colleagues at every level
Deep knowledge of cross-channel marketing, with the ability to think analytically about a problem
Operate with a high level of organization and precision-managing scopes, budgets, reporting, and team delivery with excellence, all while leading multiple workstreams simultaneously
Ability to mobilize fast-paced, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams
Exceptional presentation, writing and analytical skills and the ability to write both strategically and creatively under tight timelines
Stay immersed in electoral trends, policy conversation, and the media landscape to fuel real-time relevance and creative storytelling
Experience managing large teams with multiple layers, providing clear feedback to team members and driving professional growth at every level
Comfortable handling strategic planning and daily execution of services for clients
A fast learner who can quickly get up to speed on any electoral, advocacy, or public affairs topic
Benefits
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.
BPI Group is an integrated public affairs agency that delivers outcomes for the top organizations and leaders around the world. With expertise in strategic communications, digital marketing, creative, research, and measurement, we offer a cohesive approach across corporate, policy, and public affairs strategy in today's interconnected world. By combining incisive strategy and deep tactical expertise, we make change possible. Our transatlantic presence includes offices across thirteen markets in the US and Europe.
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, 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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