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About Liftoff Campaigns, LLC

Liftoff Campaigns is a mission-driven digital and communications agency seeking skilled individuals with a passion for making a difference to join our team. Our clients are statewide and local Democratic political campaigns, PACs, advocates, non-profits, and changemaking companies.

Job Overview:

Liftoff Campaigns is hiring an Associate Vice President, Accounts to serve as a key member of our team. The Associate Vice President plays a critical role in the planning and execution process at Liftoff for the accounts team. In a typical day, you may project manage pod teams, work with clients, and help guide strategy for email and SMS programs. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter who loves building creative ad campaigns from scratch and working in a fast-paced and exciting team-based agency.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain relationships with advertisers, vendors, data providers, and other external partners in service of crafting and deploying strategic media plans.
• Help scale our digital advertising team's capabilities by mentoring ads staff, educating teams across the company, sharing information, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Serve as a strategic leader for key client accounts, developing data-driven ad strategies, presenting performance results, and ensuring campaigns meet or exceed goals through aggressive optimization.
• Manage onboarding and offboarding process with clients
• Train new and junior staff
• Stay ahead of the curve when it comes to industry trends, patterns, and offerings and refine and shape our products accordingly.
• Collaborate across the digital advertising team, account teams, creative shop, and data team to deliver stellar results.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Passion for mission-driven work and progressive causes, including candidate, advocacy, or nonprofit campaigns
• At least 6 years of experience in email programs, SMS, P2P, and management of fundraising programs
• Proven success in building out client budgets, reviewing drafts, understanding scaling process
• Experience building and executing project plans to achieve fundraising and persuasion objectives
• Proficiency with major CRMs such as NGP, Acoustic, EveryAction, and ActBlue
• Experience working in an agency environment; experience with nonprofits or political/issue campaigns preferred
• Strong understanding of lead performance tracking and client budget development
• Excellent quantitative reasoning skills and ability to apply data to strategic decisions
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Salary and Benefits:

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$130,000

We also offer a generous benefits package:

• Unlimited Vacation Policy
• Federal holidays off (11-12 total days, Indigenous Peoples Day in off-cycle years)
• Employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible work schedules and the option to work remotely anywhere within the United States and its territories with broadband internet
• 401k benefits with match after six months of employment

Our Hiring Process:

We aim to be transparent and efficient in our hiring process. Each question you will be asked throughout our hiring process ties directly back to one of the skills and experiences listed above. In each interview, you will be asked to provide examples of these skills and experiences or how you would draw on your experience to handle a scenario commonly found at Liftoff. Our typical hiring process includes:

1) First Round Interview

2) Skills Assessment

3) Video Interview(s)

4) Reference Check

Depending on logistics and scheduling, our hiring process generally takes about 4-5 weeks from phone interview to a job offer. We let candidates know after each step in the process, once we’ve made a decision, whether they are moving forward to the next stage or not, so candidates know the status of their application.