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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.

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

• 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
• Update 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

• 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

• 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.