Description
Salary: $60,086
Location: Washington, D.C. or remote
Want to break into email and digital strategy for politics? Working within a pod, Digital Coordinators provide basic support to client email programs. This job is an opportunity to learn email creative development and copywriting, production, reporting, and client relations. Digital Coordinators typically report to Managing Digital Strategists. This job is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a growing team at Middle Seat and learn the ins & outs of running email campaigns for Democratic candidates and organizations.
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
- Writes first drafts of email content (with supervision)
- Writes first drafts of content for donation forms and landing pages (with supervision)
- Helps podmates to get content reviewed, edited, and ready to ship to clients for final approval
- Learns how to use theories of change in email copy
- Learns how to produce and launch emails
- Learns basic HTML, CSS, and SQL as needed
- Learns basic CRM functionalities
- Learns the basics of email testing
- Learns how to pull, read, and interpret email performance metrics
- Learns how to set up donation forms and other landing pages
- Learns email reporting; can contribute to email reporting (with supervision)
- Keeps email reports up-to-date
- Attends brainstorms and other internal team meetings
- Attends client meetings
- Occasionally contributes ideas to email calendars
- Updates email calendars as needed
- Proofs peer emails, checking for accuracy and functionality
- Other responsibilities as requested
Requirements
Qualifications
- Interest in professional email production, digital fundraising, and political communications for progressive campaigns
- Demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of progressive politics
- Strong copywriting skills, especially for email, donation forms, and landing pages
- Ability to write clear, persuasive content that can be adapted to various client voices and theories of change
- Writing is consistently free of grammatical, spelling, and formatting errors
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage tight deadlines across multiple email calendars
- Willingness and ability to learn email production tools, including basic HTML, CSS, SQL, and CRM platforms
- Ability to interpret and apply email performance metrics (with training)
- Interest in learning A/B testing, deliverability considerations, and best practices for email engagement
- Basic familiarity with or willingness to learn donation form and landing page setup
- Ability to proof peer emails for accuracy, links, formatting, and functionality
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working across pods and with clients
- Basic design or layout sensibilities (not required but helpful)
Strongly Preferred but Not Required
- Agency or campaign experience
- Experience working in email and digital strategy
- Knowledge of different CRMs (Action Kit, BSD, Action Network, NGP, etc.)
Benefits
- 100% premium coverage for health, dental and vision
- Zero deductible health plan
- Wellness benefits, which include free memberships to One Medical, Health Advocate, and Talkspace
- Profit-sharing plan: share in the growth and success of Middle Seat
- Mobile phone reimbursement up to $50 per month
- 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.