BlueState

VP Accounts

BlueState$120K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in client services, digital marketing, fundraising or similar
  • Proven ability to sell and lead digital campaigns
  • Strong knowledge in email and direct marketing fundraising strategies
  • Familiarity with paid media and willingness to learn technical aspects
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and adapt to dynamic situations
  • Demonstrated empathy and strong communication skills
  • Experience engaging with C-suite clients confidently

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a significant portion of the business and Accounts team
  • Act as a senior point of contact for clients, ensuring expectations are met
  • Oversee program and project management from planning to delivery
  • Provide strategic oversight across all offerings to ensure quality
  • Develop clear strategies and action plans tailored to client objectives
  • Support new client engagement initiatives and present capabilities effectively
  • Mentor staff and focus on enhancing the Account Management craft

Benefits

  • Unlimited time-off including sick, personal, and vacation days
  • $1,000 annual professional development funds
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible and health savings accounts
  • 401K with employer match
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • 12-week fully-paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Remote work flexibility
Full Job Description
What to know

Lead our clients -- and our teams -- to greatness. As a Vice President you will be leading cross-disciplinary teams to create and implement digital strategies with our unique client mix across the non-profit, political/advocacy, and brand space. You will manage a significant portion of our business and Accounts team, with a focus on setting strategic growth plans for our client businesses and a vision for evolving our Account Management craft at Blue State. You'll be working with clients to build membership; raise funds; drive public awareness and advocacy for causes and candidates; and build products and platforms to these ends.

This is also an opportunity to be a part of leadership across our business, including responsibility for the operational, cultural, strategic, technical, and creative progress of the business at large.
Day in the life
  • Manage a significant portion of our business and Accounts team, setting strategic growth plans for our clients.
  • Serve as a senior point of contact for a portfolio of clients, ensure that expectations are set and met, and leverage client satisfaction into future opportunities.
  • Ensure successful program and project management, including planning and scheduling, cost estimating, and delivery oversight.
  • Provide technical, creative, and/or strategic oversight across all of our offerings and disciplines teams to ensure the highest quality work product.
  • Develop strategies that address client objectives; develop tactics that further those strategies; and develop action-oriented planning and working documents and other communications that express those strategic and tactical ideas clearly and convincingly. Write and produce client-facing proposals and memoranda, presentations, strategic plans, and other materials, both independently and in collaboration with other Blue State employees and representatives.
  • Provide support in targeting, pursuing, and closing engagements with new clients by presenting the capabilities of Blue State accurately and compellingly and helping to make the case for retaining Blue State.
  • Focus on the continued development of the Account Management craft at Blue State, with direct management of a portion of the Accounts Team; mentor staff across teams and levels
What we offer
  • Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
  • $1,000 annually in professional development funds
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible and health savings accounts
  • 401K & employer match
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Remote work flexibility

We approach in-office working with a hybrid model. On-site presence is welcome for US staff who are within commuting distance of the NY or DC office. Managers retain discretion to require in-person attendance for folks on their discipline or client teams as necessary, including for those whose roles require them to be in person.

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$150,000; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we're looking for
  • 10+ years experience in client services, digital marketing, fundraising or a related area
  • Experience in selling and leading digitally-driven campaigns and/or advocacy projects designed to mobilize communities or drive behaviour change
  • Deep knowledge of email and direct marketing fundraising strategies and tactics and/or experience in selling and/or delivering email fundraising programs
  • Some paid media or technical experience, or the necessary facility and willingness to learn, in order to be able to communicate clearly and accurately about Blue State's products and capabilities.
  • Ability to adapt to new situations, think on your feet, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
  • A shared passion and curiosity for making change and redefining how business is done. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we're always making progress.
  • Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model and set the standard at Blue State.
  • Confidence to guide clients at a senior, C-suite level

At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

About BlueState

Blue State is a public relations and communications firm that specializes in political campaigns, advocacy groups, and non-profit organizations. The company was founded in 2004 by Joe Rospars and Jascha Franklin-Hodge, who both worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Blue State has worked on numerous political campaigns, including Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, as well as advocacy campaigns for organizations such as the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign.
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