Authentic is hiring a
Digital Strategist

Summary

Authentic is hiring a Temporary Digital Strategist to join their Email team for the election cycle. The role involves serving as email lead on several client accounts, providing support across the team, ensuring authentic and honest voice in content, using email CRMs and online platforms, developing and delivering professional reports, and regularly A/B testing topics and tactics. Qualifications include experience writing and coding fundraising emails, effective communication skills, ability to handle multiple tasks, experience with G-Suite tools, HTML coding, and progressive tools. Benefits include 100% employer-paid health care, vision, dental, life insurance, disability, 401(k) with match, flexible vacation and sick leave, flexible telecommute and remote work policies, monthly phone reimbursement, wellness benefits, mental health benefits, commuter benefits, home office stipend or local hot desk.

Requirements

• Experience of writing and coding fundraising emails
• Demonstrated understanding of email best practices including theories of change, creative writing, A/B testing, error-free copywriting, and email formatting
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks at once and meet tight deadlines as needed
• Experience with using G-Suite tools including shared Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs
• Experience with HTML coding
• Experience in reading and analyzing data
• Willingness to contribute to a collaborative team culture
• Committed to getting things right - pays close attention to detail and doesn’t stop trying

Responsibilities

• Serve as email lead on several client accounts — developing and explaining email strategy, communicating with the client, setting content calendars and goals, writing compelling emails, managing client approvals, executing email production, analyzing results, and optimizing based on performance and client feedback
• Provide support across the team as needed or assigned — helping draft, build, and proofread content for other programs as needed, and helping provide coverage if necessary
• Ensure all content is rooted in the authentic and honest voice of the client, and that each program is unique to each client
• Use email CRMs and online platforms to produce emails and track results
• Develop and deliver professional reports, projections, and memos for clients
• Regularly A/B test topics and tactics across clients, while remaining on top of digital trends and tools, ensuring we are proactive in innovating for our clients
• Effectively manage client communication and expectations across multiple programs
• Work collaboratively with other strategists, managers, and members of the paid media and content teams to develop holistic strategies to maximize results across clients
• Proofread and help fact check content before it goes to the client or to supporters
• Brainstorm creative email ideas for clients and contribute to a collaborative team culture
• Respond to news in real-time as needed, by drafting and producing rapid messages in response to fast-breaking news
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with CRMs like NGP, ActionKit, ActionNetwork, etc
• Experience communicating with clients

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health care, vision, and dental
• 100% employer-paid life insurance and disability
• 401(k) with 3% employer contribution and additional 2% employer match, fully vested on day one
• Flexible vacation and sick leave
• Flexible telecommute and remote work policies
• Monthly phone reimbursement
• Wellness benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Home office stipend or local hot desk