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Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities. Please note: this is an \"evergreen\" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us. While interviews aren't ongoing, we're excited to connect with talented individuals who share our commitment to Blue State's mission.\nIf you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.\nWhat to know\nDevelop and execute game-changing media strategies that tie engagement to the bottom line. As a Media Strategist, you'll develop and implement digital and traditional advertising strategies across clients ranging from leading nonprofits to political and advocacy groups to major brands (and everything in between).\nThis may be the right role for you if you’re someone who is equally strategic, creative, and analytical. Switching seamlessly from a client presentation, to writing an insightful analysis of campaign performance, and translating a client’s business objectives into a tactical media plan. You’re used to spending most of your day speaking in acronyms - terms like DSP, CPA, IVT, ROAS, and AVOC are major parts of your vocabulary - and you know how to explain them to clients and teammates. \nYou will use your depth of paid media experience to inform your work but also tap into your digital curiosity and passion for innovation to bring new ideas and thinking to the team.\nThe company\nBlue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From Google and UNICEF to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency and has 150+ employees in the US and London.\nA day in the life\nDevelop media plans and recommendations for a range of assigned clients by translating their strategic visions into media objectives to accomplish a wide range of client objectives including direct response (lead gen and fundraising), awareness, persuasion, and advocacy.\nOversee live media campaigns including managing budgets and pacing, working with team members and external vendors to direct campaign optimization, and generating client-facing insights and recommendations.\nParticipate in client-facing interactions to deliver media strategies and provide clients with the context to understand how your tactical media plans will achieve their business objectives and how ongoing campaigns are performing\nWork collaboratively with other internal or external teams, including media buyers, strategists, account directors, designers, and analysts, to produce campaigns, creative ideas, audience and target recommendations, and experimental designs.\nKeep us up to date with the latest digital media trends by maintaining relationships with media partners and engaging in media R&D projects.\nThe team \nAs part of the Paid Media team, you’ll work closely with a cross-disciplinary group of Blue State employees who are passionate, geeky, and care about their clients and causes. Blue State fosters an environment where everyone has an opportunity to shape new approaches, grow and learn from their colleagues, and take advantage of a personal development fund to stretch their skills even further. You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the most inspiring charities, ambitious brands, and passionate advocacy and social change campaigns.\nSome things we're looking for\n2-4 years experience in cross-channel media planning, with a focus on digital media\nDemonstrated experience translating client business goals into cohesive media strategies and specific KPIs, and a record of managing large scale, multi-channel media campaigns that delivered on those goals.\nUnderstanding of digital and/or traditional media strategy, planning, campaign management, and analysis reporting, and the tools and platforms used\nAbility to effectively manage multiple clients and projects on time, within budget, and meet performance goals.\nExceptional attention to detail, especially with regards to budgeting, pacing and spend tracking, managing vendor relationships and paperwork, and reporting.\nAbility to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.\nA shared passion and curiosity for delivering change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress.\nA testing evangelist - no result is ever a problem as long as we can learn and improve in future.\nHumble in victory, constructive in defeat. We champion and expect empathy, communication, collaboration, and respect.\nHourly rate for this position is $70-$85; compensation will be commensurate with experience.\nAt 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. 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