What to know

Lead clients — and their teams — to achieve progress and impact. In this role, you’ll take our clients’ complex problems, break them down into solvable pieces, and match them with Blue State’s teams and expertise. You’ll serve as a close partner to key clients, instinctively understanding their business challenges and translating them into briefs that inspire our strategy and delivery teams. You’ll lead and facilitate smart conversations with a variety of organizations, challenging their thinking to ensure we deliver the best possible outcome. Candidates from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Serve in a key leadership role on client engagements as a strategic partner to both clients and internal project teams - leading cross-disciplinary teams to create and implement cross-channel strategies with our unique client mix across the non-profit, political/advocacy, and brand space.  Ensuring our project teams have a clear view of client and program objectives, helping to determine the best path forward to meet those objectives (in coordination with subject matter experts), and holding the client and the project team accountable as we deliver against those objectives.  
• Respond to regularly evolving client needs with updated recommendations around engagement and tactics.
• Consult with clients on project needs and status, set expectations and ensure they are met, provide strategic guidance on deliverables with a focus on delivering high quality work, develop trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, and leverage client satisfaction into future opportunities and partnership growth
• Oversee successful program and project management, including planning and scheduling, cost estimating, and delivery oversight including day-to-day running of creative and delivery teams (and/or oversight of project coordinators or account managers doing the same)
• Have a clear view of Blue State’s offerings, working closely with new and existing organizations to help them understand the value we can add and potential opportunities to work together from first contact to contract
• Have a finger on the pulse of cutting-edge developments taking place in tech and digital organizing and fundraising - to build our overall practice and share our point of view with clients
• Act as a role model at Blue State and embody our working agreements.

The team

At Blue State, our accounts team is at the heart of everything we do. We relish the challenges that have never been solved. We are close partners with our clients, understanding their needs, worries and hopes and translating that into inspirational charges for our creative teams. We are intensely curious and love new digital platforms, tools and social networks. Our energy and our passion is contagious.

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
• Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
• 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 $86,750-$101,000; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we're looking for 

• 5-7 years experience in account management, social impact, client services, partnerships, digital marketing, fundraising, or a related area of expertise
• Experience in leading online campaigns and/or advocacy initiatives designed to mobilize communities or drive behavior change
• Knowledge of email and direct marketing fundraising strategies and tactics and/or experience in selling and/or delivering email fundraising programs
• Experience in digital strategy and managing agile website development projects, specifically Wordpress or Drupal builds
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with tech folks, business stakeholders, clients, etc.
• A track record of developing client relationships and growing accounts
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, team oriented mindset, and strong attention to detail
• A collaborative and supportive working style that encourages continuous growth and improvement for teams as well as individuals
• Ability to adapt to new situations, think on your feet and communicate effectively with those around you 
• 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 - you’ll act as a role model and set the standard for how to lead and work together at Blue State
• Ability to be resourceful, inspired, and self-driven while jumping in to play different roles on a project
• 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.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? 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.

If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.

What to know

As a Contract Program Manager at Blue State, you’ll lead website development and technical consulting projects from start to finish and help nonprofits and progressive organizations to reimagine how they engage audiences through their websites and digital marketing platforms. You’ll manage stakeholder relationships and work closely with our Tech, Strategy, Design, and Analytics teams to conduct user research, identify product requirements, create sprint plans, and test and iterate on deliverables for Blue State’s unique portfolio of clients. A Program Manager at Blue State is a generalist who creates connections between stakeholders, strategists, designers, engineers, analysts, and content producers

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Manage budgets and timelines for website redesigns and other digital projects, including defining scopes and gathering estimates across disciplines.
• Distill clients’ goals and priorities through interviews, workshops, analytics, platform audits, and other forms of research.
• Write and maintain requirements, ensuring that all functionality, user flows, and edge cases are understood by stakeholders. Documentation could range from lofi sketches to detailed acceptance criteria
• Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client stakeholders to mitigate this risk
• Help create sprint plans and release schedules.
• Develop testing and measurement plans in coordination with strategists and analysts.
• Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
• Manage stakeholder feedback, evaluating all proposed features against the product scope and ensuring that bugs are reported and prioritized correctly. Provide creative recommendations based on your technical expertise when features don’t fit in the budget. Make the tough calls when scope needs to be cut.
• Support the greater Business Development team with the scoping of new client product engagements. Estimate effort, ensure that team members are aligned on what’s being proposed, and guard against proposals that aren’t feasible.
• Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as resourcing and financial health tracking.
• Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients.
• Use AI to accelerate your work such as writing requirements or organizing inputs.

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. To enter our US offices or attend Blue State events, staff and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including with a booster shot when eligible. Exceptions for protected grounds will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The salary range for this position is $60-$90 per hour; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

The team

You’ll be a part of our global website development practice that consists of designers, developers, strategists, and other creative folks. We’re veterans of presidential campaigns, agencies, nonprofits, and the tech world who want our work to matter, are passionate about technology, and aim to continually improve the work we do. We collaborate very closely remotely and, optionally, from our offices in New York, DC, and London.

Some things we're looking for

1. 3+ years of experience in program management or similar roles such as product management or technical project management.
2. Experience with CMS-driven websites, such as those built on WordPress. You will not architect a WordPress site yourself, but you help steer designers and engineers in directions that are feasible and align with client goals.
3. Familiarity with and interest in marketing platforms, including CRMs, and data and personalization technology used by organizations to engage and mobilize their supporters.
4. Willingness to wear multiple hats and get into the weeds in order to reach a milestone, whether that means logging into the CMS to fix content, sketching a quick feature to clarify a proposal, or having a difficult conversation with a vendor.
5. Ability to use wireframes to communicate recommendations to design teams.
6. Cognizance of the overall AI landscape and the ability to evaluate AI outputs critically.
7. Excellent communication skills. Ability to interact with engineers, designers, and business stakeholders alike.
8. Strong collaborator and relationship builder. Colleagues know they can come to you for help working through delicate issues or opportunities.
9. Empathy, positivity, respect, and the ability to be a role model at Blue State.

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 below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? 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.

If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.

What to know

As a Program Manager at Blue State, you’ll lead website development and technical consulting projects from start to finish and help nonprofits and progressive organizations to reimagine how they engage audiences through their websites and digital marketing platforms. You’ll manage stakeholder relationships and work closely with our Tech, Strategy, Design, and Analytics teams to conduct user research, identify product requirements, create sprint plans, and test and iterate on deliverables for Blue State’s unique portfolio of clients. A Program Manager at Blue State is a generalist who creates connections between stakeholders, strategists, designers, engineers, analysts, and content producers

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Manage budgets and timelines for website redesigns and other digital projects, including defining scopes and gathering estimates across disciplines.
• Distill clients’ goals and priorities through interviews, workshops, analytics, platform audits, and other forms of research.
• Write and maintain requirements, ensuring that all functionality, user flows, and edge cases are understood by stakeholders. Documentation could range from lofi sketches to detailed acceptance criteria
• Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client stakeholders to mitigate this risk
• Help create sprint plans and release schedules.
• Develop testing and measurement plans in coordination with strategists and analysts.
• Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
• Manage stakeholder feedback, evaluating all proposed features against the product scope and ensuring that bugs are reported and prioritized correctly. Provide creative recommendations based on your technical expertise when features don’t fit in the budget. Make the tough calls when scope needs to be cut.
• Support the greater Business Development team with the scoping of new client product engagements. Estimate effort, ensure that team members are aligned on what’s being proposed, and guard against proposals that aren’t feasible.
• Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as resourcing and financial health tracking.
• Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients.
• Use AI to accelerate your work such as writing requirements or organizing inputs.

The team

You’ll be a part of our global website development practice that consists of designers, developers, strategists, and other creative folks. We’re veterans of presidential campaigns, agencies, nonprofits, and the tech world who want our work to matter, are passionate about technology, and aim to continually improve the work we do. We collaborate very closely remotely and, optionally, from our offices in New York, DC, and London.

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
• Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
• 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. To enter our US offices or attend Blue State events, staff and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including with a booster shot when eligible. Exceptions for protected grounds will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The salary range for this position is $78,500–87,500; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we're looking for

1. 3+ years of experience in program management or similar roles such as product management or technical project management.
2. Experience with CMS-driven websites, such as those built on WordPress. You will not architect a WordPress site yourself, but you help steer designers and engineers in directions that are feasible and align with client goals.
3. Familiarity with and interest in marketing platforms, including CRMs, and data and personalization technology used by organizations to engage and mobilize their supporters.
4. Willingness to wear multiple hats and get into the weeds in order to reach a milestone, whether that means logging into the CMS to fix content, sketching a quick feature to clarify a proposal, or having a difficult conversation with a vendor.
5. Ability to use wireframes to communicate recommendations to design teams.
6. Cognizance of the overall AI landscape and the ability to evaluate AI outputs critically.
7. Excellent communication skills. Ability to interact with engineers, designers, and business stakeholders alike.
8. Strong collaborator and relationship builder. Colleagues know they can come to you for help working through delicate issues or opportunities.
9. Empathy, positivity, respect, and the ability to be a role model at Blue State.

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 below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? 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.

If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.

What to know

Help run digital projects transforming the way people engage. As a Technical Project Manager, you’ll jump right in, interacting with clients, collaborating with diverse teams of UXers, Designers, Strategists, and Developers, leading website development, strategy and technical consulting projects from start to finish. You’ll help turn progressive ideas into actionable tactics, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Scope, define, estimate, and manage budgets and timelines for strategy, website redesign & platform focused projects
• Work with teams to define product specifications and functional requirements
• Support senior members of the team in managing client relationships and coordination of internal creative and delivery teams
• Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as internal team resourcing and financial health tracking
• Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients
• Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
• Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client to mitigate this risk
• Manage and participate in testing and quality control for all deliverables
• Lead post project assessments and make recommendations for future projects or project optimization
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately

The team

You’ll be a part of our global Project Management team. You will also work with a cross-disciplinary team of Account Leads, Designers, Developers, Strategists, and other creative folks to get the job done.

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
• Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
• 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. To enter our US offices or attend Blue State events, staff and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including with a booster shot when eligible. Exceptions for protected grounds will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The salary range for this position is $78,500–87,500; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we're looking for

1. 2+ of professional experience as a technical project manager with experience in digital strategy and managing agile website development projects, specifically Wordpress or Drupal builds
2. Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with tech folks, business stakeholders, clients, etc.
3. Excellent written and oral communication skills, team oriented mindset, attention to detail
4. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced (sometimes chaotic) environment while maintaining a sense of perspective.
5. Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
6. A shared passion and curiosity for making 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.
7. Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model at Blue State

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 below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

What to know

Lead clients — and their teams — to greatness. In this role, you’ll work to take our clients’ complex problems, break them down into solvable pieces, and match them with Blue State’ teams and expertise. You’ll serve as a close partner to key clients, instinctively understanding their business challenges and translating them into briefs that inspire our strategy and delivery teams. You’ll lead and facilitate smart conversations with a variety of organizations, challenging their thinking to ensure we deliver the best possible outcome. We value new approaches and perspectives and it's our priority to make space for your growth and development. If you want to advance your career by working with clients facing diverse challenges across a variety of industries, this is the place for you.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Coordinate delivery across multiple client accounts, driving the best strategy and/or execution to meet clients’ needs in an agile and responsive way
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
• Coordinate and monitor the work of internal delivery teams to complete tasks on time and within budget
• Contribute to the production, delivery, and QA of emails, social media content, and web pages
• Plan, schedule, and estimate costs of new and existing business
• Draft client-facing proposals and memoranda, presentations, strategic plans, and other internal or client-facing materials
• Have a clear view of Blue State’s various offerings and identify opportunities to add value and support clients’ needs as they expand or change 
• Have a finger on the pulse of cutting-edge developments taking place in tech and digital organizing - inviting opinions from peers and sharing our point of view with clients

The Team

Our Accounts and Project Management Team is at the heart of everything we do. Our charge is to take complex problems and break them down into solvable pieces. We are close partners with our clients, understanding their needs, worries and hopes and translating that into inspirational charges for our creative, strategy, and technology teams. We are intellectually curious and love to explore the use of new digital platforms and tools. Our energy and our passion for our work is contagious.

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 for this position is $74,750.

Some Things We're Looking For

• 3+ years of relevant experience in client services, digital marketing, paid media, fundraising or a related area 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, team oriented mindset, attention to detail
• Experience with (or willingness to learn) project management tools and methodologies
• Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you.
• Experience project managing paid media campaigns (e.g. paid social, search advertising, or offline advertising)
• Teamwork and scrappiness required. You are adaptable, curious, and always looking for ways to make things more efficient.
• Whether it is Slack, Zoom, or email, you are a clear and responsive communicator. You approach communication with empathy and respect. You manage your time well and are excited to dive into multiple projects at once.
• A shared passion and curiosity for making 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.
• Ability to be resourceful, inspired, and self-driven while jumping in to play different roles on a project.
• The ability to act as a role model at Blue State and embody our working agreements.

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.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

What to know

Help us land our dream clients — and yours. We are seeking a Business Development Manager to join our Partnerships team to provide support to our business development team and help us grow our business. The ideal candidate is an excellent project manager and writer and has demonstrated success supporting sales or account management at an agency, consulting, or communications firm.

You will support the Partnerships team in the pursuit of new business opportunities and help develop and manage a sales pipeline. You will work across the agency and with cross-discipline teams to develop proposals, pitches, presentations, and new scopes of work. You will help draft and project manage these deliverables and support agency thought leadership internally and externally.

This is a rare opportunity to work with a client base that spans nonprofit, advocacy, corporate, and political campaign sectors. If you want to be a part of driving real change in the progressive space, then this might be the position for you.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

A day in the life

Manage the sales process for proposal development, pitches, and outbound efforts: 

• Help the Partnerships team sell Blue State’s offerings and services to brands, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and progressive political candidates and organizations 
• Project manage and help draft memos, proposals, pitch decks, and related collateral in collaboration with creative, strategy, and technical teams, delivering first-rate materials that target an audience of industry leaders and C-Suite executives
• Provide logistical support and process management throughout the sales lifecycle — from the proposal and pitch process through contracting 
• Lead qualifying calls and discussions with prospective clients in partnership with VPs and SVPs on the Partnerships team
• Effectively communicate and strategize with internal teams to help meet prospective clients’ goals and their organizational objectives throughout the sales process

Help build, manage, and continually develop a sales pipeline to achieve new business targets:

• Work with senior Partnerships leaders to bring in new leads across targeted verticals through traditional and creative approaches to outbound sales
• Conduct research on Blue State leads, prospects, and clients, and clearly communicate findings to senior leadership
• Leverage SalesForce to help manage, track and operationalize the sales pipeline; pull reports and contribute to ongoing business analysis as needed

The team 

The Partnerships team drives Blue State’s growth and agency brand. We are the face of Blue State to prospective clients. We build new and deepen existing client relationships. We help prospects see opportunities more clearly, and we help Blue State understand the challenges our prospects face. We find solutions to complex business challenges. And we work with our colleagues to persuasively articulate creative, strategic, and technical solutions to executives and practitioners alike.

What we offer

• Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
• $1,250 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 $74,750 - $80,000; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we're looking for

• Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience, ideally in business development or account/project management within an agency, consulting, or communications firm, or directly comparable experience working within a corporation or institution. Experience working within the nonprofit, advocacy, or brand sectors, or as a vendor or service provider a plus
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated mentality and ability to mult-task
• Excellent project management, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills
• Clear, concise, and engaging business writing skills
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-driven environment alongside colleagues with complementary skills and experience
• Comfortable juggling multiple projects with competing deadlines and varying levels of complexity and project requirements  
• Comfortable with a high volume of agency team and client interaction, both in-person and through phone, email, and Zoom 
• Experience with Google Workspace, SalesForce, and other CRMs are a plus
• Impeccable ethical standards and professionalism

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.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

What to know

Help run website development projects transforming the way people engage. As a Project Manager, you’ll spend your days leading our website development and technical consulting projects from start to finish, which will include managing clients, and collaborating with diverse teams of UXers, Designers, Strategists, and Developers. You’ll help turn progressive ideas into actionable tactics, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders 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 in the US and London.

The team

You’ll be a part of our global Project Management team working on website development projects across offices. You will also work with a cross-disciplinary team of Designers, Developers, Strategists, and other creative folks to get the job done.

A day in the life

• Manage budgets and timelines for website redesign & platform focused projects, including defining scopes and gathering estimate across disciplines
• Work with teams to define product specifications and functional requirements
• Manage client relationships and coordination of internal creative and delivery teams
• Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as resourcing and financial health trackin
• Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients
• Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
• Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client stakeholders to mitigate this risk
• Manage and participate in testing and quality control for all deliverables
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately

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. To enter our US offices or attend Blue State events, staff and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including with a booster shot when eligible. Exceptions for protected grounds will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The salary range for this position is $60-$85 per hour; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we're looking for

1. 2+ years of professional experience as a project manager with client-facing experience in digital strategy and managing agile website development projects, specifically Wordpress or Drupal builds
2. Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with creative and tech team members, business stakeholders, clients, etc.
3. Excellent written and oral communication skills, team-oriented mindset, meticulous attention to detail
4. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced (sometimes rapid-response) environment while maintaining a sense of perspective.
5. Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
6. You are adaptable, curious, and always looking for ways to make things more efficient.
7. You have a passion for cause-based work and promoting progressive values.
8. Whether it is Slack, Zoom, or email, you are a clear and responsive communicator. You approach communication with empathy and respect. 
9. You manage your time well and are excited to dive into multiple projects at once.
10. A shared passion and curiosity for making 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.
11. Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model at Blue State and embody our working agreements.

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 below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.