LOCATION: Seattle, WA
TO APPLY: Please send a resume and cover letter to [email protected] by the end of day on July 26, 2024.
SALARY: $75,000 – $95,000
Benefits
We offer our employees a competitive benefits package, including fully employer-paid health, dental, and disability insurance for eligible full-time employees; tax-free flexible spending account, subsidized transportation; generous vacation time; parental leave; wellness reimbursement; hybrid remote/in-person working environment; opportunities for profit-sharing; employer matching on your 401k; and retirement plans.
We encourage all members of our team to pursue ongoing professional development and engage in community service activities, and provide an annual budget to support these activities.
Role summary
The Senior Strategist role is focused on supporting, and occasionally leading, bodies of work across service lines and practice areas at Pyramid, with an emphasis on campaigns and other large, fast-paced bodies of work.
Strategists at Pyramid are skillful listeners, synthesizers, and doers—managing teams, work flows, resources and client relationships to make the best, highest impact work possible. They also serve in a project management role, holding primary responsibility for all internal and external team and client coordination, as well as effective management of project budgets, deadlines, and details, ensuring projects are driven forward in a timely and efficient manner.
The ideal candidate will be able to apply their communications and strategy experience to the completion of specific deliverables—from communications and campaign plans, to messaging, to toolkits, to implementation, and many things in-between.
This role may also have strong intersections with Pyramid’s Indian Country team, which supports the sovereignty of Native people, Tribal Nations, and Indigenous-led organizations. Pyramid’s Indian Country team equips our clients in Indian Country with the communications tools they need to tell their stories effectively and achieve their goals while navigating systemic barriers.
Responsibilities will primarily include:
- Working closely with clients and internal teams to develop a clear vision of success for projects, and to align project teams around that vision, project goals, and scope of work
- Serving as the project lead for some bodies of work, leading strategy and executing deliverables
- Contributing insights and delivering services to client projects ranging from research, to content development, to campaign management, to facilitation
- Contributing to the development of proposals
- Supporting the development of communications and marketing strategies for integrated broad-based campaign plans, as well as organization wide communications plans, and supporting implementation as needed.
- Advising clients on optimizing existing communications efforts, and effectively deploying resources to the most valuable strategies based on factors like internal capacity, budget, and timeline.
- As needed, jumping in to develop creative copy, messaging, and creative, and/or to inform and shape creative in partnership with other members on the team.
- Core project management duties across assigned projects, including:
- Ongoing maintenance and management of project tracking, budgets and timelines
- Supporting internal team coordination
- Serving as a point of contact for clients, supporting ongoing flow of communication between the client and team members
- Managing monthly client invoicing
- Developing and managing project timelines and budgets, including updating projections and providing regular team updates
- Ensuring role clarity for internal project teams
You have…
We recognize there are many paths and ways to grow into a career. While these are suggested skills, experiences, and capabilities, we encourage you to apply if you believe you have relevant experience that may not neatly align with the following suggested experience.
Some of the skills and experience that would help you succeed in this role include:
- Agency experience (creative or communications)
- Experience organizing and tracking multiple deadlines, budgets, and project details and communicating effectively in a timely manner with internal staff, clients, vendors, etc.
- An understanding of digital, traditional, and earned media channels and strategic best practices.
- Experience with messaging, public relations or communications strategy
Strong writing skills in a variety of formats
- Comfort and some familiarity with basic facilitation skills
An enjoyment of digging into the details, while able to see a larger picture
- Experience presenting strategy and approaches to leaders at all levels from executive level professionals to staff members with little to no communications experience
In addition to experience, we’re looking for someone who is:
- Unafraid to jump in and be proactive—doesn’t wait for direction, unless it’s necessary
- A willing communicator to keep work flowing
- Confident, yet knows there’s more to learn
- Team oriented and collaborative, but able to work independently
- A willing contributor of their own ideas to collaborative work
Preferred, but not required:
We are actively looking for candidates with diverse experience and skills. We want to hear what you bring to the table. Experience that we are looking for includes but is not limited to:
- Experience working with or in Tribal communities.
- Experience working with media partners, contractors, and/or vendors to develop, manage, and steward paid media plans and strategies.
- Experience and familiarity with content writing and creative development and implementation for various digital, advertising, and offline marketing channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, MailChimp, web copy, Google AdWords, Facebook Advertising, etc.)
- Previous people management experience
About Pyramid
Pyramid is a team of creative strategists helping people make positive change. We want to partner with people who bring new ideas and ways of thinking. Who can help us seize on opportunities and drive the people our clients are trying to reach to take an action that can change the world, whether that’s through a vote, a donation, or something even more impactful.
At Pyramid, we respect and celebrate the diversity, creativity and strength of our community. Equity and Inclusion are a priority across all areas of our organization. We are committed to using our time and resources to help identify and eliminate disparities based on identity—internally in our organization and externally with clients—and to promote equitable access and opportunity for all.
Physical Demands
This job involves significant time sitting (or standing) at a desk, and using a computer.
Limitations and Disclaimer
The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work performed; it is not intended as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and required skills for the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State laws. Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities necessary to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an “at-will” basis.